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Great work. How do you get your colors to pop the way you do? Thanks mate, for me it’s all about choosing your co- lours in the right way to compliment each other and the skin they go into, the more toned the skin is the more I saturate the whole image throughout, and if I have really pale skin I can get away with using much more dusty tones and concen- trate on making one or two tones really pop, which the dusty colours help me do. And then there is of course also a lot of technique and years of practice involved. Have you had formal training in art? I briefly went into animation which taught me a lot. But it wasn’t for me, so I don’t have any formal training, but I have worked with so many great artist over the years and learned so much from just lis- tening and keep on trying to push myself. I think if you’re able to push your ego aside and take everything from working with brilliant 137