of creative companies here. u SB How do you get your ideas?
Duncan: When not directly referencing film or TV icons, my ideas
just come tumbling out of my head like a kind of visual enema.
I enjoy taking people or animals from everyday situations and
putting them in a bizarre or incongruous context. Anything that
has an irreverent humour to it tickles my fancy. u SB Do you
collect anything? Duncan: A sizeable collection of clockwork tin
robots with a smattering of Rocky action figures. u SB What are
your interests outside of illustration? Duncan: Hiking over hills,
through forests or along coastal paths. When you’re hunched
over a computer monitor most of the time, you yearn for fresh
air. u SB If you could travel back in time, who would be the
one person you would want to meet? Duncan: I would go back
to 1999 and meet George Lucas. I’d show him a vision of what
the future would hold if he persisted with the production of Star
Wars: Episodes I-III in a kind of Dickensian ghost of Christmas
yet to come way.
Duncan Beedie’s Favourites
Art Equipment/Tool Wacom Intuos range. Copic Multiliner pen
Café Porto Lounge, Bristol. www.thelounges.co.uk/porto-lounge
Food Pork belly the crispier the better
Drink Any Islay whisky
Holiday Brittany (NW corner)
Shop The toy stall at the back of St Nicholas Market in Bristol
Magazine Vice (www.vice.com)
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