Dark Art Society Podcast

This week's interview is with multi disciplinary artist Mike Fisher for another crossover episode with hi Anyway, Whatever Podcast! Mike has done TONS of band artwork and gig posters. We discuss Derek Hess, Frank Kozik, how he got his start doing band merch and gig posters, making a living with his artwork through diversifying, being in a band, Nomeansno, being inspired by comic book covers, working in the video game industry and tons more! Mike is a super cool guy and even though this was the first time we had met in person it felt like we were old pals! Also a quick art life update and new subscribers. Interview starts at around 7:58 Mike’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MikeFisherCustomArtwork/ Mike’s Instagram: @maximumflouride Mike’s podcast: www.anywaywhateverpodcast.com The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkar

This week's interview is with the incredibly talented Adam Dougherty. We discuss his love of 50s and 60s monster stuff, his parent's love of Halloween and their support of his work as a child, learning to sculpt, working as a sculptor in the garage kit industry at age 15, breaking into the makeup effects business, leaving the film industry, making his own films, 3d printing, Kickstarter and Patreon as sustainable ways to make make a living, and lots more! Also a quick art life update and new subscribers. Interview starts at around 10:05 Adam's website: www.kreaturekid.com Adam's social media: @kreaturekid The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkartsociety Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.com The Dark Art Society Podcast is now available in a variety of places, including the following platforms: Sound

This week I interview an artist whose work I greatly admire, Mark Covell. Mark is a storyboard artist and associate producer at Family Guy and also an excellent dark art painter! We discuss his artistic early life, his early years working in video games, his friendship with DAS guest Frank Forte, showing in galleries (including Copro, moving to LA and scoring a killer gig doing storyboards for family guy and lots more! Super fun conversation with a super talented, super nice, positive energy person!! Also a quick art life update and new subscribers. Interview starts at around 11:16 Mark's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markcovellart Mark's website: http://www.markcovell.com The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkartsociety Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.com The Dark Art Society Podcast is no

This week I interview artist Charles Ratteray. Charles does a lot of work in the film industry as a storyboard artist and I totally love his loose, sketchy design style. We discuss his path to becoming a professional artist, growing up in Washington DC, being interested in graffiti art as a kid, going to business school and then art school, getting an internship at Stan Winston Studios and the long grind up doing whatever it took to becoming a leading storyboard artist in the film business. Super nice and talented dude and I had a great time talking to him! Also a quick art life update and new subscribers. Interview starts at around 8:45 Charle's links: https://www.facebook.com/charles.ratteray/posts/10164802705860113 The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkartsociety Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.c

This week we do our first "crossover" episode with Shane Izykowski's excellent art podcast "Drawing From Experience"! Shane and I are both sharing this interview on our podcasts in hopes of getting some crossover listeners. We had a really great time chatting about dark art, the hard work of building an art career, trying to earn money, spirituality and lots of great info and conversation! Super fun episode! Also a quick art life update and new subscribers. Interview starts at around 8:09 Drawing From Experience podcast website: https://www.drawingfromexperience.com/ Shane's Website: http://www.shaneizykowski.com Shane's Instagram: @shaneizykowskiartist The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkartsociety Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.com The Dark Art Society Podcast is now available in a variety o

This week I interview the incredible digital sculptor Gio Nakpil! Gio has worked on tons of blockbuster films and currently works on the Adobe Medium team. We talk about his childhood as a horror fan, his early desire to become a makeup effects artist, learning digital modeling, breaking into the digital animation business, working with Carlos Huante, getting out of the film industry after 12 years, his new job as the Adobe Medium evangelist, the exciting possibilities of using Adobe Medium and Substance Painter to create digital sculpture in VR (!!!) and lots more!!! I'm a recent convert to VR so I am SUPER EXCITED about the possibilities that Adobe Medium offers! This was such a fun interview and it really got me psyched to get back into digital artwork. Also a quick art life update and new subscribers. Interview starts at around 8:54 Gio's Instagram: @gionakpil The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet’s

This week I interview French sculptor Lélia Wattez! We discuss her unusual path to creating creating her incredible creature sculptures, growing up in a small French village, her difficult work as a stone carver for 10 years (and the trauma of that experience), leaving that industry and going to makeup effects school, learning to code and getting a job in IT, how she designs her beautiful monsters and more! This is a deep episode and it gets very emotional at times! Also a quick art life update and new subscribers. Interview starts at around 10:27 Lélia's Instagram: @lelia_wattez Lélia's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wattezlelia The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkartsociety Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.com The Dark Art Society Podcast is now available in a variety of places, including t

This week's interview is with an old makeup effects pal of mine, master mold maker Rob Freitas! Rob has worked on TONS of amazing films and is regarded as one of the very best mold makers in the industry. We discuss: being a "monster kid", the influence of his grandfather, leaving Northern California to get into the FX biz, being mentored by Moto Hata, Working for Rob Bottin (on an all weekend gig), working for Rick Baker and much more! This was a really fun interview and I honestly forgot we were recording a few times- always a good indicator of great conversation. Also a quick art life update and new subscribers. Interview starts at around 7:51 Rob's Instagram: @rob_freitas_ The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkartsociety Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.com The Dark Art Society Podcast is now a

For the first episode of the new year I catch up with my old co-host of The Dark Art Society Podcast, Mike Correll. To make this episode special we recorded video as well (which you can see on the DAS Patreon: Patreon.com/darkartsociety) but as you will hear it was a bit of a disaster. But the conversation was still good and it was great to hear about Mike's crazy adventures on the road! Please help "Chet Zar: I Like To Paint Monsters" get on to Netflix: help.netflix.com/en/titlerequest Also: the Art Life update and new Patreon subscribers Mike's Patreon's: Patreon.com/EmailsFromInfinity Patreon.com/LandOfEnchantmentTours The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkartsociety Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.com The Dark Art Society Podcast is now available in a variety of places, including the following pl

This week I interview the legendary Dark Artist Allen Williams (and his wife Vicki says hello). I'm a huge fan of his graphite and paint work and was really excited to interview him here! Some of the topics we cover: moving around when he was young and being a 'monster' kid in a small town in the south, drawing from a very early age, beginning his career creating art for role playing games in the 80s, the importance of keeping your own artistic 'thing' while doing contract work, creating artwork for book covers, working as a creature designer, his process for creating his work, justifying Dark Art, developing his style and a lot more! This was a really great interview! Very inspiring! Also a quick art life update and new subscribers. Interview starts at around 8:00 "Covenant" project on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fleskpublications/covenant-the-art-of-allen-williams/description Allen's website: www.AllenWilliamsStudio.com Allen's Instagram: @I_JustDraw Allen's YouTube: www.youtube.

This week I interview prolific painter, tattoo artist and Dark Art Society member Brian Brown. We talk about his life growing up in a family of 14 kids (!), building childhood guillotines, mask collecting, art collecting, skull collecting, living in Egypt and stealing a mummy skull, seeing auras, his freeform oil painting and tattooing techniques, and a ton more! I could have kept going for another couple hours so we will do a part 2 in the future! Also a quick art life update and new subscribers. Interview starts at around 6:00 InstaGram: @MR._NME Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brian.n.brown.3 Website: (in the works) brianbrowntattoo.com The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkartsociety Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.com The Dark Art Society Podcast is now available in a variety of places, in

This episode I interview fine artist Kris Kuksi. You are probably familiar with his totally unique style of fine art sculpture that is often copied but never equalled. We discuss his early life experience living in rural Kansas, going to art school and traveling to Europe to study the old masters, primarily being a painter and suddenly becoming known as a sculptor, his inventive style of "kit bashing" sculpture, working with some of the biggest names in the high end art world, seeing a 2 headed girl in a car and all kinds of other strange and interesting things. Kris has carved out his own niche in the fine art world and is recognized as one of the biggest names to come out of the dark art and visionary art scenes. He is a super interesting dude to speak to and we had a blast hanging out and chatting for nearly 2 hours. There will definitely be a part 2 in the future!!! Also a quick art life update and new subscribers. Interview starts at around 6:00 InstaGram: @kriskuksi Website: https://www.kuksi.com T

This week I interview tattoo artist turned full time fine artist, Ego Shoreclay. We talk about his childhood influences, getting into tattooing, getting out of tattooing, his unusual acrylic painting techniques, working as an illustrator, his use of cryptic symbols and ancient forgotten languages in his paintings, teaching, the importance of online promotion, sharing information about your art with collectors and lots more! Super nice dude and I enjoyed finally meeting him and chatting with him for a couple hours! Also a quick art life update and new subscribers. Interview starts at around 6:00 Ego's InstaGram: @lordego1 Ego's Patreon: patreon.com/Lordego1 Ego's Website/Online Shop: lordego1.com The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkartsociety Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.com The Dark Art Socie

This week I interview Brad Gray, a fantastic painter and Dark Artist living in Ireland. We discuss his path to fine art, traveling the world with his family for the last 20 years, living in China, living in South Africa, his creative techniques and how he develops his paintings, his philosophy about Dark Art, working with Copro gallery and tons more! This is a long one and extremely conversational. I forgot it was recording at some points! Also a quick art life update and new subscribers. Interview starts at 5:38 Brad's website: www.bradgrayartist.com Brad's Instagram: @Drabnail Brad's email: bradgrayartist@gmail.com The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkartsociety Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.com The Dark Art Society Podcast is now available in a variety of places, including the following plat

This week I interview my old sculptor pal Matt Levin. We discuss his roundabout way of becoming a sculptor who specializes in creatures, moving to LA, Guillermo del Toro encouraging his fine art making, moving to Atlanta, being inspired by the work of DAS member Paul Komoda, going to a Buddhist college, Alan Watts, Zen, working with computers/3d animation/character modeling, one of his sculptures going viral (without a watermark!!!), his approach to art conception and much more! Very fun conversation! Also a quick art life update, new subscribers. Interview starts at 5:38 Matt's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/matthewlevin Matt's website: http://www.matthewjlevin.com/ Matt's Instagram: @mattL21 The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkartsociety Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.com The Dark Art Soci

This week I interview artist, DAS member and creator of the Friday Night Dark Art Jam, Steve Cleff. We discuss his unique approach to creating his unusual watercolor paintings, his experience in my Patreon Mentorship tier, his experience in art school, his day job as Director of Product Design in the tech industry, his (and my)synesthesia, working with models pre and post Covid 19, the importance of attending art show openings, the Philly dark art scene, Magick and lots more! This was a really fun episode to record! Also a quick art life update, new subscribers. Interview starts at 5:38 Steve's website: stevecleff.com Steve's Instagram: @stevecleff The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkartsociety Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.com The Dark Art Society Podcast is now available in a variety of place

Another legend on this week! Derek Hess! We talk about all kinds of things including his (highly recommended) documentary "Forced Perspective", his take on "dark art", his loose style, his art teachers, how he got into creating rock posters, mental health and tons more. This is one of those conversations that we both forgot was being recorded so there is lots of interesting chit chat. Also- Derek was unable to get Skype to work for him so I had to record his interview on the phone using a phone call recording app. Audio quality is not great but the dialogue is still very clear and easy to hear. Also a quick art life update, new subscribers and my lucid dream story. Interview starts at 10:37 Derek's website: https://derekhess.com/ Derek's Instagram: @derekhess The "Forced Perspective" documentary website: http://nickcavalier.com/documentaries/2017/11/9/forced-perspective The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociet

This week my guest is the legendary Wes Benscoter!!! Wes was a big inspiration for me when I was starting to think about having a painting career so this interview was one I was kind of nervous about doing. We talk about our many similarities (LOTS of similarities), drawing monsters as a kid, working on many legendary metal album covers (straight out of High School!), being a self taught acrylic painter, airbrushing, acrylic techniques, film making, horror films, working as an illustrator and tons more! I had a blast talking with Wes. It's always awesome when artists you admired from afar turn out to be really nice people. Also a quick art life update and new subscribers. Interview starts at 5:36 Wes Benscoter's website: http://www.wesbenscoter.com Wes Benscoter's Instagram: www.instagram.com/wesbenscoter The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar The Dark Art Society Insta

This week I interview creature sculptor Dug Stanat. We discuss a wide range of topics, from the esoteric to the highly technical! We talk about Dug working for 12 years at PDI/Dreamworks, getting into the animation industry, leaving the animation industry, his fear of horror films, magick and the supernatural, his techniques for creating his characters, working in ceramics and tons more! This was a really fun one to record. I'm a big fan of Dug's work and he is a super nice dude and really easy to talk to. I think it comes across in the interview! Some good laughs were had as well! Also a quick art life update and new subscribers. Interview starts at 5:36 Dug's website: http://www.dugosaurus.com/ Dug's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dugstanat Dug's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dugstanat The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.

This week I interview the amazing Mexican painter Dos Diablos for a 2nd time (3 years almost to the day later)! We chat about many things including: the quarantine, his process for creating artwork, art history, bad acid trips, designing creatures for the film "IT", favorite artists and much, much more! This is a long episode clocking in at over 2 1/2 hours! It's always great talking to my friend Jorge! Also a quick art life update and new subscribers. Interview starts at 5:36 Dos Diablos Instagram: www.instagram.com/dosdiablosdos The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkartsociety Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.com The Dark Art Society Podcast is now available in a variety of places, including the following platforms: SoundCloud: @darkartsociety iTunes: apple.co/2gMNUfM Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/s?f