每一个人都有自己的梦想，每一个人都希望能够实现梦想，但是现实生活照又有多少人能够实现自己的梦想呢？每个人都为了生活在奔波，离自己的梦想越走越远，但是有一些却实现了自己的梦想，今天采访到的是一名来自英国的艺术家Rory Graphicsfix Petts，Rory Graphicsfix Petts经营着自己的一家名为“Graphicsfix”的设计公司，为很多英国的极端金属乐队进行设计，逐渐Rory Graphicsfix Petts也成为了目前英国炙手可热的的设计师，在前不久杂志与Rory Graphicsfix Petts取得联系进行了一次专访，这也是杂志第一次为设计师进行专访！
（V: 代表笔者 R: 代表Rory Graphicsfix Petts）
Everyone has their own dreams, everyone hopes to realize their dreams, but how many people can realize their dreams in real life? Everyone is running around for a living, farther and farther away from their dreams, but there are some who have realized their dreams, today's interview is with an artist from the United Kingdom, Rory Graphicsfix Petts, Rory Graphicsfix Petts runs his own design company called Graphicsfix. Rory Graphicsfix Petts runs his own design company called “Graphicsfix” and designs for a lot of British extreme metal bands, and gradually Rory Graphicsfix Petts has become one of the hottest designers in the UK right now, and recently the magazine contacted Rory Graphicsfix Petts for an interview, which is the first time the magazine has ever done an interview with a designer! This is also the first time the magazine has interviewed a designer!
(V: for the author R: for Rory Graphicsfix Petts)
V: 你好兄弟很高兴见到你，非常感谢你参加这次访谈。我想这是您第一次接受中国杂志的采访。首先向所有中国粉丝问好。你是如何成为一名艺术家的？
Hello, brother. Nice to meet you and thank you very much for participating in this interview. I
think this is your first interview with China magazine. First of all, say hello to all China fans. How did you become an artist?
R: 中国的金属社区大家好！我叫Rory Petts，经营着一家名为“Graphicsfix”的公司。为金属乐队和音乐节设计标志和艺术品。愿你们的音乐节热闹非凡，愿你们的脖子在清晨疼痛难忍。这次文化交流已经让我对中国文化的相似之处。
Hello to the metal community of China! My name is Rory Petts and I run “Graphicsfix” designing logos and artwork for metal bands and festivals. May your mosh pits be busy and your necks hurt in the morning. This cultural exchange already has me asking questions about parallels in Chinese culture.
“Rory Graphicsfix Petts. Owner of Graphicsfix”我从小就对绘画有浓厚的兴趣，这大大影响了我学习更多的学术科目。我开始画车辆，这些车辆的基本形状是枪和锯，很像英国机器人格斗节目“机器人格斗”中的选手。但我的灵感很可能来自于别人给我的玩具车。我刚刚找到了“机器人之王”，看起来很吸引人。老师批评我的字写得不好，说我有阅读障碍。我刚刚看到那个单词，自动纠正了拼写，也许他们是对的。我不知道我糟糕的字迹会成为我艺术生涯的一大支柱，在世界各地绘制难以辨认的乐队标志。现在的客户要求 “请把乐队名写得难读 30%”。
“Rory Graphicsfix Petts. Owner of Graphicsfix” I have had an interest in drawing from a young age, much to the detriment of more academic subjects. I began drawing vehicles from basic shapes with guns and saws that resemble competitors on the English robot fighting show “Robot Wars” but was likely inspired by toy cars I was given. I have just found “King of the Bots” which looks fascinating. My lettering was criticised by my teachers who suggested I have dyslexia. I just watched that word automatically correct its spelling. Maybe they were right. Little did I know my terrible handwriting would become a massive staple of my art career drawing illegible band logos worldwide. Clients now ask “please make the band name 30% harder to read.”
十多岁时，我就非常专注于艺术并进入艺术学院和大学学习了大量的创作过程，从摄影、数码照片处理到版画和艺术创作。我学习了大量的创作过程，最终专攻平面设计和插图。2008年我第一次参加了Nu Metal Download festiva，观看了Motorhead, Static X和Pendulum等乐队的演出。我的毕业作品之一是一部Flash动画，讲述了美国政府策划的91 事件是作为中东战争的前奏。在 “newgrounds.com”上发布的版本中，我使用了一首来自HED PE乐队的歌曲。后来我还为他们设计了商品。
I focused heavily on art in my early teens and went to Art College and university learning a massive range of creative processes from photography and digital photo manipulation to printmaking and eventually specializing in both graphic design and illustration. At this time I attended my first nu metal festival at Download festival 2008 seeing bands like Motorhead, Static X and Pendulum. One of my final projects was a flash animation about 9/11 being orchestrated by the US government as a prelude to war in the Middle East. In the version I released on “newgrounds.com” I used a song from the band HED PE who I would later go on to design merchandise for.
”an old fan art of the band HED PE (2010)”
在我学习的最后一年，酗酒和使用致幻药物成为我生活中的一个重要因素，多年来我一直住在蹲式楼房里，在公共公园和超市屋顶上醒来时，却不记得自己是如何到达那里的。我在呼叫中心，我在一家销售太阳能电池板的呼叫中心工作了很多年，每天工作时我都会画画，我的精神健康状况最终恶化到了妄想、偏执和不稳定的地步，因此我当了几年的隐士，以求摆脱这种状况。为了康复，我隐居了几年。
”an old fan art of the band HED PE (2010)”
In the last year of my studies alcoholism and hallucinogenic drug use became a big factor in my life which would continue through years of spending time in squatted buildings, waking up in public parks and on the roofs of supermarkets without recollection of how I got there. I spent many years working in a call centre selling solar panels where I would draw whilst working every day. My mental health eventually deteriorated to the point I became delusional, paranoid and unstable so I became hermit for several years in order to recover.
“Two artworks drawn in a call center (2014) ”--这些作品是我自己刺青的。
生活方式的改变给我的生活留下了巨大的空白。我发现自己坐在一个房间里，墙上反复出现我多年来绘制的暴力恐怖和恶魔的图像。我把墙上所有的作品，开始尝试描绘一个新的希望故事。我又重新爱上了画画，在当地一家酒吧工作时，我找到了自己的第一笔小订单。其中一次是我第一次接受辣酱标签的委托。当时我并没有意识到这个为一家名为“Chilli of the Valley”的威尔士小公司制作的辣酱标签会改变我的一生。
“Two artworks drawn in a call center (2014) ” – I tattoo’d these artworks on myself.
This change in lifestyle left a large void in my life. I found myself sat in a room pasted wall to wall with recurring images of violent horrors and demons I had drawn over the years. I took down all of the artwork on my walls and started trying to portray a new story of hope. I fell back in love with drawing again and around that time found my first few small commissions whilst working at a local pub. One of these was my first ever hot sauce label commission. At the time I did not realize this hot sauce label commission for a small welsh company called “Chilli of the Valley” would change my life.
”Call center art 2014” – “Hermit years art 2016” - “First hot sauce label sketch 2017
许多年后我搬到了一个新的城市，做酒吧招待、餐厅跑堂、洗锅和清洁工。19病毒开始流行。很快我就没有工作来支付账单了，在挣扎了一段时间后我考虑在找工作的间隙做点艺术创作，挣些钱来支付账单。我给“山谷辣椒”的老板发信息，问他是否需要辣酱标签。他立刻回复了我，问我三年来都去了哪里并说他很乐意让我为他的40多种产品做标签。不到一周，我就意识到我可以把这当成一份全职工作来做。这是我第一年只做辣酱标签设设计工作。随着我获得更多的创作自由，我开始转向更极端的题材，现在是真正的艺术家了。
Many years later I moved to a new city working as a barman, restaurant runner, pot wash and
cleaner and the covid-19 pandemic started. Very quickly there was no work for me to pay my bills and after struggling for a while I considered trying to do some art between job hunting to make some money to contribute to bills. I messaged the owner of “Chilli of the Valley” asking if he had any need for hot sauce labels. He instantly replied asking where I had been for 3 years and that he would love for me to do all of his 40+ products. Within a week I realized I could do this for a full time job. This is the first year of just hot sauce label design work I did. As I was given more creative freedom I moved towards more extreme subjects. I was now truly and artist.
“Hot sauce labels of my first year as a full time artist 2020”
V: 你是如何与乐队取得联系并为他们制作作品的？除了英国乐队你还与哪些乐队合作过？
How did you get in touch with the band and make artworks for them? Besides English bands,
which bands have you worked with?
R: 我的第一个重要委托来自HED PE乐队，我通过电子邮件向他们发送了我的辣酱组合作品。他们花了一年的时间回复我并开具发票，又花了一年的时间才最终同意了我的想法。点亮了他们花钱请我开发和完成的创意。尽管如此他们并没有印制这件衬衫，但他们长期使用这张图片作为个人照片。你很快就会知道，除非你有让自己与众不同的东西，否则唱片公司或管理层很可能不会回复你。自我管理的乐队回复较慢，但最终会完成任务。小型独立乐队总是我最好的客户，因为他们通常会快速、持续地与你沟通，在做出选择时也不会受到太多限制。除了HED PE衬衫，我提到最多的设计是Party Cannons 10周年纪念的partied in half 衬衫。当我开始为英国科技节设计衬衫时，“谷辣椒“生产的”Graphicsfix"辣酱，为我的作品做宣传作品。很多人都以为我是卖辣酱的，当他们问起辣酱时，我就会把他们引向我的作品。我母亲给我发了一条语音信息，说 "我做了一些调查，党炮徽标很有争议，你应该要求做一个尖头版本。他们觉得很有趣，就同意了。我的入侵者综合症比我做过的任何其他项目都严重，所以我要求乐队不要用它作为永久的替代品。不过他们后来还是在其他商品上使用了这个标志！派对大炮辣酱也是非常成功的商品。在伦敦的发布会上，有人在舞台上吃了两瓶，最后进了医院。这可能是由于
卡罗莱纳死神辣椒，而不是酱汁中的可食用闪粉。
My first big commission came from the band HED PE of whom I emailed with my hot sauce portfolio artwork. It took them a year to reply and take an invoice and another year before they finally green lit the idea they had paid me to develop and finish. Still with that said they have not printed the shirt but used the image as a profile photo for a long time. You quickly learn with bands that are on a record label or management will likely not reply unless you have something that will set you apart. Self managed bands are slow to reply but will get the job done eventually. Small independent bands are always my best customers because they often communicate quickly and consistently and are not so constrained when making choices. I would say other than the HED PE shirt my most mentioned design is Party Cannons 10th anniversary of partied in half shirt. When I started doing shirt designs for UK Techfest I would give promotional “Graphicsfix” hot sauces made by “Chilli of the Valley“ to every band playing to advertise my artwork. Many just thought I was a hot sauce salesman and when they would ask about hot sauces I would direct them to my artwork. My mother sent me a voice message saying “I did some research and the Party Cannon logo is very controversial you should ask to do a spiky version” and I sent this to the band and they thought that was funny and said go ahead. Even touching this world famous logo gave me intruder syndrome more than any other project I have worked on and I asked the band not to use it as a permanent replacement. They have used it for other merchandise since though! The Party Cannon hot sauce was also very successful merchandise. Someone ate two bottles on stage in London at the sauces release and ended up in hospital. That was probably due to the Carolina Reaper chillies rather than the edible glitter in the sauce.
(我的一些知名乐队衬衫Party Cannon, Hed PE, Mangata Festival, Mastiff, UK Techfest, Basement Torture Killings）我还开始与挪威一家名为“Cervisiam”的酿酒厂合作。我有一个想法，利用我有了一个想法，利用我在业界的人脉，尝试寻找一支挪威Black Metal乐队合作酿造啤酒。24小时内Dimmu Borgir乐队就对我们的周年纪念合作啤酒产生了兴趣。这又促成了我与Dimmu Borgir乐队的合作意向。”TRVE NORWEGIAN JOL STOUT”的合作啤酒，成员包括Dimmu Borgir、Borknagar、Mayhem、Emperor、Enslaved、Aura Noir和Sarke。啤酒是褐色奶酪和果酱味的，我还没有尝过
(Some of my better known band shirts. Party Cannon, Hed PE, Mangata Festival, Mastiff, UK
Techfest, Basement Torture Killings.) I also started working with a brewery in Norway called “Cervisiam”. I had an idea to use my industry contacts to try and find a Norweigan black metal band to do a collaborative beer and within 24 hours we had Dimmu Borgir interested in an anniversary beer collaboration. This led to a further collaborative beer with my artwork on it called “Norwegian Black metal in conspiracy with Cervisiam – TRVE NORWEGIAN JOL STOUT” with members of Dimmu Borgir, Borknagar, Mayhem, Emperor, Enslaved, Aura Noir and Sarke. The beer was brown cheese and jam flavoured and I am yet to try it
“My Norwegian black metal band collaboration”
我还与苏格兰的Operation Cunt Destroyer、芬兰的Putrid Defecation、日本的Gut Explosion、墨西哥的Anima Tempo和美国的Grey Lotus合作过、 目前我正在等待Psychostick 公司的批准。使用其他艺术家设计
I have also worked with Operation Cunt Destroyer from Scotland, Putrid Defecation from Finland, Gut Explosion from Japan, Anima Tempo from Mexico, Grey Lotus from America, I am currently awaiting the go ahead from Psychostick after a large list of ideas for shirts they have sworn to not use other artists to design
"Putrid Defacation”
V: 我知道英国的极端金属文化非常强大，您认为贵国的氛围如何？
I know that the extreme metal culture in Britain is very strong. What do you think of the
atmosphere in your country?
R: 我只参加过英国以外在捷克举办的两次音乐节，因此我无法对我的国家和其他国家进行公平的，尽管如此我还是考虑过离开英国去体验媒体报道之外的其他文化。英国的音乐节因地而异，但几乎无处不在。文化中的氛围就像家庭一样，基本上都是左翼原则。至少我这一代人就因为音乐品味另类而饱受批判，因为染发和穿孔而受到攻击也是家常便饭。无论是在学校还是在大街上，因为染发和穿孔而遭到攻击都是司空见惯的事。通常是那些社会地位较低的人公开接触金属音乐。随着我们长大成人，我们这个群体有一个共同的纽带，那就是同理心与恶霸作斗争，不因他人的与众不同而对其妄加评论。
(我和一些朋友参加演出）
在英国金属音乐节上，我们被成千上万与我们有着相同经历的人所包围，他们在英国金属音乐节上，我们周围有成千上万的人，他们与我们有着相同的经历，来这里是为了享受音乐，证明人性本善。尽管如此，任何一个家庭都会有功能失调。在社会群体中，总会有一些自恋者利用他人的优势 在社会群体中，总会有一些自恋者，他们利用他人的优势，制造紧张气氛，宣扬流言蜚语，而不是专注于自己的目标。
I have only attended two festivals outside of the UK in Czechia so I cannot really draw a fair comparison between my country and others. With that said I have considered leaving the UK to experience other cultures outside what we see in the media. The scene varies from place to place but it exists almost everywhere in the UK. The atmosphere within the culture is like family with largely left wing principles. My generation at least was heavily judged for their music tastes being alternative and being attacked for having colored hair and piercings was commonplace both in schools and on the street. Often it was those lower on the social hierarchy at a younger age who got into metal music openly. As we progressed to adulthood we as a community understand a common bond of empathy, fighting against bullies and not judging people because they are different. (myself and some friends attending a gig) At UK metal festivals we are surrounded by thousands of people who share experiences with us and turn up to have fun and prove that human nature is more good than evil. Still with this said in any family there is dysfunction. Within social groups there will always be narcissists who take advantage of others, cause tension and promote gossip rather than focusing on their own goals.
V: 你帮助乐队制作艺术品。这份工作的利润是多少？你还有其他工作吗？还是职业艺术家？
You help the band make artworks. What's the profit from this job? Do you have any other jobs? Or a professional artist?
R: 我选择以工作为生，而不是以生活为工作。因此我和朋友合租了一套价格还算便宜的房子，在付清账单后，赚取的收入刚好够我享受生活。我还把我的定价也很低，这样其他国家的人和小型乐队就能买得起我的作品。作为我的工作福利，我通过制作海报和音乐节获得了很多演出门票。设计商品，这让我大部分空闲时间都忙于参加金属展。我作为一名自雇艺术家已经工作了5年。我仍然为世界各地的辣酱公司包括给了我生命的“Chilli of the Valley”。我还在为不同的公司制作啤酒标签和其他随机委托的作品，但大部分都是辣酱、元徽标和艺术作品。
I choose to prioritize working to live rather than living to work so I live in a reasonably inexpensive shared house with friends and earn just enough to enjoy my life once bills are paid. I also have kept my pricing low so people from other countries and small bands can afford my work. As a perk of my job I get a lot of tickets to gigs by doing the posters and festivals designing the merchandise so this keeps most of my free time busy attending metal shows. I have only worked as a self employed artist for 5 years now. I still do work for hot sauce companies all over the world including “Chilli of the Valley” who gave me this life. I still do beer labels for various companies and other random commissions but most it hot sauce, meta logos and art
V: 随着科学技术的发展，许多乐队开始使用人工智能技术来完成艺术作品完成作品，以节约成本。你对此有何看法？
With the development of science and technology, many bands now start to use AI technology to complete works of art in order to save costs. What's your opinion?
R: 我认为大多数金属乐迷都将艺术与音乐相提并论。如果一个“乐队”使用提示来生成音乐，而不是学习演奏，那么他们就会被忽视。人工智能时代像UDIO这样的网站允许用户输入乐队名称并让乐队歌手说出他们所输入的任何内容。“Pestilence - Levels of perception”的发行是人工智能与艺术的分水岭。专辑封面而遭到了铺天盖地的反弹，从此成为了这场讨论的笑柄。作为一个有可能因新技术而失去生命激情的人，我当然反对在我的作品中使用任何，在我的工作中使用人工智能。我认为我听到的最好的描述是 "人工智能试图通过偷窃来剥夺工人阶级的创造力"。我们都知道，这些渲染 一旦它们被接受并超越了人类的创造力，公司就会通过立法限制其使用并提高价格。据说许多乐队还被骗从网络艺术家那里购买aAI作品。许多人明知故犯。我认为有些人是真的被骗了，但许多预算低的人在被揭露使用基因AI时，他们可以似是而非地否认。我目前正在努力传播基因AI检测程序的知识并建议使用其他方法，如旧的艺术品和已失去版权的图片。在英国中小型乐队的主要收入来自于演出时出售的乐队商品和演出。如果乐队选择在艺术品上削减成本，他们就会很容易地削减其他创意角色，如音响师、摄影师、灯光师、摄像师、视频剪辑师、音乐录影带演员等。一旦AI替代品普及，也许在某些时候，经理人、唱片公司和推广人员。
I think the majority of metal fans draw the parallel between art and music. If a “band” were to generate music using prompts rather than learning to play they would be ignored. Gen AI has also started coming for music with websites like UDIO allowing users to type a band name and make the singer of a band say anything they type. The watershed moment with AI and art was the release of “Pestilence – Levels of perception” in which the band received overwhelming backlash for their AI album cover and have since become the punch line of this discussion. As anyone under threat of losing their lifes passion to a new technology I am of course against any use of gen ai in my work. I believe the best description I have heard is that “Gen AI is the attempt to remove the commodity of creativity from the working class via theft”. We all know these renders take a lot of energy and once they are accepted and outperform human creativity the companies will then pass legislation to limit its use and raise the price. Many bands are also supposedly conned into buying gen ai artwork from online artists. Many use it knowingly due to budget restraints. I think some are genuinely conned but many with low budgets have plausible deniability when called out for its use. I am currently trying to spread knowledge of gen ai detector programs like “HIVE AI DETECTOR” and suggest alternatives like old artwork and images that have fallen out of copyright. With that said small to mid size bands main money in the UK comes from band merchandise sold at the show. If bands choose to cut costs on artwork they would easily cut out other creative roles like sound technicians, photographers, lighting techs, videographers, video editors, music video actors once ai alternatives are commonplace and maybe at some point managers, record labels and promoters.
V: 除了为乐队设计艺术品，你在金属行业还做其他什么工作吗？
Do you do anything else in the metal industry besides designing art for the bands?
R: 我还在肯特郡和诺里奇举办一些非营利性的金属演出。我是为了我的生日，因为我以前住的地方已经没落了。搬到诺维奇后，我把我最喜欢的乐队 我最喜欢的乐队Petrol Hoers（一个人在裤子里大喊大叫）和一些金属乐队一起演出，人们喜欢不同的东西。我还帮助英国最大的极端金属音乐节“Bloodstock Open air”的乐队对抗赛，比赛的获胜者将在2万名观众爆满的音乐节上演出。最近我为极端喜剧金属乐队“Raised by owls”举办了演出。他们多年前赢得了 “金属 2”大赛的冠军，现在正在最大的舞台上演出（星期天上午我组织的活动海报）
I also run some non profit metal gigs in Kent and here in Norwich. I started doing this for my birthday where I used to live because the scene was dead. When I moved to Norwich I put on my favourite bands Petrol Hoers which is one man shouting in his pants over a backing track with some metal bands and people enjoyed something different. I also help to run a battle of the bands for the UK’s largest extreme metal festival “Bloodstock Open air” in which the winner of the competition goes on to play the 20k sold out festival. I recently put on the extreme comedy metal band “Raised by owls” who won Metal 2 the masses many years ago and are now playing the largest stage (on a Sunday morning posters for events I have organized)
V: 你是否还在制作非同寻常的商品？
Are you still working on unusual merchandise You can introduce it.
我所说的不寻常的商品是指我参与制作的一些不太显眼的商品。当我开始制作辣酱标签时，有人邀请我制作一个乐队的辣酱标签，这个标签是山谷辣椒乐队和朋克乐队“This System Kills”的合作项目。之后另外两个朋克乐队的合作。当我开始参与乐队和音乐节时，我开始尝试自己建立这些合作，并取得了巨大成功。如上所述，我开始制作调味汁，在我合作的每个音乐节上送给那些有我的详细信息的乐队。这意味着当我下次见到乐队时，我可以提醒他们我的辣酱，他们至少知道我参与了现场演出。
By unusual merchandise I mean some of the less obvious merchandise I have been a part of creating. When I got into making hot sauce labels I was asked to do a band hot sauce label that was an already existing collaboration between Chilli of the Valley and the punk band “This System Kills”. Then came two other punk band collaborations. When I started being involved in bands and festivals I started trying to set up these collaborations myself to great success. As I mentioned above I started creating sauces to give out to the bands at each festival I work with that have my details. This familiarity with bands means when I see them next I can remind them of the hot sauce and they at least know I am involved in the scene.
(我的辣酱合作）车床到坟墓黑胶印刷、¥eti、Spyder byte、Killdren、Social Experiment, The Ovines, Mastiff, Pulverise, Basement Torture Killings, Mic Righteous, Foodinati UK interviews, Party Cannon, Terrorcaust) 我自己出售的另一件有趣的商品是著名右翼Black Metal乐队的衬衫。臭名昭著的主唱瓦格因焚烧教堂、谋杀和仇视同性恋的观点而闻名。本着反欺凌的精神，我做了一个笑话版的设计，让他用同性恋、双性恋和变性者的骄傲旗帜吹奏小号，Bumzone指的是男孩乐队 Boyzone。
(My hot sauce collaborations. Lathe to the grave vinyl printing, ¥eti, Spyder byte, Killdren, Social Experiment, The Ovines, Mastiff, Pulverise, Basement Torture Killings, Mic Righteous, Foodinati UK interviews, Party Cannon, Terrorcaust) Another interesting piece of merchandise I sell myself is a take on the famous right wing black metal band Burzum’s filosifem shirt. The infamous singer Varg is known for burning churches, murder and his homophobic views. In the spirit of anti bullying I made a joke version of the design with him fellating a trumpet with an LGBT pride flag. Bumzone is a reference to the boy band Boyzone.
(Bumzone – Filledofsemen shirt via etsy.com/graphicsifx)
我还设计了很多英国政客头像。上面獒犬的设计也是一个政治家。我很想做更多这样的设计
I also do a bunch of designs with UK politicians heads exploding. The design for Mastiff above is also one of a politician. I would love to do more of these
V: 你认为乐队和艺术家之间最大的障碍是什么？
What do you think is the biggest obstacle between the band and the artist?
R: 对于大型乐队来说管理层和参与决策的人数之多以及乐队的品牌形象有多重要。对于中等规模的乐队来说，由于巡演的费用使他们几乎没有足够的开支，所以通常都是财政问题。对于小型乐队来说这与信任有关。许多乐队通过Fiverr向艺人付费，但最终得到的却是人工智能寻找廉价的艺术品，结果却被骗了。许多艺术家不知道如何与乐队有效合作最后因为缺乏沟通而赔钱。我花了5年时间琢磨这些，因此我在Facebook上的评分一直保持在5/5星级。人们经常在工作中给我贴标签，因为他们知道我会以合理的价格完成工作。
For large bands management and the sheer number of people that must be involved in decision making and how important their canon branding is. For medium bands its often finances due to the cost of touring barely making them enough spend money when often friends or fans will contribute for exposure or as a favour. With small bands its about trust. Many bands pay artists on fiverr and end up with AI. Many bands seek cheap art and end up scammed. Many artists do not know how to work with band effectively and end up losing money due to lack of communication. I have spend 5 years ironing out these processes so that I have maintained a 5/5 star rating on facebook where I get most of my business and people often tag me in jobs because they know I will get it done for a fair price.
V: 你是我采访的第一位艺术家。我很高兴向中国介绍你这位优秀的艺术家。我也希望通过这次采访能有更多的人欣赏到你的艺术作品。最后你有什么话要对中国的朋友们说吗？
You are the first artist I interviewed. I am very glad to introduce you as an excellent artist to China. I also hope that more people can appreciate your works of art through this interview and that you can design more excellent works of art. Do you have anything to say to your friends in China at the end?
R: “NIU BI！"感谢你们给我这次机会，让我能够反思自己作为艺术家的生活和取得的成就并在并在此过程中为自己设定新的目标。在写这篇采访的同时，我再次给HED PE发送了印制衬衫设计的文件。我对与世界各地的乐队合作非常感兴趣。我的工作之一就是了解乐队的故事，这样我就能创造出他们想要表达的超越语言的视觉表现。反正我们也听不懂极端金属乐队在喊什么，但我想也许他们认为自己是农场动物之类的。致我的中国新朋友们，感谢你们容忍我的生活故事。请随时关注我的，如果你会说英语，请联系我。这促使我中国第一次成为一个可以接近的地方。现在我要去看“King of the bots”了，上面还放着“Rectal Wench”。
Rory Graphicfix Petts
“NIU BI!” and thank you for this opportunity to reflect on my life as an artist, my achievements and within doing that set myself new goals. Whist writing this interview I have once again emailed HED PE with the files to print that shirt design. I am very interested in working with bands all over the world. Part of my job is learning about the story of a band so that I can create a visual representation of what they want to say that transcends language. Not that we can understand what extreme metal bands are shouting about anyway but I think maybe they think they are farm animals or something. To my new Chinese friends thank you for tolerating my life story. Please feel free to follow me on my social media links below and reach out if you speak some English. This has spurred me on to see China as an accessible place for the first time. Now I am off to watch “King of the bots” with “Rectal Wench” playing over the top.
Rory Graphicfix Petts
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