MADE Magazine Summer 2023

ART Tom on finding inspiration for your art and dealing with art block I wasn't sure that I was doing car design, but there were things like Photoshop that I found which I really enjoyed using. For example, I was interested in photography. My A level art project was something mostly photo based but there was another creative output that I wanted to put out through the different objects I took photos of. The ability to think of a concept, like putting one image inside another image, and then being able to create it through different software and media, was something that began to appeal to me throughout secondary school and allowed me to experiment with different tools. So, if you love photography for example, I think it's important to go out and just take as many photos as possible or to have an idea, like wanting to take photos of foggy environments, and just create a solid series of work from that. Through this, you get to learn useful photography skills and find out what works and doesn ’ t work for you. Then, as the next project following on from this, you might say that you now want to be able to paint or digitally paint those photographs, so beginning to create concept art. So, you ’ ll have to start learning how to use Photoshop or Procreate, which will once again allow you to develop your skill set. I think that it was this way of working that lead to me ending up in car design to a large extent: I was doing these different outputs, which helped me when I was trying to learn different skills. I also genuinely wanted to create different things, and so it was mostly quite easy for me to stay motivated. To sum it up, I wanted to make the images of cars that looked moderately realistic in Photoshop. Then when I learnt Photoshop, I found that I could actually create the car in function through Blender and so I then started to learn a bit more skills through that before moving on thinking about putting the car in an environment. At that point I started to learn about that idea and creating digital paintings from sketches, which progressed into wanting to know how to paint this environment but behind the car. So you can see how having a passion for learning art led me to get various different skills and work with various digital software. But as long as you're pursuing your ideas and developing them, I think anyone can end up finding something within that that role of photography or concept art, etc. They'll find that at some point, through experimentation, the path they might want to take will begin to fall into place. In our captivating interview with Tom and Tricia Hylton, we have explored their inspiring personal journeys and discovered a common theme: the power of rigour in shaping a fulfilling and enjoyable career. Their advice to students studying art but also to students in general being that no matter the field, pursuing what you have a passion for is an important factor in achieving success. As a final supporting statement, Tricia commented that “ whether it ’ s art or being a doctor, following your passion will lead to remarkable achievements ” Careers in the Creative Industry - A Chat with Tom and Trica Hylton - continued - Kalani Azeez-Harris