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Javier Mendizabal is a skater and painter from Spain. He burst onto the international skate scene with legendary sections for Cliché where he showcased his unique flowing relaxed style on some of the gnarliest transitions …
Tommy Couzens is a skater and artist based in London.
After seeing his creative approach to skating and then discovering he makes great paintings we had to find out more about him, so we hit him up for a chat …
Tony Ferguson is a legendary Girl Skateboards pro and the founder of Rone footwear.
Tony’s shoes are a lot like his skating. Classic shapes, comfortable style, made with attention to detail, that’s ready for all street terrain.
As …
Mario Realegeno is a skater and artist from Los Angeles.
Mario’s skating came to our attention looking through Matt Rodriguez’s Es La Boom skate roster where his creative style stood out to us.
So as Matt is one of …
Mia Gurary is a skateboarder and artist who runs Slacker. Through her creative brand she’s experimented with different forms of art, produce work in several mediums and made tighter connections with her crew and the collective of creatives she’s …
Brian Lotti is a revolutionary skateboarder, painter and filmmaker who invented a series of pivotal tricks in the 90s and went pro but as quickly as he shot into the fame in the industry he suddenly departed from skateboarding.…
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Corey Bartle-Sanderson is a skater and artist living in London.
Corey’s fine art is abstract but by taking a longer look at it you see there’s more to it than what appears on the surface. …
Gulan is an artist and skater from London, England who draws, paints and illustrates. His multifaceted art features signature warping faces, highly imaginative situations, settings and scenarios, wrapped in bold lines embedded with accompanying bright and dark colours.
It’s fortunate …
Roberto Cuellar is a skater and artist from Mexico living in Berlin, Germany. His skateable sculptures are pieces of fine art. But there’s more to them than solid skate obstacles with intriguing aesthetics. As a skater and …
James Bush connects the dots on tech tricks that many cannot. His passion for complex constructions doesn’t just end on his board, he also works as a graphic designer which just further draws his focus into laying down well-spaced lines …
Luka Pinto’s spontaneous street skateboarding is a great thing to watch but there’s more to it than your eyes notice at first. He’s a skater and artist from Jersey, England a remote island where things regularly grow in isolation.
So …
Matt Rodriguez’s skateboarding, music and art is flowing, fluid and fast. He’s got a unique, loose style on a board and a diverse trick selection and his spontaneous approach to skating on all-terrain oozes with creativity. So it’s no surprise …
Dan Mancina is a blind skateboarder who does gnarly tricks and tech ledge moves. But that’s not the only thing that defines his story. Dan’s passion to pursue challenges is unending.
His lack of sight hasn’t slowed down his ability …
Julian Klincewicz goes for everything on and off his board.
He skates anything at anytime, that he can find inbetween working as a film director, musician, photographer, fashion designer and model.
He’s created films and creative work for Louis Vuitton, …
Chet Childress is a rapid firing ripper on his board and at the canvas.
An artist and a skater from a young age Chet turned pro and travelled the world nomadic style throwing down shocking tricks and documenting his experiences, …
Don Pendleton is one of the most prolific and productive graphic artists of all-time.
Born in America’s Midwest, his art’s unmistakable hard lines, affinity for nature, and surreal framing has left a firm imprint on skate culture that is never …
Marisa Dal Santo is one of the gnarliest skaters to ever do it.
Hailing from Chicago, Illinois, she launched into the skate world with an unforgettable part in Zero Skateboard’s Strange World. In that video, she skates some of the …
Angel Acevedo is a skater and artist from Pennsylvania who runs Terror of Planet X, a sick new East Coast board brand.
TOPX’s nods to graphic novels and nostalgia are unique and creative but it’s not just its boards and …
Helena Long is a skater, musician and artist from South-East London. She was one of the first members of The No Comply Network and is one of the best skaters in the UK and beyond.
Her multi-skilled talents have …
My name is Mike York and I’m am a proud father of two, a professional skateboarder and I run Roller Horror.
For me, the relationship between skateboarding and art to …
I run Roger, make art, skate, hang out with my family and friends, go swimming and read novels. I also enjoy eating breakfast tacos and
Paper Skaters is mostly street
I try every day to get out of the bed with a good frame of mind (that happens about 63% of the time). I get in my car and drive for over
Ted Barrow aka Feedback TS is a Satirical Skate Critic.
I believe it’s all undeniably linked – at least, it …
I am the editor-in-chief of Detiro skatezine, an autogestive, open call, fanzine to promote local and around the country skate artists for free.
I also founded Escoba Films with
I’ve been the editor of NYskateboarding.com for 3 years. I’m also NY ambassador for boardsforbros and a high school art teacher.
It’s because of skating I picked up a camera.
I handcraft skateboards and engrave them with custom artwork, as well as my own artwork… Skateboarding in itself is an art, with the freedom to …
I am a skateboarder with creative tendencies, trying to battle a procrastination habit.
My creative approach to art is similar to my approach to skateboarding in that I like
Bobby Puleo is an East Coast Street Skateboarding Legend.
He’s known for his unique artistic style and defiant commitment to creative exploration on and off his board.
He owns and runs online-based board brand VICTIM
Biko is a tattoo artist and illustrator whose photorealistic style is so accurate it’s scary.
When we discovered Biko’s talent we had to make him a member
Since he joined a lot has changed for Biko.
He moved to Barcelona, …
No Comply Guy and New York city-based skater-designer Yoon Hyup is amazing. He’s one of the most fascinating and unique illustrators out there.
So we hit him up to deliver to you a whole new kind of interview to find …
I draw, make music, make videos, design clothes, and sometimes try to make short cartoons.
I think skateboarding inspires me partly just because I love it and …
Skateboarding is the best thing out there! It opens your eyes to such a varied and creative world, it gives you the chance to meet so many people and look at life around …
I’m a dad and I work in a call centre. A lot of the time I draw what’s in my head like the pop culture and hip-hop culture that
Being a skateboarder just exposes you to loads of other creative stuff such as the music in skate videos and the graphics on boards and ads.
I think that …
Skateboarding and art go hand in hand. Skateboarding is an art form and there are so many skateboarders out there killing
Drawing and skateboarding are my two main passions in life and I’m lucky to spend most of my time doing both of them. From a young age skating helped me to
My real name is Tuck Wai but my friends from the online community know me as Mr Tucks. I’m an illustrator.
Skateboarding was my main source of inspiration …
Skateboarding is so creative it’s natural that skaters pursue other art avenues. Skating appeals to me because you can do what you want with it.
It’s a lather, rinse and
I work in Illustration, animation and motion graphics. I’ve worked for Frank Skateboards, Stance Socks, Grey Skate Mag, FTC Barcelona and Brut Magazine. I spend my time skateboarding or
My creative process has always been what skateboarder, or skate image gets me hyped me the most.
I have to find that perfect reference image of them that makes
I think skateboarding and filmmaking go hand in hand – You need videos to showcase what is going on in our culture and with today’s need for more content, filmmaking is one of
I paint what I see, remember, listen and feel, but I don’t necessarily call it realism. It’s more abstract, so to speak. I mostly paint on walls or
I am a painter, but I have many other interests including skateboarding.
Well, I think skateboarding itself is an art, a sort of physical performance art
After I broke my leg I realised I couldn’t physically be a part of the skate scene in the way I once was so I started drawing my friends skating
We are Levanna and Eve. We are skaters, DJs and DIY makers.
Art and skateboarding are instrinsically linked and we love to explore ideas that fuse the two together.
I steal clips and color on top of them amongst other things. There’s correlations to the process and the time it takes to do these animations, about 6-8 hours for every
When it comes to my creative process skateboarding has always played a huge part. It shaped my style and imagery into what it is now.
I spent a lot
I create black and white, brush and ink illustrations under the name Sketch Stance. The name spawned from a fanzine many years back. I curate monthly exhibitions on the walls at
Skateboarding is what led me to start shooting photos and videos, like many others. I owe a lot to it.
I’m 25, and I’ve been skateboarding for 12 years
I make drawings and graphics and paintings that are delivered in many ways and executions. When I was growing up skateboarding the creative pursuit seemed linked and inseparable so the skate
I moved back to Bristol after being in Sheffield for 8 years, I help out at Fifty Fity Store but I’m pursuing a career in Motion Graphics, Post Production and …
For me as soon as I watched my first skateboard video I wanted to make a video so the relationship of making videos and skateboarding go hand in hand for me,
I don’t skate anywhere near as much as I’d like to these days and I reckon that definitely has a negative impact on my work.
Skating is like hanging out with your
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The connection between instinctual expression and technical ability is just one really important idea in skating and photography as for the most part, you need both to create anything in both mediums.
My work is pretty much all monochromatic pen and ink – I think I might have used colour once upon a time, but I can’t be sure.
Even if you don’t take
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Skateboarding and making art is all deeply connected because in a way one can’t be there without another.
For me it’s all about the process, the shit you’re
My practice mainly uses sculpture, film and animation to explore human impact on earth, the anthropocene and the way we interact with our environment.
Skateboarding for me was a huge influence on
My name is Nathaniel Jones. I’m a graphic and apparel designer. Alongside that I sometimes make graphics for brands I’m into like Quartersnacks and The Quiet Life. I
I skateboard and make stuff. Honestly, I try to get my hands in to everything. Mostly illustration, but I do a bunch of painting, sculpture, motion graphics, furniture design, anything …
Lately, I’ve been painting a lot. I think the thing that keeps me painting is detaching my brain from the physical world that we see, and creating something …
I think for me the relationship between art and skateboarding is a close one. If I didn’t skate I would be a completely different person to who I am now.
My name is Simon Skipp, I use reclaimed skateboards to create what I would call low relief and fretwork style carvings either in the form of wall hanging
When I think about the relationship of skateboarding, making art and making stuff, I think, yeah of course, I mean it might be different person to person, but for myself it’s …
I think skateboarding and making art are very similar to certain extents and both are heavily intertwined to me personally.
I started skateboarding before I started making art and being exposed to …
I think that skateboarding was the genesis of my creativity. When I was eleven or so I discovered skateboarding and was instantly hooked on it. But before that, I
I skate, film and make videos with my mates. I also got two part time jobs but, who cares?
I always just film with whoever is about and …
The name Glue Bag came about sometime when I was living in Cardiff.
It’s an outdated joke aimed at people who still huffed glue from plastic bags.…
I do many things that fall under the broad description of “art”.
Today I am writing a song and planning to go out painting graffiti tonight, …
I skate and create art pieces. I also work in a school with children on autism spectrum. I learn as much as I can and teach when appropriate.
I’m an illustrator at heart but I like to dabble with moving image, film, graphic design and photography. It’s great to learn new skills.
I definitely think skateboarding helps me
Skateboarding has inspired me artistically from an early age.
The graphics and illustration that were around in the early 00’s shaped me to be the illustrator and designer I
As skateboarders we all understand that we have an ability to read architecture in a different way to other people. It’s a uniquely creative skill.
But its not just …
My name is Helena Long. I skate a lot, drum a lot, work a lot and enjoying illustrating things here and there.
I think skateboarding and the other artistic,creative things …
I wish I could be more creative on my skateboard but I’m pretty rubbish…
So, I guess the creative opportunity for me comes when I get to
A lot of my inspiration for drawings and paintings come from my roots in skateboarding.
My everyday observation of space and architecture is influenced by searching for skate spots in …
I think that skateboarding has taught me to be patient, which I apply daily to making boots and shoes.
I mainly use skateboarding to clear my head when I have …
Skateboarding and making art both inspire me. I started skating because I saw some cool looking kids doing trick on a park bench and from then on I …
My full name is Zilvinas Vaitiekunas but everyone knows me as Zin.
I skate and make paintings and also experiment with other forms of visual art, like …
I’ve never really thought about the connection between skateboarding and making art too much. Although, there’s definitely a similarity in the thought process.
In the same way that you might
There’s a strong connection between skateboarding and illustration. On virtually every skate product there’s a rich, diverse range of illustrations.
Every skater knows different skate brand styles. As skaters …
Skateboarding and art are inextricably linked – one informs the other & vice versa.
Both are legit lifestyle pursuits which require boundless energy, creativity, imagination, contemplation, integrity and heart.
