We were lucky to catch up with Josiah Wooldridge recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Josiah, thanks for joining us today. It’s always helpful to hear about times when someone’s had to take a risk – how did they think through the decision, why did they take the risk, and what ended up happening. We’d love to hear about a risk you’ve taken.

I’ve always just taken small risks with my art at first… Just experimenting with styles. I used to base most of my artwork on already existing subjects like video game characters, horror movies, etc.

Over time I started experimenting more by creating my own characters! Injecting my own humor and personality into them. Really working on making something unique! I knew that there was going to be a lot of hard work involved with something like this. I had to write my own story, illustrate, and just trying to make it stand out from everything else!

Within a couple of weeks I’ve created a really great character! I’m not sure if I can give many details away, but I developed a character that is a crime fighting adult toy in a film noir style. It’s not pornographic in any way and it just has a good amount of “toilet humor” to make it fun inside a serious crime story. It’s a totally far out idea and so far it has been met with a lot of praise and laughter (the good kind!).

The REAL RISK now is to self publish my work since there is a great chance that no company may wish to associate themselves with my brand of humor…

As some my say the greater the risk, the greater the reward!

Josiah, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I am an artist based in Houston Texas. I base my work mainly on retro video games, horror movies, or pop art. I love creating work with a lot of “POP” and color! I recently have started working on my own line of adult coloring books and comics!

I’ve always been interested in art since I was about five years old. I was inspired to by my brother Stephen to take up art as a young kid because he would draw his own unique characters for tabletop games and hang them on his walls. I would go in his room, when he wasn’t there, and try and draw his characters myself. Over time I started getting better and better at it to a point that I surpassed him.

When clients come to me for a commission, some don’t have a full vision of what they want, so I do what I can to get both them and myself on the same page. I don’t want the client to give me such a vague idea and I create something that they end up not fully liking. I like to get the client as involved as I can, but not to much to make it seem like they are “driving” the whole project.

I will take on almost any job as long as it’s fun and interesting! I don’t want it to feel like a “job”. If it’s something that both me and the client are happy with the final piece then I know I’ve done well!

Alright – so here’s a fun one. What do you think about NFTs?

I just don’t freaking get it….

It’s not like you own the right to the image, you own an address of where that “work” is located at within the “chain” of others.

I am not interested at all in getting into NFTs.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

I just want to have fun and I want others to have fun and enjoy the art I love creating!

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