The Handsome Frank Illustration Podcast

By Handsome FrankArts Design

The Handsome Frank Illustration Podcast episodes

July 16 Hattie Clark
Join us for a conversation with Leeds based illustrator Hattie Clark. In a lovely, meandering, chat we discuss how fashion street style inspires her, what it's like to see someone wearing your merch in the wild and how changing how she draws ears might just have changed her career.
55 min
April 24 Guillaume Kurkdjian
The latest episode of the Handsome Frank podcast took us to a kitchen table in the 20th arr. of Paris. With the sun streaming in, and surrounded by freshly baked pastry and homemade coffee, we got into it with illustrator and animator, Guillaume Kurkdjian. Talking everything from how he builds his 3D worlds, his love of Richar Scarry's work and a trip of discovery into his Armenian roots. Pull up a chair and hit play. View Guillame's portfolio at: www.handsomefrank.com/illustrators/guillaume-kurkdjian
1 hr 5 min
January 28 Advertising
Ever wondered how the advertising world actually works? On our latest podcast, we sit down with senior agency producer Phoebe Hazzan and top art director Ali Augur to dig into the details. We asked all the questions illustrators have been dying to ask—and hit record so you don't miss a thing. www.handsomefrank.com
54 min
December 01, 2025 Yo Hosoyamada
A lovely conversation with one of our newer signings, Yo Hosoyamada. We discuss her background in architecture, working with Transport for London and why she wanted to make as many bad drawings as she could.

Check out Yo's portfolio at

https://www.handsomefrank.com/illustrators/yo-hosoyamada
57 min
April 29, 2025 Molly McCammon
Join us as we catch up with one of our 2024 Handsome Future winners, Molly McCammon. We talk about what she's learned over the past year, how she's tweaked her work to gain more commercial success, and what it's like to be an illustrator picking colours when you have Synesthesia.

Check out Molly's portfolio over on our website!
54 min
March 18, 2025 Tim McDonagh
In this episode Tim talks us through his 15 years in illustration. From an initial love of collage, before pivoting to pen and ink and disagreeing with his tutors on the way to winning a D&AD New Blood Award. Today he is established as one of the most sought after in the business and has become a go to artist, for The New York Times and Star Wars.

Join us as we hear how growing up on a Virginian commune, surrounded by rattle snakes and snapping turtles, helped him develop his macabre brand of illustration. Why he holds his breath when he paints and how acting might just be his back-up plan.

View Tim's portfolio on the Handsome Frank website.
1 hr 1 min
February 11, 2025 24 - Charlie Davis
If you've travelled on the London Underground recently, you'll have seen the work of Charlie Davis. A Handsome Frank superstar since 2019, Charlie's profile has grown to new heights in the past few years and is now on show all over London. He joins us to share his journey—from starting out as a junior designer to making the leap into full-time illustration. Offering a fascinating insight into his craft, he reveals how making one small tweak to his work opened the door to increased commercial success, why he doesn't draw faces and explains why he prefers short deadlines. www.handsomefrank.com/illustrators/charlie-davis
52 min
December 17, 2024 23 - Marylou Faure
Parisian-born Londoner Marylou Faure joined us at HFHQ to talk about the personal and professional journey, which has shaped her bold, bouncy, art style. In our final podcast of the year, Marylou discusses female empowerment, which is a central theme in her work and how she learned to love colour. We also cover how her 3D 'babes' come to life, her dream projects and whether Die Hard is a Christmas film.

Check out Marylou Faure's portfolio
53 min
November 22, 2024 22 - Paul Blow
On a brisk November day, we travelled by train to Dorset and sat down to talk with award winning illustrator Paul Blow. In a conversation that spans the full length of his career, we discuss the highs and lows of being an illustrator for over three decades. Paul talks to us about everything from awards, to losing his life's work, to why he avoided drawing smiley faces for so long. His bold conceptual illustrations often mix themes of humour, sadness and the absurd and his podcast almost perfectly mirrors the variety in his work.
53 min
March 15, 2024 21 - Luis Mendo
In a Paris hotel room, beneath the Eiffel Tower, we finally tracked down the wonderful Luis Mendo. Join us for a ranging conversation, taking in a career designing magazines in 90's Amsterdam, a life changing decision to relocate to Tokyo and how his work as an illustrator was born from a language barrier. Trigger warning, contains mentions of AI that artists may find refreshing.
Check out Luis' portfolio at handsomefrank.com

Feeling a strong desire to stroll through Tokyo with Luis? You're in luck! Join him on his daily routine in our 'Little Film About...Luis Mendo'. Watch now on vimeo

57 min