The Sketchy Van Podcast
Episodes
The Truth About “Do What You Love” // Peter Lyon
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Find Michael Hampton's content here: https://figuredrawing.info/products/d... You have to love the process more than the product to succeed as an arti...
The Work Ethic That Built Wētā Workshop
21 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ultimate Sketching Course! https://www.proko.com/s/rMQf?af=706140 In this episode, I sit down with a master builder of high-fidelity collectibles to ...
Career Advice from the Man Behind Lord of the Rings
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ultimate Sketching Course! https://www.proko.com/s/rMQf?af=706140 In this episode, I sit down with Richard Taylor, co-founder of Wētā Workshop, to t...
Does Fan Art Actually Get You Hired? (TB Choi Explains)
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ultimate Sketching Course 20% presale ! https://www.proko.com/s/rMQf?af=706140 In this episode, I sit down with TB Choi, character concept artist ...
The Creative Burnout No One Talks About
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to help me keep making these, you can support me here (thank you so much if you do ❤️): https://www.patreon.com/KristianNee And here’...
The Business Side of Art School You Never See
11 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to help me keep making these, you can support me here (thank you so much if you do ❤️): https://www.patreon.com/KristianNee And here’...
Why the Difficult Path is Always Worth It __ Slew
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to help me keep making these, you can support me here (thank you so much if you do ❤️): https://www.patreon.com/KristianNee And here’...
Why Technique Alone Won’t Make You a Great Artist __ Michael Hampton_2
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to help me keep making these, you can support me here (thank you so much if you do ❤️): https://www.patreon.com/KristianNee And here’...
Why Even Good Portfolios Get Ignored __ Alpay Efe
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to help me keep making these, you can support me here (thank you so much if you do ❤️): https://www.patreon.com/KristianNee And here’...
The Harsh Truth About Making It as a Comic Artist – Whilce Portacio Tells All
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to help me keep making these, you can support me here (thank you so much if you do ❤️): https://www.patreon.com/KristianNee And here’...
What Every Artist Needs to Hear (But Nobody Says) // Marshall Vandruff
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to help me keep making these, you can support me here (thank you so much if you do ❤️): https://www.patreon.com/KristianNee And here’...
Career Advice from Former Riot Art Director // Dan Norton
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gesture Lessons from me: https://kristiansknees.gumroad.com/l/gesture Mentorship: https://www.kristiannee.com/projects/mentorship Portrait painting...
Does Technical Skill Kill Creativity? // Jeff Watts
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Learn Gesture Drawing https://kristiansknees.gumroad.com/l/gesture Mentorship: https://www.patreon.com/join/KristianNee Join my Discord: https://disco...
How do you know when you're good enough? - Morgan Weistling
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Morgan Weistling is one of the best living painters around (in my opinion). He started his career doing movie posters, and then transitioned full time...
Creativity and Making it Work Practically - Sir Richard Taylor
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Richard Taylor is most well known for co-founding Wētā Workshop with his wife Tania Taylor. He has won dozens of awards, and has worked on some ...
Do you Need a Mentor to Be an Artist? - Patrick Ballesteros
15 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Follow https://www.instagram.com/patrickballesteros/ Introduction to Figure Construction by Michael Hampton: https://www.proko.com/s/FLC2?af=706140 ...
How to become a PRO artist without Art School - Peter Han
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Follow Peter https://www.instagram.com/peterhanstyle/ Mentorship: https://www.kristiannee.com/projects/mentorship Tutorials: Mini Course on Gesture...
He made $25,000 in a month from a Gumroad tutorial - Ben Eblen
14 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Eblen is a software developer turned artist. He transitioned from programming as a day job to making a full time living as an artist and art teach...
This is the #1 Problem for Artists - Greg Broadmore
14 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At Wētā Workshop in New Zealand, I talked with Greg Broadmore, a concept artist for District 9 and Avatar. Greg stressed beating self-doubt and find...
Practical Living as a Freelancer - Sketchy Van Podcast #65 Jon Jags Nee
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jon is a visual effects artist, YouTuber, body builder and foodie. He's also my brother. He's worked with tons of big brands in the entertainment / ho...
From film sets to drawing anime boys for a living - Sketchy Van Podcast #64 Bryce Kho
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Follow Bryce https://www.instagram.com/brycekhodraws/ Bryce is an artist who makes most of his living off selling prints of his artwork at conventions...
Finding a Job in Games - Sketchy Van Podcast #63 J Hill
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Follow J: https://www.instagram.com/artofjhill/ https://www.youtube.com/@artofjhill J is 3d modeler and designer known for his work on Apex Legends,...
Independent comics and making it work - Sketchy Van Podcast #62 Daniel Warren Johnson
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mentorship: https://www.kristiannee.com/projects/... Dan's a comic book artist and writer known for (but not limited to) his creator owned comic books...
How To Find Your Career as an Artist - Sketchy Van Podcast #61 Gary Villarreal (villarrte)
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mentorship: https://www.kristiannee.com/projects/... Gary's Drawing Course: https://villarrte.gumroad.com/l/Paths... Gary is an illustrator, fine arti...
The existential threat of AI art and why not to quit drawing - Sketchy Van Podcast #60 Steven Zapata
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mentorship: https://www.kristiannee.com/projects/... Steven Zapata is an artist, illustrator, and teacher known for his graphite pencil drawings. In t...
Finding Your Career As an Artist - Sketchy Van Podcast #59 Bryan Mark Taylor
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mentorship: https://www.kristiannee.com/projects/mentorship Free Procreate Sketch Brushes: https://kristiansknees.gumroad.com/ Bryan is a fine artis...
Career Advice from Proko’s Editor - Sketchy Van Podcast #58 Sean Ramsey
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mentorship: https://www.patreon.com/KristianNee Free Procreate Sketch Brushes: https://kristiansknees.gumroad.com/ Sean is an artist and YouTube vide...
Self Care and Being an Artist - Sketchy Van Podcast #57 Steve Huston
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Steve is a fine artist, illustrator, and art instructor known for his dynamic figurative work and his teaching. Steve has taught all over the world at...
Living in the Wilderness of Montana - Sketchy Van Podcast #56 Gabby and Wade Holm
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gabbie and Wade holm are both hiking guides who live and work in West Glacier, Montana. For their job, they take people on multiple day backpacking tr...
Why You Don’t Need Art School - Sketchy Van Podcast #54 Jisu
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jisu is an artist, and illustrator known for her pop-art illustrations. I met her at New York Comic Con when I interviewed her for a Proko episode. In...
Art Teacher’s Advice to students - Sketchy Van Podcast #53 Ben young
13 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Young is a fine artist, illustrator and instructor at the Watts Atelier. He began he career taking classes at the Watts and was invited to teach s...
Making A Business out of Art - Sketchy Van Podcast #52 Kehasuk
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kehasuk is an artist / illustrator known for his fan-art prints that he sells at conventions. How did Kehasuk go from sleeping in his car and sketchin...
Finding a Career as a Character Concept Artist - Sketchy Van Podcast #51 Ryan Pallett
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan is a character concept artist known for his 2d graphic figures. He's worked on projects like PUBG and Apex legends designing skins. In this epis...
Sketchy Van Podcast #50 - Rockentry and Sophia Chalks
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rock Entry (Oswaldo Zuniga) and SophiaChalks are rock climbers, influencers, climbing teachers and meme makers. I've been following them as I've taken...
Sketchy Van Podcast #49 - Obese to Beast (John Glaude)
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John is a fitness influencer, artist and streamer known for his weight loss journey. He gained popularity from his Youtube content where he outlined h...
Sketchy Van Podcast #48 - Kaveh Taherian
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kaveh is an illustrator, comic book artist, podcaster, and movie dude. I met him at Wondercon in Anaheim while wondering around, and we bonded over ou...
Sketchy Van Podcast #47 - Alex Sinclair
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alex is a comic book colorist, fine artist, illustrator, and painter. He's worked with some of the legends of comic books like Jim Lee, and has influe...
Sketchy Van Podcast #46 - Dom Lay
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dom is an illustrator, concept artist, and teacher. I've known Dom since my first classes in art school, and we've seen each other develop over the ye...
Sketchy Van Podcast #45 - Steve Michael Hampton
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Steve is a fine artist, illustrator and art teacher living in Southern California. He is known for his teaching and his book Figure Drawing, Design an...
Sketchy Van Podcast #44 - Rembert Montald
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rembert is a storyboard artist, animator, illustrator, fine artist and concept artist currently working at Riot games. He is known for his work on var...
Sketchy Van Podcast #43 - Ryan Benjamin
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan is a comic book artist, illustrator, and art teacher. He's has worked in video games, comics, and movies for companies like DC, Marvel, and Blizz...
Sketchy Van Podcast #42 - Flashgitz
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Flashgitz is an animation duo who have been making cartoons for the past 15 years. Tom and Don began their careers at the age of 14 on Newgrounds.com ...
Sketchy Van Podcast #41 - Geek Climber
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Geek Climber is a calisthenics and climbing YouTuber who has gained popularity through completing physical challenges as person of "average" physical ...
Sketchy Van Podcast#40 - Devin Elle Kurtz
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Devin is an artist, and illustrator. She began her career as an artist as a teenager and from there has worked for companies like Pixar, Marvel, and D...
Sketchy Van Podcast #39 - Makenna Karp
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Makenna is an illustrator, and fine artist currently attending the Watts Atelier. She's just beginning her career as an artist, but has taken several ...
Sketchy Van Podcast #38 - Jeff Watts
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Watts is a fine artist based in Encinitas, California. He is known by most people who watch this channel as an art teacher and founder of the Wat...
Sketchy Van Podcast #37 - Patrick Jones
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Jones is an illustrator, educator, and fine artist living in Australia. Patrick is known for his beautiful fantasy illustration, and figure dr...
Sketchy Van Podcast #36 - Alvin Lee
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alvin is an illustrator, artist, art director, storyteller, educator and game developer. He is known for his work in entertaining working in comics, a...
Sketchy Van Podcast #35 - Stephen Silver
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen is an illustrator, character designer, educator, and cool guy. He's worked for big animation studios designing characters like Kim Possible, a...
Sketchy Van Podcast #34 - Mike Maxwell
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mike is a fine artist living in Southern California known for his surreal, dreamy style on subjects like human experience, themes of religion, and sex...
Sketchy Van Podcast #33 - Trent Kanuiga
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Trent is an artist, indie game developer, comic book writer / artist and educator. Trent is known for his work in video games and his Youtube channel ...
Sketchy Van Podcast #32 - Su Lee
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Su is a South Korean musician, and artist. She is known for her music about confronting loneliness, depression, anxiety and mental health. I discovere...
Sketchy Van Podcast #31 - Ren Lindroos and Dario
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ren is an artist, illustrator and educator from California. Dario is an Italian cyclist that was visiting me through a website called Warmshowers. Dar...
Sketchy Van Podcast #30 - Tiffanie Mang
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tiffanie is a fine artist, illustrator, and educator living in Southern California. She's known for her work as a fine artist, and for her work on the...
Sketchy Van Podcast #29 - Stan Prokopenko
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stan is a fine artist, art instructor and entrepreneur living in San Diego. He is known for his Youtube channel, Proko, where he has taught academic a...
Sketchy Van Podcast #27 - Ahmed Aldoori and Sinix
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ahmed Aldoori and Sinix are artists and art educators. In this episode we talk about the purpose of art in our lives, and going on adventures. We had ...
Sketchy Van Podcast #26 - Erik Gist
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Erik is an illustrator, and educator living in San Diego. I met Erik while I was attending the Watts Atelier in Encinitas. He's known for his work as ...
Sketchy Van Podcast #25 -Zac Retz
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Zac is an artist, and educator living in LA. He's known for his work on movies like Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, Raya and the Last Dragon, and Inv...
Sketchy Van Podcast #24 - Morgan Weistling
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Morgan is a fine art Western painter living in Southern California. In this episode we talk about why it's important to trust yourself, dealing with f...
Sketchy Van Podcast #23 - Bradwynn Jones
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bradwynn is a fine artist, and instructor from Southern California. In this episode we talk about his time working as a pharmacist while building his ...
Sketchy Van Podcast #22 - Marshall Vandruff
26 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marshall is an educator, and artist in in Southern California. He has had a hand in teaching many of my favorite artists and has had a profound effect...
Sketchy Van Podcast #21 - TJ Geisen
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tj is an artist, designer, developer, and cool guy working at Riot games. In this episode we talk about his journey going from making tacos in Pheonix...
Sketchy Van Podcast #20 - Josh Sunga
04 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Josh is a designer, educator and artist. In this episode we talk about our thoughts on getting good at art, and how god relates to them. Follow Josh:...
Sketchy Van Podcast #19 - Jose Vega
04 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jose is an artist and educator known for his work on the Netflix adaption of Castlevania, and most recently as a visual development artist on Magic th...
Sketchy Van Podcast #18 - Sinix
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
@Sinix Design is an artist, designer, and educator. In this episode we talk about how capitalism is evil, and how we all must unite to overthrow ...
Sketchy Van Podcast #17 - Katie Silva and Patrick Stannard
14 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Katie and Patrick both work at Powerhouse Studios in Austin Texas. Katie is the lead character design supervisor on Castlevania, and Patrick is the co...
Sketchy Van Podcast #16 - Marco Bucci
30 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marco Bucci is a fine artist, educator, and illustrator living in Toronto Canada. In this episode we talk about pursuing difficult creative endeavors ...
Sketchy Van Podcast #15 - Tad Retz
30 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tad is a fine art painter living in upstate New York. In this episode we talk about how he started his career sleeping on an air mattress in his broth...
Sketchy Van Podcast #14 - FESBRA
30 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
FESBRA (Felipe Evergreen) is an artist and illustrator from South America. In this episode we talk about what it means to pursue art as a career, and...
Sketchy Van Podcast #13 - James Douglas (Moderndayjames)
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
James is an illustrator, animator, musician, educator, and concept artist. In this episode we talk about managing stress, expressing yourself, and why...
Sketchy Van Podcast #12 - Esben Lash Rasmussen
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Esben is an illustrator and concept artist living in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is known for his work on League of Legends as a splash artist. In this ep...
Sketchy Van Podcast #11 - SLEW
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
SLEW (Sam) is a fine artist and content creator living in Brooklyn, New York. In this episode we talk about how he started his Youtube channel, and th...
Sketchy Van Podcast #7 - Tyler Murphy
03 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tyler is a fine artist and gallery owner in Billings Montana. In this episode we talk about what it's like starting a business with your friend and ou...
Sketchy Van Podcast #6 - Lucas Kremer
03 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lucas Kremer is a fine artist and illustrator living in Minnesota. In this episode we talk about training to be an artist and how to stay on the path....
Sketchy Van Podcast #4 - Albin Veselka
03 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Albin is an Idaho based fine art Western painter, educator, and father. He began his art career at BYU where he studied representational art. From the...
Sketchy Van Podcast #3 - Keith Huang
03 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Huang is a fine artist, father and entrepreneur. Most recently he has co-founded VisionX Live and Sentient Academy with his business partner Br...
Sketchy Van Podcast #8 - Ahmed Aldoori
03 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ahmed is an illustrator, concept artist, and educator living in Ohio. In this episode we talk about his path to where he is now, and our thoughts on a...
Sketchy Van Podcast #5 - Christina Cornett
26 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Christina is an illustrator, and concept artist working at ZeniMax studios. In this episode we talk about her journey going from student to working fu...
Sketchy Van Podcast #10 - Steven Zapata
26 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Zapata is an artist and educator living in New York City. This one gets a little weird, we talk about the meaning to life and how we both know ...
Sketchy Van Podcast #2 - Bryan Mark Taylor
26 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bryan is an entrepreneur, fine artist, educator, and family man living in Utah. He is founder of Strada Easels and co founder of VisionX Live, and Se...
Sketchy Van Podcast #1 - Scott Flanders
26 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Flanders is a concept artist, educator, illustrator, and creative person. He began his career working as a concept artist in video games, and is...