My name is Stevan William Hyde and I live in Cornwall, England. This is an interview that I have done for another website, I am bad at writing about myself and don't like to sound pretentious so I just copied it onto here for you to read.

1. Which artists have most influenced your work, and who are your favorite artists?

My main influences and favourite artists have to be Ben Templesmith, his work is what first got me into horror type art when I bought my first graphic novel “Criminal Macabre“ when I was 15. 80s artists in particular, people who drew band artwork for metal/rock bands such as Pus head, Vince Locke for his surreal take on gorey horror art and Jack Teagle, a little known Cornish artist who influenced my work whilst we were in school together.

2. Describe your creative process. Do you start with images or ideas?

I don’t really have a specific process, I will just have an idea that will pop into my head during the days events; whilst everybody else is thinking ‘I should go to the shop and buy some milk’, I am usually thinking ‘I wonder if a giant army of lizard pigs could defeat an armoured god’ or something equally strange!

3. What tools do you use in your work?

I will always be a fan of just using paper and a biro but over the last few years I have been really getting to grips with painting on canvas boards with acrylic. Recently, I have started using copic markers and I have just bought a computer tablet so I will have some fun with that now. I really want to get used to all these mediums to broaden my range artwork.

4. Does inspiration come to you or do you actively seek it? If so, how?

Most of the time random ideas will just appear in my mind as I draw but sometimes I will get little ideas from television shows, books, odd people I see in the street and songs. If I go to actively seek out inspiration then I will listen to Rob Zombie and play shoot em up‘s.

5. When did you begin practicing your art and how did you learn?

I have been drawing and doodling since I was a small child. From about the age of 11, I went to a new school and made friends with somebody who was just as enthusiastic about drawing as I was and there was a kind of rivalry between us, we started trying to draw anime characters and making up our own stories, like most teens and my artwork has progressed from there. I slowly started to lean more towards the horror and macabre as my love for horror movies and heavy metal started to grow more and more. The practice I did with drawing anime still comes in handy when drawing figures or outlining heads and faces.

6. Is there one piece that is special to you, or that you particularly enjoyed creating?

“Karnage Freaks” is the piece of work that means the most to me at the moment, it represents a time in my work that I turned a corner creatively. I think that this was the point that I began to get more technical with my drawings. This piece is what I really wanted to be doing when I was fifteen but just didn’t have the right drive or push to do it. I pretty much took a couple years off from drawing, only doing it when necessary, like in my art course. But now I have the right reason to do it and im finally getting to the place where I want to be in my art. I still have a lot of room to grow and I hope I get lots of opportunities to show people what I can do.