Uploaded August 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Printmaker Bill Fick takes you through the making of an exclusive print for Speedball, NO ILL EFFECTS, featuring Speedball’s New Professional Relief Ink and Arnhem 1618 printmaking paper. Inspired by classic tattoo imagery, this print takes a darkly humorous view of the human condition. A skull calmly smokes a cigar while not showing any ill effects of a vicious snake passing through its jaw and eye socket - perhaps this is due to the skull no longer being chained to the fears and anxieties experienced by the living.
Printmaker Bill Fick takes you through the making of an exclusive print for Speedball, NO ILL EFFECTS, featuring Speedball’s New Professional Relief Ink and Arnhem 1618 printmaking paper. Inspired by classic tattoo imagery, this print takes a darkly humorous view of the human condition. A skull calmly smokes a cigar while not showing any ill effects of a vicious snake passing through its jaw and eye socket - perhaps this is due to the skull no longer being chained to the fears and anxieties experienced by the living.
