What happens when pencil, markers and music get together? Finnish artists Ville Savimaa and Sac Magique can show you. Using their artistic skills they have been drawing and creating real-time, on-the-spot illustrations in response to music played by DJs.

Dazed Digital: What do you think attracts people to your art?
Ville: I really don’t know. I just try to be honest to myself and its wonderful if someone finds my work attractive.
Sac: The colours and characters I reckon. I've been described as colourful.

Dazed Digital: What music stimulates you more or less?
Ville: Any music with passion. Recently, I have got a lot of kicks from Animal Collective’s album "Here comes the Indians".
Sac: Skweee's been floating my boat for some time now – it's good to gyrate to.

Dazed Digital: What projects have you got going on at the moment and what’s lined up for the future?
Ville: At the moment, I am finishing one Illustration for Mokoma agency. They are organising a festival for Finnish music called "This Is Finland". Next in line is a poster for La Surprise, a new agency in Paris.
Sac: I have a bunch of exhibitions lined up for late summer and autumn in which I'll be showing some screen prints. There's also a periodical I'm working on with a colleague. That's going to be called “Fleshy Asides” – it's kind of an excuse to dick around but in a serious way.

Dazed Digital: Out of all the illustrations that you have created, which ones are your favourites?
Ville: I am into one work that I made for the ICA called "Portrait Before Friends". It’s quite new one.
Sac: I like some of the scenes I've created – it's fun to do something a little bit more complicated once in a while. I've also been having a crack at doing some patterns, one of which will be available as a textile in the Autumn. Making patterns is meditative.

Dazed Digital: Any upcoming exhibitions of your work?
Ville: I am having one in Berlin on August 15, and one in Pekka´s Showroom in Helsinki at the end of August.
Sac: Yeah, Ville and I Pekka’s show coming up on August 23 . I'll also be showing prints at the Here Gallery in Bristol in October. And something in Stockholm too.

Dazed: What cities, venues or environment are most responsive to your art?
Ville: I am living in Helsinki at the moment, and I suppose I have got a lot inspiration from here. I love this town.
Sac: Well, I'm not sure which is more responsive, but I like the thought of my work in the home – something you could live with and see every day.

Dazed Digital: What other forms of art are you interested in? What have you seen recently that you admired?
Sac: I like the video art of Bruce Nauman and Paul McCarthy – in both their work there is a mix of insanity and absurdity which is damned appealing. I'm also a big fan of ketchup and clowns.
Ville: I would like to do more video stuff, short stories and music videos. Music is one of my favourite ways to express myself. I am actually starting a band with Robin, called Oh Lucky, and we have one song being released by the ICA. It’s on a CD that includes a book with postcards from illustrators who have been in the Heavy Pencil evening.

Dazed Digital: One of the best tunes to paint with?
Ville: Scott Walker’s “It’s Raining Today”.
Sac: Bill Evans's “Conversations With Myself” is great – it's gently suggestive.