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The majority of my design heroes are illustrators who were creating work in the 1950\u2019s and \u201860s.\u00a0 Some of those illustrators I admire are Leonard Weisgard, JP Miller, Mel Crawford, and Alice and Martin Provensen, a husband and wife illustration powerhouse team.\u00a0 I looked at a ton of Andrew Loomis\u2019 work in college when I was learning\u00a0how<\/span> to draw; studying his books.\u00a0 I also went through a small comic book nerd phase where I was frantically looking at anything Mike Mignola created.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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6.\u00a0Describe your creative design process?<\/h4>\n
I’m sure my process is very similar to everyone else’s.\u00a0 I work from very small rough thumbnails where I’m just trying to create a composition that works.\u00a0 Because my work is so shape based, in those times I’m trying to make sure the shapes work well together.\u00a0 Typically from there I’m thinking color palette. \u00a0 Because I’ve been doing this for a while I have an idea how<\/span> the process is going to go but eager to set up my colors first.\u00a0 I try to think as limited in my palette as possible not trying to introduce a thousand different colors.\u00a0 I typically have my focal point of the illustration a color with the background and other elements complimenting that main color or serve as analogous colors.\u00a0 Even though I may set up a palette before hand I let the illustration dictate the colors and try to let the process be natural, letting it have a life of its own.\u00a0 From that point I’m creating the shapes and just rendering out everything.<\/p>\n\n
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7.\u00a0Where do you find inspiration?<\/h4>\n
These days I’m most inspired by narrative.\u00a0 Earlier I was so set on trying to figure out my ‘style’ that I was hungry looking at other artists for answers on how<\/span> to solve illustration problems or rendering techniques.\u00a0 Because majority of the time Kristen and I are illustrating kids books I’m inspired by any and all kinds of story.\u00a0 Whether it’s watching the newest season of Daredevil (sooooo good) or enjoying different children’s books with my kiddos.\u00a0 Whenever we do illustration with characters I try to put myself in that world thinking, “could this lead to a story?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
8.\u00a0What techniques and software tools do you use to keep yourself organized?<\/h4>\n
My digital tools are just simply photoshop and illustrator.\u00a0 For the longest time I was still using photoshop CS(the first one, haha), and people would gasp when I told them I wasn’t using the newest software.\u00a0 Because our work is so texture based it really didn’t matter if I had the newest version.\u00a0 These days I’m on the newest photoshop using custom made brushes and a lot of Kyle Webster brushes.\u00a0 He’s an illustrator who has made literally the best brushes for illustrators.<\/p>\n
For working traditionally I have forever used col-erase pencils first then do my finished lines with a darker pencil.\u00a0 Not the prismacolor kind, but FaberCastell.\u00a0 They draw a nice line and I’ve always used them for structural lines and helping setup my compositions.\u00a0 For all logo stuff I only work in my logo sketchbooks.\u00a0 Because they have all my logo jobs in there it becomes a catalog of rough logo work and gets me in the right working mind and ‘groove.’ \u00a0Other times, drawings and doodles end up all over the place, mostly envelopes of bills I have to pay, lol.<\/p>\n
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