World’s will collide and the multiverse will be in crisis on today’s podcast! Man vs. Art’s Raul Aguirre Jr. and Che join forces with Big Illustration Party Time’s Kevin Cross and Joshua Kemble to tear the art world a new one in an EPIC crossover event so rad we can hardly contain ourselves! The Art Podcast equivalent of Batman Teaming up with Superman in World’s Finest. Only this team up crossover is World’s Raddest!
San Francisco Bay Area native, Kevin Cross, is a punk rocker illustrator and cartoonist currently living in Portland, Oregon with his rad wife and awesome cat. He has done storyboarding, design, and illustration work for many clients including Marvel Entertainment, IDW Publishing, THQ Games, Real Skateboards, and Spitfire Wheels. When not working on professional freelance illustration assignments, he writes and illustrates his own funny books: Monsters Are Go! and Monkey Mod. Additionally, he received a BFA in Illustration from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
Josh is a freelance illustrator and a Xeric Award Winning Cartoonist. He is currently at work on his graphic novel, Jacobs Apartment for NBM Publishing, while creating freelance illustrations for t-shirts, magazines and other media. His illustration clients have ranged from Scholastic to Random House and his comic work has been published in various anthologies and self published mini-comics. An unabashed comic book geek, Kemble was born in 1980 in Tarzana, California and grew up in the Antelope Valley. He received his BFA in Illustration from California State University of Long Beach, and now resides in Long Beach, CA with fiance and fellow artist, Mai S. Kemble, and his pugs, C.K. Dexter Haven and Dozer.
Illustration! What you need to know.
Today my guests and I talk about Illustration and some of the ways an artist can be better prepared to enter the freelance world.
How an artist can make a living doing freelance illustration.
Discipline and getting your work done
Some portfolio and web gallery strategies to follow.
Self promotion like mailers, web presence, etc
Generating job leads and establishing professional relationships with art directors.
Getting into the business mindset. You need to run your freelance business, well, like a business!
What should your rates be? How much should you charge?
I want to thank my guests, Joshua and Kevin for their time and for sharing tons of a of great advice and encouragement to all of you Illustrators out there!
Here are some of the links mentioned in today’s podcast.
Kevin found a great website called pixelovely to help you with your gesture drawing
Gesture drawings are an excellent method of studying humans and animals in motion. They help artist understand anatomy, and the natural range of motion in the joints, and body language and emotion.
You should start every day with at least half a dozen 30 second gesture drawings. This will warm and loosen you up for your day!
Animatic Directed by yours truly.
Last but not least! I’d like to announce my completion of the Animation series development piece for Mijos.
David Gonzales creator of the Homies and and his brother Father Masseo Gonzales the producer brought me on to storyboard and direct the animatic cartoon for the first act of the series pilot written by Victor Sagastume.
You may now wring out your chonies.
Kevin found a great website to help you with your gesture drawing!
Minions! I present you Mike White, the creator of the hysterically charming comic Amity Blamity! Born and raised in Canada, Mike has always dreamed about writing & drawing stories about his characters. After 5years working in TV and making award winning music videos, he moved to California enamored by the promise of opportunity. He is now back to his first love & childhood dream: creating memorable stories and characters in the spirit Bone, Calvin & Hobbes, Bloom County, and the many influences/inspirations of his youth.
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My guest on today’s show loves to draw and write! He is Javier Hernandez, a DIY cartoonist, painter, and entrepreneur. He is the creator of such comics as EL MUERTO, MAN-SWAMP and WEAPON TEX-MEX, which he publishes under his own imprint, LOS COMEX.
My guest today is the exceptionally talented Artist, Animator, Director, Professor, and Writer Nancy Beiman.
Nancy Beiman hails from New Jersey, likes to travel and owns a cat named Gizmo! She wasn’t the first woman to work at the Disney Studio. There were many women before her who worked on Disney films. But Nancy has earned the distinction of being the second woman to be credited on a Disney film. She has taught animation at Savannah College of Art and Design, and taught at Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Film & Animation until 2008. She now teaches at Sheridan Institute’s Animation department in Canada.
Nancy was offered a scholarship to be part of the inaugural class of the Character Animation program at CalArts straight out high school. Her classmates included John Lasseter, Jerry Rees, John Musker, Tim Burton, and Brad Bird. Nancy was the first woman to graduate from the CalArts Character Animation Program. After CalArts, She went to work at Jack Zander’s Animation Parlour in New York. She has animated Bugs and Donald, Snoopy and Goofy, friends of Fievel Mouse and Mickey Mouse, and Don Martin cartoons! She worked with Chuck Jones, Bill Melendez, Gerhard Hahn, Steven Spielberg, Walt Disney Feature Animation, the Disney Channel, Disney television movies, and Warner Bros.
Nancy Beiman entered an industry that was pretty much a boy’s club. Her raw talent and hard work, combined with an appreciation of tradition, tenacity and courage in the face of adversity served her well.
