Jack Teagle Lecture Notes and Research
• He is a freelance illustrator, producing mixed crafts including comics, tshirts, band art, posters, stationery, paper and canvas acrylic pieces.
• He mainly worked with stencils an graffiti at University but was not set on a specific career path.
• He made his gap in the market by starting to sell small self published books and creations.
• He then worked with old toys, creating new comical characters.
• Began to create comics, mixing fantasy and mundane life - e.g.
• He kept good links and contacts with other illustrators and tutors.
• He then began working on medical style illustrations as his commissions subsided.
• When he began getting editorial work he realised his traditional painted pieces were much too time consuming so transferred to using digital methods to meet deadlines.
• No Brow asked him to join their company.
• He then gained an agent, YCN, securing his first commission to create an A2 poster.
• ADVICE...
• Don't phone/ stalk art directors or use zip files to email your images. Links to blogs, websites and mailing postcards are more effective.
• Copyrights - keep rights and use only contracts.
• Display your productivity online.
Answers to the 3 questions...
1. What are your biggest inspirations? - Sci-fi, comics, monsters, japenese art, old vintage colours, bold strange creatures, badly drawn comics and rip offs of bat man etc, Luchador wrestling toys, Gary Baseman, Ryan Heshka.
2. What do you think is the most effective way of getting you work 'out there'? - Blogging and staying in contact with other illustrators. Constantly apply for competitions.
3. How quickly did you start getting work after you graduated? - Had to work hard and was on the dole for about a year but its now paying off.
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