W.I.P. Podcast- Sci-Fi & Fantasy Illustration

Gencon 2010 roundtable and wrap-up

Gencon was (as always) a blast! Thanks to all of our listeners who stopped by and said hello!

As for the show, we’ve got a round table discussion with (in the order they talked):

And of course the four of us, but you all know who we are at this point anyway

The second half of the show we discuss what went well and what we’d do differently for next year

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Ania talks about her experience at IMC, Jeff and Pete talk about their differing philosophies on making it in the art world, and we all talk about the upcoming summer con gauntlet!

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This ep we’ve got some discussion on the passing of Frank Frazzetta and the release of CS5. We’ve also got a 10KH where I talk about struggling with a painting when you can’t figure out what’s bugging you about it, Pete talks about painting on instinct and Ania breaks out the oils for IMC.

Caroline dug up a few contests going on now:

http://www.writersofthefuture.com/17/rules/ilofrules.html

http://www.rockstarcontests.com/art-contests/rs/493-strange-figurations

http://www.onangelsmagazine.com/enter.html

We’ve also got an interview with Ralph Horsley!

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This month we’re talking art education. We got an email from a listener, Catherine Li, an aspiring illustrator who may not be able to go to art school. We brought some folks on for a roundtable discussion to talk about their experiences learning how to make art, with and without the help of a traditional education.

In no particular order, here are the folks we’ve got on the show:

Aaron Miller

Prof Herbert

Joe Acone

Mark Winters

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Pax and GDC wrap up, spectrum winners announced, and livestream discussion! Bit of a short ep this moth due to a lack of an interview, but we’ll be back to our interviewy selves next time

Show Notes coming soon!

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Pete and Ania recap their trip to Chattacon, where they got an interview with Todd Lockwood!!!

There’s some background noise but Todd’s a REALLY interesting guy to listen to, so it’s totally worth it. Meanwhile Jeff talks about his experience at the global game-jam, a 48 hour game design contest.

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The first episode of twenty-ten!

This is our year in review episode, inspired by Chris Burdett’s Blogpost: 2009, the Year I Got Serious (part one and two).

After we recorded the episode we figured it would only be appropriate to have Chris on the show for an interview.

an image Chris did for artorder.blogspot.com

We also talk about Artrage, the Spectrum deadline and crowd-sourcing.

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We’re trying a few new things this episode!

First off we’re joined by a gaggle of extremely talented illustrators from Crit-Bot: the email crit group I mentioned in the previous ep.

Aaron Miller

Marc Scheff

Mark Winters

Aaron and Marc give us a first hand account of Illuxcon, an illustration centered convention.

Illuxcon poster by Ian Miller

For our roundtable discussion, we discuss a question we got from Christopher Burdett:

“When dealing with an open ended art order how much weight do you give to time / money when it comes to limiting the scope of the art. Doing something simple and “good enough” that take less time and energy versus doing something super awesome and amazing over the top that involves more time and energy. Were do you find a balance point.

Example, say the assignment is “Evil Tornado, Wind monster causing much havoc” that’s all. You could go with a tornado knocking some trees around and a person running from it… all the way to leveling most of a castle and keep with dozens of people fleeing in terror. As an artist, how do you go about making these choices and how does $$$ and final product ( trading card vs half page book art) affect these choices?”

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The October episode is up! We talk a lot about some new illustration based social networks and some inspiring graphic design and photography blogs. Pete and Ania just finished a young adult book cover for simon and schuster, and I talk about setting up an email list with other illustrators for getting brutally honest critique on your work.

We’ve also got an interview with Emily Warren, a colorist for Marvel and a veteran con-goer.

It’s long, but it’s a good’un. We’ve got some big things in the pipeline for next month. Stay tuned!

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We’re back from Gencon and we’ve got lots of interviews!

Zoë Robinson, John Stanko, Aaron Miller, Mark Winters, Storn Cook, and Jon Schindehette.

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