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^ Any time I see something genuinely fresh and interesting happening, I consider that an art director that made it possible.
I personally suffered, but with financial profit, from three years of commissions that were asking me to just repeat what I'd done previously. I can no longer recall an occasion when somebody actually challenged me to push myself and my work into a new area. 99% of my experience as an illustrator has been that I am brought in to a project very late, when everyone's panicking, and there just isn't time, so they say "do what you did for that band and I've got a shitload of other things to clear off my desk so I need it tomorrow and I'll just sign it off and forget about it because I'm massively overworked and very stressed out".
Thats the point though I think. You are either an under radar grafter like myself and are always there bubbling away in the background on a fairly even and anonymous progress line, or you hit gold with a style, have a stratospheric rise followed by a stratospheric fall and that's your lot.
You say Jason Brookes is not a fit illustrator, but I think you maybe lack the benefit of hindesight in recalling that what he did was pretty seminal at the time. Again, it wasn't pure originality, it was a distillation of previous styles from other sources, but it hit the sweet spot and changed the game completely, to the point that MOS are unable to ever escape from it even now.
But you wouldn't commission him now, would you, because you would assume that all he has to offer you are anatomically impossible cartoon girls in ski pants. If you are a strong stylist you can never escape your past.
- Oddly enough though I have a challenging project on right now.Horp
- good luck :)jimbojones
- LOLHorp