It’s important to me as an illustrator that I take jobs that challenge me conceptually. I was recently asked to illustrate a pair of lips fashioned out of coal with an electrical cord jutting out of the mouth that alluded to the famous Rolling Stones logo and to 70′s rock n’ roll in general. I accepted the job for the reason that I had no idea what that should look like. Illustration is a strange vocation because there is no school degree, or sanctioning body to help distinguish the professionals from the amateurs. I think that accepting and completing jobs where the actual execution strategy is not obvious is an important quality that separates the dabblers from the true commercial artists. Plus it expands your mind, man-oh wait I think mind expansion was the 60′s.
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