Interview with:Joel Spector [joelspector]
ILLUSTRATION
 | What is your specialty in illustration? Good solid illustration |
| What are your regular clients like? What do they expect from you? Creativity |
| Is there a web address where we can see some of your work? www.joelspector.com
www.illustration-joelspector.com |
| Have you completed formal art studies, or are you self-taught? FIT, Art Students League, MFA WCSU, studying portrait painting with Aaron Shikler
and a little self-taught |
| How did you get your first full assignment? What did it involve? Started as a staff artist for WWD later staff artist for AMC, left for freelance and have never looked back. Done work for everyone, just about. |
| What past or present day illustrators do you admire most? Dean Cornwell, John LaGatta, John Collier, maybe a couple more, but they don't come to mind at this moment. |
| How similar are your current drawings to those you did as a child? More polished, less innocent. |
| What was your favorite comic book as a child? Superman....Was there anyone else? (I mean, worth talking about?). |
| Do you have a particular style, or does it vary a lot? I have a coheseve style, let's call it "Painterly". |
| What is hardest to draw? Nothing really.... if you can conceive it you should be able to draw it. |
| What type of music do you listen to while you work? No music... if I play music I begin to think about the music and not about the painting. |
| Do you have a favorite work of art? Anything Jackson Pollock... greatest american painter in the second half of the 20th Century. |
| What do you do when a client simply says "I don't like it"? Hasn't happened in quite a long time..... there might be different directions an illustration could go.... but I'm pretty good in figuring out what's in the client's mind, I always strive to satisfy. |
| What new techniques have you been experimenting with lately? Oils..... worked with pastels for decades, I can do it in my sleep. |
| What part of your work do you do on paper and what part digitally? Traditionally I work mostly with conventional media (pastels, oils, etc.), lately, sometimes, depending on specific jobs, I might start it conventionaly and scan the art in, and finish it on the computer. |
| What research do you do for your illustrations? Extensive.... you can't fake things. If models and props were good enough for Leonardo & Michelangelo.... they are good enough for me. |
| Do you have colleagues with whom you share techniques, tricks, ideas, etc.? Yes. |
| Do you have any specific goals as an illustrator? Satisfy a client. A client that walks away with a piece of art and thinks: "Yes!, this is what I need to solve my problem". There's no greater goal than that! |
| What illustration web sites do you frequent? None... By the time things get to an illustrator's site or blog.... it has been chewed and rechewed so many time... I just don't get anything from them. Art Museums... that's where I go. Those guys knew truth. |
| What are you working on now? Completed four set of murals for Norwegean Cruise Lines, for their casinos. Each wall was 10' X 22' long. 137 portraits of company officials, CEOs, CFO's, etc. for an international ad campaign. Book covers, magazine work, posters. |
| What advice do you have for someone who likes to draw and would like to make a living from it? Just do it! If not now, when? |
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Joel Spector
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