There is a HUGE variety of niches an artist can fall into in the world of visual development, promotional art and commercial illustration. How wide is the field? What are the broad categories that an artist can start exploring to find the right fit for themselves? What can help you decide on what field to go after? If you choose a path to follow how hard is it to change course?

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Our guests this week are

Autumn Turkel

Autumn Rain Turkel was born in the midwest and raised on the Big Island of Hawai’i. Between junior college in Santa Barbara and a four year program at Art Center College of Design, he spent too many years in school. After college he took on work with Nickelodeon in their virtual worlds division. For four years, his day to day existence was character design and illustration for the much loved Neopets and other Nickelodeon IPs. When the opportunity arose for him to shift into another sector of art, he took it. Before even ending his work for Nickelodeon, he was freelance sketching for multiple advertising agencies across the greater Los Angeles area, while simultaneously taking on work for clients like Wizards of the Coast, and Disney publishing. Ten years later, he is the co-director of illustration with Daniel Landerman at BOND. He streams weekly to continue his personal progress in art. That art has a wide breadth of styles and approaches which leave him room to express in many ways and allow him to work on a variety of projects from whimsical and fun, to spooky, serious realism and figurative portraiture.

All the links - https://linktr.ee/arturkel

Daniel Landerman

Daniel loves to sketch. He always has. Whether it’s in ink, pencil, watercolor, oil paints or digital, sketching is near and dear to him. Down a meandering trail from computer animation at DigiPen Institute of Technology to concept art and painting at Art Center College of Design that led to a successful career in advertising as a sketch artist and illustrator, his love for sketching never failed. Along that road he worked on storyboards and concept designs for Power Rangers, illustrations for Dungeons and Dragons, comics for League of Legends and he helped visualize key art for… a lot of properties: Dark Siders, Elder Scrolls, Monster Hunter, Star Craft 2, Diablo 3, World of Warcraft, Simpsons, Jurassic World, Borderlands 2, 2.5 & 3, Justice League, Outlander, Vikings, Borderlands, Avengers: Endgame, Joker, Star Wars Squadrons… to name but a few. And what does he do for all these projects? He sketches. Sometimes he illustrates, but mostly he sketches. And outside of work? He likes to do sketches to unwind.

All the places - https://linktr.ee/daniel_landerman

Other points of interest:

Example sketch provided by Daniel - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/bDAld

Mike Butkus - https://www.mikebutkus.pro/

Eron Chair - https://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/office-chairs/aeron-chairs/