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How did you get started in art and illustration?
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In 1983, I showed up at News America Syndicate in Irvine, Calif., with $8 in my checking account and a life-drawing portfolio. After a brief interview, the art director said, 'You're hired, I quit,' and walked out the door. I spent the next three years drawing infographics on acetate.
This is a pathetic start to doing illustration. But at this time, I was going for a Masters in Drawing & Painting/Printmaking and I needed some way to pay for it.
I've never been much for sketching, in fact, most of my prints started with the title (the image followed). Even today, my initial sketch is often a page of words. So the communicative aspect of an image is really what interested me. Although I do have an overriding sensibility to make things 'pretty,' so a lot of my work becomes rather decorative.
Anyway, it was a natural step from producing infographics to moving on into illustration and publication design - and 'communicating' with image.
Jeff Neumann (more answers by this person)
Lead Designer/Creative Director -
The Denver Post/Brand Neumann
http://www.brandneumann.com