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The Daily Heller Salutes the End of the EFII Podcast
Last week, illustrator Thomas James released the final episode of the Escape from Illustration Island Podcast, featuring an in-depth interview with Zina Saunders.
In addition to all the gracious feedback from the illustration community, the great Steve Heller (who appeared on Episode 25), posted a nice tribute to the end of the show in his Daily Heller column, which lives on Print magazine’s Imprint blog. Thanks Steve, and everyone else, for your continued enthusiasm and support for this truly rewarding project. And thanks also to Nate Williams for sharing the podcast with a wider audience here at Illustration Mundo.
Artist Interview: Pieter Van Eenoge
Pieter Van Eenoge was born in 1976 in Bruges, Belgium, but did spent his childhood in Cologne, Germany.
In 1999 he graduated from the Sint-Lucas school for Arts and Science in Ghent and started as an independent illustrator a year later.
Since then he has made illustrations for magazines, editors, theatre, posters and advertising and took part in numerous exhibitions.
In 2011 he published his first children’s book, did the poster for the biggest book fair in Europe and saw some illustrations being published in 200 Best Illustrator’s Worldwide 11/12, Fresh #3 – Cutting Edge Illustration and the 3X3 Illustration Annual where he won gold in the Gallery section and 2 more merits (Editorial and Children’s section).
Pieter now lives in Bruges with his wife, two sons and two cats.
How did you get into illustration?
I studied graphic design at the Sint-Lucas school for Arts and Science in Ghent. In my senior year I switched to illustration because I wasn’t a hot shot at this graphic design thing. But to be honest I wasn’t the best illustrator as well and it took me quite some time to find out how to become a better one. It wasn’t until 2007, when I switched from a more comic driven style to painting, that I could translate the idea in my head to the image on my piece of paper. That whole switch is probably the most important step in my career so far, otherwise I still would be the same lousy and insecure illustrator I was back then.
