Questions and Answers with Ivan Mitrevski
What advice do you have for illustrators?
Draw, draw, draw and then draw some more! Also, never ever miss a deadline!
Ivan Mitrevski
Illustrator
What is something new you have noticed or learned recently?
I really, really enjoy drawing comics. Will do more of them in the future.
Ivan Mitrevski
Illustrator
Do you meet up with other illustrators or creatives in person? Who?
Not really. There is no deeper reason for this. I guess I just don't have many friends that are illustrators.
Ivan Mitrevski
Illustrator
How would you like your work to be used in the future?
The same way it is used now: in books, in advertisements, in literature, on the net, in galleries, in textbooks, hanging on walls of warm homes.
Ivan Mitrevski
Illustrator
As we move from print to digital how do you think illustration will evolve?
Wow! What a question! It is a cliche of a sort that we will move from print to digital but this movement is not at all simple or one-dimensional. I can say that most of my work is still made for print. Although there is some rise in digital use, it seems to me it is far from replacing print.
Ivan Mitrevski
Illustrator
Describe your creative process?
I need to do a lot of sketches. I do an enormous amount of them. Sketches take most of my time, but once I am satisfied with the sketches, inking and coloring are just a formality.
Ivan Mitrevski
Illustrator
How do you divide your time?
I would like to have a bit more routine, working for a fixed time. It's actually a sort of a fantasy I have: coming to my studio in the morning punching my card, working for 8-9 hours before punching the card again and going home. It's a bit silly, but I would definitively like to have much more routine. Of course, deadlines need to be caught, work sometimes piles up, kids get sick, all sorts of things happen and I end up working weekends and nights. I don't mind it really, but some more routine would be welcome. I suppose most jobs are that way nowadays.
Ivan Mitrevski
Illustrator
Does it matter where an illustrator is based?
Not at all! You can work from anywhere really. But I would say our cities define us as artists much more than we would perhaps like to admit. Geography certainly matters in that sense. I myself am from Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Ivan Mitrevski
Illustrator