Finding a Mentor

3 Point Perspective: The Illustration Podcast

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4.9 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Art mentors can supercharge your career and teach you the tricks and shortcuts you need to hit the ground running. But how do you convince someone to take you on as a mentee? This week Jake Parker, Lee White, and Will Terry discuss the perfect way to approach a potential mentor from a pro artist’s perspective. They also discuss email templates that you can use when reaching out to new potential mentors!

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody and welcome to Three Point Perspective.
0:05.0	The podcast about illustration, how to do it, how to make a living at it, how to make an impact in the world with your art.
0:12.0	I'm Jake Parker.
0:13.0	I'm Lee White.
0:14.0	And I'm Will Terry, and all three of us are professional illustrators.
0:18.0	And we've all been working for about the last 25 years. We work with
0:21.6	just about every major publisher in the business. We've published over 50 books together,
0:26.6	and we've all taught illustration at universities. Each week we pick a new topic on the subject
0:32.6	of illustration, and we battle it out until somebody is victorious.
0:36.6	That's about right. and we battle it out until somebody is victorious.
0:40.7	That's about right.
0:43.2	It is. It is.
0:50.0	So you guys, it's actually been a hot minute since we've gotten together and recorded a podcast.
0:55.2	So I know to our listeners, these come out pretty consistent every two weeks.
0:59.8	But for us, we will record a bunch back to back.
1:03.5	Like, you know, we'll do one a week for a long time.
1:08.2	And that gives us this buffer so we can go on vacation or we could do stuff. And so this last, I'd say it's a month since we last recorded just about
1:15.3	a month. So I need an update on you guys. What's happened this last month? How are you guys doing?
1:23.0	Well, what's you doing? I'm doing great. I mean, yeah, it's weird to record these and know that they're going to drop a couple months from now.
1:34.2	Kickstarter's over.
1:36.7	She's had a great time with the Kickstarter and all.
1:39.6	Your Kickstarter ended, and you absconded with all the cash and went on a vacation that did look fancy
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