Hello, everybody. Welcome to Three Point Perspective, the podcast about illustration, how to do it,

how to make a living at it, and how to make an impact in the world with your art. I'm Jake Parker.

I'm Lee White. And Will Terry is not with us today. He's on assignment because we are interviewing Jason Edmiston today,

famous illustrator of pop culture icons from 80s and 90s. There's no chance you have not seen

something he's done at some point if you're at all like interested in

pop culture stuff a quick little bit about him he's Toronto based so he's super nice and

kind because he's Canadian I love perpetuating that that stereotype because I haven't

met a mean in my life I've not met a mean Canadian, but

um he has been working for uh professionally since 96 and what was really cool about this interview

is um and this is definitely an interview you're going to want to watch on YouTube because we do a lot of

screen sharing looking at his artwork and talking about his artwork but um what was cool about this

interview is is seeing how deliberate he is with his career and how he never once let um sort of

outside forces choose for him what he should be doing, but steered his ship where it needed

to go. What was one of your big takeaways from this, Lee? I mean, that's sort of the way

my big takeaway as well. The interview with him made me sort of change my overall advice.

You know, we have all this advice about how to do this thing and how to paint and how to

draw and maybe we just have all this stuff.

And then really it boils down to if you're good, you'll get work.

I mean, when I was first looking at his sight, I was thinking to myself, I mean, obviously

moving posters would be an obvious call for him. You know what I mean?

But I was just thinking to myself, who pays this guy?

You know what I mean?

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