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 I'm Will Terry, and all three of us are professional illustrators.

We've all worked for all the major publishers in the

business. Together we published somewhere around 75 children's books, probably more like 76 now,

and we've all taught illustration at university art programs. Every week we either interview

fantastic illustrators or we answer your burning questions about the field of illustration.

Sometimes we agree, sometimes we argue, but each time you learn something, brand spanking new.

Brand spanking new.

And do you know what arrived in my mailbox a couple of weeks ago, and I've been wanting to share it on the podcast.

You're ready for this?

You guys have no idea what I'm going to show you.

I don't.

I'm changing by camera to this. We're going to switch to speaker view. Have you guys seen this?

This is the Amazon holiday guide with all their toys, right?

And what they did was they hire,

they've been doing this for the last few years,

they hire an illustrator

to illustrate the,

the catalog.

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