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 David Hohn. And let's jump right in.

All right. So I want to get right to it and just talk about the landscape of mentorship because it's not as cut and dry as I think a lot of people think it is. But before we get into that, I want to talk about why it's so important to have a mentor. And that is if we we could take a moment, each of us,

and just tell a key moment in our career, our history here,

of a mentor that absolutely, like, diverted your trajectory

and, like, changed it into where you're at now.

I have one, but if you guys want to go, if you guys are

chomping at the bit to share yours, go knock yourself out. Go ahead. Go ahead. If you want to

take the lead, I got to think about it. I have little bits of mentorship. I don't, and I mean,

I think in the old days, you literally studied under somebody, you know, like the

Da Vinci days, you know, back then.

You were true, true apprentice mentor relationship.

I think mine has been fractured into small bits.

And so let's hear what you got.

Okay.

Well, let me tell you first about Mr. Bevington, which was my high school art teacher.

Okay.

Now, I was the kid who always was drawing in class.

I was the kid who you came to if you needed a design for anything like, oh, we're designing a flyer.

Can you draw something up really quick?

Or we need a t-shirt design. Can you design the t-shirt? I just, people would see me drawing and

they're like, dang, you're really good, Jake. Let's, let's get you to, you know, will you do this

thing for me? Will you do a design for my business or whatever, right? So that was me all through

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