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3 Point Perspective: The Illustration Podcast

Why You Need a Mentor and How to Get One

3 Point Perspective: The Illustration Podcast

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🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve always wondered how to find a mentor (or become one), this is your episode. Jake Parker, Lee White, and David Hohn share about their greatest mentors, how to cultivate a creative community, and how a life of service makes all of your goals possible.

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0:00.0

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.

0:17.5

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,

0:39.9

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

0:45.8

of a mentor that absolutely, like, diverted your trajectory

0:49.2

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

0:52.7

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

0:55.8

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

1:02.8

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

1:08.2

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

1:13.4

Da Vinci days, you know, back then.

1:14.9

You were true, true apprentice mentor relationship.

1:17.7

I think mine has been fractured into small bits.

1:21.0

And so let's hear what you got.

1:22.5

Okay.

1:23.1

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

1:30.4

Okay.

1:31.0

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

1:35.8

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

1:43.7

Can you draw something up really quick?

1:45.3

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

1:51.1

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

1:56.1

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

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