This is an exploration into the life of an illustration student during the end of the 1990’s. Its part ode to those who I studied under and part discussion on old works created for those instructors.
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This will be my last post for the Old Bag. Going forward, I will write Creative Juices. I know I could try to dig up work I did for Chuck Gillies, Ken Graning, and Layron DeJarnette. I am not going to. In their classes I was looking for a process to make my images. I […]
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Digging up topics for the Old Bag is a lot more involved than I ever imagined it would be. I’ve wanted to put this post together since my last post (back in January). Comps and story boards use to be the bread and butter for a lot of the Detroit artists. Even when I was […]
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When I originally set out to blog about my Old Bag I was holding my new born one late night this last summer. Sitting in my living room in the dark with just Liam, I was hit upside the head by something Mike Mikos said to me a long time ago. I cannot vouch for the complete accuracy of the following quote but I can say that the intentions of it are true to what Mike said to me, “Jason, you are going to go through life and you are going to feel like the road you are in is full of twists and turns. But one day you are going to look back at your life and its going to be a straight line.”
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Sorry for the long radio silence. It’s been a roller coaster of a month at the studio. I will highlight some of the details on a secondary blog topic: Creative Juices. But for The Old Bag I would like to pick up where I left off. The last post was about a project inspired by […]
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Welcome back. Last week I shared with you a very special piece-Drunk Driving. In the process of creating the piece I found and borrowed heavily from the techniques of Marshal Arisman. I loved and still love the emotional content that his work captures. But I was also attracted to and inspired by the way he […]
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Welcome back to the Old Bag. Last week I briefly wrote about the illustration scene in Detroit and then showed a piece from my Illustration II class while briefly mentioning Mike Mikos the instructor and Bob Blanchard, another instructor that was the subject of my illustration. This week I would like to go back to […]
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Welcome to the inaugural post for the Old Bag. First, I would like to explain the term Bag. I believe this to be a Detroit term for an Illustration Student’s portfolio. I believe elsewhere in the States, students just had their portfolios. The idea of the Bag stems directly from the conditions of the illustration […]