Pencil Kings | Inspiring Artist Interviews With Today's Best Artists

Show Notes at: https://www.pencilkings.com/podcast-home/ “If you’re painting the things that you are interested in, you’re probably going to have a better result than if you’re trying to satisfy what you think somebody else is expecting to see.” ~ David Palumbo. Are you itching to learn how to make the art you want to make? If you’re pursuing a creative career, putting together a portfolio which best represents your work can sometimes be tricky. Should you add the personal projects where you felt like you were truly expressing yourself as an artist...or should you include the pieces you think potential clients want to see? It’s a lesson that professional artist and illustrator, David Palumbo, learned early on in his career. At the time, the trend in fantasy illustration was for highly-rendered detailed pieces, but there was just one problem…because that’s not the style David felt most comfortable working in. And, after a prospective client gave David’s painting of a dragon some negative feedback, he had an im