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

Full show notes and links at: https://www.pencilkings.com/podcast/ John Martin walks us through the process of creating a successful children's book and what it really looks like behind the scenes as a children's book illustrator. Interview Overview Here are some of the great insights from John Martin in this interview: More than anything he stressed how powerful and important having a good agent is. They can open doors for you that you don't even know you need to be opening. When it comes to the success of your projects good character design is so important. You have to remember that with books you're competing primarily against interactive mediums like video games, and what John does to approach his character design is to pull from design ideas that he's seen and loved from all of the different media he's consumed like comic books, television and moves and then stir them all together to come up with his own new ideas. But he doesn't just stop there... he uses a fluid design process where he's not afraid