One of the regular features here on FullBleed is our “Three Questions” article. Throughout the year, we hand the microphone over to our fellow ADCMW members to answer questions that plague the creative community. We’ve recently switched the format of “Three” from asking three questions over the course of a month, to asking three chosen creatives a single question every month. Got all that?
For each article we also spotlight a featured illustrator who is assigned the vague task of “representing the number three in some shape, as obvious or abstract as you want”. Being the end of the year, it’s a good time to gather up all their creativity and to learn a little more about 2009’s featured “Three” illustrators.
BRITT IRICK
Britt Irick is a senior illustration student at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He was a self-taught animator throughout high school who learned to paint and switched to illustration. Influenced heavily by Saturday morning cartoons and a long shopping list of comic-book artists, he uses many different media, both traditional and digital. In his work he uses bright colors, a sense of humor and a little bit of weirdness for a unique look.
For the past four years he has taught film and animation at a summer camp in Arlington, VA while doing illustration and painting projects on the side, including a 310 sq. ft. mural, portraits and event posters. Summer 2009 he spent in an internship with the Non-profit, Safe Kids Worldwide, doing pamphlet and spot illustrations. Currently he is working on an animated short, and is halfway through writing and illustrating a children’s book. After he graduates in June 2010 with a BFA in Illustration he plans to get into poster and character design and book illustration but is open to just about anything so long as he has a pot of coffee and a pencil. You can view at his sketch/art blog at ttribit.blogspot.com.
GLENN LUCAS
As a youngster, Glenn took to drawing like many kids but soon found it to be an obsession, doodling on everything from desks, to notebooks, to other kids. He graduated from Central Michigan University where he majored in graphic design, minored in advertising and more importantly was introduced to the Mac computer.
Glenn cut his graphics chops at a service bureau in Rockville, MD where he learned the craft of imaging, layout and design, 2D, 3D, and Cel animation. In 1996 he and a partner formed a company called Highwire Studios which specialized in interactive and animation projects. In 2001 Glenn joined Erickson Barnett, a marketing agency in Reston, VA where he split most of his time between project management and Flash development.
After EB went the way of the Dodo in 2009, Mr. Lucas, as he is affectionately known to his children, has taken on a short-term contract with Tandberg. He continues to take on the occasional freelance projects as interest and time allow. In his spare time (hah, hah) he enjoys noodling on the bass, fooling with his t-shirt designs, frittering on the web, and spending time with his family. You can view more about Glenn at www.gelucas.com.
CHRISTA SMITH
Christa Smith studied visual communication at The University of Kansas on a four year portfolio scholarship where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She began her career in Los Angeles working as a package designer. She later opened her own graphic design and illustration business and transitioned into doing illustration full-time. Christa’s illustrations are nature rich, evocotive images created on scratchboard inspired by her love of carving sgraffito-style on pottery.
She works on black scratchboard as well as in color on white scratchboard using watercolor mediums and india ink. She creates illustrations for packaging, magazines and publishers from her studio on historic Duke of Gloucester Street in the Colonial area of Williamsburg, Virginia. Christa gives scratchboard workshops and is a member of the AIGA, SCBWI, and Illustrators Club. Her website is christasmithillustration.tumblr.com.
