post four

List ten illustrators whose work you admire, or whose career you would like to emulate. Provide images. 

marcel dzama

maurice sendak

beatrix potter

maxfield parrish

windsor mccay

arthur rackham

edmund dulac

henry darger

aubrey beardsley

egon schele

Who are their clients? What sort of work do those clients look for? 

the artists i chose illustrated mostly gift-books of classic literature for children, made imagery for comic or satirical serials or just made art alone, compulsively, as a kind of salve for a psychological disorder.

Go to a bookstore with a large magazine section, like Barnes & Noble or Borders. Find at least ten magazines that you think you could work for. Consider both the content of the magazine and the type of illustration, if any, that they use. Record they names of the art director and any assistant art director's listed, and their contact information. especially cabinet. i would love to work for cabinet.

If you were starting your own magazine and your livelihood depended on it selling well and your sanity depended on it being something you wanted to spend all you time on, what would it be? something like that, an arts-&-thoughts journal with science news & creative short stories & drawings & creepy things that weren't supposed to be art until someone claimed them as that & it would be me, i would do the claiming. it would probably be a mess. it would be called, softteeth.

What sorts of writers and artists would you hire? What subject matter would it deal with? How would you want it to look? a. good ones, of course. or ones crazy enough that no one could tell. b. truth above beauty, but both, & attempts at weaving them fairly. c. dark blue

List ten non-magazine clients that you would like to work with. Why are these dream clients? Find and record their contact information. i'd like to illustrate many of the same pieces the golden-age artists above did; things like arabian nights & shakespeare, classic fairytales, regional folklore etc with my own interpretation & the sense of being a part of a much greater whole. but if she ever did need anything illustrated, i would love to work for amy hempel. if stanley donwood ever dies, i would love to draw for radiohead. others are etgar keret, amanda davis, eliot pearlman, rick bass,  mark z danieleweski & kevin brockheimer.