Notes on Jack Teagle

• Went to Exeter college of art
• Using digital and paints for the majority of his work.
• Self produced.
• Loves to draw sci-fi styles of work
• Influenced by old vintage colours - things that dont really work E.g Old batman, how bold it is/colourful (tries to bring this into his work)
• Collects toys and corny things
• Influenced by base man, gavy pankler, ryan heshkah
• Didnt know what he wanted to do straight away, he thought illustration was better than graphics though and thats why he chose to do illustration instead
• Alot of stencil work/graffiti
• He grew a lot in his 2nd year and started realising what direction he wanted to go in.
• Loved old rock posters
• Produced some shoe designs in his 2nd year.
• Used a lot of silk screening in his work
• Knew people wouldnt just come and get you, you have to put yourself out there to get noticed.
• Made a lot of sketchbooks throughout the years, containing mostly negative space and life drawing.
• Robert kroom
• Developed his drawing in his own time
• Works with editorials, books and is self published. (tried a lot of different things but tried to stay away from computers)
• Always liked to do rough drawings of things, also he did lots of little drawings rather than loads of big drawings that never got finished
• He liked experimenting with toys, making moulds from them, recasting them and editing old toys to create new ones.
• he always tried building up narratives in his work (read a lot of comics)
• Tried to bring fantasy and real life into his work
• Loved to use lino cuttings and letterpresses
• He would always try and get intouch with other artists and students to see what they are doing and to try and get word out about his work.
• Started using gouache more throughout the years.
• started making band covers and short fictions (short stories)
• Liked looking at fashion blogger comics
• Constantly pushed himself into things he hadnt done before.
• Started making stuff people would want/be interested in rather than what he really enjoyed because he wasnt getting noticed enough, but kept his own style.
• Got noticed by a market research magazine
• Started using photoshop after this for layering as digital work was quicker and he could complete things in a third of the time, but he always tried to make them look authentic
• The guardian - comic festival - every year (glad to be developing work)
• No brow magazine - formed a relationship with them and now gets featured more
• Spera
• Anorak magazine (back cover for magazine)
• Always goes through big design blogs
• Tallship (gig promoter)
• Always send people links, websites and blogs, nothing with too much work in because they dont like looking at anything that will take up too much of their time.