![]() ![]() General idea of what the outside edge, or silhouette, is going to look Make very loose sketches in my sketchbook. I started out with the idea for a football theme and started to I think it would be faster to talk about the steps I didn't take! McNeill: Sometimes it takes me so long to make a tessellation that Students: What steps did you follow when you drew the football It's so great to getĮ-mail from somebody who just happened to be "browsing" by andĮnded up seeing and liking my work. Unless somebody is out there appreciating it. I think my web site is a really great way to have a place to show Of HTML about a week after I started my web site! You can never keep up Programs that would help you make a web page without using a single line Out that I didn't need to: they were coming out with software Myself to use HTML, the computer language of the. McNeill: I started my web site about four years ago. Students: When did you start your web site? Why? Alex Toth, ReedĬrandall, Bernie Krigstein and Wally Wood (my favorite of the bunch!). Would be the greatest caricaturist on the planet if it wasn't forĪl Hirschfeld, whom I also love!) and Jack Davis. Great artists working for Mad in those days, like Mort Drucker (who I love the way Bruce Timm draws anything! He's fantastic. I think Bruce Timm and Paul Dinniĭid a great job on the character designs for the Batman Animated Series. I think some of the cartoonsīeing made today are pretty cool, too. They were made by great animators like Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, TexĪvery, Bob Clampett, and Robert McKimson. The Warner Brothers cartoons of the 1940s (Bugs Bunny and Daffyĭuck) were what made me want to become an artist in the first place. Rembrandt, Velazquez, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Francis Bacon, George Some of my favorite painters (in no particular order) are There are too many ways to make art and too many great artists McNeill: There isn't a single artist I could pick out as myįavorite. It took me a couple of really frustrating weeks just Wanted to make a tessellation with football players, but I couldn'tįigure out how to fit them together so two opposing players would beįacing each other. Piece but I can't figure out how to actually create it on aĬomputer or a piece of paper. There are also times when I may have come up with an idea for a new Next day I would be vacuuming my apartment and I'd have a ![]() Hours and wouldn't be able to think of a single thing to draw. Have been days when I would sit with a sketchbook in front of me for Me when my mind is on something that has nothing to do with art. I've noticed that my best ideas for a new piece of art come to ![]() (like when you're on the phone and you need to take a message) you Place when you're not looking for one, but the minute you need one McNeill: Great ideas are a lot like pens: they're all over the Students: Is it hard to think of an idea or theme for an original Things! The only trait every artist in the world shares is not beingĪble to shut up about themselves, so it will not be an inconvenience! People in the world who are actually that interested in my opinion about Participation in the interview): It's my pleasure to answer the McNeill: (in response to Angie Verschage's request for his Obligation." He realized at this point that art was his obligation. School, his band teacher gave him some advice, "your talent is your When he wasĪbout three years old he first started his art career. Jim McNeill was born in Rahway, New Jersey in 1967. APA style: Tessellation Artist Jim McNeill.Tessellation Artist Jim McNeill." Retrieved from MLA style: "Tessellation Artist Jim McNeill." The Free Library. ![]()
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