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Jake
Parker - Artist
[Missile Mouse]
Name: Jake Parker
Hometown: Mesa, AZ [Arizona, USA]
Tools: Col-erase blue Pencil, 0.9 lead pencil,
PhotoShop
Food: Corn Pops
Music: Morcheeba
Contact Info: jake@agent44.net
Website: www.agent44.net
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Iain: Give us a brief rundown of what you do?
Jake: I am an art director at ReelFX Creative studios.
Which means I do lots of drawing, conceptualizing, and animating.
Iain: Can you describe a typical workday for you?
Jake: I usually like to start off the day with a warm up sketch.
Then I’ll check in with the Creative Director to see what’s
on my plate for the day or the coming week. Then I draw and collaborate,
maybe have a couple meetings. And call it a day.
Iain: How and when did you start seriously drawing?
Jake: Hmmmm, tough question…I’ve been drawing for as
long as I can remember. I guess somewhere along the way I started
taking it more seriously than before. It was a gradual thing.
Iain: What tools do you use to draw your work?
Jake: A regular blue pencil to rough it in, then I’ll either
tighten it up with a mech pencil or go straight into inking depending
on how tight the blue sketch is already. The blue pencil doesn’t
show up when I scan the inks in. So, it’s really handy to
use it.
Iain: Do you enjoy colouring your work as much as you do
drawing it?
Jake: I do.
Iain: You have a really nice anime/american hybrid style
to some of you more recent stuff, what are your biggest influences?
Jake: That Korean guy who was doing the Magna Carta stuff really
impressed me, and I’ve been trying to learn from him. There
was also a guy that worked in the Korean branch at Phantagram Entertainment
when I was there who was a big influence. His name’s Jungsic
Park and I haven’t seen his stuff anywhere but at work, it’s
a shame he doesn’t have a website or something.
Iain: What stuff are you currently working on?
Jake: The G.I.Joe SpyTroops movie for Habro.
Iain: What's been your favourite project to date?
Jake: I really, really enjoyed working on a little Missile Mouse
ashcan I did last year.
Iain: What would be your dream project?
Jake: Doing another Missile Mouse book, and having all day to work
on it.
Iain: How long have you been drawing comic related artwork?
Jake: Not too long, a couple years.
 Iain:
Are you keen to work exclusively in the comics world or just keep
doing conceptual stuff?
Jake: I’d like to do both.
Iain: Ok, name me 5 things you love about being an illustrator?
Jake: I think the main reason is just creating stuff. Taking a chunk
of graphite or some pixels and turning them into something really
cool.
Iain: So, if you weren't an artist, what would you be?
Jake: A space explorer.
Iain: Are you collecting any comics these days?
Jake: Yeah, been getting some older Mignola stuff off of eBay. If
there’s something cool on the shelf I’ll pick it up.
Iain: You've done a few Batgirl projects in the past, would
you be keen to work more in the superhero line of things? if so
which books would you like to work on?
Jake: I’m not too into superheroes right now. If I were to
do a superhero thing I’d like to do something totally different,
like that spore story Michel Gagne did a little while ago with Batman.
Iain: Your favourite comic character is?
Jake: Hellboy.
Iain: Thanks so much Jake, all the best in the future.
Jake: Thank you, too.
Interview by: Iain Duncan
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