Canada cold Mexico
it's basically five hockey rinks
surrounded by bears but most people
think of Canada they think of three
things maple syrup french-speaking
people and people who are super friendly
and polite but me I think of the uber
talented Patrick Seymour you might not
recognize his name but you most
definitely have seen his work moto de
montreuil is a monoi Catholic Seymour is
in Moyer map SEO SIL this is a very nice
been an adobe illustrator a Victorian
just bike was the business that we do
the opposite aesthetic yes I was very
fortunate to be able to talk to Patrick
I wanted to share with you guys to turn
you on to his work to shed some insight
into his process did not drew me in
about Patrick's work as it's powerful
graphic quality that he's able to do so
much with such modest tools and
technique he's essentially using only
two kinds of things with an illustrator
the pen tool to draw a shape and then
then the blend shape to kind of move
between that there's a lot of people out
there who can render images that look
like photographs but to me the artists
are able to interpret the world through
their lens and share with you how they
see things
Patrick how did you start the bear
illustration did you look at reference
or did you start with some boundary
lines can you tell me about your process
how did you do this
I stopped normally with three or four
pictures reference and I draw a quick
sketch with the pencil of alpha the face
I don't know why but I always start with
the nose after the mouth after I go up
and I finish with the bottom for me it's
like coloring book when I draw I don't
think it's pretty mechanic it's just
like made one by one it's not that hard
you just need patience
it's pretty Xena how did you develop
this technique what was the inspiration
for it I always wanted to make woodcut
like MC Escher I love black and white
design being impactful concepts with lot
of contrast but my hand ask too shaky to
draw or to be really precise so I tried
to reproduce the style in Illustrator
because I know that with the pen tool
the lines will always be sharp do you
ever get commissioned to do an
illustration work and if you do do you
have a wrap for this kind of work please
elaborate I do freelance illustration at
home but for me is just often it's more
a hobby at this point some people like
to play hockey I like to draw to pastime
I don't have a rep people find me on the
ends or on Facebook Behance is an
amazing platform for creative with this
I don't need a rep
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do you enjoy illustrating yes that the
main girl especially since it's not my
real career I do illustration just for
fun even when it's villains project
maybe this is why it works so well
congratulations on getting your featured
on the splash screen for Adobe
Illustrator how do I come about it was
pretty funny at first I think it was a
scam people at Adobe contact me by email
and was pretty and official as though at
this moment it was one of my first big
project so I was thinking why me people
at Adobe are really awesome and after a
couple of email it was done pretty
simple how has your work being seen by
so many people impacted you for the
Creative Cloud and oh be one to showcase
project that we're already been made
ambience and for illustrator CC the big
focus was on the pen tool and how it was
easier than ever to do perfect curves
my style is practically just that so I
presume it was a low brainer to use me
as an example the impact was immediately
when everybody on the planet see you
mail and your registration at the
beginning of something it's days it's
pretty hard to person canítö I remember
reading that you are art director at an
ad agency and only started illustrating
because of budget limitations has any of
that changed
no ha ha I still work in advertising as
an art director right now I'm at 82 here
in Lauria and I still do illustrations
font logo due to budget limitation and
some time because I got the rice dye for
the German the reason why he started
illustrating because the agency didn't
have a budget for this project so he's
like since we can't afford to hire an
illustrator I will do this so he made an
illustration of one thing leads to
another
now he's illustrating on the side and at
night and doing all these kinds of cool
things and the world knows him I think
more for him as being an illustrator not
as an art director if you're watching
his video and you see a need at the
office or the agency that you work for
step into even though it's not within
your zone of comfort you never know
where that's gonna lead do you have any
upcoming projects or collaborations you
want to share yes we start a Kickstarter
with outline L'Oreal they made eight
subtractor that mask was designs I made
in the past and the result is pretty
awesome
Patrick thanks so much for doing this oh
really appreciate it for people want to
know more how can they get in touch with
you or find out more about your work
people can find me by mail at Patrick
Zimmer at Maxim or always by be ends at
be ends the net slash Patrick Simone
merci beaucoup
thank you
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