{"id":1027,"date":"2018-05-02T13:19:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T10:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/subsign.co\/stories\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2018-05-02T13:19:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T10:19:34","slug":"spotlight-054","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/subsign.co\/stories\/spotlight-054\/","title":{"rendered":"Subsign Spotlight #054."},"content":{"rendered":"

Going back to the visual arts, in our Spotlight we have Frederic Peault.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frederic<\/span>: I\u2019m a french illustrator, I was born in Brest in 1970, the city is located at the west point of France, a strange and fascinating place, great for surf. I started illustration in 2001, just before I was an industrial designer working on train design. I used 3D software for this job, but after-work I\u2019ve made illustration for fun. It was a moment of liberty, industrial design is interesting, but for me it was very technical, not really artistic. So I lived and work in different city of France, I met my wife in Paris and now I\u2019m living in Nantes, a nice place.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Subsign: What was your childhood like? Do you think your experiences from childhood have influenced your present creative endeavors?<\/span><\/p>\n

Frederic<\/span>: As I wrote before, I was born in Brest, but I\u2019ve lived in a small city around Brest, there was no culture activity, no cinema, no library, it was before internet… BUT I\u2019ve got my comics, I loved them, it was for me the only touch of sensitive in a rough place. I read and read them so many times, and I started to copy some of the illustration. and in the 80th I discover the computer, my first one was an amstrad cpc 464 a great moment. I was fascinating by computer, I don\u2019t planned it, but finally it\u2019s logical that my job is a mix of comic and computer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Subsign: What did you wanted to be as a grown up?<\/span><\/p>\n

Frederic<\/span>: I wanted to be an astronaut, but I was not the only one and not the best, but one day I will certainly send my CV to the NASA or ESA, on a mistake it could work.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Subsign: How does your workstation look like?<\/span><\/p>\n

Frederic<\/span>: A ugly dark box with light that switch on, and switch off, switch on, and switch off…<\/span><\/p>\n

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Subsign: Do you have a work style? How would you describe it?<\/span><\/p>\n

Frederic<\/span>: I loved the illustration made for the NewYorker, so I try to work in this mood. Very simple, a touch of humor or offbeat. Working on the contrast, by the color the repetition, the perspective, the camera angle\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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Subsign: Can you share with us how your creative process works?<\/span><\/p>\n

Frederic<\/span>: I Generally started with a rough, them I make what I call a 3D rough it\u2019s for the composition of the picture, to find an interesting point of view, them I can model my object, work on the color, move the camera.<\/span><\/p>\n

Subsign: What is your favorite work you have done so far?<\/span><\/p>\n

Frederic<\/span>: I\u2019ve worked on a illustration for an application to the \u201cA\u00e9roport De Paris\u201d, not a big project, but a nice work on the color and perspective.<\/span><\/p>\n

Subsign: Who do you follow for inspiration?<\/span><\/p>\n

Frederic<\/span>: Everyone, it\u2019s more like the Rorschach test, any picture can trigger the flash of an illustration idea.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Subsign: What advice would you give to someone starting out in the creative field of work?<\/span><\/p>\n

Frederic<\/span>: Hard question, it depend of the personality of each one, for me it\u2019s not a sprint but a marathon, you must be the honester, being doubtful, trying and trying, if you are lucky you will be a star, but even if you meet success it will be more or less for short time, the market love novelty again and again.<\/span><\/p>\n

Subsign: If you would have a super power, what would it be?<\/span><\/p>\n

Frederic<\/span>: The best would be to traveling in space faster than light discovering new world and so much, but let\u2019s be realistic, so just traveling in time would be great.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Subsign: Can you recommend for our readers a book, a song and a movie?<\/span><\/p>\n

Frederic<\/span>: A book, \u201cBarbarian Days\u201d from William Finnegan, A song \u201cthe look\u201d from Metronony and a movie, there are so much, but the last one I have loved \u201c3 billboards\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Subsign: If you could throw any kind of party, what would it be like and what would it be for?<\/span><\/p>\n

Frederic<\/span>: The universe party of love, yes it look like a miss universe idea, but it would be so great and full of aliens.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Subsign: What famous people would you invite to the party and why?<\/span><\/p>\n

Frederic<\/span>: Mr Spock, I love him, I want to be him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you Frederic for being a part of it!<\/p>\n

If you know an artist that should be in the spotlight, contact us at\u00a0jojo@subsign.co<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

For more of\u00a0Frederic’s work you can follow him on the links: Frederic’s portfolio<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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