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Pascal Campion is the definition of prolific. As a matter of fact, if you look the word up on dictionary.com, it hyperlinks to his website (kidding). Sarcasm aside, this man does his thing, he does it well, and he does it a lot! His friend Anthony Vu says he has over a 1000 Campion images saved on his computer. And Vu received all of them via email — one day at a time.
I became a stalker fan of Pascal's work like most of you did. Somehow, I stumbled across his sketch-a-day drawings and simply fell in love. And I mean that. I started going to his blog daily to check for them. It became a bit of an obsession!
If you aren't familiar with Pascal's art, specifically his sketches, they're the best. These colorful slices of life that are superbly rendered and warmly captured. Turns out, Pascal is a listener to the podcast, which is always flattering to hear. We're humbled to say the least when artists, especially great artists, enjoy the talks.
Two new Campion books out this year: Papa c'est Moi, a family-focused collection of his work, and Sunny Side - The Art of Pascal Campion. The latter is a bigger book, we hear, and has way more in it in terms of the "how". Click and buy if you wanna soak up his goodness in hardcopy form.
To Pascal, my friend: I appreciate your putting up with my feeble attempts to affect a French accent during the interview. I wanted to impress you, but I suspect I missed. (C'est la vie?) Either way, thanks for coming on the show and chatting with us. Dwight and I enjoyed it immensely.
- SWAiN
**Anthony Vu produced a short video on Pascal and his art. Take a look here.
Amazing interview. Really fascinating to hear the tools he's using and he really got me thinking about incorporating more story into my drawings.
Posted by: Ben Hale | October 18, 2012 at 06:56
Thanks for posting this! Nice to hear from freelancers that are working in the screen arts. You often can't find their work because of development reasons so this was really helpful. Awesome interview
Posted by: Timothy Tang | October 20, 2012 at 13:31
I love his work.
Posted by: cderosby | October 23, 2012 at 06:47