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Tom Froese

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Tom worked on this fantastic seasonal artwork, showcased in Incheon Airport!

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One of my favourite kinds of illustration is the little icons I make for maps. They can be detailed or simple, depending on the job, but their small size means I can express the overall feeling of the thing without feeling the need to be super literal with measurements and details. I have been thinking about what kind of illustration I like most, and ilI think one thing I really enjoy is making little graphic nuggets, like small figurines you can appreciate on their own or as sets. There is something so satisfying about sets of small, related objects. My girls love Num Noms, which I find obnoxious and gimmicky, but I think I get it. It’s the same as grannies collecting Tetley Tea figurines, boys in the 1980s collecting Muscles figurines, adult man-children with their Fantasy figurines, and even the more recent phenomenon of enamel pins. People like miniatures! Spot illustrations and map icons alike give me the same satisfaction. They are my action figures, my hobby shop figurines, my little buttons of joy.
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What is your favourite kind of illustration? What type of artwork can you just get lost in and feel the most joy while doing?
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These spots were for a map-inspired mural for Surrey-based developer, @zenterra.
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#surreybc #figurines #inkymaps #sweetspotsillustration #spotillustrations #mapicons #fraservalley #thefraservalley

Happy Monday! Hope you’re staying well and abiding by the health and safety guidelines of your local authorities. But don’t give up on yourself! Regular exercise, even 10 minutes a day, will keep your mind and body sharp. Stay in the game!
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#stayhealthy #yogamat #stayhome #illustration #healthillustration #exercise #plankleglifts

No wise quacks, please.
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Image for @gqfrance.
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Studies for an upcoming book. If you’ve taken my @skillshare class, #sweetspotsillustration, you’ll be familiar with what I can free-sketching. This is where you set down conceptual goals for a while and just draw from observation or reference images. This is one of the most enjoyable parts of any illustration project, because the pressure to be creative and have good ideas is totally off. The trick is to convince your brain of this, which wants to just plough ahead and achieve the final goal — a finished illustration. You need to tell your brain to be quiet and trust in the process. Allow yourself time to sink into the depth of your subject without having to understand it yet, or to have to interpret it. What happens is, as you go along, you start seeing your subject for what it is, rather than trying to force it to mean something you currently think it should. In other words, your mind opens and you actually start to learn about and understand something new. Our minds are funny in that they are constantly looking for shortcuts and efficiencies. That it why drawing from life and observation, and even from references, is hard. Drawing from sources doesn’t mean you have to draw them well, or perfectly (as evidenced above). It just means you are recording with a pencil the process of looking at something with more attention. You don’t have to be a good draughtsman to free sketch. You just need to be patient and believe in its value.
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