{"id":22768,"date":"2019-08-20T17:55:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T16:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/q3\/?p=16513"},"modified":"2020-05-24T00:04:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T23:04:15","slug":"interview-with-illustrator-josie-sommer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/culture\/interview-with-illustrator-josie-sommer\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Josie Sommer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Jasmine Snow<\/p>\n<p>Josie Sommer is an illustrator based in London, whose work draws from literature, music and art history, to create quirky, awkward and yet endearing characters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you become an illustrator?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I started illustrating in the final year of my undergraduate degree. I&#8217;d previously studied art at college and was a bit frustrated that I wasn&#8217;t making anything anymore, so I just started doing it in my free time (when I probably should have been studying for my exams!). After a while, I started sending my work off to magazines and I&#8217;m very grateful that a few took me on and gave me some great editorial slots and opportunities. At first, illustration seemed a good way to make things with the limits of being in a flat with no real space &#8211; later I learned through meeting other illustrators that illustration can be sculpture, animation, tapestries and can be as big or as small as a project demands. It&#8217;s so exciting when you see what other people are doing and how you can push the boundaries and challenge what people might think of as illustration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was your first commissioned piece? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My first commission was an editorial illustration for Scottish magazine called <em>The Skinny<\/em>. It was for their Clubbing Highlights page and at first, I wasn&#8217;t sure that my style of illustration really suited clubbing as a theme, but I painted two women dancing around their handbags, looking slightly uneasy (much like I would be), and I became really pleased with it. As my first job, it really stretched me in thinking about subjects that I wouldn&#8217;t normally have considered, which was really fun.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/Image-02-05-2019-at-16.57.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23079 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/Image-02-05-2019-at-16.57-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/Image-02-05-2019-at-16.57-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/Image-02-05-2019-at-16.57-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/Image-02-05-2019-at-16.57-768x1097.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/Image-02-05-2019-at-16.57-1075x1536.jpg 1075w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/Image-02-05-2019-at-16.57-1433x2048.jpg 1433w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/Image-02-05-2019-at-16.57.jpg 1488w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What inspired your style?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My style is inspired by the things I love \u00d4\u00c7\u00f4 music (Bo Diddley, Shangri-Las, and Link Wray), art (modernist sculpture, expressionism and mid-century design) and literature (Carson McCullers, J.D Salinger, stuff that sparkles or quietly observes); but then there are also places, people and films that inspire me too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which is the piece you&#8217;re most proud of?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The piece I am most proud of is a large painting called&nbsp;<em>\u00d4\u00c7\u00ffWho Do You Love?&#8217;, &nbsp;<\/em>that I made&nbsp;with ceramicist Alex Sickling, for an exhibition I curated called&nbsp;<em>Love&nbsp;<\/em>(it&#8217;s love-themed) showcasing the work of ten contemporary female illustrators, which has been shown in Newcastle, Leeds, and London.&nbsp;<em>Who Do You Love?&#8217;&nbsp;<\/em>is an illustration of Bo Diddley&#8217;s song of the same name. I love Bo Diddley and my greatest ambition in life is to create a work of art that looks like his music sounds. The lyric <em>\u00d4\u00c7\u00ffI rode a lion to town&#8217;&nbsp;<\/em>was the initial inspiration. I turned Bo into a 50&#8217;s looking woman, riding on a lion with a rattlesnake whip and then added in other elements to the song such as an ice wagon, Bo&#8217;s true love Arlene and of course Bo himself (I couldn&#8217;t miss him out!).<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/Image-02-05-2019-at-19.43.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23080 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/Image-02-05-2019-at-19.43-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/Image-02-05-2019-at-19.43-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/Image-02-05-2019-at-19.43.jpg 551w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your favourite materials to illustrate with?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My go-to is always gouache. It&#8217;s a tricky material that foxes you sometimes but it&#8217;s got a lovely texture and you can layer it up really well to make little details stand out. But having said that, I love trying new materials. I recently made a mini graphic-novel style book with just colored pencils and some ceramic pieces and I loved both. It depends what suits the story you&#8217;re trying to tell. And if you get in a funk with what you typically use, it can be really refreshing to get your hands stuck into something else for a bit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s your most personal piece to date?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My most personal piece to date would probably be a ceramic seated woman with her arm&#8217;s folded called <em>Girl on a Stool<\/em>. She looks like she&#8217;s a little bit uncomfortable, so much so that when I first made her I wasn&#8217;t all too keen on her, but there&#8217;s something about her that I&#8217;ve really warmed to. I think she looks very shy, awkward and unsure.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/Image-02-05-2019-at-19.44.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23081 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/Image-02-05-2019-at-19.44-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/Image-02-05-2019-at-19.44-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/Image-02-05-2019-at-19.44-1024x551.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/Image-02-05-2019-at-19.44-768x413.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/Image-02-05-2019-at-19.44-1536x827.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/Image-02-05-2019-at-19.44-2048x1103.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you have any advice for those aspiring to be an illustrator?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would advise anyone wanting to do anything to just start. It doesn&#8217;t matter what your background is or whether you&#8217;re trained, if you want to do it, just do it. And do what you want to do. There&#8217;s obviously always a tension between doing what you love, and making things that someone will want to invest in. But for me, it&#8217;s important stick to your guns and do what you want to do. If you see something in it, someone else will too. Also, check out what other people are doing &#8211; it&#8217;s a good way to find inspiration and to try to find out where your own work might sit.<\/p>\n<p>To see more of Josie&#8217;s work visit her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/uk\/shop\/JosieSommer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Etsy shop<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cargocollective.com\/josiesommerillustration\">website<\/a>&nbsp;and <a href=\"http:\/\/josiesommer.tumblr.com\/\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jasmine Snow Josie Sommer is an illustrator based in London, whose work draws from literature, music and art history, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":23082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5467,740,1288,1452,5472,567,2368],"class_list":["post-22768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-adaptability","tag-advice","tag-art","tag-illustration","tag-josiesommer","tag-love","tag-music"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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