{"id":28213,"date":"2015-11-17T14:12:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T14:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=28213"},"modified":"2015-11-17T14:12:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T14:12:14","slug":"ben-tallon-on-making-a-career-in-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2015\/11\/17\/ben-tallon-on-making-a-career-in-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Tallon on a career in drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s as simple as asking to get commissioned in the creative industry, says\u00a0a successful freelance illustrator \u2013 but in the age of digital communication, where one is just another username, the human element is key to being recognised.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about his recent book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Champagne-Wax-Crayons-Creative-Industry\/dp\/190779493X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Champagne and Wax Crayons<\/a><\/em>, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisdesignstuff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Design Stuff Cardiff<\/a>\u2019s monthly talk this October, <a href=\"http:\/\/bentallon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Tallon<\/a> cited the example of his break with <a href=\"http:\/\/bentallon.com\/works\/wwelegends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)<\/a>. \u201cThis business is built on relationships and people skills,\u201d said Tallon, \u201cA massive door opened for me when I became good friends with the creative director of WWE, who is originally from Bolton. We just had the northern connection \u2013 it\u2019s these small things.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28222\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 422px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Big-image-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28222\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Big-image-480-422x312.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Tallon is a London based illustrator who has worked with The Premier League, Channel 4, Game of Thrones, World Wrestling Entertainment and Russell Brand\" width=\"422\" height=\"312\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28222\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Big-image-480-422x312.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Tallon is a London based illustrator who has worked with The Premier League, Channel 4, Game of Thrones, World Wrestling Entertainment and Russell Brand\" width=\"422\" height=\"312\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bentallon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Tallon<\/a> is a London based illustrator who has worked with The Premier League, Channel 4, Game of Thrones, World Wrestling Entertainment and Russell Brand<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tallon explained to the young audience of aspiring designers that comradery existed amongst creative heads and if they liked one\u2019s work \u201cyour name comes up&#8221; in conversation. This led to him being regularly commissioned by <em>TV Guide<\/em> for <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> and <em>The Walking Dead<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Held at <a href=\"http:\/\/10feettall.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10 Feet Tall<\/a>, the crowd of 90 applauded Tallon for his words on adapting his loose, organic style to the different mediums, \u201cI might be doing the same style of drawing, but in a template I never considered before. And if you can show that in your portfolio, then it makes it easier for a client to hire you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though unusual for a professional this young to write a book on the \u201creal side&#8221; of making a living in the creative industry, Tallon, in this short span (seven years), has become a successful illustrator, art director, costume and set designer, typographer and now a published author.<\/p>\n<p>A story based format, the book at its heart is about doing something you love \u201cexplicitly for the love of it\u201d. He said, that is what endears one\u2019s personality and attracts more people than one\u2019s commissioned work.\u00a0It\u2019s an honest tale of navigating the freelancing world and the sometimes unorthodox methods one adopts to be triumphant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Tallon shares his tales on the treacherous road of design<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":328,"featured_media":28222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1360,4964,4965,4966,182,4967,4968,4560,4969,4970,4971,4972,4973,4974],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-28213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-10-feet-tall","tag-art-director","tag-ben-tallon","tag-costume-designer","tag-design","tag-design-stuff-cardiff","tag-freelance-illustrator","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-published-author","tag-set-designer","tag-the-walking-dead","tag-typographer","tag-world-wrestling-entertainment","tag-wwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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