EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 12 © 2015 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

6 the finer points of anatomy and figure drawing with lessons which included sight-sizing, perspective, colour theory, light and shade and drawing from casts and life models. Part of the lessons entailed creating head studies from life and young Andrew would often head off to the local mall to draw homeless people and runaway kids. He soon grew proficient enough to be able to trade on his skills by creating portraits of tourists, and he was selling enough of his work to, at least partially, be able to support himself through his artistic endeavours. His graduate studies were undertaken at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, where he majored in computer animation. Here it was that he first encountered the potential of working with cutting edge software such as Painter, Photoshop and Maya. The last being a 3D animation programme with a very steep learning curve, but an essential tool within the games and movie industries. Not that Jones was content just to conquer the dizzying heights of Maya, his desire to master traditional drawing skills prompted him to spend a semester studying anatomy at the University of