2018 Golden Nosey Interview
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| Author | Dan McConnell |
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| Subject | Daniel Stieglitz |
| Genre | Article, Interview, Golden Nosey Award |
| Published | EF Issue 2019.1 |
Publication date | Winter 2019.1 |
| Media type | Print, Digital |
| Pages | 18-21 |
| Website | caricature |
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If you Google our latest Golden Nosey winner, you will find entries for him on both Wikipedia and IMDB. He has done everything from studying animation with the famed Paul Driessen to even writing and directing his own film. But we are more interested in his caricatures. His one winning piece at this year’s convention was a sight to behold. Be sure to view his website for even more of his art at https://danikaturen.wordpress.com. Thanks to Dan McConnell for reaching out to interview our winner before I could even ask! Please note: This interview was edited for space. - editor
Q:Huge congratulations for winning the Golden Nosey, WHILE being a first-time ISCA member. Outstanding! Rookie of the Year AND the Golden Nosey?! Woo Hoo!! Plus Caricature of the Year, Outstanding Group Composition, Outstanding Body Situation AND an extra award for Black and White composition thrown in as well.
A: Thanks, Dan. This was a f…ing insane week for me – not only being in paradise-like San Diego, together with all of those brilliant artists I’ve been following on Facebook for years now – but winning all those awards… still can’t believe what happened there.
Q: Were there any other mural caricature awards in your past? Has 2018 been your “banner” year? (pun intended)
A: I call those group-compositions “panorama caricatures.” This was the third one (this year!). I did one in April at Eurocature (which won best traditional caricature), and one at the Eindhoven Minicon in August (which won best theme work, and most inspiring work). I’m a big admirer of Korean artist Kim Jung Gi’s work – which I discovered only last year and was blown away by! In my opinion, he’s the Master in drawing. If you look at the hundreds and hundreds of sketchbook pages he has filled during the years, you can see where that comes from…practice, practice, practice.
Q: What was your earliest memory of drawing? How old were you and what were you drawing?
A: Well – I think, as every child, I might have started to doodle around at 3 or 4. Whenever there were handicraft activities, I tried to change the characters or the topic. I turned an Easter bunny into a pirate, or an angel into Batman ,etc., that kind of stuff boys do, you know – adding blood, vampire teeth, beards, wieners… . But the first vivid memory I have about drawings that really changed my life was when I was ill one morning and my dad gave me an Asterix comic to read (I must have been around 6)…the quality in terms of character design, story-telling and overall drawing skills was so much above the usual Mickey Mouse comics I used to “read“...when he came back that day, I begged him to give me more, and he brought me his 28-issue-collection!!!… and from that day on I knew that I wanted to do something like that for a living.
Q: Was your first caricature by accident or have you always planned out painstakingly what you are going to draw?
A: At school I drew some teachers…. I did fun portrait drawings for friends and family and worked for the school magazine for a few years. So at that time I learned the term “caricature.“ I had the poster of “Hook“ by Drew Struzan hanging in my room, and a huge poster of the German band BAP, painted by Sebastian Krueger. When drawing...faces…my first goal was likeness – and I failed loads of times there. One time I tried to get the likeness of my uncle for hours and hours and afterwards I disappointedly threw all the sketches into the bin with the strong belief that there are faces out there that just CANNOT BE DRAWN !!!
Q: Tell us about your award(s)- winning California Gold Rush Nosey Panorama-Caricature? You decided early on to use an “S” Curve as the basis of your composition, what else?
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