Is it possible to find pleasure in habit? To turn ‘chores’ into something more enjoyable?
The art of turning habit into pleasure
Author: Matt Shanks
Pay what you can
What it feels like to release a graphic short story of 100 hours of work under a pay what you can model.
A wilderness with a map
Can anyone teach you how to be your authentic self?
A broken streak
Are unbroken writing streaks really that good for me? What if I broke the cardinal rule – write every week – to do something different?
A point on the horizon
What if we only think we know what we want? What if what we actually want can only come from the chaos of our lives? How might we live differently?
Just the drawing
When the goalposts for what success looks like keep moving (either of my own doing or of the culture’s), then what’s succesful anymore?
I’ve never done this before
Almost everything we’ve done before was, at some point, something we’d never done before. So what can we learn from this?
Would you like insurance with that?
If the postal service loses an original piece of art in transit, will money make it better?
What should illustrators illustrate?
What should painters paint? What should illustrators illustrate?
Crunchy or Smooth
When it comes to peanut butter, some people like crunchy and others like smooth – so how can that apply to the art we make?
