When you work in books, people assume you’re a book person. But, what happens when that’s not true? What if, for you, it was cinema?
Cinema and books
Author: Matt Shanks
Ideas evolve from the work
We think that we need to have an idea in order to get started but, perhaps, it’s the opposite way around?
Livelihood and humanhood
How is working for your livelihood different from working for your humanhood? And, will anyone pay for the latter?
Why bother?
Why bother trying to make art? If it’s all been done already, surely there’s no point. Right?
Illustration doesn’t have to put food on the table
What if you didn’t have to rely on drawing to put food on the table?
Sing for your supper
Do I really need to dance in front of my canvas to get eyeballs on my work?
Writing to think
Do ideas come to us through divine inspiration? Or do we just need to pick up a pencil or pen and begin so that we find an idea?
New shoes
Maybe what we wear matters more thank we think when we’re making art?
External influence
There is a benefit to collaborations and commissions that involve an artist making work that their unconscious bias has prevented thus far
Patience is a form of action
When are we avoiding action because of fear versus needing to be patient for the work to find it’s place and time.
