Can anyone teach you how to be your authentic self?
A wilderness with a map
Author: Matt Shanks
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?
Cinema and books
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?
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?
