If the postal service loses an original piece of art in transit, will money make it better?
Would you like insurance with that?
Author: Matt Shanks
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?
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?
