There’s value in mimicry because even if you try to copy your inspiration, line for line, pixel for pixel, you’ll never create the exact same thing as someone else, and that’s OK.
Category: Making
The faster horse
Don’t ask people what they want. Give them what they need.
Alone days
I spend approximately 90% of my non-sleeping hours in collaboration or conversation with others. From the moment I wake up and say good morning to my partner, I enter into almost hourly context switching – different people, different problems, different conversations. Then, when evening descends, it’s back to dinner-table conversations with loved ones before a… Continue reading Alone days
Creative effort is never wasted
Like exercise, creative effort never seems like a good idea before I start. But, also like exercise, once it’s over, I never regret it.
Understanding comics: learning through doing
There are some things you can only learn by doing. Comics is one of those things. Meet Pip and Pop, may way of exploring the world through turtles.
Creativity loves rigour
To make the most of the intense creative moments of our lives, we need to spend time rigourously organising our tools and environment.
Read, Write, Speak, Draw
Reading, writing, speaking, and drawing don’t seem very connected, until you realise that each is working with the other to inform a more rounded view.
A method for creating plausible diversity in literature
There’s no doubt that literature shapes the world we live in, but unless we reckon with The Overton Window, it’ll be a much slower journey to equity.
If only, what if
We can’t always control what happens to us in life, but we can control the story we tell ourselves about the good and the bad that it brought us.
Yesterday’s work
I painted 3 paintings yesterday, and when I look at them today, I can’t help but see they’re all terrible. But, they are less terrible than the ones I did the day before yesterday. And when I compare the ones I did the day before that to the ones I did 3 months before, or… Continue reading Yesterday’s work