Perhaps goals are the problem. Perhaps what we really need to find happiness is a focus on exactly the opposite of goals – play.
Category: Making
Defined by ‘No’
For two-letters, No is a powerful word.
How to: find my style
No one sets out to have a favourite food, we find it along the way. The same thing happens with the style of art we gravitate toward, too.
Those thankless nights
If the publishing deals dried up today, I’d still be drawing, painting, and writing, just for me, just like I did before, published and paid, or not.
The starving artist: a culture, not a law
Changing the law needs lawyers. Changing a culture doesn’t need lawyers, we just need everybody to agree, and that’s hard.
Bit by bit
Becoming an artist is possible, drawing-by-drawing, day-by-day, bit-by-bit. Just because you’ve never done it before, doesn’t mean you can’t.
One thing for yourself
How do you get the energy to do anything creative after a long, boring, soul-destroying day at work?
How to: Broadcast your studio for regional and remote Australia
I’ve recently offered the opportunity for schools in regional and remote Australia to come into my studio on a live workday. The aim is to give some 1:1, intimate illustrator time to those who are often at a geographical disadvantage where it’s too expensive for schools to pay for people like me to visit them.… Continue reading How to: Broadcast your studio for regional and remote Australia
Passion through persistence
I can’t help but think that the romantic notion of ‘passion’, that we’re born to do one thing on this earth, is entirely false.
Going Pro
Maybe you don’t need to write or draw everyday. If it’s just a hobby and you’re not planning to go pro, then what’s the point of everyday?