When learning anything new, fast feedback cycles matter. The earlier we get feedback, the quicker we learn, the quicker we learn, the faster we improve.
Category: Making
Draw everyday. Or don’t.
Some advice is good, and some is bad. What’s most important about any advice, is that it’s just advice. What works for some, doesn’t work for others.
How to be original
Even if they say they do, most people don’t want original.
How to: read poetry
If you’re curious about poetry, but don’t know where to start, here’s one method, the one that worked for me.
Children’s books and intergenerational knowledge transfer
Are picture books the last remaining object, disconnected from the internet, where two generations can share and discuss an idea together?
What am i doing differently?
Let’s face it, these days, it’s easy to be the same. To conform. To take a nice, comfy seat high up on the bell curve of what’s ‘on trend’. If I want to buy some new clothes, it’s easy for me to pull up a Pinterest board and see, in an instant, what the world… Continue reading What am i doing differently?
Adding signs of life to settings
Backgrounds give the illustrator a rich opportunity to tell stories using only pictures. It’s almost always what a child that notices first.
The sky isn’t blue
Once an artist has found the formula to capture reality, we get to move beyond it, and capture what imagine it could be, like when we were kids.
Pictures are for kids, right?
In an increasingly visual, connected world, why does visual literacy play second fiddle to words? Why is the path to literacy paved in language?
What is your story about?
Until I work out the relatable human need in an idea that I’ve had, my story is just a sequence of events, and not ‘about’ anything at all.