The work of illustration is deep work. It’s difficult to chip away at it in-between other things. It takes a while to get into a flow state and to stay there for a period of time. Illustration work requires stretches of time and concentration in the realms of 2-4 hours per session, minimum. Schedule even… Continue reading Manage or Make
Category: Making
It’ll be slower than you think
Success isn’t slow, we just imagine it to be fast.
Test and learn
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.
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.