Maybe time works like income. You need to spend a certain amount of it on ‘essentials’, but then there’s a ‘budget’ for how we choose to spend the rest?
Category: Making
What made me laugh, think, and cry in 2019
Just like the potter shapes the clay to make a wonky pot, so too have the people and art I’ve consumed this year shaped me.
All in
What’s all-in for you might not mean all-in for another. Maybe you can still be all-in with your art without having to rely on it for income.
Dress for the occasion
Could wearing a business shirt when doing accounts, and wearing a painter’s apron while working on your art make you better at both?
Why is doing nothing so hard?
Doing ‘nothing’ is difficult. Try it for a minute, or two, or thirty and you’ll see. So if we have to do something, what’s the best sort of something.
Safe bets
How do you choose a wine if you’re not into wine? Standing in front of a shelf of over 1200 wine bottles, all of varying prices, designs, flavour profiles or sizes, the choice is overwhelming. If you know nothing about wine, awards help. If something is awarded, and something isn’t, perhaps the awarded one is… Continue reading Safe bets
Manage or Make
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
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.