How long does it take before I start feeling like the work I’m making is distinctly mine?
Category: Making
Circuit breaking
How much should you stick with what you know, and what people expect, versus playing and experimenting with new ideas and new ways of making?
How to develop more imagination
How does one improve their imagination once they become a logical, sensible, rational adult?
Is there life on the page?
In a world awash with illustration and art theory, is there a better way to judge whether a drawing is any good?
The possibilities in a pencil
There may be no other tool so well-suited to exploration and erasure than a pencil.
The art of turning habit into pleasure
Is it possible to find pleasure in habit? To turn ‘chores’ into something more enjoyable?
A broken streak
Are unbroken writing streaks really that good for me? What if I broke the cardinal rule – write every week – to do something different?
Just the drawing
When the goalposts for what success looks like keep moving (either of my own doing or of the culture’s), then what’s succesful anymore?
What should illustrators illustrate?
What should painters paint? What should illustrators illustrate?
Cinema and books
When you work in books, people assume you’re a book person. But, what happens when that’s not true? What if, for you, it was cinema?