Is it better to protect and remunerate one’s ideas as happens in copyright, or is it better to open-source them?
Category: Marketing
Being published doesn’t help
Do you start thinking professionally once you start working professionally?
Artist as social media bait
Is social media worth the time of the artist, anymore? Or is that time better spent making the work?
Those distinguishing features
Why are we so quick to identify what we don’t have rather than what we do have?
What social media wants
Has the cost-benefit of marketing on social media platforms reached a tipping point where, well, it’s just not worth it anymore?
Do I need to be an extrovert to market myself?
In a world of the increasingly novel, do I have to wear funny hats and costumes to stand out?
How does everyone else work so fast?
There’s a difference between performance, and practice. But in our social media driven world, the lines are blurring, and nothing infuriates me quite as much as all those artists out there who are doing ‘quick sketches’ that aren’t sketches at all. This is thumbnail sheet of what I call ‘quick sketches’: And, if you search… Continue reading How does everyone else work so fast?
The work you do is the work you get
Illustrators seem to focus so much on portfolios, but is it better on just focussing on the work you want to make?
Art, scarcity, and scale
If art doesn’t scale like a fast-growing startup, what else can we use?
Caterpillars and Butterflies
How does one become an artist? Well, first things first, we need to do what artists do.