Changing me is hard. It’s far easier to change my environment, and then watch it change me in return.
Category: Starting
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.
First, we make the clay
First drafts aren’t final drafts. They aren’t even close. The first draft for a writer is nothing but a big hunk of clay, waiting to be shaped, the only problem is, writers have to do the digging.
Fill the cutting room floor
Could writers and illustrators take a lesson from filmmakers who shoot much more footage than they need so that only the best bits will make it?
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?
Optimising your life to encourage boredom
‘Avoiding boredom’ is something that we’re trained to achieve in a bid to be ‘more productive’. But it’s not until you permit yourself to be bored again that you truly see the power of it in helping you make more lateral and inventive connections, more often.
Prove them wrong
Being the underdog might just be the thing you need to make the work you want to make.
Talent doesn’t exist
It’s great if you’re talented, but what if you aren’t? Did you just miss out? Or maybe this idea of ‘talent’ doesn’t exist at all.
Art is an infinite game
How do you ‘win’ at art? More likes? More followers? Better reviews? What about if the point of Art is to keep playing the game and not to win it?
Everything is a draft
No matter what you do, today’s best work is tomorrow’s stepping stone to even better work. This means everything is a draft. Over and over and over again.