Illustration doesn’t have to put food on the table
What if you didn’t have to rely on drawing to put food on the table?
Read nowI've been journalling on this website once per week for almost 4 years. It began as a personal project and a practice I could consistently return to to understand my progress as an artist. I never thought it would end up being one of the most important parts of my artistic practice but now I cannot miss a week. I've learned more from writing and reflecting than I have from drawing.
This journal needs more space – the space it deserves. I found myself trying to find articles I knew I had written, especially when asked about common problems younger artists encounter in their art practice. The new space not only gives each post room to breathe, but it makes entries more findable and filterable. bookmarkable and, hopefully, more illustratable.
What if you didn’t have to rely on drawing to put food on the table?
Read nowDo I really need to dance in front of my canvas to get eyeballs on my work?
Read nowDo ideas come to us through divine inspiration? Or do we just need to pick up a pencil or pen and begin so that we find an idea?
Read nowMaybe what we wear matters more thank we think when we’re making art?
Read nowThere is a benefit to collaborations and commissions that involve an artist making work that their unconscious bias has prevented thus far
Read nowWhen are we avoiding action because of fear versus needing to be patient for the work to find it’s place and time.
Read nowWhen I hold an original, an inner voice, “This is the only one of these in the world.” I don’t get that from a book. Is that OK?
Read nowWhile there’s value in imposing constraints on one’s art practice, the opposite is probably true, but how do we decide?
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