Ah, audience building. We post our work online, we retweet other people’s artwork and tell our peers how much we love their work. Yet we look at those accounts that have tons of followers and we wonder: why am I still stuck at 100 followers? Is there something wrong with…
We hear this a lot: “create every day, make something every day.” What does that mean? And what does that look like? In the video I talk about things you can do to stay in a creative mindset, even when you’re not in the possibility to create a tangible thing.…
Welcome back to a new post and video! This week I talk about how studying art can become a form of procrastination. When I was still art blocked one of my problems wasn’t that I was doing nothing at all. I was studying hard. I consumed tons of books, articles,…
Welcome back to Pencils & Stories!! Recollection City has been going strong for a year now. I have developed a course on making comics and taught it one time already. Today I finally relaunch the website and have a brand new Youtube channel to go with it! The first video…
Recollection City, my fantastical adventure comic about friendship and stepping up and taking the risk of being seen and making decisions, is finally online! You can read the first five pages here and after this week I will upload it every Monday with a new page! Five years ago I…
Hello everyone, long time no see! I’m here to tell you about the future of this blog. Behind the scenes, I’m hard at work bringing you a new and improved blogging format. I very enthusiasticly posted about my plans for this blog at the end of 2015. Since then I…
Welcome back! Last time we talked about posture as a way to take care of your most important tool: your body. This week I want to talk about muscles again, and mention another thing that you can do to prevent pain and other problems related to our work: maintenance! Your…
