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…
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…
I’m back again, I hope you had a great start of 2016! I have a new instalment of the “More headspace for Creators” series for you, I hope you enjoy it. Let me know if you found it helpful. This is part one of a three parter. Many creatives use…
One of the fun things that many artists experience is that they`re having new ideas all the time. Not every artist is like that, we all work and create differently, but I hear this a lot and I certainly recognize it. You`re sipping tea somewhere, something caughts your eye and…
This week I finally started sketching the pages of the prologue of Recollection City. The reason for this specific blogpost is that I could have started sketching these pages earlier. but I fell into the trap of wanted everything to be “ready” before starting to draw the pages. I had…