Some tools and methods to check before taking the leap. Here’s an important exercise to check what your financial situation would be if you tried to live off your art alone, or evaluate how it’s going if you already are. To use a coined phrase, the answer may surprise you…

Below is a blog a wrote in the middle of the 2020 detailing a positive step in my artistic journey. I have strayed since then, but everything here is still useful. Please take a look. The Comfort Zone article I wrote earlier in the year cleared up a lot of…

and how to make more money when you understand them. — Making a living with art means doing business, so we’re going to look at some business fundamentals. We’re going to break down and introduce concepts gradually and clearly so if you’re usually overwhelmed or intimidated by this stuff, you’re in good hands. Most of this information is repackaged…

I watched a video from Adam Duff recently with a very catchy title — Your Procrastination Has Nothing To Do With Being Lazy. …

Improve your craft through action over perfection! — In the argument of quantity vs quality, I’ve seen a shift over to the quantity side and I agree with a lot of their arguments. What I’ve seen said lately is not that quality isn’t valuable, but that the mindset that comes from producing a few high quality…

Below is an article I wrote in February. It feels like a lifetime ago, with everything that’s happened globally and personally, but at the time I was excited about a new way of looking at habits. I’ve recently heard a lot about Micro-habits, or Atomic…

Pointless and boring, or meditative exercise? — Why should you do line drills? What can they do for you? How can you do something so repetitive without wanting to pull your hair out? The most deconstructed root fundamental skill for all 2D art is repeatedly putting marks where you want them. The only way to…

A Figuary retrospective — This year I participated in an event called Figuary: figure drawing month, where you complete a figure drawing session every day of February. I used the Croquis Cafe video sessions on Vimeo, though I accidentally started with 2019’s sessions and followed it through for consistency. …