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7 Little things
Today I’m sharing 7 little things.
The first four can loosely be seen as advice for creatives. The last 3 include more general advice, like how to stand and how to take notes. Most of the things I’ve shared are from other creatives on substack, consider this an introduction, or a re-introduction…
Say hi, make friends, share ideas!
The last link about how to take notes is long and dense, I summarise it and where my thoughts about how I think it’s relevant to the creative practice.
Would you share someone or something you’ve found useful or interesting lately?
- recounts a two week sketching trip where she meets disappointment, success, but most importantly self discovery, she ends it by sharing some amazing work of other artist and her own.
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publishes a lovely newsletter called ‘The Habit of Art’ and she talks about Desperately Seeking Motivation in a recent piece. Scrolling through Substack feels like walking by peoples studios and popping in to see how everyone’s doing, this one definitely feels like that, and it makes the journey of creating feel less lonely.
Apart from regular Drawing Sessions
, also shares post about materials and her picturebook process.
One in particular is this Zine to help you ‘Find your Characters!’ Which I’m going to use to find all the characters for the book I’m writing.
I listened to Jerry Seinfeld’s Commencement speech at DUKE University, in it he says. Don’t worry too much about money. Instead aim for having the coolest job, and that cool is whatever cool is to you.
He goes on to say that there is value in just plain work, putting your back into things, taking a swing of the bat. Will something good happen? Who knows.. but there are two thing in life: Work and Love, that if you put effort into it there is a reward there regardless of the outcome.
5. How to Stand: I love how this guy covered the ‘right’ way to stand, especially at a standing desk. (Video)
You can’t think your way out of exhaustions: Strategies on how to use your brain on days when it’s being rubbish. (Poster and post)
How to take Notes: 10 principles and 8 steps to creating notes that become the building blocks for future work. (Long Read)
I spent some time studying the article about the principles and steps to taking smart notes, here are my notes, which I’ve distilled into 3 points:
Consume to Create
Note-making enables exponential creative play
Note-making could be a cure to constant consumption