Draw a Page of Icons
A 10 Minute Artist Prompt
Today’s Ten Minute Artist Prompt: Draw a Page of Icons
Pick a Title, maybe “When I was a kid”, now draw or write and fill a page with Icons or written impressions. What are the visual ideas that come to mind when you think about a topic.
Share your Icon sketch page here
Yesterday, at a Roundtable Discussion at a local bookstore, I met Boey . Boey is the author and illustrator of the self published bestseller ‘When I was a Kid’.
We talked about a number of things, like how bad spelling and lazy drawing can actually be a strength rather than a limitation.
Yes you can get paid for drawing stickmen. I too have a book that i illustrated with a lot of stickmen
Coming up…
Boey shard 85% of the reasons his books are so successful, and I’ve distilled it into 3 points which I’ll unpack in the coming days.
The points are
Characters that kids can draw go viral.
Evergreen content.
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