Making a List, Checking it Twice: Introducing Weekly Editions

2024/2025 Topic List

A Note on What to Expect

The Weekly Editions are designed to provide a steady rhythm to your creative practice.

Each week focuses on a single topic that I somehow find related to the illustration practice, drawn from a list of 59 themes I’ve outlined. For every topic, I share seven key ideas—one for each day—offering a page-a-day guide to inspire and inform your work.

More on the topics below.

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Topics for the Weekly Editions

The following list are topics that I find useful to the creative practice.

Most are straightforward like style and building a portfolio. Others might be a bit more far fetched like what parenting or running a startup has thought me. Makings books is a messy business, may aim is to surface the most important ideas related to each of these topics.

And it’s not just about making books, but the creative process in general.

This preamble is just so you know, when you see football listed as a topic, know that I’ll relate it back to the creative practice.

I wrote this list to give me a map for what to write every day/week and so I can build a bit of a buffer. And so you can decide if you want to come on this journey with me for a year.

You are getting a page-a-day guide and a travel buddy…

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Here’s the List (in no particular order)

1. Portfolio

2. Studio

3. On the Move

4. The real work i.e ‘Life’

5. Editing

6. Sketching

7. Asking for Money

8. Habits

9. Mindset

10. Work Ethic

11. Magic

12. Collaboration

13. Style

14. Critique

15. Character

16. Writing

17. Showing Up

18. Startup

19. Focus

20. Finding Time

21. Goal Setting

22. Picturebooks

23. Drawing Animals

24. Drawing Kids

25. Drawing Middle Grade

26. Non Fiction

27. Drawing Anything

28. Bullet Journaling

29. Austin Kleon

30. Wisdom

31. Oliver Jeffers

32. Charles Schultz

33. Bruce Timm

34. Tom Gauld

35. Owen Davey

36. User Experience Design

37. Draw 7 Things (why learn to draw)

38. Sketchbook

39. Story

40. Comics

41. Breaking into Publishing

42. What I learned about illustration from Parenting

43. Running

44. Substack for Artist

45. Social Media

46. 80’s

47. 90’s

48. Art School

49. Marketing

50. Football (Soccer)

51. Childrens Publishing from the inside

52. Drawing for the Artistically Undiscovered

53. Thumbnails

54. Roughs

55. Art Quest

56. Art Gym

57. Illoguild (Creator Spotlight)

58. Illoguild Gems

59. Illoguild Themes

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Another way of thinking about this is that you are getting a 365 day page a day guide, delivered daily/weekly directly from the author.

Ten Minute Artist offers fun prompts, encouragement, and thoughtful perspectives for every stage of the creative journey, helping new and experienced creators alike advance their quest in 10-minute increments. Award-winning illustrator Adam Ming draws from the wisdom of creative legends, insights from industry experts, and his own journey of rapidly breaking into international publishing from a third-world country.

I have experienced how small daily action can transform a dream into a career, and I want to share that journey with you.