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Weekly Edition 002

Adam Ming

Oct 24, 2022

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The Weekly Edition, or Monday’s Newsletter, serves 3 overlapping audiences.

Daily Readers
Weekly Readers
Paid Subsribers

I’m trying out this format to make sure there’s something for each audience.

Picks from the past week to provide a summary of last week’s writing for Weekly Subscribers.

Finds so we have something new for daily subscribers.

And

Exclusives for paid subscribers at the end.

🍒 Picks

I made a list of how to start a new picture-book project.

Adam's Notes

I’m starting work on a new Picture-book today. Yay! (Book 4)

Tell Mom! (She sends prayers, those help!) Take notes from the brief, write questions, and schedule a chat with the Creative Director. Print out the text Immerse yourself in the text Study the competition Create a moodboard Itemise icons and locations to draw…

2 years ago · 14 likes · 12 comments · Adam Ming

And I talk about a kind of ghost that is very real

Adam's Notes

Bad ideas and ghosts

Ideas are potential action. Most ideas are bad ideas. They swim in your brain like ghosts. Writing down your ideas is a good way to get theses ghosts out of your head. And stopping them from inhabiting you and acting out things that you might regret…

2 years ago · 6 likes · 7 comments · Adam Ming

🏴‍☠️ Finds

There A various ways to track habits in a bullet journal, and I found this one quite inspiring. Habit Tracker
I started working through a Sketchbook Course for starting picturebooks, it came highly recommended by some of my peers at illo guild, and I can certainly see why.
Speaking of the illoguild, Damjana wrote a post about designing fonts that will make you want to make your own right away!

The Lemon Tart Bandit

Fontastic!

When illustrating comics or graphic novels that include narration panels and speech bubbles, text can be added in two ways; you can letter it by hand, which takes a long time and is hard to keep consistent from one page to the next, you can type it in an existing font, if you find one that fits your style of illustration…

2 years ago · 3 likes · 4 comments · Damjana Loddelina

👾 Introducing The Vault.

I’ve created a new section for this Substack called ‘The Vault’.

This is where I reflect deeper on some of the ideas I’ve written about, updating them and adding additional thoughts to . It’s for subscribers only. Or shall we call them Vaultinarians (Vaulties for short)

This first entry contain some of my original and updated thoughts on Style, Enter the Vault: -

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