Your Gameplan (July 2026 Cohort.)

An Introduction & Roadmap

This is the beginning of your journey to build a lifelong creative habit that becomes the engine of your creative practice and start attracting your true fans.

Welcome if you’re new and if this is your second time, welcome back!

Here’s what we’ll be doing here.

1. Building a ten minute habit. A daily minimum that transforms your identity.

2. This habit will produce an output that will serve as a source material.

3. We will fashion that source material into a ‘product’ for true fans.

If you’ve done this before, I hope you’ll read every dispatch as carefully as you did the first time around. I’m revisiting them daily too editing for clarity, sharing new examples or stories and sometimes things just land different the second time around.

Creative Habit

You’re going to have to do something, you’re going to have to spend time taking action, all the actions are designed to be something you can do in 10 minutes, but I do recommend setting aside 30 minutes each day. This will give you some time to get comfortable before you start and a moment to reflect after.

If all you have is 10 minutes that works too!

For some assignments, it might make sense to read it in the morning, ponder and do the drawing later in the day.

Creative Engine

Too much of what we do in this social media age is performative.

You see people frantically set up lighting and cameras to take a relaxing sip of coffee. This 10 minutes is different it’s not for show. Instead this 10 minutes serve to spark your imagination and usher in those imaginings into the world in their rawest form.

What you end up doing with these uncut gems of creative output will be up to you. The goal is to help you uncover them daily.

True Fans

I think there is a step many artist are unwilling to take, and that is to earn and cultivate true fans.

Yet the true fan is the completion of the creative process. Whether it’s someone to laugh at your joke, gaze on your artwork, or read your masterpiece. For all your tinkering, crafting and toiling in private, the task is incomplete until it has found an audience.

For some you might seek a small audience to influence with your message, for others you might need a larger audience to sustain your practice and form the lifeblood of your career. During this journey we will look at ways to cultivate these true fans.

Your Gameplan will be delivered to you in 2 parts

Part 1: Daily Dispatch

This is the table of contents of the entirety of Part 1. Once you’re signed up you can dive right in, REMEMBER to toggle on the section to get emails and notifications when each new dispatch drops.

How ever you choose to do it, each dispatch contains an idea and an assignment to help you take action, each step emboldens you to take the next step!

Project Roadmap:

Sacred time

1. High Voltage Time

2. Time Tetris

3. Taking Time

4. Alive time

5. Sacred time

Artist Diary

1. One Line a Day

2. Daily Diary

3. Free Writing

4. Daily Comic

5. Start with an image (the messy page)

Draw Anything

1. Mark Making

2. Shapes

3. Blocks

4. Blobs

5. Poses

Writing on Stage

1. When is it done?

2. Show your work

3. Talking to the audience

4. Talking to the others

5. Make it a process

Earning True Fans

1. 1020 True Fans

2. Multiple Fan Clubs

3. Be Findable

4. What are you working on

5. Go Direct

Projecting your Creative Voice

1. Constraints

2. Tools

3. Uniqueness

4. Influence

5. Passion

Part 2: the 30 Day Project

At the end of part one you will be given the opportunity to submit all your 10 minute assignments, and a short questionnaire. When you submit your completed assignments and questionnaire. I will give you a personalised 30 day project to continue your journey tailored to your specific outcome.

Hello, I’m Adam Ming.

Since turning 40 in 2021, I have illustrated 15 Childrens books for top publishers. I went from literally forgetting that I was an artist, to doing my dream job. I wrote about my journey for 5 years, and have mentored others in group and 1-1 settings. Gameplan is my attempt to distill the most valuable lessons, surprising insights, and painful mistakes, into something that is immediately usable to you.

It’s for you if you’re looking for an entry into a dream job, trying to make this creative life work, or even just want to get mote out of a daily 10 minute drawing practice.

To make it as useful as possible, I’m going to say two things.

1. These are my opinions, but I am going to state them as if it was true fact. It’s important for me to be as specific and opinionated as possible. Some of the things I share might go against conventional or general knowledge. And that is intentional. I’m not writing generalities I’m sharing what I believe or have found to be true. My specific knowledge. Use what you can and ignore anything you might not agree with, take what works. But do the assignments.

2. You might be tempted to skim, you might think I know this, that and the other already. And you’re free to do that. But there is a risk you might miss something. I often tell this story of an agent writing back to be when I was seeking representation with something like, “I’m not feeling it”. And after getting angry, I came back and reflected on the sentence, and it led to a series of actions which created some of the biggest breakthrough and helped me get my foot into this industry.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to go on this journey with you!