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043: A Reflection (prompt)

42: Style as positioning

41: Style as A Set of Rules

40: Dead Week

039: The Expert

How to Make a Living as an artist.

037: After the Party

036: For Commercial Consumption

035: Secret Codes (3/3)

034: Secret Codes (2/3)

033: Secret Codes (1/3)

032: Treasure Maps

031: How to read Prescriptions

30: Advice from Todd McFarlane

029: Am I Capable?

028: Fiasco - Rap theory; introduction and practice

027: What's the point?

026: A theme for 2023

025: Concrete Units

024: How I got my first book deal

023: Paying with your Life

022: How you'd imagine I'd be.

021: how would you spend it?

020: Iteration

019: Index

018: On Style: Make Their Job Easier

017: Why do Social Media? My Social Media Plan, and Small Talk

016: No Excuses, No Permission Required.

015: Scope and Style

014: Mining for ideas

013: Time Blocking

012: How to write a newsletter, blog or social media post everyday.

011: Sick days

010: Teamwork

009: Year One

008: Not for show

007: What’s now?

006: What makes you special?

005: Why 400?

004 Hybrid Energy

003: Another Frog

002: You don’t get to give up half way.

001 : It takes awhile okay? (The taste Gap)

Meaningful Specific

59 Next Steps

Making this Folktaleweek Cinderella illustration

I got up at 3am

Folktales and AI : Remembered Stories of forgotten people.

Economies of S____

064: Drawing advice for beginners

Fulfilment Cocktail

Unfinished Projects

Will anybody buy my art?

“It’s to make you happy when you finish it” — Neil Gaiman

Why are you an illustrator?

The Journal is a tool for …..

Steps

Out Now: Posey Pearl is a curious girl

Join my new subscriber chat

Skills

Perspectives

Take More Long Walks

The things we believed.

Work Calendar

The Pre-Routine

☕️ Shut down Routine?

I’m Joining Folktale Week

The Constraints of Publishing Business

Rebooting the 100day project

🍒 Picks, 🏴‍☠️ Finds and an 👾 Exclusive.

100. Drawing Coffee with Adam Ming

Like Oliver Jeffers …

Committing To Style

The thing you know.

Drawing Icons

Pinterest Art School

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

Downtime.

Bad ideas and ghosts

Adam’s Notes Weekly Edition 001

Make art that’s part of the conversation.

How to start journaling (again)

📖 Bird by bird

Fusion Restaurant vs Sushi Bar

A note for paid subscribers

The Process that works for you.

What kids love about books

Shiny things, a Journaling Exercise and more.

If you want to be somebody else, change your mind.

Draw this in your style 3

Delusional Optimism and a Bonus Level!

Day 38: Waves

Draw what you know!

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

Childish views of the word practice.

Day 37: Bowl

Challenging Myself to Draw

100 Days of drawing icons; Sketchbook

Drawing is important!

3 weeks ago... I took a week off.

Ai Art and the Artist

How to kickstart your workday?

I paid $200 to be in a 'room' with Art Directors.

Lifesaver

Momentum Monday

🗃 17. Full List of Drawing Prompts

Important format changes!

The Best way to get Good Ideas.

Day 31: Draw a Square

Day 30: Draw a circle

Workflows to creative business breakthrough.

Overcoming a creative struggle

Day 29: Draw a 9-Pointed Star

Week 5 Prompts:

Day 28: Draw a Robot

Dividing up deep work

Day 27: Draw a Dog

Day 25: Draw a Spaceman

Day 24: Draw a Space Shuttle

Day 23: Draw Headphones

Day 22: Draw an Oak Tree

Day 21: Draw a Hand holding a handphone

Day 20: Draw a cuckoo clock

Day 19: Snowy

Day 18: Draw Tintin

Two Deadlines and a bit of a holiday

Inconvenient Joy

11.30am New York Time

Art Next Steps Checklist

Drawing Prompts: Week 4

On Schedule, Momentum Mondays & My people.

How to submit Cartoons to the New Yorker: Then and Now

Week 3: Drawing Prompts

Day 17: Draw a Sumo Wrestler

Day 16: Draw a fir tree

Drawing a Palm Tree

Why kids don’t get back-pain

🎟 The Backstage Pass

Not everything you make will be good.

Day 14: Draw a Mountain

Week 2: Drawing Prompts

Day 13: Draw a male Profile

Day 12: Draw a Female Profile

🎟 Routine: The Evening Review

Day 11: Draw a person

Day 10: Draw a Fish

A journey into Authoring

🎟 Levels: Skills and Attitude

Week 1: Drawing Prompts

The Nicest People to Work with

Chemistry Lessons

☕️ What are some details in your creative space that create disproportionate positive results?

Useful Feedback

🎟 The one where I exit my comfort zone.

Day 9: Bear

Constraints & Location

Pick a Day

Unfinished Thoughts: On Projects

📝 Starting on Thursday, the 25th of Aug

Day 8: Tiger

🎟 Backstage and 🎭 On-Stage

Day 7: Draw a Dragon

I have one question for you.

Day 6: Draw a Jeep

How convenient it is…

Day 5: Rose

Art and Galleries

Day 4: Draw a Book

Tedium and how to overcome it.

Day 3: Draw a peace sign

☕️ Art Career Club: Breaks and Routines

Time Log

Day 2: Draw a Palm

🎟 The Last 100 drawing prompts

Day 1 : Draw a Fist

Comic Con at home 2020

Rearranging the Studio

Chipping away

You can choose your levels.

How to declutter your brain

Art Career Club (BETA) 1/6

Building blocks of illustrations

Countdown to this newsletter’s birthday! - 25th Aug

Somewhere between prompts and art class…

Book Announcement

Why be an illustrator?

Art Buffet: Thinking of Sections

🎟 Strategy for a freelance illustrator.

Criteria for Choosing Activities

Are you getting your notes?

The material and bits that make the Art

⚡️ Drawing Prompts

How paid subscribers make this newsletter better!

📝 Tools of the trade

🎟 Thinking about Strategy, Tactics and Planning

Interesting…

One day, a Mammoth

Making a Kidlit postcard video

Kidlitart Postcard!

Meeting Standards

📝 How to make good work on a short deadline.

🎟 Drawing Prompts

“Being Creative”

🎟 From the Desk of Adam Ming

Re-stacking Habits

Building Routine, continued…

Getting into a groove

Catch up on your Drawing Prompts!

Hi again!

The 3 Steps of apprenticeship

The Guild of Childrens book illustrators.

Introductions

An hour in the morning is worth 2 in the Afternoon.

🍿 How to create a Color Palette

📝 Look a picturebook! , Volume 2!

Art Swap Deadline!

The view from Kinokniya in KL

Chapter book Illustration by Adam Ming

📚 Collector Tier!

📰 Round up of recent notes.

Seeds and fruit of thought

Formal writing. Single topic.

📝 Food is eating up your time!

Trading Art

🎟 Look a picturebook!

📝 Some vague suggestions. Five to be specific.

📝 How I write these things

You’re going to need a routine.

📝 Mastery and the beginners mind

🎟 The cave you fear to enter contains the treasure that you seek. - Joseph Campbell

📝 Strategies for finding your life’s task

Isn’t it supposed to get easier?

On taking Notes, The Zettlekasten Way.

Join Adam’s Party

Welcome to the Party!

Yesterday’s Plans

Systems, Habits and Routines for a Creative Practice

Another Middle Grade Portfolio Piece

How to deal with social media and the anxiety burn-out issue?

Flow

Keep the momentum

Drawing Shapes for kids

First and Second

What you bring…

Several short sentences…

How I design characters.

Your way or the hard way.

On finding time to train

Free Zine with Drawing Prompts!

Training

Mark Hoffmann Explains Hierarchy

the Morning Pages

☕️ Questions about substack?

I hope you find what you're looking for!

Index

Writing Lines

Sketchbook Prompts #5

Priming myself for an all-nighter.

Finishing touches and family.

Everything I know about making an illustration portfolio. (For picturebooks)

1 Minute of your time.

Creative energy

Share your notes

👋 Hi I’m Adam Ming

Keeping Score

Gathering around love

📰 7th May 2022 Digest

A portfolio is not a CV, it’s evidence!

What Procreate Brushes does Adam Ming use?

Postcard Layout idea

☕️ Discussion: Unlocking Time

Notblank Sketchbook Back Issues

⭐️ An illustration

NOT BLANK SKETCHBOOK #3

Work space and snippets

How to write a Newsletter

This Monkey

Struggle well

📝 How to make 80% of a picturebook in 4 weeks.

⚡️Not Blank Sketchbook Issue 2

Roughs and other illustration terms

Designing Covers

📰 Found Object(s)

👋 Checking in

📝 Life Goals and Uncomfortable Things.

📝 20 Minutes of reading and exercise

☕️ Discussion: Illustration Portfolios

📝 Making Art vs Making a Product

Publication Schedule

⚡Not Blank Sketchbook Zine 1

📝 Carson Ellis is on Substack

📝 Goldilocks Challenge

📰 Weekly Digest 02

☕️ Chat : Making Art and Money

📝 How to Cultivate an Authentic Voice

🎟 What makes you a dream to work with?

📝 Use your eyes to switch on wakefulness.

📝 Point out what is good.

🎟 Style Map

📝 How to be distracted

How to be enthusiastic all the time

Kidlitart Postcard

Sketchbook Prompt

3 Steps Forward (Accountability Post!)

📰 Weekly Digest 01

Attack it!

One principle for organizing illustration information.

Robert DeNiro’s advice for actors

Write a style guide

Energy in a drawing

What is an illustration portfolio

How to do things when there are too many things to be done.

Staking your identity

More than daily Notes…

What Distractions Are

Some instructions on how to open a book

$2 Notebooks (Moleskine-like)

Posting Schedule.

How to study a picture book

What one question you can ask to overcome overwhelm?

Cadence

The Trick

Raising the dead (time)

On Collecting ideas

100day Projects

The paradox of mediocrity

What to put in an email to an Art Director or Agent and what's the hardest part.

Ignorance

Writing in the evening vs writing in the morning

Readwise

Put your lazy Twitter bio to work!

Let's Discuss: Illustration Marketing

How I Market Myself as an illustrator.

On putting more of you into client work.

A picture of some picture books and..

Adding physical activity into my Illustration workday.

Physical Self-care for desk workers.

❤️ How to treat yourself.

Secondary illustration tools and the psychology of long term success.

Power Up! - At arms reach

What to draw in the Sketchbook

Small advantages grow as the game goes on.

Nothing Flashy only Necessary

Insights are only ingredients.

Some 100 day projects and a note about ‘finding the others’

Some Preparation for the 100 Day Project

Pilot and personal projects

How to start delivering great work while continuing to grow.

Little Things

Why do the 100 Day Project?

Jim Carrey on doing what you love because...

How to Read Inspectionally.

Ask the audience…

Journal vs Planner

How to get your customers to pay you to do personal projects.

Twofer

20% Time. (Play and innovation in your creative practice)

Why I write every day.

The Advantage of Sequencing.

Bricks

Bullets

What are your next 3 Steps as a creative?

Sketchathon Technique

Estimation

Four types of energy

Infinite tiny details

Signing with an Agent

How I assign work to myself.

How it started...

4 Questions to help you sneak up on an illustration project.

Community Experiment

Struggle of an Artist

Playing Chess with your schedule.

Creative Studies

Thether

Christoph Niemann

Persistence

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