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2025: Your Year of Creative Influence

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Finding Your Creative Community

The Power of 10 Minutes

Choose Your Influences

Kid’s Stuff

Pay Attention

Draw a Page of Icons

What your shelf says about you

Le Cartoon

A Tool for Creative Influence

Let’s Chat

You only need 1 person to form an accountability group.

How to use ’Twitter’

Think You Need Endless Time to Build a Creative Career/Practice?

Everything I have to say about how to start a personal art practice, can be said in 33 words, here they are.

The Purpose of Keeping a Sketchbook Habit

5 Ways to Fit Art into Your Busy Routine

A Sunday Letter (10 years of notes)

Become a Ten Minute Artist.

Use “In-between” times.

Habit Hacking: How I trick my brain to make more art!

The Pocket Sketchbooks

Anything can be art

Hidden Christmas Sale

What holds people back from starting a daily art practice?

Ten Minute Artist Weekly Edition: Drawing for illustration

What is Style?

How to make an illustration

Observational Sketches for Illustration

Drawing is mostly seeing

What’s Illustration?

What’s Drawing?

Ten Minute Artist Weekly Edition: Using Sketchbooks

Next Topic: Quick Poll

You can’t edit a blank page

Thank You!

What Real Talent Is

Draw like it’s the most important thing in the world

What’s Drawing?

A Suitcase of Ideas

Quick poll on upcoming topics

Making a List, Checking it Twice: Introducing Weekly Editions

What, how?

Book Cover Reveal and Drawing Prompt

Substack Advice, Write Daily.

A Masterclass in lettering in one image

Christmas Ornament

Spreading Nostalgia

Pigeon Hotel

Make it Evergreen

The crowd pulling power of easy-to-draw characters.

How to Increase your odds of creative success by 28.3%

Draw a Page of Icons

Folding in!

What is it?

5 Pages A Day

Absent Minded Rabbit

Can sharks drink seawater?

Take your time. It’s your time

What’s kept me from writing, and a tool for actually writing daily: Two Crappy Pages.

A Mumuration

Make it easier

Stickers and Stamps

24: When it’s not fun anymore

How to get 10 000 Substack Subscribers, and other Math Problems. (As a Creative who Hates Math)

The trick is consistency, or maybe stubbornness.

19: Make Up

18: 3-Minute rule

17: Commitment and Faith

15: Open, loops.

14: Embracing Constraints

13: Don’t Break the Chain

12: Tiny Gains

11: Habit Stacking

What I’ve learned from 5 months of Bullet journaling

09: Anchor

08: Do the minimum

07: Don’t try to make good art, try to make your art.

06: Next to Sleep

05: Golden Hours

Creating the Conditions for Creativity

04: Designing Your Creative Environment

03: Building Consistency

02: Overcoming Resistance

01: Take time

Blogging quietly and an Invitation

16: How to instantly increase your mental capacity by adopting this reframe.

0031: Child’s Play

Blog vs Newsletter, and how they work together.

0029: Robot Sidekick and a Brief History of Tomorrow

0030: Writing a Bio for a Jacket Cover

0028: Handmade Shape

0027: How to get 10 hours of value from 10 minutes of creative work (without using Ai)

0026: Filters and the Creation of Discrete Notes.

The power of Passive Engagement

0025: What would happen if you picked one goal, and spent ten minutes on it every day?

0024: How to Draw a Children’s Book Cover

0023: 3 Questions for the author of 1000 Words:A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round.

Drawing from inspiration

0022: And another thing about social media.

0021: Processing Feedback

The Illustrator's Social Media Survival Guide

0020: Collecting Good Ideas

0019: How to start a month

Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock

Get my 2025 Colour Palette

0018: On Maximising the utility of a tiny studio.

0017: Not Interested

0016: Preparation trumps inspiration

0015: The kind of thing you put in a Journal

Interviews, Roundtables and Drawing Workshops

0014: I wrote a blog instead

Sketchbook Prompt: Blobs and Lines

0013: Start with the Thumbnail

0012: A Community of One: The Evolving Versions of You

0011: How Andy J Pizza earned 20 000 followers in one year

0010: Shaping Habit Through Environment

0009: Free Play

0008: Creative's Morning Ritual

Glad you're seeing this - Quick poll

0007: Balls

Some Success: The View from Mount Stupid

0006: Is Skill Decay Real?Can you really forget your craft?

0005: Your Calendar as a To Do list.

0004: Lenny’s Newsletter

You’re a star Member of Ten Minute Artist.

0003: Bus Blog

0002: Craft a killer About page in just 10 minutes. Ready?

Illustration Career Growth

0001: The ‘Ugly Work’ Blog

Ugly Work

Increase your luck with a one sentence intro

Facing the Blank Page

Levelling up as a Pro Illustrator - Reader Poll?

Being Meaningfully Specific Rather Than a Wondering Generality

The Benefits of Taking Notes in a Sketchbook

Illustrator Dispatch: I give you my colour palettes.

I’m participating in the 3 Materials Drawing Challenge

Energy for Drawing in the second half of the year.

Art Gym Season 1: All Workshops

July Letter, On Unflappability and Walking

Drawing Feelings.

IlloGuild Live: On the Creative Process

The Bug Collector: Sketchbook Project

Network and build a community as artists.

What the F am I supposed to do with my social media?!

Sketchbook Project from the Achieves

Drawing Ideas

Urban Icons

001: TMA Sketchbook Club | Community Digest

Make Art Daily (Starter Kit)

Keep Going (Starter Kit)

Break into Children’s Publishing (Starter Kit)

Why is it important to make art Daily?

Weekends

Drawing Birds

Art Gym TODAY!

Shelfies

6 Reasons to practice Drawing Poses.

Maintaining your Portfolio as a Working Illustrator.

Applying the Sketchbook Habit

10 Reasons to Keep a Sketchbook!

Just in case!

Food illustration: Micro-lesson and Sketchbook Project

Art Gym : EMOTIONS WORKSHOP

A More Robust Ten Minute Artist Community and other updates.

🥁Your Greatest Hits of 2024

Potted Plants Sketchbook Project

Dear Reader, April 2024

How to get Ideas?

Characters in Scenes with Chantelle Holt

Flexible Hours

Welcome to Bits!

Printable: Head shapes

Make your own ‘Publication’

A Case for a Daily Practice.

The Importance of Drawing Faces

Visual Journal: Micro Lesson and Sketchbook Project

Breakthrough!

Illustration: Micro Lesson and Sketchbook Project.

Dear Reader, March 2024

Art Gym Preview: The Value of Drawing Animals!

Simplification : Micro lesson and Sketchbook Project.

Lost in the Jungle: Micro-lesson and Sketchbook Project.

Coffee Shop Sketching: Micro-Lesson and Sketchbook Project.

Abstract Shapes: Micro-Lesson and Sketchbook Project.

Creative Career Chat: Dealing with Rejection

What's up in February!

Directives on Productivity (v0.1)

Ten Minute Artist - How to be a sucessful illustrator at 40

Freewriting Journal Comics: Micro-Lesson and Sketchbook Project.

Show and Tell : Micro Lesson and Sketchbook Project.

Day 21: The greatest hits are merely good editing of a large body of work.

Day 20: One question to help you get the thing done when you don’t feel like it.

Day 19: Subject as Style

Day 18: Buffer

Day 17: Maps and Icons a Lesson in Simplicity

Day 16: Sometimes there isn’t going to be a happy outcome

Day 15: Uncomfortable Lists

Drawing Icons: Micro-lesson and Sketchbook Project

Day 14: Intervals

Day 13: Drips

Day 12: Keeping the Rhythm

Day 11: What you might create.

Day 10: Uncommon Goals

Day 9: Lost Creative Genius

Day 8: Paying Attention

Drawing on Intuition : Micro Lesson and Sketchbook Project

Day 7: You’ve tasted Success!

Day 6: Sketchbook Mindfulness

Roll Call!

Day 5: Drawing Outside

Day 4: Creating Collections

Day 3: Transforming Challenges into Growth

Day 2: Specific Knowledge