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Taylor Swift’s favourite number is 13

How to Understand the Publishing Industry (Without Asking Anyone)

Click - Make what people want as an illustrator.

Making it click!

Unlocking the Publishing Jobs You Love!

Too many tabs open

Ground yourself in gratitude

What can you do today?

Collecting feelings

Style as service

Some of it will be good

We’ll remember this night right?

Breakthrough Diary

I’d you’re reading this…

Three Pillars of Sustainable Creative Income

Two ways to land your first paying client

Three Steps to Get Your Art Noticed

Just Checking (troubleshooting)

In the past 5 years, I watched 3 movies.

5 REASONS WHY I BELIEVE SOCIAL MEDIA IS STILL A USEFUL PROMOTIONAL TOOL FOR ARTIST

You start to gain momentum when you realize that the other illustrators are not your competition

Do 100%, show 25% Starter Prompt

Do more of what you love!

Do 100%, Show 25%

RECAP: Build a bestselling substack as an artist

Advertise

Start, summon the drive

Sunday Share: Bird Drawings

Getting through the week…

Found object

Drawing a Pigeon Nest

Funny birds and their homes

DAY 5: Q&A (plus your next Breakthrough announced)

Day 4: Gifts of Knowledge

Day 3: Sell inside the shop

Day 2: How much should you charge for your Substack’s paid tier?

Day 1: Who does your Substack serve?

The closest I’ve been (so far) to drawing a cartoon for the New Yorker,

That place of despair..

Making Professional Friends as an Illustrator

Get your Creative Breakthrough!

Chunking

I was a dreamer for 29 years, and then this happened…

Sunday Share: Building Your Children’s Illustration Portfolio & Embracing JOMO

101 Paid Subscribers

Character Sheet vs Character Lineup - Plus: Announcing the Topic for the Next Creative Sprints

How to meet the RIGHT people?

(WHAT if…) My entire Substack got deleted!

Combine the things you’re good at drawing.

2 Ways Top Illustrators Use Reference Images

How to Direct Your Actions to Get What You Want (as an Illustrator)

There and back Again!

Sunday Share May 11

Drawing with Friends

May Check In.

Was there Chocolate?

I’m wondering if we have chocolate in the fridge.

Connecting…

The key to make anything twice as good!

Illustration as visual ideas

Sunday Sharing May4th

Celebrate a little thing!

Believe things are possible

A Cuddly Approach to Reality

Gently Start Again

Your Map to Financial Sovereignty as a Creative Freelancer

Financial Sovereignty As a Creative Freelancer

Creating Your Artist Income Portfolio

Two Ways to Find Your Creative Voice

Take Advantage of the Seasonal Aspect of Creative Work to Grow Your Income

The Money Story Holding Artists Back

Will I want to spend all my time making kids books forever?

Adam Ming draws a Warg in 10 Minutes

3 Paths for Making Money as an Artist

Behind the Scenes

Trolls

How to handle the unpredictable nature of creative income?

Is it a good idea to quit your day job and become an illustrator? (Written by a full-time illustrator)

Drawing an invisible Bilbo and a Ring

Place of work

On giving yourself feedback

Precious Work

Drawing Prompt: P - Precious

Quest

Rachel’s Breakthrough

An Unexpected Party

Let’s Draw ‘Gandalf’

Let’s Draw ‘A Journey’

Let’s Draw ‘The Hobbit’

Drawing Prompts from "The Hobbit"

I bought myself a present!

Character Design: What Makes Us Want More?

Move to the center

April Check in

Trimming your portfolio

Telling stories with poses, adds an extra dimension and value to your character design

The Continuous Line Method: A 10-Minute Ritual to Defeat the Blank Page Forever

Shifting Perspective

Finding your Character

Kairos

THE UPSIDE-DOWN CHALLENGE

Ten Minute Artist: Mini Book

Creative Sprint Recap: 3X your income as an illustrator

FIRST MARKS

Draw from Life

Creative Sprint: Unstuck and gaining Momentum - Day 5: Making it Happen

Creative Sprint: Unstuck and gaining Momentum - Day 4: Reasons

Creative Sprint: Unstuck and gaining Momentum - Day 3: Vision

Creative Sprint: Unstuck and gaining Momentum - Day 2: New Belief

Creative Sprint: Unstuck and gaining Momentum

The Joy of Creating!

Emotional pain

Important, Not Urgent

Lace up and go out!

Feel all the Things!

Taste of Spring … and Hope

Use Frameworks

Make Friends

Raise Energy

Make Habits

Tell Stories

Monthly 5-Day Creative Challenges

Take Time

Weekend Challenge: Start & Advertise

How to Be an Artist

Pen Portrait

On letting go of perfection

Specific Action

Cake!

Illustrated Dictionary

On Paying the Price

Cheers!

Artist Amnesia

On noticing what you’ve accomplished!

What are the ingredients to a good collaboration?

The Imperfectist and the pile of books

Find a way…

Your creative joy starts today (+ a gift to begin)

Drawing Flowers as Shapes

Small Details

Intuition

My gift to you!

The Illustrator's Career Blueprint

The Hero’s Journey (Part 1?)

Weekend Challenge: Take imperfect action

Crossing the Threshold

Collaboration: Allies and Mentors

The Hidden Ways We Refuse Our Creative Calling

Call to Adventure!

Ordinary Life

Checking in, and what you might have missed this week..

5 Easy Ways To Increase Your Chance of Hitting Your Goals as a Creative Person

So that was January!

Selecting Materials

How to Draw a Snake

Be a boat…

YOUR BEST ART HERE: T-SHIRT EDITION

How to assemble an emotional toolkit for your art making.

A small percentage of work will be good.

Why splitting my studio made me more creative (not less)

The Art of Letting Go

Creating a Home for Creative Chaos

The Art of Saying Yes

The Art of Experiment

Rick Rubin’s The Four Phases of Creation

Magic Rule for Making Time

From Tiny Habit to Lasting Routine

Storying Experience

Lace Up and Go Out.

Use What You Have

Feel all the things

Use Frameworks

Make Friends

Tell Stories, Take Notes, Make Habits, Raise Energy

Raise Energy

Take Notes

Make Habits

Tell Stories

Start / Advertise / Take Time

Take Time

Advertise

START