You are dedicated to your craft. You have spent countless hours honing your skills. You have a boundless curiosity for the underlying theories and structure of communicating ideas. You are the artist who finds the connections between your medium and other communications media. You are the artist who relishes in a setback; after all, it's a new opportunity to learn and grow. Inspiration is more than a haphazard mode of thought requiring constant nurturing: it is your natural state of mind.
Lean Into Art is where you go when you're ready to push yourself as an artist in new ways. As a place to learn communication arts online it combines an art-journaling approach, the best of live and time-shifted classes, and a recognition system that encourages students to finish projects, give feedback, even participate in teaching.
It's a big art challenge - that's why we put the enticing warning in the name. You have to lean into it.
Monday, July 2, 2012 at 12:33PM 
Don't Stick With Your First Idea.
Is this always true? Does the best idea always happen in the second, third, or fourth iteration of your project? Or does iterating on our projects yield other learning opportunities? It's a fun talk about the secrets unlocked through iterating on our character designs, story outlines, and other creative projects.
Friday, June 29, 2012 at 12:39AM 
In this episode of the Polytechnicast I reflect upon the effect that listening to other's art journal podcasts has had on me and why I make this show.
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Friday, June 22, 2012 at 8:00AM 
This time we try to wrap our brains around the concept of the Role Model. Who do we admire, and why? We use some of our own Role Models as examples as we model the process of breaking down the specifics of what moves us in the actions of others, and how we attempt to assimilate that information with our own unique perspectives.
Saturday, June 16, 2012 at 8:50AM 
At long last Rob is ready to launch his new workshop, Underwater Tomato Ninja at this year's Kids Read Comics and later here at Lean Into Art. Both of us are understandably excited about this, so we spend the majority of this week's episode talking about storytelling in games and "gamification."
We also spend a little bit of time talking about PWWTIWYS, or People What Want to Interact with Your Stuff.
Monday, June 11, 2012 at 2:50PM 
This week we find ourselves thinking a lot about practice. How do we incorporate practice into our busy lives, and how do we identify when shipping on project with related disciplines contributes to practicing? How are all kinds of practice the same, similar, or different?
