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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
Nov262012

LIA Cast 63 - The Artist's Artist

DateMonday, November 26, 2012 at 9:36PM

The only people reading webcomics are other webcomics creators.

– Lots of people

Though we sometimes feel this way, we know it's not entirely true. But the concern persists that in creating extra content for our project like how-to videos, process posts, and other behind-the-scenes materials, we're only creating material of interest to other creators. And while being dubbed "The Artist's Artist" comes with some clout, it's not always the best way to make the money.

But we don't stop there with this week's discussion. Together we try to dig at the goals of extra content in general and use that to come up with alternate approaches to making the extra stuff for the "superfans."

Thanks to Ashley for the email that inspired this episode!

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Tuesday
Nov202012

LIA Cast 62 - Our Voices in Conversation

DateTuesday, November 20, 2012 at 1:56PM

How do our voices and conversational styles change in various contexts? Is there a line between "keeping it real," and respecting the venue in which you're operating? And what about finding the difference between interacting with your peers and your constituency? In this audio-only episode we break with our usual format to have a casual conversation about a variety of topics that all add up to how creative pepole modulate their voices in conversation.

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Tuesday
Nov132012

LIA Cast 61 - Mining the Medium of Manga

DateTuesday, November 13, 2012 at 1:09PM

We're joined by our second-ever guest on the Lean Into Art Cast for a talk about what makes the medium of manga so unique, and what we in the west can learn from it. Kasey Van Hise walks us through the ways manga artists establish pacing, explore the expressive potential of character design, and challenge the way we think of comics composition.

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Sunday
Nov042012

LIA Cast 60 - Storytelling to Make Your Presence Awesome

DateSunday, November 4, 2012 at 10:33PM

Many of us visual storytellers choose this line because it affords us the ability to hold up in a studio, away from the public. But more and more it seems that being a professional artist means getting one's self "out there." Does this mean we should take diction classes, attend networking seminars, or sign up for coaching from social media gurus? What if we already have the skills necessary to engage with the public?

This week we borrow from Rob's Storytelling to Make Your Comic's UI Awesome workshop playbook and examine how we visual storytellers have all the tools at our disposal to engage with others; whether it's to lead a presentation, get involved in your local scene, or just engaging with others online.

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Thursday
Oct252012

LIA Cast 59 - On Finishing and Triage

DateThursday, October 25, 2012 at 1:10PM

This week we take on the topic of Finishing, using Rob's recent experience at 24 Hour Comics Day as a microcosm of the life cycle of a creative project. How do you create your Finishing Machine, and when do you know whether or not you've created a Failure Machine?

We respond to a couple of Leaner emails, first from Dee Juusan who offers us an answer to a curveball we proposed in an earlier episode. Then we further develop our thoughts on Finishing based on some thoughts sent to us by Brian Taylor.

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