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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.

Saturday
Sep152012

LIA Cast 53 - Self-Learning Skillset: Research

DateSaturday, September 15, 2012 at 2:21PM

Why do we need to understand how to research? In this episode of the Lean Into Art Cast we work through the uses, reasons, and strategies of applied research for creative projects.

We get into tools we use for our writing, drawing, and interactive project research. We go way beyond: "Can’t we just Google it?"!

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Sunday
Sep092012

LIA Cast 52 - What We Think When We Ink

DateSunday, September 9, 2012 at 10:00AM

Inking! It's an outmoded method of comics creation, right? Thanks to recent technological advancements, we can make print-ready comics out of any medium we wish. But doesn't that mean that using ink lines on our work becomes an even more artistic endeavor?

This week we talk a bit about the special affordances found when using ink in our illustration work. We explore how one can stumble upon technique, creating an "inking taxonomy," and how inking expresses inner realities while mimicking outer reality.

We close with some tool demonstrations and a few Stupid Helpy Tips!

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Wednesday
Sep052012

LIA Cast 51 - Art Automation, Pt 2

DateWednesday, September 5, 2012 at 11:29AM

20 episodes after our first talk on Art Automation, we return for another round of talking about why we shouldn't subject ourselves to repetitive tasks in our visual storytelling endeavors, and share a bunch of resources and tools we use to speed things up in the studio.

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Monday
Aug272012

LIA Cast 50 - A Wacom-Enabled Tablet

DateMonday, August 27, 2012 at 12:54PM

So there's an Android tablet out there with a Wacom digitizer and a customized version of Photoshop installed. We spend a little time with this tablet, reporting the pros and cons, and speculating on why this device hasn't been talked about as an art creation tool. You may want to watch the video for this one first.

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Friday
Aug172012

LIA Cast 49 - Authenticity

DateFriday, August 17, 2012 at 1:25PM

This week we take on what we find to be a slippery topic. How do we know when we're being authentic in our work? How do we think about honesty in our expressions? Can one remain honest while still attempting to manipulate an audience?

We land on four items of consideration that inform our own senses of how authenticity works:

  • Venue
  • Audience
  • Core Values/Mission
  • Context 

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