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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.

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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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Monday
Oct222012

LIA Cast 58 - Conventioning UI Report with Ryan Estrada

DateMonday, October 22, 2012 at 12:13PM

We have our first-ever guest on the Lean Into Art Cast, and who better than Ryan Estrada? He joins us to share some of his experience tabling at Korean comics conventions and how he's implemented his own user experience strategies at the table. Ryan also shares some first-hand reflections on the differences between the Korean comics scene and that of North America.

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Saturday
Oct132012

LIA Cast 57 - Toward a Paperless Studio, Pt 2

DateSaturday, October 13, 2012 at 12:51PM

In part two to our talk on leveraging digital to expedite and mobilize our art endeavors, we talk this week about some digital tools we use for inspiration, research, and speeding up production.

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Monday
Oct082012

LIA Cast 56 - Toward a Paperless Studio, Pt 1

DateMonday, October 8, 2012 at 11:21AM

Having found ourselves facing an increased need for mobility, we take the opportunity this week to share some of our thinking in regard to leveraging more digital in our workflows in order to be able to work effectively in more places. We conclude with a breakdown of some of the better drawing apps out there for both iOS and Android.

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