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, April 27, 2013 at 1:26PM Jerzy and Rob discuss services like see.me, gumroad, the idea of micro-patronage, and interesting uses of it. Were Scott McCloud's Reinventing Comics predictions right after all? Then we delve into understanding the value that we share with audiences as artists and different outlooks on asking for support: "help me!" vs. "be part of this!".
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I just have to say, there is a SERIOUS laugh-out-loud moment for me in this episode. Been listening to Jerzy for a long time and always blown away and inspired by the optimism - so the "... we can do it, I'm happy all the time, I'm Jerzy everybody..." moment was awesome! I want that on a loop.
I have often done that same voice to myself, listening to an episode - not to mock the intention, just because it is so far from where I'm at sometimes that hearing that kind of optimism just makes me bitter. Love you, Jerzy and I mean no disrespect - it's just good to hear when you oscillate too.
You guys have always been real about the struggle and positive at the same time. Whenever I'm down I go back to episodes that address what I'm going through. You've been good art buddies and I'm definitely appreciative.