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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.

Sunday
Mar032013

Extra Lean 6: Machine Men

DateSunday, March 3, 2013 at 9:50PM

Jerzy and Rob wonder: "How do you not sound cold while trying to quickly answer an email?". This an other questions are the topic of the latest Extra Lean!

Extra Lean 6 - Machine Men

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Tuesday
Feb122013

Extra Lean 5: Enter Sandman

DateTuesday, February 12, 2013 at 8:36PM

In this episode of Extra Lean, Jerzy and Rob discuss client expectations, collaboration, and being way too sleepy to be at the grocery store.

Extra Lean - Enter Sandman

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Tuesday
Feb052013

Extra Lean 4: Wasted Years

DateTuesday, February 5, 2013 at 8:51PM

In this episode of Extra Lean, Jerzy and Rob consider old choices and reflect on calling those choices "stupid" for a time, only to later think maybe they were just appropriate for the time. Special focus: brash choices of youth, forgiving ourselves, and how good hair mousse can be considered a reward.

Extra Lean - Wasted Years

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Sunday
Jan132013

Extra Lean 3: It's Tricky

DateSunday, January 13, 2013 at 5:25PM

Is it a trick or is it just a shift in point of view? Rob and Jerzy discuss ways to look at the tension between the creative person's classic stress management challenge: day job energy and night gig creative project effort.

Extra Lean 3 - It's Tricky

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Saturday
Dec012012

Extra Lean 2: Morphogenesis

DateSaturday, December 1, 2012 at 11:11PM

Many creative projects get stuck in a definition-creation feedback loop. Rob and Jerzy chat about projects that find their voice mid stream, realistic anatomy in comics, and how Rob's a bit sad about Nintendo seeming a bit lost.

 

Extra Lean 2 - Morphogenesis

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