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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.

Lean Into Art Quests

Mini-challenge exercises for fun and practice

  1. Quest with us on Twitter using the hashtag #liaquest and the quest number.
  2. Link to your work to complete the quest, link to other examples to share powerups.
  3. Jerzy and Rob report on the latest quest and announce a new quest on the Lean Into Art Cast!

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Thursday
Jan172013

LIA Quest 2: Harvester of Borrow

DateThursday, January 17, 2013 at 11:23PM

A reflective writing exercise.

Hey Leaners! Rob Stenzinger here as quest-giver this week.

Every artist is inspired by another artist's work. Inspiration can be an important cue to the things that you have a voice to make in kind. Inspiration can also lead you to creating works that are seemingly un-related to the work that fueled the fire in your belly. Sometimes comics inspiration leads to comics output. Other times a painting leads to a comic, a song leads to a book, or a video game leads to a short story.

The quest:

Normal Quest: Name a creative work and brief note of how it affected something you made. Link to the creative work (if possible) and the thing you made.

Heroic Quest: Write a paragraph or more post about the thing that inspired you, what you made from that inspiration.

Note: Including visual storytelling is totally optional yet totally welcome!

To turn in the quest: Tweet a link to your post with the hashtag #liaquest2

To offer a power-up: Share a link to a similar kind of post, artists talking about others work whether they call it inspiration or just getting excited to make things.

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