LIA Cast 150 - Reframing Your Creative Project Stress

Talking about coexisting with stress on the LIA Cast!

If you’re making art for a living, you’re probably doing what you love and getting paid for it. It’s the stress free life of unicorns and jetpacks, right? Of course that’s not the case. All of us feel stress at times. In this episode of the Lean Into Art Cast, Jerzy and Rob share examples of where they’ve encountered stress on creative projects. They also discuss resources they’ve found useful when it comes to learning about stress, reframing it, and practicing with the intent of becoming more resilient coexisting with stress.

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LIA Cast 149 - Chunking Your Workflow

Talking about managing your workflow on the Lean Into Art Cast!

Creative projects can sometimes become unwieldy. Even if you’re deeply involved in making a thing, you can find yourself lost in the creative weeds, unable to find your way back to where you were going initially. The thousands of choices promised by an ongoing project can be liberating, or they can be paralyzing.

In this episode of the Lean Into Art Cast we’ll explore some chunking strategies we’ve used to make our ongoing projects sustainable. We’ll also discuss how capturing data can help you re-shape the chunking process as you go.

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LIA Cast 148 - Composition and Paneling Comics in Manga Studio

Talking about comics paneling on the Lean Into Art Cast!

Many of us have dabbled in Manga Studio and observed how more and more illustrators and storytellers seem to be using it, especially for comics. Some of us such as Jerzy have immersed themselves for a few years in Manga Studio and it’s proven to be a reliable and even fun to use.

In this episode of Lean Into Art, Jerzy will teach Rob about page and panel layout in Manga Studio. Lots of live drawing in this one!

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LIA Cast 147 - Javascript for Artists

Talking about coding on the Lean Into Art Cast!

It’s easy for us creative types to talk ourselves out of learning new skills like coding. Our brains don’t work that way, we don’t have time, everyone knows that learning a new language is hard, and how do you even know if you’ve chosen the right coding language in the first place?

In this episode of the Lean Into Art Cast Rob and Jerzy make coding more approachable with a discussion on the value it can bring to your workflow, followed by a demonstration where Rob will teach Jerzy how to code in Javascript.

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LIA Cast 146 - Get Data and Insights From Your Journal

What makes self interviewing worthwhile? Can it help to get more data out of the process?

You’re already in the habit of journaling. From time to time you jot down notes, doodles, and capture moments. Whether you journal frequently or once in a while, you’re capturing experiences over time. Over the course of a year, that can add up.

No what do you do when you want to look back upon all that? In this episode of the leaning to our cast we will be exploring how you can go through your notes and capture inexperience inventory which can help with exploring patterns and finding new insights and ways to summarize your journal.

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