LIA Cast 182 - Finding Your Style (rebroadcast)

When you think of art style, what comes to mind? Is it the kinds of lines you use? The color palette? The compositions? Should the style be the creative restriction of a project, or should the project dictate the style? And if the old saying is true: “your style is what you do wrong,” is there any point in striving to find a style?

Join us for a discussion on how we’ve thought about art style throughout our careers and how the constraints of bandwidth, resources, and projects have affected them.

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LIA Cast 266 - Psyching Up to Start Your Personal Work, with Zack Giallongo

Personal projects can be the hardest to get going. The challenges of navigating whether or not you’re being truthful in the work, employing your craftsmanship to achieve clarity, and finding ways to hold yourself accountable so you can actually ship the thing are just a few of the frictions that can make it so hard. Oh, and how do you find the time to actually do it?

Jerzy is joined this week by cartoonist Zack Giallongo for a discussion on psyching yourself up to start the work and ways to keep yourself on track to finish.

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LIA Cast 265 - When is it "Done"?

There’s an old expression: “Art isn’t finished, it’s abandoned.” So when do you know when to abandon ship and let the art just be what it is? Join Rob and Jerzy for an exploration on when to stop fussing and let your piece exist on its own.

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LIA 264 - Creating on the Road

At some point or another you’ll find yourself drawing while traveling. Whether you’re keeping a practice going or trying to stay on deadline while traveling, it’s worth thinking about what you carry with you to make the stuff you want to make. Join Jerzy and Rob for a discussion on keeping a mobile setup.

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LIA Cast 209 - Unpacking Your Work for Presentation (rebroadcast)

At some point you may be asked to describe your creative process, whether it’s at a friendly get together, an informal meeting at work, on a panel at a conference, or in a workshop environment.

Putting words to thinking that sometimes happens silently and abstractly can reveal new dimensions to the work you’re doing. But how do you approach this unpacking? How does the intended audience shape the presentation material? How does your sense of mission inform the material?

Join us for a discussion on how we go about picking apart our work to turn it into material to present to a variety of audiences.