LIA Cast 104 - Drawing From Memory, with Brandon Dayton

Talking about improving your visual memory on the LIA Cast with Brandon Dayton!

Have you ever noticed that sometimes the best drawings you make are the ones for which you have a very clear mental picture? Have you ever tried to draw something from reference materials and just can't accurately capture it? Is the first situation simply a moment of "inspiration," and the second situation "artistic funk"?

How might things change if we consider the difference between seeing and object and perceiving an object? By improving our visual memory skills, might we one day be able to draw entirely from memory like Kim Jun gi?

This time we have a discussion on the role of perception in illustration with guest Brandon Dayton, who shares some tips on how to improve your visual memory and draw with improved accuracy.

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LIA Cast 103 - Plotting Your Comic, with Kasey Van Hise

Talking about charting your comic's course on the Lean Into Art Cast!

In episode 97 we talked with Kasey Van Hise about managing the grind of making a webcomic. This time we're digging in deeper to explore how one plots out the direction their webcomic's story will take. 

  • Do you write on the fly?
  • Do you plan ahead?
  • How do we identify when we're procrastinating through planning?
  • How do we know when we're diving in without enough preparation?
  • What tools and techniques work best for capturing and organizing your writing?

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LIA Cast 102 - Identifying and Naming Your Style

Talking about developing our artistic styles and finding better ways to market them on the Lean Into Art Cast!

Why is it so important to us that we find our own style? Does style refer to something purely aesthetic (cartoony/abstract/realistic), or is there a more holistic way to think about it? How do you identify the elements that add up to your style, and once identified, how do you clearly communicate this unique value to those you wish to serve? 

In this edition of the Lean Into Art Cast we're joined by cartoonist Rachel Polk, who helps us dig into this somewhat tangly topic.

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LIA Cast 101 - Reverse-Engineering our Likes

Exploring our "likes" to discover how to make what we like on the Lean Into Art Cast!

We've talked a lot on the show about "The Analytic Eye"--how reflecting on what moves you can give you insights and inroads to making stuff that you love (be it comics, prose, games, films, and so on). This time on the Lean Into Art Cast we look at methods to review our favs, likes, and +1s. Turning your eye on your Internet activity, and thereby creating a narrative of what's interesting to you, is yet another way to better equip yourself to making interesting stuff!

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LIA Cast 100 - Starting, Clarifying, Expressing, and Serving

Talking about finding the path through your project on the 100th Lean Into Art Cast!

In the past 99 episodes we've spent a lot of time talking about the complex problem-solving that comes with being a visual storyteller. White boarding, mind mapping, scripting, sketching, pacing around the room quietly--there are a zillion ways to begin building an idea into a thing. We've also talked a lot about the role of being intentional in the making of your art: watching for things that move you and integrating them thoughtfully into your work. Then there's answering the question of whether your art is an act of expression, or service, or both?

For our 100th episode Rob and I reflect on the topics we've covered over the years and explore how Starting a Thing leads to Clarification of Intention, and how Making a Thing with Intention leads to Discovering its Expression and/or Service.

We also review the latest round of Quests!

Thank you for all of your support over the last 100 episodes!

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