LIA Cast 137 - Making Drawing Your Habit

Talking about developing good habits on the Lean Into Art Cast!

What makes forming drawing habits worthwhile? We’ll explore drawing daily and different benefits and tradeoffs of daily practice.

With creative challenges like Inktober, NaNoWriMo, Art Soundoff, and more just weeks away, now is a good time to think about turning these creative challenges into onramps to sustainable creative habits.

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LIA Cast 136 - Using Composition Narratively, with Dan Mishkin

Talking about visual rhythms on the Lean Into Art Cast!

How do you choose how every element in your comic interacts to achieve maximum clarity? How do you use framing, staging, and angle to create moments that show the moments’ tone, rhythm, or mood? How does this thinking change when sound, color, page layout, panel shapes, and panel interiors begin to interact with one another? 

In other words, how does thinking about composition change the way you create your comics?

Comics writer Dan Mishkin sits in for Rob to chat with Jerzy about how thinking about composition as a narrative tool can improve your comics storytelling.

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LIA Cast 135 - Thinking Like a Game Designer, with Nate Aschenbach

Talking about making coding and game design approachable on the LIA Cast!

What makes game design such a useful place to grow and apply visual art and coding skills?

On this episode of the lean into art cast Jerzy and Rob explore art-code-game connections with special guest Nate Aschenbach, technical artist, game designer, and one of the leaders of GameStart School in Ann Arbor Michigan.

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LIA Cast 134 - Manga Studio on the Tablet

Talking about digital illustration on the LIA Cast!

Back in episode 111 we walked through some of our favorite tools in Manga Studio 5/Clip Studio Paint. After almost a year of working with it, we return for another discussion on this digital illustration tool, along with some other workflow and apps that help us put our work together.

We also compare our experiences working on the Surface Pro 2 and the Surface Pro 3!

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LIA Cast 133 - Working out in Public, with Krishna Sadasivam

Talking about sharing your works-in-progress on the LIA Cast!

Working out in public can take many forms. Much like pumping iron at the beaches people walk by - when you post work in progress drawings to your Tumblr or Twitter accounts people see you putting in effort.

When is that an advantage? When does practicing illustration in public contribute to your training instead getting in the way? Does it ever slow your training down or is it always a power-up?

On this episode of the Lean Into Art Cast Rob and Jerzy explore these questions with Krishna Sadasivam  Art Instructor and comic creator of the 15+ year running comic PC Weenies.

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