LIA Cast 95 - Get Your Portfolio Into Shape, with Krishna Sadasivam

Landing gigs, showcasing your work, and more!

How does your portfolio showcase your skills, and how can you customize that message to attract the jobs you really want? Should you run a simple Wordpress gallery for your portfolio, or is there value to using sites like Dribble or Behance? Special guest Krishna Sadasivam, cartoonist and instructor at the Art Institute of Tampa, helps us explore the many challenges facing a visual storyteller on the hunt for new gigs.

Links mentioned:

Connect with Jerzy and Rob

Info
Written by Jerzy Drozd On In ,

LIA Cast 94 - Critiques and Feedback with Dave Roman and Brandon Dayton

Getting feedback, useful critiquing strategies, and more!

How baked should your project be before asking for feedback? Do you only seek out input from trusted art buddies, or do you open the floor to everyone? And how do you characterize useful feedback?

We're joined by Dave Roman, former editor at Nickelodeon Magazine and author of the Agnes Quill webcomic, and Brandon Dayton, concept artist and author of Green Monk, for a discussion on choosing whom you seek out feedback from and the definition of useful critiques.

Links mentioned:

Connect with Jerzy and Rob

Info
Written by Jerzy Drozd On In ,

LIA Cast 93 - Making Ebooks

Ebook creative workflow, options to consider when publishing, and more!

Ebooks are a great low-risk way to make your work available to a wide audience. Whether you're preparing, writing, editing, and publishing Ebooks there's a million ways to go about it.

How do you pick which tools to use and which places to sell?

In this episode, Jerzy interviews Rob about how he navigated these concerns for his soon to be released: Game Construction Kit: Underwater Tomato Ninja!

Links mentioned:

Code and Ebook Examples

Connect with Jerzy and Rob

Info
Written by Rob Stenzinger On In ,

LIA Cast 92 - Your Art-Improvement Holiday Wish List

Leveling up, goal setting, finding inspiration, and more!


Download the mp3 here!

Let's pretend someone could receive improvements in your work as a holiday gift. If so, what would you wish for?

This time we explore some of the things we hope to improve upon in our work over the coming year and how we plan to turn those hopes into practice.

Links mentioned in this episode:

 

We're happy to announce that the Workshops page has returned! Check it out to name your price for our visual storytelling workshops.

Connect with Jerzy and Rob

 

Info
Written by Rob Stenzinger On In ,

LIA Cast 91 - What Happens When We Commit to Making Things?

Making ebooks, 30 Characters Challenge, the latest Quests, and more!

Download the MP3 here!

Why did we call this show "Lean Into Art?" What the heck do we mean by "leaning?" In this episode we take a few minutes to characterize what we call "Leaners," and then discuss some of the comics, art challenges, and experiments some of our favorite Leaners have been up to.

We also discuss the entries in the latest LIA Quest: This Character is Lying!

Links mentioned in this episode:

LIA Quest 10 entries:

Connect with Jerzy and Rob

LIA Cast 91 - What Happens When We Commit to Making Things?

Info
Written by Lean Into Art On In ,