LIA Cast 140 - Scary Stories, with Kohl Glass

Talking about making our stories scary on the LIA Cast!

It’s the time of year where nearly everyone celebrates things that make us uneasy or frightened. And we wouldn’t be Lean Into Art if we didn’t step back and ask the following questions:

  • Why do we like to be frightened (in a safe way)?
  • What is it that makes a thing frightening?
  • How do we use these elements in our stories to make an audience feel chills?

We’re joined by filmmaker Kohl Glass, director of Dragonfyre and the upcoming feature The Stepsister, for a discussion on what makes a story scary.

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LIA Cast 139 - Podcasting Your Art Journal

Art Soundoff is just a few weeks away, and we're warming up on the LIA Cast!

What happens when you combine journaling, podcasting, and a month-long creative challenge?

In this episode Jerzy and Rob discuss micro-casting your art day. Together we explore both the reasons to consider it and how you can give it a try.

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LIA Cast 138 - What Needs to Improve: Your Effort, or Your System?

Talking about improving our workflows on the LIA Cast!

In past episodes we've talked about the "monastic approach" to one's practice. By focusing on the pleasure of the activity itself it becomes a habit that may yield unforeseen rewards. By placing our focus primarily on making the work that drives us intellectually mad we're less distracted by things like cataloging the incremental advances in our craft or fretting about where we stand in our field.

Yet there are times when we might feel a sense of dissatisfaction with our practice. The quality of the work might be lacking, or one might sense that the work isn't connecting with an audience the way one had hoped. Are these feelings a mere distraction to be silenced by more focused effort? How might things change if we take a closer look at the systems we're using to create and share our art?

Join us for a discussion on leveling up your work through applied effort or revising your art creation system. 

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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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