Congratulations on finishing the book! I find your graph very accurate. 🤭
Thanks to your blog post about how you decided to take a course with Mike Lowery, I took my first ever course on PB two years ago and then several more. It was the best decision I ever made! You can never learn too much, especially when it is from different perspectives. So, I would be very interested in being a guinea pig for your course.
Aw, thanks for writing this. I agree. Mike's class was revelatory for me, even though I've been an illustrator since 1995. I really believe that seeing the same thing from a different angle is important.
Congratulations on finishing the book and becoming an art supplies influencer! :) (I love the Koh-I-Noor chunky grip pencil I bought after watching your video, they should send you free stuff too). I was hoping you would mention collage because I love visiting the collage section of your website for a dose of inspiration, so glad you plan on making new ones!
Thank you for this, Veronique. There will always be collage. I'm in an odd place right now where I've launched several nascent projects, in hopes that most of them "stick." It's a weird place to be, without a deadline for the first time in many years, so all I can do is create them myself. But between what are basically complicated and rewarding distractions, it does prove difficult to decide what I need to work on each day to move things forward. A year ago I was in London at a collage workshop. A year later I've barely had time to think about collage. It'll circle back around.
First, congrats on finishing! What a relief, joy and sense of satisfaction that must be! Second, I might make a good guinea pig... I have lots of drawing/sketching experience, but I have never done anything professionally, and I don't identify with being an "illustrator" (not sure what the distinction is), but I'm game to try. Third, I, too, had a squirrel ordeal that resulted in a hole in the ceiling caused not by me but by the squirrel herself! If you care to indulge me, here's my blog post about it (and I suppose it's sort of "illustrated"): https://tina-koyama.blogspot.com/2023/10/squirrel-saga.html
Tina, I think you'd be perfect for the thing/class I'm wanting to put together. Mostly, the distinction is that an illustration, while often being a drawing, always serves a conceptual purpose; usually this is in the form of accompanying some sort of text. Editorial, narrative, instructional, etc. It's often revelatory to realize that distinction, and fun to explore. Stay tuned.
Congratulations on finishing the book! I find your graph very accurate. 🤭
Thanks to your blog post about how you decided to take a course with Mike Lowery, I took my first ever course on PB two years ago and then several more. It was the best decision I ever made! You can never learn too much, especially when it is from different perspectives. So, I would be very interested in being a guinea pig for your course.
Aw, thanks for writing this. I agree. Mike's class was revelatory for me, even though I've been an illustrator since 1995. I really believe that seeing the same thing from a different angle is important.
Congratulations on finishing the book and becoming an art supplies influencer! :) (I love the Koh-I-Noor chunky grip pencil I bought after watching your video, they should send you free stuff too). I was hoping you would mention collage because I love visiting the collage section of your website for a dose of inspiration, so glad you plan on making new ones!
Thank you for this, Veronique. There will always be collage. I'm in an odd place right now where I've launched several nascent projects, in hopes that most of them "stick." It's a weird place to be, without a deadline for the first time in many years, so all I can do is create them myself. But between what are basically complicated and rewarding distractions, it does prove difficult to decide what I need to work on each day to move things forward. A year ago I was in London at a collage workshop. A year later I've barely had time to think about collage. It'll circle back around.
First, congrats on finishing! What a relief, joy and sense of satisfaction that must be! Second, I might make a good guinea pig... I have lots of drawing/sketching experience, but I have never done anything professionally, and I don't identify with being an "illustrator" (not sure what the distinction is), but I'm game to try. Third, I, too, had a squirrel ordeal that resulted in a hole in the ceiling caused not by me but by the squirrel herself! If you care to indulge me, here's my blog post about it (and I suppose it's sort of "illustrated"): https://tina-koyama.blogspot.com/2023/10/squirrel-saga.html
Tina, I think you'd be perfect for the thing/class I'm wanting to put together. Mostly, the distinction is that an illustration, while often being a drawing, always serves a conceptual purpose; usually this is in the form of accompanying some sort of text. Editorial, narrative, instructional, etc. It's often revelatory to realize that distinction, and fun to explore. Stay tuned.
OK, I'm in!
I’m already an illustrator, but I might be a good guinea pig too.
When it's ready, I'll post the idea behind the class and a synopsis of the curriculum. Thanks Shanda.
I'll be a guinea pig!
It is I - the guinea pig for which you are searching. 🐹
(More of a gerbil, perhaps, but g.p. adjacent.)
Hey!