It happens that there have been several popular blog posts floating around that offer different kinds of advice to cartoonists, students, and creative people of all stripes. Here are links to a few of them in case you missed them on Twitter, Facebook, or wherever else people share things these days!
Austin Kleon, blogger and author of the book Newspaper Blackout presents a blog post version of a slideshow talk he gave to college students called “How to Steal Like an Artist (and 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me)”. He is currently developing it into a book.
Cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt (I Want You) simply posted a list she stuck on her studio wall to motivate herself.
And cartoonist and illustrator Phil McAndrew posted his “Super Obvious Secrets That I Wish They Taught in Art school” list in response to questions he regularly gets from younger colleagues and students.
Though each of these three artists is coming from a different place and made these lists for different reasons, I find it edifying how much their concerns and principles jibe and overlap. (Lisa even links to Austin’s post [and two other advice posts] at the bottom of her post—I’m getting dizzy!)
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3 Comments to Artists’ advice meta-post
by Dylan Williams
On June 7, 2011 at 7:18 pm
Toth made a list of “Points to Keep in Mind” that was printed in the Kitchen Sink book on him:
http://sparkplugcomicbooks.blogspot.com/2008/12/points-to-keep-in-mind-by-alex-toth.html
by Matt
On June 8, 2011 at 2:22 pm
That’s great stuff, Dylan, thanks for sharing. So much to learn from Toth. Reading about his relationship with Roy Crane made me think that Toth is an ideal combination of Milt Caniff’s grace and Crane’s visual economy.
by Matt
On June 8, 2011 at 6:28 pm
And the tips keep coming! Here’s a boingboing article with a link to Cory Doctorow’s commencement address at Ringling College of Art & Design: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/08/commencement-speech.html?dlvrit=36761