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We reached out to the author of the series to ask some questions about his work. First, we were wondering if the artist could describe his creative routine. We found out: “Every day I do a little free writing to see what comes out. Usually nothing usable, but I try not to judge it so I can stay playful until the next idea emerges that excites me.”The artist told us more: “Another thing I’ve started doing recently is an exercise I got from cartoonist Ryan Hudson. I use a random word generator to give me 6 words, and from those I pick 4 and draw quick, bad comic strips based on each word. Most of it is also unusable, but every once in a while something good happens. And until then, it’s good to force yourself to just knock out work quickly. It’s always a struggle for me to stay loose and light.”
We reached out to the author of the series to ask some questions about his work. First, we were wondering if the artist could describe his creative routine. We found out: “Every day I do a little free writing to see what comes out. Usually nothing usable, but I try not to judge it so I can stay playful until the next idea emerges that excites me.”
The artist told us more: “Another thing I’ve started doing recently is an exercise I got from cartoonist Ryan Hudson. I use a random word generator to give me 6 words, and from those I pick 4 and draw quick, bad comic strips based on each word. Most of it is also unusable, but every once in a while something good happens. And until then, it’s good to force yourself to just knock out work quickly. It’s always a struggle for me to stay loose and light.”
The artist added: “And I haven’t even talked about writers! Vonnegut, Tolstoy, Saroyan, Forster, Willeford, Smullyan. I’ll stop! The truth is I read fun crime novels more than anything else.”
Every artist faces challenges. This is why we asked what common challenges the author of the series encounters in his creative process. We learned: “A big one for me is overworking stuff and being too perfectionistic. I have to really force myself to leave things alone and not keep going back to fix every little thing. The art becomes dead when you do that. I remind myself the kind of art I love looking at, and it tends to be stuff that’s confidently childish and primitive. Sometimes I’ll copy art that excites me to remind myself what’s good.”
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