This week's podcast is a sneaky peek into the live Q&A calls we do for our Find Your Creative Voice; Fly Your Freak Flag students. (They happen monthly at the moment.)

WHADDA CHAT.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Pursuing boredom
• The Artists' Way
• Why finding your style doesn’t always feel fun and easy and natural (Instagram's lying to yooou)
• What to do when you have hundreds of project ideas and no clue which one to choose
• How to handle agent/client feedback without immediately throwing your laptop into the sea
• Galleries are better when you don’t try to “eat all the paintings”
• Pens, colour, sketchbooks and abandoning black linework
• Quentin Blake, Mr Bingo and free flapjacks. Just a normal day, really.

If you'd like to join us, go for it! Enrolment is open right now, and our next live call is happening on Thursday the 16th of July at 7pm UK time.

Timestamps

00:00 Art block
00:55 Morning pages
02:00 Wide margins
04:30 Boredom
06:00 Creative sparks
08:15 Creative identity
10:20 Comparison
11:30 Constraints
13:30 Page layouts
15:15 Deadlines
17:15 Oblique Strategies
18:30 Slow looking
21:00 Drawing from home
22:30 Quentin Blake Centre
26:45 Too many ideas
31:10 Feedback
37:30 Coloured linework
39:45 Closing thoughts

Stuff we mentioned & links (so many this week, woah)

• The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
• Make Every Day Creative by Marion Deuchars
• David Hockney (RIP)
• Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies
• Quentin Blake Centre - Thank you for inviting us to the preview day, team QB!
• Derwent Pencil Museum
• Picture Hooks https://www.picturehooks.org.uk/
• The Catchpole Agency http://www.thecatchpoleagency.co.uk/
• Muji fine liners
• Emma Carlisle / Sarah Dyer
  https://www.emmacarlisle.com/
  https://www.sarahdyer.com/
• The Good Ship Illustration Art Club
  https://www.instagram.com/thegoodshipillustration/?hl=en
• Fly Your Freak Flag
  https://www.thegoodshipillustration.com/freakflag
• The Good Ship Illustration colour workshop
  https://www.thegoodshipillustration.com/colour

Come and say hello!

✏️ @thegoodshipillustration
🌏 www.thegoodshipillustration.com

p.s. We love answering your illustration questions. Click here to submit your question for The Good Ship Illustration Podcast 🎙