Lean Into Art
The Lean Into Art Cast serves visual and interactive storytellers with topics and coversation that explores design thinking, creative communication, visual arts, comics, illustration, creative coding, and more.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2021
LIA Cast 269 - Lettering & Sound Design in Clip Studio Paint (Rebroadcast)
Originally broadcast May 3, 2019. Jerzy’s begun a new comics project, and it’s been a while since we’ve had an art demo on the LIA Cast, so this week join Jerzy and Rob for a demonstration and discus…
Thu 20 May 2021
LIA Cast 360 - Daily Creative Celebration AKA Victory Donut (CWC)
Ready for another day of work, yet not feeling it. So many valid reasons to be in that situation… yet also having due dates and commitments to meet. Sometimes the work is rewarding and the outcomes t…
Thu 13 May 2021
LIA Cast 359- Viewing Angle Tells the Story (MWS)
Working on the thumbnails for your next comic and discovered you’ve sketched dozens of pages of talking heads? We cartoonists can put the reader’s eye wherever we can imagine, so why don’t we? But ho…
Thu 06 May 2021
LIA Cast 358 - Showing Up Socially, Balancing Quality and Effort
Posting socially is something most independent creators need to work with. I've often been the show up when I've made something, share it, then mostly hang back and like other folks stuff approach. B…
Thu 29 Apr 2021
LIA Cast 357 - Write Posts Quickly With Prompts, Constraints, and Instinct
When you sit down to write a blog post is that a comfortable creative activity? Are there times when it feels like the words are stuck or just not sure how to say what you’re really trying to say? Re…
Thu 22 Apr 2021
LIA Cast 356 - Prioritizing Your Work
We’ve all been there--you start out with the promise of a new day, a reasonably curated to-do list, and a commitment to make your art. And suddenly you look at the clock and it’s the end of the day a…
Thu 15 Apr 2021
LIA Cast 355 - Training Your Analytic Eye
Frustrated that you can’t find a way to bring the big feelings you get from others’ art into your own? Maybe you just need to train your analytic eye to level up your inferencing skills. Being able t…
Thu 08 Apr 2021
LIA Cast 354 - Creating Clarity or Inspiring Awe (CWC)
Clarity competes with other concerns when writing and illustrating - what’s a useful approach to get enough information and emotion into the page? When should you be going for clarity vs inspiring aw…
Thu 01 Apr 2021
LIA 353 - Listening With Notetaking to Understand and Facilitate Groups (MWS)
Are you in meetings in person or on screen where you’re taking notes in front of folks? When we're listening to learn from a conversation even one other person or to work in a group we use a similar …
Thu 25 Mar 2021
LIA 352 - Feeling Overwhelmed (CWC)
Every once in a while we feel like we're in over our heads, whether it’s due to the number of tasks we've committed to, ambiguity of the tasks, or just feeling a bigger-than-usual sense of friction b…
Thu 18 Mar 2021
LIA Cast 351 - Make Your Own Time Tracker (MWS)
It’s no big reveal that time tracking and journaling can be invaluable tools to help you find the time to focus on your creative work. But how do you pick the one that’s right for you and how do you …
Thu 11 Mar 2021
LIA Cast 350 - Advocacy as Part of Your Creative Business
Rob feels he has a variety of advocacy ideas tangled up and thinks it’ll be super useful talking with Jerzy on today’s show - he’s been doing advocacy through comics for years! Sponsors for this epis…
Thu 04 Mar 2021
LIA Cast 349 - Panel Tools in Clip Studio Paint (MWS)
Ever wonder what those paneling tools do in Clip Studio Paint? You’ll be surprised by how much they can speed up your work. Join Jerzy and Rob for a Mini Workshop episode where they demo 3 awesome po…
Thu 25 Feb 2021
LIA Cast 348 - Reading/Watching/Playing (CWC)
When we make things, write stories, any creative work needs input. Sometimes that’s focused research, other times it’s the indirect idea fuel of taking time to recharge, play games, watch, and read t…
Thu 18 Feb 2021
LIA 347 - Create a Fast Frequent Comics Challenge (MWS)
Ever think about participating in hourly comics day or similar comics events? Avoid entirely but think about it still? Or try and get stuck? We’re going to take the worksheet my students use in the C…
Thu 11 Feb 2021
LIA 346 - Projects that Frighten You (CWC)
Ever not try an art project because you feel some fear about the work involved? This week Rob and Jerzy look at what they do when they feel frightened about making things. Sponsors for this episode F…
Thu 04 Feb 2021
LIA 345 - Quick Flatting in Clip Studio Paint (MWS)
Jerzy and Rob share some tricks in Clip Studio Paint that will make flatting easy for beginners, and speedier for those who have been doing it a while. Sponsors for this episode Science Comics: Rocke…
Thu 28 Jan 2021
LIA Cast 344 - Getting and Believing in Rest
Join Jerzy and Rob for an exploration of how our relationship with rest affects our work. Sponsors for this episode Boulder and Fleet: Mining for Trouble Rob's workshops and coaching Lean Into Art Di…
Thu 21 Jan 2021
LIA Cast 343 - Shipping Every Day
Some frequently shared advice among creative people hoping to build an audience or attract customers is to “post something every day.” Many of us find this plan reasonable, yet difficult to act out. …
Thu 14 Jan 2021
LIA Cast 342 - Should You Evolve Your Long-Term Project?
This week Jerzy and Rob look at the Lean Into Art project itself as a case in point. When should you check in on your commitment to a long-term project, and how do you think about evolving it while y…
Thu 07 Jan 2021
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