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 323: Service Minded Marketing: Teaching Artist and Other Options
One way to add service to your products is to teach about how they get made. Marketing your work as an artist can be an uncomfortable second skill, though it could be more than that. Marketing your w…
Fri 14 Aug 2020
LIA Cast 249 - UX Bag of Useful Stuff (Rebroadcast)
Visual storytelling is a big theme with the Lean Into Art podcast. Also: working with what you have as a storyteller to do a myriad of things that go with not just the creative process but also prese…
Thu 06 Aug 2020
LIA Cast 322 - Maybe it's time to hire yourself
What do you do when you’ve got a product that you can’t find a partner for? Is it time to set it aside and try something else, or is it time to hire yourself to and go it alone? Join Jerzy and Rob fo…
Thu 30 Jul 2020
LIA Cast 321 - An Exciting Unplanned Art Project or Technology Appears! Now What?
Is there an easy and useful way to find success criteria for projects in a technology you’re excited about? This week Jerzy and Rob talk about when it’s exciting and tempting to try a new (or new to …
Fri 24 Jul 2020
LIA Cast 320 - Digital Drawing Hacks
This week Jerzy and Rob look at ways they’ve sought out more efficient approaches to drawing using digital tools. Sponsors for this episode Super Comics Challenge 2 Rob and Kate's coaching Lean Into …
Fri 17 Jul 2020
LIA Cast 319 - Obstacles: Managing Time, Managing Energy
This week Jerzy and Rob take a look at some of the obstacles we encounter in making our art. How do we struggle with finding time for our whittling and side projects while also trying to keep refinin…
Thu 09 Jul 2020
LIA Cast 190 - Getting There Being There (Rebroadcast)
This week Jerzy and Rob are joined by returning guest Gregg Schigiel to talk about the value of keeping the connections between you and your social/professional network active. Sponsors for this epis…
Thu 02 Jul 2020
LIA Cast 318 - Navigating Burnout
Uncertainty, unrest, new realities, and managing a side hustle can easily lead to burnout. What do you do to navigate or manage it? How can describing the systems that lead to burnout help us? Join J…
Fri 26 Jun 2020
LIA Cast 317 - Drawing Games & Setting Up Creative Spaces
Join Jerzy and Rob as we put our streaming studios through some tests! Work continues on our studios evolving, a couple episodes ago we mentioned working on our studios, learning the OBS streaming/re…
Wed 17 Jun 2020
LIA Cast 254 - Side Hustle for Product Development (Rebroadcast)
A truth for many of us is we have to hold down some other jobs while we hustle to make our art. How do we think about this friction between keeping the lights on and developing new products? Speaking…
Thu 11 Jun 2020
Black Lives Matter
Instead of our usual exploration of visual storytelling and thinking about creative process, this week we have a brief yet important message to share. Our message is that we’re here to love, care, an…
Thu 04 Jun 2020
LIA Cast 316 - R/W/P
Rob and Jerzy like to remind themselves to make space for reading, watching, and playing. Join us for an exploration of media we engage with for relaxation and inspiration and even refueling. Sponsor…
Thu 28 May 2020
LIA Cast 315 - Learning OBS Studio to Level Up Video Streams
The tools we use to make and share our art change a lot. Individual tools wear out, digital tools change company hands, business plans change and tools get decommissioned. As makers we are often in t…
Thu 21 May 2020
LIA Cast 189 - Inclusive Creative Work (Rebroadcast)
Join Jerzy and Rob as they explore creating projects and works that are inclusive, think through ways to detect and avoid toxicity, and celebrate practicing/working to be both sensitive and patient. …
Thu 14 May 2020
LIA 314 - Learning from Collaborating, with Jon David Guerra
Back in episode 230 we talked with Jon David Guerra about taking on big projects and hiring collaborators. Jon returns to reflect on his experience and what he learned in creating Nightmare Pro Wrest…
Thu 07 May 2020
LIA Cast 313 - Virtual Events pt 2, with Jen Vaughn
Continuing our exploration of virtual events begun in the last episode, Rob and Jerzy are joined by cartoonist, narrative designer, and DM of the Big DunJen Show, Jen Vaughn. Together they’ll look at…
Thu 30 Apr 2020
LIA Cast 312 - Virtual Events
Practicing safe behavior during a global pandemic means the cancelation of more and more mass gatherings. Many events and institutions have turned to video conferencing and streaming to pursue their …
Thu 23 Apr 2020
LIA Cast 311 - Inspiration Nearby
What kind of inspiration do we choose to surround ourselves? Join Jerzy and Rob for a conversation about taking a look around the home creative space, asking what things are there in the background u…
Fri 17 Apr 2020
LIA Cast 246 - Minicomics Preflight Checklist (Rebroadcast)
Minicomics are a favorite topic on the Lean Into Art Cast. As Jerzy and Rob have expressed in many episodes, they’re a great format for testing out new ideas or proving to yourself that you can ship …
Thu 09 Apr 2020
LIA Cast 310 - Storytelling and Color, with Steve Hamaker
Jerzy and Rob are joined by Steve Hamaker, creator of Plox, collaborator on The Pathfinders Society, and colorist of the graphic novels Hilo and Bone. Together they look at how color helps tell a sto…
Thu 02 Apr 2020
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