#Austin Kleon books

[iamadarshbadri]

Austin Kleon's 10 Tips to Show Your Work

In the last few weeks, I have picked Austin Kleon’s other equally fabulous book, Show Your Work: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered. One of the biggest challenges for artists in the day and age of social media is getting noticed. While finding avenues to discover for yourself may sound easier, advertising your work is challenging. Perhaps people find it harder to be noticed…

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

Austin Kleon

[griseldabanks]

As Salvador Dali said, "Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing." First, you have to figure out who to copy. Second, you have to figure out what to copy. Who to copy is easy. You copy your heroes--the people you love, the people you're inspired by, the people you want to be. ... What to copy is a little bit trickier. Don't just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. You don't want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes. ... If you just mimic the surface of somebody's work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more than a knockoff.

- Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist

[mindingbussiness]

Today's highlight :)

Posting this to keep reminding myself things I wanna remember

[lovelycanica]

I sketch this while I was listening to the audiobook "Show Your Work" by Austin Kleon, which was so nice and learn a lot so I decide to take some notes while drawing. There was a lot that stuck with me and there are things that I want to try, it was so nice to hear advice and reassurance about just showing what you love and let yourself make mistakes. It's okay. It doesn't have to be perfect. You are okay!

[loafingreader]

I thought to start this book after watching a YouTube video by Ali Abdaal. The focus of this book is on the significance of regularly sharing your creative work with the entire world, as opposed to solely presenting the final product. Having an online presence and being able to stand out from the crowd has become a crucial aspect of work in today's society.

Kleon discusses highly practical methods for efficiently distributing creative content in order to grow an audience. The author presets ten key principles for sharing creative work, such as "share something small every day" and "tell good stories". He also provides examples and many anecdotes to illustrate how all those can be applied in different contexts.

One of the key strengths of this book is the author's insistence on the impotence of building partnerships and engaging with fellow knuckleballers (your real peer). Kleon encourages readers to view sharing their work as a way of contributing to a community rather than simply promotion.

The author's writing style is highly captivating and relatively effortless to follow, and his meticulous attention to detail is impeccable. He used a lot of illustrations to make the concepts easy to understand and implement.

Overall, "Show Your Work" is a valuable resource for someone looking to build an online presence for their creative space. The principles presented in the book are actionable and easy to apply. The book is highly recommended for a beginner who wants to just start or anyone looking to take their creative work to the next level. I'm giving a five star for this book.

[Originally Posted on Goodreads]

[metanoia-sturmfrei]

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

[camtonguyen]

"Steal like an artist" is a self-help book for creatives, based on the premise that everything is a remix and that creative work is built on what has come before. The author claims that the best way to be creative is to embrace your influences, copy the work of those you admire, and make it your own.

The book is divided into ten chapters, each containing a piece of advice for creative people. The author emphasizes the importance of cultivating a creative practice, whether it's writing, drawing, or making music. He encourages readers to create a daily routine and to prioritize the act of creating over the desire for perfection. 

He also advises readers to share their work with others, even if it is not perfect, and to adopt the idea of "good theft" - taking inspiration from other creatives and making something new out of it. He argues that everything is a remix and that creativity is about making new connections between existing ideas.

Overall, this is a quick and easy read that offers practical advice for anyone looking to unlock their creative potential. It motivates readers to be bold, to take risks, and to trust in their instincts.

[papyrusandpaints]

Steal Like An Artist, Austin Kleon (Creativity, 160 Pages, Paperback, Workman Publishing)

[bibliollama]

May Reading Wrap up

May wasn’t a great mental health month, the ADHD flared up and I started so many books but I did still manage to finish 8 of them: Jeremy Clarkson – Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly 4 stars I didn’t enjoy this as much as the first couple of Diddly Squat books – I think it’s because I watched the show first and read the book after with the others. Reading the book first, it fell a little flat because…

[iamadarshbadri]

10 Ways To “Steal Like an Artist” by Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon’s 2012 bestseller Steal Like an Artist is about advice: the writing ones, the creative ones, and the stealing ones. Advice, nonetheless. In those 160-odd creative pages—with glittering sketches, bold titles, and brilliant advice—the book is a marvel one can hold onto for now, and for later. One of its first few pages read: “Art is theft”, a dreary quote from a celebrity artist who…

[teriyakibri]

Last night I read a book (Show Your Work by Austin Kleon) that said I should show my work. So I decided to make a tumblr.

Also if you’re an artist of any kind (or not even) I highly recommend this read!

[unplugstar]

"Art is theft" - Pablo Picasso

photo taken from the book Steal like an artist by Austin Kleon

[mindingbussiness]

Nothing feels better than this 💛

[commonplace9]

[thatwritererinoriordan]

The Steal Like an Artist Journal: A Notebook for Creative Kleptomaniacs