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I can't teach you perspective, but...

I can’t teach you perspective, but…

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”.You might have heard that quote before, it’s an old self help saying that has become very instagramable in recent years. It’s definitely a clever play on words and after a brief moment of pondering it, the trueness of the quote tends to reveal itself. I like to think that I’m much smarter than someone who falls for a…

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Will Eisner, Storytelling, And The City That Once Was

Will Eisner, Storytelling, And The City That Once Was

Comics often get compared to cinema. It’s not uncommon for a cartoonist to be frustrated with this comparison since there are very unique things that comics can do that movies can’t, such as communicating the passage of time through still images and requiring the active engagement of the reader’s imagination, in a way movies don’t. But I do understand the comparison and I really don’t mind when…

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Art Schools Are On The Road To Extinction I probably should have named this article, ‘Colleges Are On The Road To Extinction’, as most of the things I’m going to say here also apply to the basic idea of colleges as a whole in 2020.

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Fake YouTube Thumbnails

I’ve recently been putting more time into my YouTube channeland one of the unavoidable markers of success on YouTube is the effectiveness of your thumbnails. In the social media age that we live in, you only really have about a fraction of a second to get someone’s attention, so the more you can entice them to watch your video through a provocative thumbnail, the more clicks you’ll get. Since, so…

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Hey Everyone! I have a new class up on Skillshare all about illustrating body language. If you're an aspiring illustrator/comic artist or know someone who is, this class might be of some help. Check out the link to watch my class as well as two FREE months of Skillshare