In Progress: See Inside a Lettering Artist's Sketchbook and Process, from Pencil to Vector
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In Progress: See Inside a Lettering Artist's Sketchbook and Process, from Pencil to Vector
1. The lone path to being a good writer who writes good work is by writing your way there. You’ve got to fight your brain and conquer the excuses it throws up,. You’ve got to defeat your family obligations and your self doubt and your fatigue and the washing up. You can’t just take the eagles to a more convenient point on the map of that journey. T
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Many want to be chefs but aren’t willing to be line cooks first. It’s not glamorous work, but it builds design muscles, muscles that you’ll need in order to get better and advance to the next step.
Dan Mall • “Stealing Your Way to Original Designs,” an article by Dan Mall
It's a tricky game because you do need to be aware of best practices, what works, what doesn't, etc - that's how you grow and learn to stand out.
But at the same time, you always need to return to the question:
"Why do I create? What do I create for?"
And of all the answers that arise, understand your primary and secondary reasons.
For me, pr
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