January 10, 2024 - The potential for technological advances such as AI to disrupt the equilibrium between creativity and commerce in illustration are undeniable, and of course this disruption looms large for many students with only a tenuous understanding of the commercial component of illustration. If you are a student, or even a long-serving professional, you will sometimes feel like giving up. It is important to keep pressing forward toward your creative goals. Unlike in business, there is no right or wrong in art. You have to look at the two things and know what is a business decision and what is a creative decision. And teachers need to be open minded, and to know that sometimes people have unforeseeable breakthroughs, and we can’t assume that someone who seems to really be struggling isn’t going to wake up one…