TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Announcements for Lightbox!
LightBox Expo, the premiere gathering of illustrators, concept artists, animators, and all manner of creatives, will be next weekend, Oct. 25—27 in Pasadena, CA. So Karla Ortiz has given everyone a heads-up with an announcement: "Surprise Art news folks! The amazing Iain McCaig and myself will be joining artistic forces to do our own pop up gallery show in LA next year AND we’ll be giving everyone a first look/behind the scenes at LBX this year!…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Stepping Stones
June 26, 2024 - A wise art teacher gave me a piece of advice that I’ve never forgotten, and I want to pass it on to you. I had left my job as a math teacher to go back to school and learn about illustration…but after about one semester of steady progress, I hit a flat spot and I started really struggling in my drawing classes. I felt like I was going backwards, and it seemed obvious that I was doing worse every day. I told the teacher I thought I’d lost something and was that I was considering the possibility that I had made a huge mistake. She told me that these phases of struggle happen to everyone at some point- and that when they do, you should “get down on your knees and be thankful”l because the…
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