TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Be Brave, Be Human
I shared recently a little bit about how I was struggling while making this piece, and how I was stunned and honored to find that it had been awarded grand prize in this year’s Infected By Art annual. I shared about the process, how I wrecked and found and wrecked and found many times over during the progress of this painting, and sharing that made me realize by reading some of the replies that it…
YESTERDAY’S POST
TrendWatching Part 2: Castlecore, Pre-Raphaelites, and Feminist Nuns
February 20, 2025 - Hi everyone, I'm back this month with more on trendwatching, but make sure you go back and read Part 1 before you go ahead and read this one. Part 1 was talking about HOW I think about trends and this post is a real-world developing-around-us example of that philosophy. Back? Great. So last month I talked about how important it is to think about trends as layers, and that the deeper you go the further ahead you can see. So for me, first layer would be looking at book covers coming out from other publishers — well, that's really too late, because book covers have to be designed about a year ahead of when the book's on sale date is. You can get a little info about which genres are trending up by looking at…
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