Hey y'all just a quick heads up the episode you're about to listen to is 8 to 10 years old

now these episodes were intended to be evergreen and I still believe there's a lot of good

information in these early episodes, but I do want to let you know that some of my ideas have evolved

over time. Times have changed since we made these episodes and ultimately I'd like to think I've grown

a lot as an artist and a human and that these don't necessarily represent my best work or the best of the podcast.

If you're new around here, I suggest starting with the most recent episode or

at least go back to around 300 and move forward from there.

Enjoy the episode. Well, well, it's that time of the week again.

It's that time of the week again.

And I've got a lot of stuff to talk about.

Before I get right in, remember you can hear this podcast

at illustration Age.com

slash Creative Pep Talk.

It's a great website that's just a big supporter of illustration

and yeah, I love it. I love that I get to be a part of it. So check that out

Now let's just I like to put a few disclaimers in there because the truth is is that this

podcast is a very vulnerable experience to record yourself and your thoughts and put them out there online for everybody to hear is just

a bit nerve-racking in a lot of ways and sometimes I feel the need to explain myself, even

if maybe I shouldn't or don't need to. You know I guess

part of what I wanted to say was you know two things really that one you know all the stuff that I'm saying

Most of it isn't stuff that I dreamt up. It's stuff that I've experienced or someone has passed on to me or I've read in a book or heard

another podcast or you know but it's it is all stuff that I've then implemented and

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