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, hello again. It's been a little bit of time. I've been, I've been, I took a week off because we had our third baby yes third three of them three of

three of these children were crazy people who do that. I'm going to support three children

now with art. But no, it's amazing. And I, you know, we had Alice last week and that's why I took a week off and she came into the world and it was great and she's beautiful and really sweet and quiet and

we're loving her like crazy so that's why I took a week off thank you for all

the congratulatory messages. They mean a lot. It's really nice

to have support from the creative community. It's awesome and I just thank you for that. But we're back and now it's time to get

peped out of our minds with the creative pep talk. This is me and E. J. Miller.

I'm a graphic illustrator. You can hear the

podcast online at Andy hyphen J hyphen Miller.com slash

slash podcast or you can go to the website illustration age

dot com slash creative pet talk the great man and illustrator Thomas James who used to have his own podcast called

Escape from Illustration Island. I was a big fan of that. He set that syndication up and I thank

him for that. He's the best. Go check out his work too while you're

at it. So also one quick we're going to get through these really fast trust me okay we're going to get

into the content but before we go I just wanted to say thank you to those who have

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