192 - You Can’t Be Good At Everything — with Kyle T Webster

The Futur with Chris Do

The Futur

Arts, Education, Marketing, Design, Business, Self-improvement

4.9 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Kyle T Webster is an award-winning international illustrator. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, TIME, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Nike, IDEO, and several other distinguished clients. Acclaimed industry publications like the Society of Illustrators, Communications Arts, and American Illustration have recognized his illustration work. Kyle also teaches at UNC School of the Arts and works for Adobe, hosting workshops and helping to make digital products like Adobe Fresco. But you may better know him by his best-selling Photoshop brushes. The Origin of KyleBrush As an illustrator, having a distinct visual style is a point of pride. But that's not something Kyle was interested in. He wanted to offer clients a range of illustrative styles. And to do that, he needed a range of flexible tools. As a result, KyleBrush was born. KyleBrush is a collection of thousands of high-quality digital brushes originally created for Adobe Photoshop. What started as a practical necessity transformed into a full-time business. Kyle's products became an industry staple. You could find his digital brushes everywhere, from Pixar to boutique animation studios. In 2017, Adobe acquired KyleBrush making all of his digital brushes available to anyone subscribed to Creative Cloud. They also hired Kyle to help their product team develop new digital drawing tools. In this episode We talk with Kyle about navigating the creative industry, price negotiation, overcoming anxiety, and the calculated career risks he took along the way. Beyond that, Kyle also offers a variety of practical tips that you can apply to your professional life right now. In particular, a clever way to connect with seemingly unreachable people. Sponsored by Hubspot - https://hubspot.com Superside - https://superside.com/futur Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I never took any risks that weren't calculated or weren't fairly well considered.
0:04.6	You know, I always was like, I'm going to do this thing, but I'm going to get myself pretty well prepared.
0:10.0	A lot of people I've talked to you know before in interviews and things they're like,
0:13.5	how did you have the courage to leave your job? I'm like, well, I waited three years
0:17.0	while I was building up another business. I didn't just say bye. Bye. The Kyle, just as we were talking before we started recording, it feels like we sort of know each other,
0:51.6	but it might be one of those like you said manufactured
0:53.8	memories of false memory because we are in the same space a lot with Adobe is you as
0:58.8	an evangelist me as a speaker and just I guess now new partner with Adobe doing different things but I've
1:05.6	wanted to have this conversation with you for some time.
1:08.2	First of all we have the exact same haircut which makes me already like you just from the jump right?
1:13.0	Yeah we go to the same barber.
1:15.0	Yeah, we do.
1:18.0	Which I imagine you probably just do yourself right?
1:20.0	Oh yeah, yeah, I had to get good at that many years ago. Yes, same here. So, okay,
1:26.9	haircuts aside and everything. You come across as a really kind of friendly down to
1:31.2	earth person who just likes simple things and wants to keep
1:34.9	things simple and is that is that my read on you is that fairly accurate or is it
1:39.7	there's a total different persona? I think that is super accurate.
1:43.4	You're right on the money there.
1:45.1	Thank you for that observation.
1:47.1	Yes, astute.
1:48.0	Yes.
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