Do things feel a bit off in your creative practice at the moment?

I mean, beyond just like the state of things or the general stuff you're worried about,

does your creativity feel off, imbalanced, off kilter, if you will?

I have a friend, illustrator, Fabiola, Laura.

She says, I hear her say this every once in a while,

like, uh-oh, hate everything I've ever made again. And I feel like that is very relatable. That

happens to me sometimes. I have another friend who is a rapper named Andy Minio, and he's got a song

called Lost and a song called Clarity. One of those,

which one of those starts in a little bit where he says, you ever feel lost. And that's

really just part of the creative journey. That's just part of the journey. So true. That

offness, it is part of the hills and valleys and peaks and lows that is the creative

process. But if you're in that zone, if you're not careful, you're going to stay in that zone.

If you don't realize, like, you do have to counterbalance that thing. And also understand the thing

you need to counterbalance, you could get stuck there.

And I have been in those ruts for too long at different points in my own creative journey.

But learning to listen to, oh, thanks feel off, don't just bury that, don't just hide, figure out the counterbalance I need to make, and then take some action.

When I've done that, it's led to some of my favorite things I've ever done.

There are times where I was like, I have gotten too analog.

I need to learn how to draw digitally.

I got too digital.

Now I need to learn how to paint.

And all my picture books ended up becoming really painterly because of that.

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