Hello, everybody. Welcome to three-point perspective. The podcast about illustration, how to do it, how to make a living at it, and how to make an impact in the world with your art. I'm Jake Parker. I'm Lee White. And I'm Will Terry, and all three of us are professional illustrators. We've all worked for all the major publishers in the business. Together, we've

published somewhere around 75 children's books, and we've all taught illustration at university

art schools. That is correct. Each week we come at you guys with fantastic illustrator interviews

or mailbag from people just like you where we answer questions about the illustration industry.

Sometimes we agree.

Sometimes we argue.

But each time you learn something, brand spanking new.

That's right.

And today we've got a question from Robert about Patreon.

He says, how do you know when it's a good time to open a Patreon?

What are some basic requirements? So there's

no banter at all. We're just all business. We're just diving right in. Jake, don't you have an

article to share? I just closed it. It wasn't that cool. It wasn't that cool. I'm giving Jake

grief because we're filming at night for the first time and forever, I think, for the podcast.

Jake is just kind of dazed and confused there.

He's like, I got an article.

I spent like five minutes looking for it.

I thought it was the best open ever.

It was funny.

And we've trashed it.

So it's on the cutting room floor now.

It's from the New York Times.

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