Art Lessons That Changed Our Trajectory
3 Point Perspective: The Illustration Podcast
SVSlearn.com
4.8 • 835 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
After thirty years of professional illustrating, what’s the best (and worst) advice our hosts have ever received? Sam Cotterill, Lee White, and Jake Parker share the lessons that shaped the way they create, teach, and work.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's face it, the most important aspect of selling your comic book is the cover. |
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| 0:17.1 | I'll be teaching you the elements that make a dynamic comic cover, concept, composition, |
| 0:24.8 | image, value, hue, and how to combine all those elements to create a striking comic book |
| 0:32.9 | cover that helps your sales go through the roof. |
| 0:36.4 | Join me on July 11th for the Dynamic Comic Cover Workshop. |
| 0:41.9 | Head over to SVSlearn.com and sign up now. |
| 0:50.6 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to Three Point Perspective, |
| 0:53.2 | 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 Samantha Cauderel, and let's jump into it. All right. Take it away, Lee. What's up, everybody? Today, we have decided to dive into the world of education and teaching. We're |
| 1:15.1 | all students, I would say, lifelong students of trying to get better and being a better |
| 1:20.1 | artist. And that comes in different stages and different things. And so this past month, |
| 1:25.9 | I'm almost through with my second workshop. I did a Sketch Mart workshop for two weeks. And so this past month, I'm almost through with my second workshop. I did a |
| 1:29.6 | sketch smart workshop for two weeks. And then I'm doing a watercolor workshop right now. It's very |
| 1:33.6 | intense. A lot of people making a lot of progress, a lot of experimentation. It's just fun to be in |
| 1:39.2 | that mode, student teacher mode kind of thing. And then Sam's getting ready to start her. So we thought |
| 1:43.9 | it would be fun to sort of dive in and talk about our takeaways from being a student, our |
| 1:49.2 | takeaways from being a teacher, and things that we've learned along the way. So our three, |
| 1:56.8 | our three little kind of guiding principles here is three lessons that we learned |
| 2:02.9 | from someone. It doesn't have to even be a formal teacher, BTW, just some, somebody, you never |
| 2:07.9 | know where some lessons going to come from. So three things that we learned that changed sort of our |
| 2:11.7 | trajectory. Uh, some other things that maybe teacher said that weren't actually that important or maybe even a misdirect. |
| 2:20.3 | And then, because we're not infallible. |
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