Hey, Jake here. This episode was recorded way back in the simpler times of February 2020,

back before the world was completely turned upside down. And we know there's a lot of uncertainty

in the world right now. And so we hope that this podcast can be somewhat of an escape from

current events. We don't plan on really getting into what's happening currently

day to day in this podcast, but we just want to focus on creativity and help you to focus on

your creativity. And with that, we understand that many of you, you're finding yourselves without

a commute, with less meetings, and in some cases, with just less work

to do. And so we invite you to invest your extra time into improving your artistic abilities and

trying to level up. During the plague, Isaac Newton worked towards theories of gravity. He came up

with new theories and new understandings of optics as well.

And Shakespeare, while he was stuck in quarantine, he wrote King Lear. So I'm betting that you,

while you're stuck, you can learn how to draw ahead from different angles or how to get better

at your linework or something like that. So we just want you to turn off Netflix, put your phone

on Do Not Disturb for a couple hours

every day, and work on improving your craft.

And to help you out with that, SvSlearn.com is offering our subscription free for 30 days, a 30-day

trial for our podcast listeners.

We want to give you immediate access to our

foundations path with all the new classes that are going to be coming into that. We have

80 other courses that you'll have immediate access to as well. And you could sign up for that

right now at sveslearn.com. There's a link in our show notes as well. Last week for our subscribers, Will did an online live event over the course of three days where he painted a drawing from start to finish while he was fielding questions from our subscribers.

And we have more courses and more events like that lined up for the next several weeks and months to

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