Hello everybody, welcome to Three Point Perspective.

The podcast is 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 Cotterill and let's jump into it.

Okay.

So today we're talking about what or who are you actually making your art for?

Okay, the question is like are you trying to impress that one artist that you follow on Instagram

or are you creating something that speaks to your actual audience?

And I think sometimes it's easy to fall into the trap of making work to prove yourself

to like your peers or to the industry or to, I don't know, some like imaginary jury that's in your head,

like art jury. But if your art's meant to connect to other people or to tell stories or to serve

others, the question is, are you sure you're aiming in the right direction with the art that you're

making? So today, we're going to talk about who are you making your art

for? Asking the uncomfortable but necessary question, who is your audience? And how do you know

you're creating for them? This is actually topic Samantha threw out at us a couple weeks ago.

And I was like, yeah, that's a good

one. We should talk about that day. So I think to kick it off, let's just each answer that

question ourselves individually here. Who do you make your art for and who is your who's your audience?

Yeah. I mean, I think no matter what your genre is that

you're working in i think it can be easy to get caught up in creating work for the wrong people

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