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 Samantha Coddrell, and let's jump into it.

Excellent. So our mailbag has been filling up a little bit here and I thought we'd, I picked out three

questions that are all kind of tangentially related to each other in a way.

And so I figured we'd just, we'd tackle these.

So the first one is from Betsy, she says, taking the precious out of my pieces.

Hi everyone, I'm a huge fan of your show

and I've learned so much from you.

You often say that part of growing as an artist

is the ability to not consider every piece to be precious.

I will admit that I have a hard time with this.

As I develop, I know I need to be

more discerning with what I post on social media, try to sell or even hang on to. Should I simply

toss what I deemed not to be my best, give them away? Or it's so hard when time and material

costs goes into things. Any advice for what you do with your, let's call them, less successful works would be much appreciated.

So, yeah, just to summarize that, like, we all have pieces we're not happy with.

How do you guys let go of those, even though you've poured time, energy, creativity, everything into them?

Well, I don't really pour that much time into it if I don't like it.

I mean, I'm sort of joking, but not really.

One of the things that we see a lot at SVS is people overworking the same piece over and, I mean,

and they're doing it at the finish stage.

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