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3 Point Perspective: The Illustration Podcast

The Hidden Cost of Being Too Precious with Your Art

3 Point Perspective: The Illustration Podcast

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4.9811 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

How can I learn to let go of bad art? Why isn’t my style selling? Does drawing ever get easier? Jake Parker, Sam Cotterill, and Lee White discuss these topics and more.

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. Welcome to Three Point Perspective. The podcast about illustration, how to do it,

0:09.0

how to make a living at it, and how to make an impact in the world with your art. I'm Jake Parker.

0:12.9

I'm Lee White. And I'm Samantha Coddrell, and let's jump into it.

0:17.8

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

0:24.4

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

0:32.0

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

0:34.6

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

0:41.5

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

0:43.4

and I've learned so much from you.

0:44.8

You often say that part of growing as an artist

0:47.2

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

0:51.6

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

0:53.8

As I develop, I know I need to be

0:55.2

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

1:01.2

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

1:09.3

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

1:17.6

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

1:23.6

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

1:31.5

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

1:40.5

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

1:43.8

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

1:52.2

and they're doing it at the finish stage.

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