Daniela Glassop 

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Here’s my 2025 Best Creative Practices Flowchart - if I was starting my creative journey on the internet today, this what I would focus on.

The post I have linked here also has a link to my latest podcast exploring the 7 steps in this chart. Hope it helps!

7 Steps I'd Take If I Was Starting My Creative Practice From Scratch in 2025

For all my friends who want to get into children’s book illustration. Adam’s Substack is a great read, and this post is packed with useful info.

The Illustrator's Career Blueprint

I’ve mentored countless illustrators who regretted signing with their agent (for different reasons).

One illustrator, because of the contract she signed, had to wait eight months before she could leave her worthless agent.

Another illustrator signed a contract, and didn’t hear from the agent for a year… when the illustrator was let go.

Do n…

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Don’t wake up with the news 🚫

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Just to remind all my followers of the main conclusion of the Dunning-Kruger effect

Very intelligent people assume that they are rather less intelligent than they actually are

Very stupid people believe that they are much more intelligent than they are, because they have absolutely no idea what it would feel like to be intelligent.

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Aim for Imperfect Consistency

Most think great art comes from waiting for inspiration.

But after guiding 1000+ artists through daily practice,

I've discovered creativity isn't about perfect conditions—it's about imperfect consistency.

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Fear of:

Success = You don’t believe you can do it. (You can.)

Failure = You don’t believe you can keep going. (Keep going.)

Rejection = You don’t believe your work has value. (It does.)

At some point in your career as an illustrator, you must embrace the fact that you are stronger than what you fear. Fear is challenging; and it‘s painful. But it is not insurmountable.

One of my favourite podcasts.

Welcome to the ID’s (many) new Substack followers! Wow.

I use Substack as a way to share the lessons I’ve learned as a children’s book art director and an illustration educator, insights I’ve gained from podcast guests, stories I’ve read and written about illustration history, and more.

Everything you need to know about being an illustrator—collected in one place.

I hope you stick around.

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Hi illustrators,

Replace “author” with “illustrator,” and “text” with “art,” and this clause (or similar) should be in every contract you sign.

Also, here are some resources on protecting yourself from Generative AI training; why it’s not “like when the car replaced the horse and buggy”; and more here:

authorsguild.org/news/a…

copyright.gov/ai/ai_pol…

judiciary.senate.gov/ar…

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In toxic cultures, being a workaholic is normalized and sacrificing sleep is glorified. The best way to get ahead is to burn out.

In healthy cultures, quality of life is expected and having a life is celebrated. You're encouraged to put your well-being above your work.

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Just a few things cooler than AI

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❝The way people think they have to behave in the world is seriously misconstrued. They think learning is about concentration and suffering. What a mistake. People learn from playing.❞

—Remy Charlip, born on this day, January 10, in 1929