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!
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.
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.
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.
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: