In a follow-up to last week’s conversation about the struggle to create art (influenced by Bayles and Orland’s Art & Fear),
Alex and Andrew discuss natural gifting and artistic drive—and accidentally discover that they are both poets. Learn about the importance of honest feedback, creative habits, crises of talent, the 80-20 Rule, and why you should keep on creating art. Plus, Andrew gives a free lesson about poetic meter.
Notes and Links:
•Discover Alex’s knack for music and Andrew’s not-so-secret writing habits.
•Alex spoils Rudy! Andrew horrifies and baffles Alex with the revelation that Rocky is slow and boring! Andrew discovers that Phil Collins plays the drums?! Perfect art is trash?!
•David Bayles and Ted Orland, "Art & Fear"
•Draftsmen S04E3, “Reilly Method and Advanced Fundamentals with Jeff Watts” (May 12, 2023)
•Sarah C. Andersen, “You Should Redraw It” (Jan 21, 2015)
•The Board Game Design Lab “310. How to Design Fun Games with James Earnest” (Jul 30, 2023)
•James Laughlin, “My Muse” (Sorry, I can’t find any other information on this one outside of a I saved back in college, but my best guess is it’s included in his collection, “The Man in the Wall.” -Andrew)
•Additional shoutouts: Jake Parker, Stan Prokpenko (Proko.com), Scott Robertson, Robert Laszlo Kiss, Scott Flanders, Ethan Becker, Kim Jung Gi, Bill Watterson, Charles Schulz
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