What're you doing this summer? Are you having a little rest?

This episode is all about taking breaks and we have a wee look at our plans:

Helen is in her illustrator hermit cave for July to get the next Salty Dog book finished before the deadline, with a nice August off as her reward.
Tania is working on a museum commission for a 'Gossip Wall' in Berwick Museum, with plans to experiment with texture and line for the first time in ages. (Phwoarrrrr.)
And Katie's about to have her first proper 6-week term-time break now that E's in school full time.

Whatever your plans are, have a good one! We'll be back in September.

Rough Timestamps, for you timestamp enthusiasts:

00:00 – Recording remotely, wheee
01:00 – Camping memories in France (TVs in tents)
03:00 – What does everyone's idea of a summer break look like?
04:00 – Helen's July hermit cave
05:00 – Tania's loose-deadline project
06:00 – the Gossip Wall
09:00 – Working four-hour afternoons
10:00 – Berwick Open Studios, and the Pith Sketchbook Studios workshops on 3rd & 4th October
11:00 – Walk to See, Instagram's Add Yours feature
13:00 – Sketchbooking at the Alan Carr castle auction viewing day
14:00 – Katie's first proper term-time summer break now E's in school
15:00 – Freelance guilt, privilege, trying to "do it all" rarely works
17:00 – Trying and failing to switching your email off
20:00 – RIP David Hockney
24:00 – Planning a Hockney-themed summer party
27:00 – Good luck to Helen with the Salty Dog drawings, and a peek ahead Illustration Business Club returning this autumn!

Links mentioned:

Byeeee for now!

x The Good Ship Illustration (Helen, Katie & Tania)

p.s. Illustration Business Club is coming back into the chat this autumn, join the waiting list here and keep an eye out.

https://www.thegoodshipillustration.com/business

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What's the point in making all this gorgeous work if you don't have the confidence to share it, eh? EH!?

Who better to grill on this subject than Lauren Currie, OBE.

Lets gooo:

Timestamps, for the timestamp fans:

00:00 – Intro
01:00 – Confidence = the elephant in the room for creatives
02:00 – Lauren on why confidence matters so much, especially for women and marginalised people
05:00 – The shite UN statistic
07:00 – "What would a mediocre middle-aged man do?"
09:00 – Confidence is a team sport, not a solo endeavour
11:00 – Carrying responsibility for how everyone else feels
12:00 – 10 people whose opinions actually matter (and why it's not Jeanie from school's mum's dentist)
14:00 – Imposter syndrome
16:00 – The 1970s research that labelled women with a "syndrome" instead of looking at the system
19:00 – Why self-doubt is healthy
21:00 – Confidence is a muscle
22:00 – Lauren's art
25:00 – Old lady faces
27:00 – Should you have a separate art Instagram?
28:00 – The Barcelona art show story
32:00 – Why 'just' 20 people seeing your work is a LOT of people
33:00 – Lauren's advice for illustrators who are scared to share their work
36:00 – On hiding
38:00 – We need your art!!

Links and books etc. mentioned:

• Lauren's website: https://www.laurencurrie.co/art
• Upfront: https://www.weareupfront.com
• Be Upfront by Lauren Currie
• We Need Your Art by Amy McNee https://www.amiemcnee.com/order-we-need-your-art-book-amie-mcnee
• The Good Ship Illustration: https://www.thegoodshipillustration.com
• Find Your Creative Voice, Fly Your Freak Flag course: https://www.thegoodshipillustration.com/freakflag

Come and say hello!

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🌏 www.thegoodshipillustration.com

p.s. We love answering your illustration questions. Click here to submit your question for The Good Ship Illustration Podcast 🎙

This week's podcast is a sneaky peek into the live Q&A calls we do for our Find Your Creative Voice; Fly Your Freak Flag students. (They happen monthly at the moment.)

WHADDA CHAT.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Pursuing boredom
• The Artists' Way
• Why finding your style doesn’t always feel fun and easy and natural (Instagram's lying to yooou)
• What to do when you have hundreds of project ideas and no clue which one to choose
• How to handle agent/client feedback without immediately throwing your laptop into the sea
• Galleries are better when you don’t try to “eat all the paintings”
• Pens, colour, sketchbooks and abandoning black linework
• Quentin Blake, Mr Bingo and free flapjacks. Just a normal day, really.

If you'd like to join us, go for it! Enrolment is open right now, and our next live call is happening on Thursday the 16th of July at 7pm UK time.

Timestamps

00:00 Art block
00:55 Morning pages
02:00 Wide margins
04:30 Boredom
06:00 Creative sparks
08:15 Creative identity
10:20 Comparison
11:30 Constraints
13:30 Page layouts
15:15 Deadlines
17:15 Oblique Strategies
18:30 Slow looking
21:00 Drawing from home
22:30 Quentin Blake Centre
26:45 Too many ideas
31:10 Feedback
37:30 Coloured linework
39:45 Closing thoughts

Stuff we mentioned & links (so many this week, woah)

• The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
• Make Every Day Creative by Marion Deuchars
• David Hockney (RIP)
• Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies
• Quentin Blake Centre - Thank you for inviting us to the preview day, team QB!
• Derwent Pencil Museum
• Picture Hooks https://www.picturehooks.org.uk/
• The Catchpole Agency http://www.thecatchpoleagency.co.uk/
• Muji fine liners
• Emma Carlisle / Sarah Dyer
  https://www.emmacarlisle.com/
  https://www.sarahdyer.com/
• The Good Ship Illustration Art Club
  https://www.instagram.com/thegoodshipillustration/?hl=en
• Fly Your Freak Flag
  https://www.thegoodshipillustration.com/freakflag
• The Good Ship Illustration colour workshop
  https://www.thegoodshipillustration.com/colour

Come and say hello!

✏️ @thegoodshipillustration
🌏 www.thegoodshipillustration.com

p.s. We love answering your illustration questions. Click here to submit your question for The Good Ship Illustration Podcast 🎙