explorations in creativity
"My drawings began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my life rich. First, my immediate surroundings: The sun that falls on my notepad. Jack’s new paintings on the fridge. The slow tumble of a dust bunny under the dining table. I try to …
Keeping a daily diary in the form of a comic strip has been a lot of fun. Sometimes, however, there are only so many ways to depict yourself eating cereal or doing the laundry. It was time for a new spin on things. The following variation comes from Lynda Barry's tumblr: For your daily diary this week you have to …
Recently, I've been keeping a daily diary inspired by exercises in Lynda Barry's Syllabus. One variation on the diary is a 4-panel silent comic showing yourself in scenes from the day. One way to get to know how four panels do the sorts of things they are able to do is to keep a silent daily diary strip …
I have kept a diary almost every day since I was 11 years old. At the moment, as I'm doodling along with Lynda Barry, I decided to give her version of the daily diary a go. This starts with a simple 4-minute exercise, recording the things you did, saw, and heard during the day, followed …
"My advice: keep making and stop critiquing. Don’t ask others’ opinions before you are at a solid solution. And think about how what you are doing matters to the world in some way, how your creativity solves problems or brings joy. Get out of your head and your own concerns and see how you can …
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Ever since I read What It Is, I've been a big fan of Lynda Barry's wild and wonderful approach to creativity. Recently, I've been exploring new ways of making comics using her latest book, Syllabus, as a guide. Syllabus is a collection of class notes from the courses Barry has taught at The University of Wisconsin-Madison. These are no ordinary …
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