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Most recent letters
# 53You Don't Need To Make Art Today
Some thoughts from the first days of lockdown - should you be making art out of all this chaos? Don’t feel guilty if you can’t.
# 52We're The Extras
I don’t know about you, but I feel insignificant in the face of extraordinary events.
# 51Eating Toilet Paper for Coronavirus
This week I made a satirical video for The New York Times about this new coronavirus thing.
# 49Once Through, Cleanly
Some solid advice from designer Frank Chimero on how to make the most progress in the early stages of a project.
# 059Ink And Gifts
Your hand-painted postcards are on their way! Here’s a step-by-step process of how I made them.
# 058A Kind of Aliveness I Live For
A crucial distinction for all artists - you don’t think in order to draw, you draw in order to think.
# 47Endings
My life has a lot of endings in it right now. Some reflections on the passing of Kobe Bryant.
# 46Negative Capability
On the inevitable uncertainty of making art and how filling sketchbook pages is helping me to tolerate it.
# 45Sequential Art
A look inside Berlin - one of the best graphic novels I’ve ever read and my thoughts on what filmmakers can learn from comics artists.
# 44Rock, Chalk and Ink
You share your advice on keeping a daily sketchbook practice and I try to do some simple drawing exercises.
# 43Fill Sketchbooks!
My plan for 2020 is to fill as many sketchbooks as I can, starting with filling pages of collage. Plus some advice on keeping a sketchbook.
