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February 2025

Making Time For Your Art: 5 Tricks to carve out blocks for your creative work.
There's no magical time in the future when all conditions will be 'perfect' for you to create: you need to deliberately carve out time for your art.
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Jason Chatfield
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Get better at drawing people, starting with the one you see most.
Drawing yourself, for yourself.
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In Praise of the Humble Pencil
The great equalizer.
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Jason Chatfield
Cartoon Processs: Curbside dining in New York
The term ‘hot Chinatown garbage’ rings a pungent bell with any New Yorker who’s had the privilege of stepping through puddles of putrid trash water in…
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Jason Chatfield

January 2025

"The end of a melody is not its goal."
AI might feel magical in its frictionlessness, but (human) writing—like walking—is valuable because of the friction:
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Jason Chatfield
Creative Insights from Around Substack
"Inspiration isn’t fully in your control, which is why it happens when you’re not trying too hard."
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Jason Chatfield
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Drawing Exercise #2: The Dreaded Self-Portrait
You do You: Look in the mirror. Draw what you see.
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Jason Chatfield
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Studio Habits: Clearing Physical Space to Make Way for Mental Space.
The curious, deceptively simple mise en place ritual of several longtime professional cartoonists.
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Jason Chatfield
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Process: The Fellowship of (kissing)the Ring
The Process of making a cartoon in solidarity with Ann Telnaes
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Jason Chatfield
Art Made by Human Hands.
Want your brand to look like it wasn't conceived by a malfunctioning toaster? + Illustration Trends to look out for in 2025...
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Jason Chatfield
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