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3 Point Perspective: The Illustration Podcast — 303 episodes

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How Can I Compete?

2

What Books Actually Sell?

3

Cracking the Creativity Code

4

Art Is the Easy Part: Why You Struggle with Business

5

You Need to Get out of the House

6

Raissa Figueroa: Turning Serendipity into a Prolific Career

7

Are You a Puddle-Jumper or a Train-Tracker?

8

Mind-Shifting Marketing Ideas for Your Art Business

9

We Went to SCBWI: Here’s How it Went

10

Claudia Rueda: Entering the Child’s World

11

The One Where Lee’s Friends Thought He Died

12

Creative Seasons

13

Too Many Ideas, Not Enough Time

14

Can Artists Use AI Productively?

15

The Best Picture Books of 2025

16

Can Chronic Illness Kill Your Art Career?

17

Why You Should Meet Your Heroes

18

The Top Five Questions Artists Ask Pros

19

Destination: Inspiration

20

How Much I Made at NYCC

21

How to Make Your Portfolio So Good It Can't Be Ignored

22

Do What Scares You

23

We Talk to a Caldecott Winner

24

6 Things Pros Embrace That Amateurs Fear

25

The 6 Business Skills Every Artist Needs (That Art School Never Taught)

26

The Hidden Mistakes Killing Your Illustration Progress

27

Illustrators React to Google's Storybook AI

28

Reinvent Your Art in Four Months

29

Rediscovering the Joy of Creating

30

Illustrators: Allow Yourself to Play!

31

Make Art for Your Audience, Not for Approval

32

Illustrators: Don’t Sleep on Branding!

33

Help! I Have Too Many Ideas!

34

Best of 3PP: Am I Ready?

35

How to Succeed at Art Fairs (and Who Should Avoid Them)

36

Bad Art Advice

37

Why Most Artists Stay Broke (and How to Escape It)

38

Why You Need a Mentor and How to Get One

39

The Hidden Cost of Being Too Precious with Your Art

40

Getting Ahead Despite AI

41

All About Online Shops

42

What is a Starred Review and Why Does It Matter?

43

Saying Goodbye to Will Terry

44

Do You Find Your Art Style, or Does It Find You?

45

My Coworker Used AI Art in Her Children’s Book

46

Am I Wasting My Time?

47

Is It Time to Go All In?

48

Will They Steal My Idea?

49

Breaking into Comics in 2025 with Shawn Crystal

50

The Nine Lives of Art

51

James Gurney: Life is an Adventure

52

Painting vs. Parenting

53

Follow Your Passion (Project)

54

Sell a Story, Not a Product

55

How Can I Slow Down?

56

Will This Contract Rip Me Off?

57

Love, Money, and Art

58

How Mistakes Make You a Better Artist

59

Art Career Expectations vs. Reality

60

All About Agents

61

How Can I Survive the Hard Parts?

62

Year in Review: 2024 Edition

63

The Creative Misogi

64

How Can I Overcome My Fears?

65

What’s Your Illustration Level?

66

Should I Make a Christmas Book?

67

Tactile World-Building with Samantha Cotterill

68

Am I A Business Or An Artist?

69

What’s Wrong with My Portfolio?

70

Illustration Ah-Ha Moments

71

How Do I Create a Joyful Career in Illustration?

72

Am I Too Young to Start?

73

How Can I Be Productive as a Neuro-Divergent Person?

74

Maintaining Positive Momentum: Interview with Robb Mommaerts

75

How Do I Grow My Network?

76

How Do I Hire an Illustrator?

77

Should I Compete?

78

Do I Have to Pick One Style?

79

Am I Too Old for Illustration?

80

How Do I Stop Procrastinating and Start Drawing?

81

Why You SHOULDN’T Self-Publish

82

How Do I Overcome Comparison?

83

11 Questions to Ask Your Art Director

84

A Career in Comics with Sanford Greene

85

Is Your Mindset Holding You Back?

86

What Has Failure Taught You?

87

AI is NOT Your Enemy

88

Is Going Pro Worth It?

89

Is My Work Ready for Market?

90

When Can I Make What I Want to Make?

91

Should You Join The Exodus To Cara?

92

I’m Doing Everything Right, Why Can’t I Get Ahead?

93

The Key To A Successful Art Career with Simona Ceccarelli

94

How To Get Your Art Noticed By Agents

95

Starting Illustration Late with Eric Castleman

96

Am I Ready for Patreon?

97

Saying Yes To Illustration with Karen Schipperr

98

Can I Be More Productive in Less Time?

99

Should I Quit My Day Job?

100

Seasons of Creativity with Samantha Cotterill

101

200 Episode Celebration! ⭐ LIVE Q&A ⭐

102

200 Episodes!

103

The Intentional Art Career

104

Risking It All For Art with Joe Sutphin

105

How To Do Murals with Brandt Woods

106

How Do I Tell Good Stories?

107

Is Social Media That Important?

108

Bringing Joy and Vision to Your Work with Lisa Bardot

109

Why You Should Ask for a Critique

110

Think Like A Business Owner

111

Can I Delete My Social Media?

112

How Do I Grow My Email List?

113

Is My Idea Worth Pursuing?

114

Prioritize Your Art in 2024

115

The Best Advice We Got All Year

116

Inappropriate Children's Books

117

The Year In Review

118

The Most Common Art Mistakes

119

How To Be Productive with Ryan Claytor

120

What Should I Sell?

121

Cons and Conferences: What To Know Before You Go

122

Starving the Content Machine

123

The Human Touch

124

Help! My Client Never Paid!

125

What If You Could Go Back In Time?

126

10 Sins of Art School

127

Stop Practicing Start Making

128

From Sketch To Final

129

*PATREON CLIP* How To Annihilate Artistic Imposter Syndrome

130

Art and Comedy with Doogie Horner

131

Am I In The Right Illustration Field?

132

How To Be Prolific with Benji Davies

133

Making Money Online as an Illustrator

134

Should I Quit My Day Job for Art?

135

Can I Make Money As An Illustrator? (PATREON FREEBIE)

136

Finding Inspiration with Benjamin Schipper

137

AI Can Never Be Original

138

How Do I Fire My Agent? ft. Anthony Wheeler *TEASER*

139

Artistic Resilience with Nathan Fowkes

140

Not All Practice Is Created Equal

141

*TEASER* Adobe Firefly Won't Take Your Job... Yet

142

The Problem With Preachy Art

143

The Comics Industry with Tony Cliff

144

Can I Use AI For My Art?

145

*TEASER* Are School Visits Worth My Time?

146

*TEASER* How Do I Finish Faster?

147

Sacrificing for Art with KeshArt

148

All About Self Publishing

149

*TEASER* The Advice We Wish We Had

150

*TEASER* Do I Need To Learn Traditional Art Techniques First?

151

Youtuber Illustrator Masterclass with Kelsey Rodriguez

152

How Do I Refine My Portfolio?

153

Is My Portfolio Too Focused?

154

How Do I Raise My Rates?

155

Drawing History with John Hendrix

156

Marketing 101 for Artists

157

How To Build A Fanbase

158

*TEASER* I'm Slow At Art, Help!

159

Pop Culture Mastery with Jason Edmiston

160

I Struggle With Medical Problems, Can I Still Make It As A Pro?

161

The Year In Review

162

3PP BONUS | Pickleball Fights, Avatar 2, Andor

163

MFA's Are A Bad Idea, And Here's Why

164

*Teaser* Focusing Your Portfolio

165

Mastering Your Career with Travis Hanson

166

Is My Art Director Doing This Right?

167

*TEASER* The Life of an Artist Entrepreneur

168

From Corporate America to Making Art with Anthony Wheeler

169

*TEASER* How To AI-Proof Your Art

170

What If Freelance Isn't For Me?

171

*TEASER* Putting Passion Projects First

172

Everything About Agents with Kelly Sonnack

173

*TEASER* Should I Drop My Agent?

174

What Kind Of Dummy Should I Be Taken For?

175

Directing Animated Films with Brandon Jeffords

176

Where Do I Fit? Advice For 40 Year Olds

177

Will AI Art Kill Artist's Careers?

178

Deep Dive: 1000 True Fans, Myths and Realities

179

Breaking In To Animation With Stephen Silver

180

The Illustration Checklist

181

Kyle Webster: The Accidental Expert

182

Teaser: How Kyle Webster Started at Adobe

183

How Do I Get To The Next Level?

184

Art of Caricature with Tom Richmond

185

Are Caricatures Considered Real Art?

186

Art of Lettering with Mel Cerri

187

Are Illustration Job Websites Worth the Money?

188

The World of Science Illustration with Mesa Schumacher

189

Staying in Your Lane

190

Michael C Clements: The Adaptive Illustrator

191

How To Stay On Track

192

Kazu Kibuishi - The Unstoppable Illustrator

193

Games, TV, or Movies? Where Your Story Fits

194

Samantha Cotterill - The Focused Illustrator

195

No More Skull Tattoos!

196

How to Negotiate

197

Amy Kibuishi - The Patient Illustrator

198

Should You Change Your Name?

199

Where Do You Fit In The Picture Book Landscape?

200

Vesper Stamper - The Resilient Illustrator

201

Kill The Algorithm

202

Catia Chien - The Intuitive Illustrator

203

⭐️ EPISODE 100 ⭐️

204

Larry MacDougall - The Persistent Illustrator

205

Is Ugly Art Actually Good?

206

To Ado-be, Or Not To Ado-Be?

207

Cam Kendell: The Balanced Illustrator

208

When Should You Abandon A Project?

209

Rebecca Green: The Deliberate Illustrator

210

How Do I Find Time To Do The Art?

211

What's the Point...alism?

212

The Future of Self Publishing

213

Do You Need To Have Talent?

214

Should I Teach?

215

How to STAY in the Biz

216

Watch Out For These Art Scams!

217

How To Deal With Fear Of Success

218

Fanart in a Portfolio!?

219

The Style Conundrum

220

Do I Need To Go Digital?

221

The Dangers of Inspiration

222

Storytelling and Marketing Your Book

223

How Do I Finish My Children’s Book in 2 ½ Months?

224

How To Turn Down A Project

225

To NFT Or Not To NFT

226

How Do I Deal With Constant Failure?

227

Should I Copyright My Work?

228

Working With Kids At Home

229

Does It Matter Where I Live?

230

5 Important Steps to Becoming A Full Time Artist

231

Am I On The Right Path?

232

Building A Team

233

When Should You Abandon A Project?

234

Are There Shortcuts To Making Great Art?

235

Should You Work With A Small Publisher?

236

Slowing It Down

237

Burnout

238

Finding a Mentor

239

How To Do Inktober

240

Contracts vs. Reality

241

How To Launch Your Kickstarter Like A Rocket

242

Roadblocks To Finishing Your Projects

243

Why Am I Not Winning Art Contests?

244

What To Do After College

245

What To Do When You're Between Jobs

246

Heck Yes! Or it's a NO!

247

Dreaming Big

248

Books Every Illustrator Should Read

249

Risky Business

250

10 Mistakes Beginner Illustrators Make

251

How to Navigate Your First Illustration Jobs

252

How We Actually Make The Art

253

10 Lessons from Starting SVSLearn

254

Websites and Online Portfolios

255

How to Evaluate your Art Foundation

256

How to Launch a Book

257

What Are You Working on This Year?

258

Difficulties of Being an Illustrator

259

The Year in Review

260

Agents and Reps

261

Cultivating Creativity

262

The Best Illustration Assignments

263

Illustration Horror Stories

264

Starting an Online Shop

265

Listener Questions

266

Creating a Great Concept For Your Illustration

267

The Style Episode

268

Transitioning to a Career in Art

269

When Did You Know You Would Make It?

270

How to Social Media

271

How to Change

272

Pricing Your Work

273

Post Graduate Advice

274

Building A Strong Portfolio

275

How to Convey a Message or Story With Your Art

276

Work / Life Balance

277

How to Become a Better Children's Book Artist

278

How to Make an Impact With Your Art

279

Roadblocks to Success

280

How to Be the Best Art Student

281

Tools of the Trade

282

Successfully Failing

283

A Year's Worth of Lessons

284

The Stories We Tell

285

The Life Cycle of a Children's Book

286

How to Work with Art Directors

287

10 Skills Every Illustrator Must Have

288

Why You Should Do an Art Challenge

289

Comic Cons & Art Fairs

290

The Caldecott

291

A Day in The Life of An Illustrator

292

Networking for Artists

293

Critiques

294

How Much Will You Make in Illustration?

295

Your Creative Bank Account

296

10 Reasons I Won't Illustrate Your Childrens Book

297

Listener Q&A

298

Should You Do Fanart?

299

Our Most Embarrassing Stories in Illustration

300

Ship Happens

301

Am I Too Old to Get Started?

302

My Art is Great, Why Won't Anyone Hire Me?

303

Introducing 3 Point Perspective