“Mastering” is Overrated

How online tutorials, instructional videos, and Comparison Culture, get in an illustrator’s way.

While I was discussing “finding one’s style” with Evelyne, an illustrator from the Netherlands, she said to me: “Every drawing feels like an exam.”

I’ve never heard one’s experience with art-making put quite like that before.

But who’s doing the grading? Our inner-naysayer? Social media users with their coveted likes and comments? Agents? Editors? Art Dir…