Sara Alfageeh

The curse of being a comic artist is you can’t help but start critiquing memes online and think about how their text placement isn’t moving the readers eye around correctly

All my yapping and I made a wild mistake in the first post.

The Secret World of Arrietty is a Studio Ghibli film, but NOT directed by Miyazaki. It was directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi.

Apologies for not fact checking, and going off memory.

You’re so welcome 🤍

I love art. I love storytelling.
Thanks for reading!

On long term projects, it's never about putting in your 100% effort on every piece Or Else You Will Die.

It’s about making your 60% effort good enough.
Good storytelling is enabled by constraint. Limitations force us to come up with more interesting solutions.

Where do you stop?
We are all limited in some capacity.

Time, money, resources, location, physical or mental ability, your own interests, and a capacity for dullness.

What's important is we become the right artist for our stories, no matter the technical skill.

3) Your personal brand of laziness

Again, if creativity is a car:
influences = gas
joy = pedal
laziness = brakes

We could all be Da Vinci, if we tried.
But we don’t.

Art block is just lack of joy.

Focus on what you like, deeply understand what you don’t like (and others enjoy!)

This is where your voice emerges, as a creative.

This is essential for long term projects, where you will be the only person who cares for months and years.

2) What you enjoy
Self-awareness is key. This is your personal filter to the world, and what you train your brain to retain.

Highly prioritize being self-indulgent.
Ruthlessly pursue what you love.
Be obsessed with having fun.

Stuck? Go back to step 1. Refill the tank.

Creativity is a car, being extremely curious adds gas to the tank.
Pay attention to people, places, patterns,
and things you don’t understand.

Steal, borrow, copy, note, regurgitate, take a sample of everything neat that crosses your path.

1) your influences
This is everything you pay attention to.

The good, the bad, nature vs nurture, the decor of your childhood home, the perfume of a stranger you sat next to on the bus, a rated R movie you watched too young. We are just the sum of our memory and senses.

How we all create art and find meaning in it is as unique as a fingerprint.

In visual art, that fingerprint impression is called having "a style". It develops in 3 parts:
1) your influences
2) what you enjoy
3) your special brand of laziness

"How do I find my art style?"
I've been a creative pro for 10 years, this is the number 1 question I get.

They want creative work to be recognizably theirs in an instant-- like Miyazaki or Wes Anderson movies.

This is the formula for art style, it's much simpler than you think.

I would like to get the job for whoever is in charge of approving licensed Kirby products

Another inflammatory post by a coastal elite, tearing our families apart with their agenda

Make stories with me

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Blacked out and now my presentation for tomorrow’s workshop is over 100+ slides long (not including the videos and PDFs I link out to)

I’m at my most powerful

With the sweeping changes in AI, we can look forward to these future jobs in tech:

— logic anesthesiologist
— data bowler
— archive juggler
— code cryptologist
— lil guy
— lactose intolerant

Broke out the entire loomis head method to figure this out.

Tried frieren trend angle after appreciating posts all week. Very humbling.

They way it takes so long I fully forgot I did the gig

pov: you finally get the greenlight to post what you illustrated for a major IP

Looove this

How did I used to read hundreds of pages a day as a teenager 😭 just BURNED through fantasy books.

I am using absolutely all my willpower to get through these 200 pages before book club tomorrow.

I’m from here, but I live in San Francisco. So I visit a lot!

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BOSTON! I’m doing a comics and storytelling workshop this coming Tuesday.

Come through and get some stories out of your system.

“Computer, enhance.”

Love love love

I yearn. I open the MoMA design store site. I scroll. Feel love and lust over furniture and kitchenware. I see the prices. I weep.