The Muse Dispatch
One image. One word. One texture idea. One question. A monthly dispatch for artists who want a creative starting point — not a lesson plan.
Every month I pull one piece from the vault and tell the story behind it — what I felt, what broke, what held. This month: the journal page I almost threw away that became the one I keep coming back to.
A constraint so simple it sounds like a joke — and then you sit down with it and realize how much it opens up. The Art Geeks challenge for September is live. Here's why I chose it.
3 min read
The prompts that give people explicit permission to do the thing they're afraid of. This one keeps coming back. I keep giving it because people keep needing it.
2 min read
Orange is the color most people avoid. It fights with everything. It's loud. It's wrong. And then one day I stopped fighting it and started listening to it — and my whole palette shifted.
5 min read
Not a highlight reel. Not a best-of. Just an honest look at what a decade of making things — really making them, not performing them — actually produces in a person.
6 min read
For a long time Friday Frame was free on YouTube. Then I moved it behind the Sprites tier. Here's the honest reason why — and why I think it made the sessions better for everyone.
4 min read
Once a month: one image, one word, one texture idea, one question. Your creative starting point, straight to your inbox.
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