Do you need qualifications to be an artist?

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… And that’s the topic for the fifth issue of the Good to Know zine! It’s our biggest issue ever too – 68 pages filled with shared experiences and thoughts by 51 artists, illustrators and designers. There’s also a special segment that’s generously shared by Melanie Maddison of Colouring Outside the Lines zine, and features snippets of previous 10 interviews with artists that relates to the topic at hand.

++GIVEAWAY TIME!++
To celebrate the launch, we’re giving away TWO issues of this zine; one each to lucky commentors who share with us their thoughts: Is it necessary to have a degree/qualification to be an artist? Do you have experiences or thoughts to share?

Giveaway ends on 25th September, and if you can’t wait, well you can always get your own copy at the Good to Know project page where you’ll also find past issues of the zine!

Pssst, also, if you want new updates every now and then, you might be interested in signing up for our mailing list?

{The pattern for the cover of issue #5 was designed by Vicky Smith}

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UPDATE: Commenting has now closed, thanks for participating!

The Time is Now returns!

I’ve been waiting for Naomi’s return for a while now, and I’m glad she did! She just reopened The Time is Now and also her new shop, Antlered Kitsune that sells illustrations and papercuts done for her thesis, which is centered around the folklore characters kitsunes and the stag.

She’s also celebrating with a special offer for those who are interested in getting themselves her lovely items: free international shipping for the first three peeps who contact her via Etsy. Not only that, those who contact her will be entered into a raffle to win her papercut art cards!

Emilie Boudet’s trip to India

It’s almost that time of the year again – the time when I get extreme wanderlust. I’m not sure if it’s the combination of throngs of people packing their bags for the very long weekend ahead (a big national holiday is here this week), or that I keep hearing people going off to some exotic destination (and if you’ll listen really carefully, you could hear me at the background begging for them to take me along.)

Either way, I wish more people could bring back sketchbooks filled with tales of their travels, like the what Emilie Boudet did for her trip to India.

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