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Pikaland turns 6 this month, and all I could think of was how amazing you guys are.<\/p>\n
Forgive me for the bit of a soppy post, but I thought I should get stuff of my chest instead of holding it all in (I think I’m allowed to do so since I do this here blog!) So here it is: I wanted to thank you<\/strong> for following me on this personal, enlightening journey on Pikaland \u2013 and I hope that it has helped you in some ways too. When I first started this blog back in 2008, it was to serve as a personal “scrapbook” of sorts. Not knowing much about illustration, I decided to start a blog where I collected the artists and pieces that I love where I could access it in one place \u2013 a place where I could learn and hopefully to reveal what is it about illustrations that makes my heart beat a little faster, and my eyes a lot more sensitive to what’s being said. I learned so much through self-discovery, by putting it into practice, and by teaching others about what I’ve learned: how important it is to see beyond just images.<\/p>\n One of the most fulfilling projects I’ve started is the Good to Know project<\/a><\/strong>. It’s a series of zines that shares advice among creatives \u2013 artists, designers and illustrators on various subjects on creativity, business and life.<\/strong> It was started in 2009, and our first ever issue on creativity is one of my favorites. I’d like to share this with you as a free downloadable PDF (and viewable online too right below via Scribd!) I’m looking to expand on this project this year, and I’ll be making these older copies available to mailing list subscribers free of charge along the way (p\/s: if you haven’t signed up yet, it’s never too late \u2013 you can do that by clicking here!<\/a>