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Get my latest zine (for free!) to decide whether to monetize your hobby and find ways to keep your hobby for pleasure
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Ask CYOO: How do I muster up energy to create when I'm drained from my job?
Suggestions for creating art and reexamining your relationship with work
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Ways to love your inner artist
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You don't need another class
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Ask CYOO: What do you pack for travel sketching?
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You can call yourself an artist
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Walking my way through London
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My reading routine
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My artist manifesto
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Using a pocket sketchbook
Combining diary doodles, cartoons, newsletter ideas, and observational sketches
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Minimum & maximum creative time
Rethinking the ways we can make art every day
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Rewiring my online compulsions
My history of trying to detach from the internet, and what reframes are working for me lately
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Meet My Art Friend: Megan Wang
On the 4-day work week, small biz taxes, and quality of life as a self-employed artist
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The writer's cabin fantasy
Limitations and alternatives to the oft-romanticized secluded creative getaway
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Awaken your creative growth & self-discovery

7 Things

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7 things I loved on the first week of April
I started a Youtube channel! Plus, a vacation OOO
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7 things I loved on the fourth week of March
A vintage typewriter, a perfect animation, and a snack rec
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7 things I loved on the third week of March
Free zines, a new sketchbook, and Home Depot instruments
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7 things I loved on the second week of March
The internet as art studio and a new way of holding my pencil
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Ask CYOO

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Ask CYOO: How do I muster up energy to create when I'm drained from my job?
Suggestions for creating art and reexamining your relationship with work
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Carolyn Yoo
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Ask CYOO: What do you pack for travel sketching?
Sharing my materials for my upcoming trip to London
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Carolyn Yoo
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Ask CYOO: How did you choose illustration as your medium?
We’re back with another Ask CYOO column! Thank you for all the love on the last column, which is linked below if you haven’t read it yet: Today I’ll…
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Ask CYOO: How does your full time job complement your job as an illustrator?
After a long break, my advice column Ask CYOO is back! Thank you to this lovely reader for submitting two very thoughtful questions, which I’ll be…
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Meet My Art Friend

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Meet My Art Friend: Megan Wang
On the 4-day work week, small biz taxes, and quality of life as a self-employed artist
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Meet My Art Friend: Haruka Aoki
On knowing the winds of one's desires, the symbiosis of text and image, and supporting other artists
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Meet My Art Friend: Franco Zacha
On making art for intimate topics, plein air painting, and the future of illustration
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Meet My Art Friend: Camey Yeh
On morning pages, paying less attention to social media, and more
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