Sitemap - 2023 - Ten Minute Artist with Adam Ming

Day 1: Building through Daily Action

Cookie Cutter Shapes : Micro Lesson and Sketchbook Project!

365 Day Sketchbook Challenge: Instructions for turning your creative dreams into a reality

What’s up January!

One thing I’ll do different in 2024

Effortless Creativity: Daily Habits for Artistic Growth!

7 Reasons Why it's worth investing 10 minutes a day in a sketchbook habit.

A Guide to start sketching in only 10-Minutes a Day

ILLOGUILD LIVE: on Process

Guide | Illustrator's Guide to Online Learning That Pays Off as Full-Time Income!

Welcoming the Season of Reflection and Renewal - Ten Minute Artist: Thread

Transform Your Art in Minutes with GPT-Driven Daily Prompts

9 Months to Picturebook Illustrator: Turned a Global Lockdown into a Career in Illustration

Welcome to Ten Minute Artist

Sketchbook Streak

Pain and progress: Build a Portfolio, Get an Agent, Show work an art director.

Collaboration Recordings

About this Newsletter + introductions

ILLOGUILD Talks Money (Recording)

Project Mundanity

I realised I need an agent

How to use clutter to inspire creativity, while cleaning up.

📹 Character Workshop with Beth Spencer

Beyond the Visual: Charles Schulz and the Art of Feeling.

I realized I needed a portfolio!

Instead of making art for instagram, I needed to make art for clients. Then put it on instagram.

10 Minutes of Art Making. Starting from a blank page.

I Realized my strategy was not a good one.

How I’m thinking about money

IlloGuild talks Critique Groups

Katie's Newsletter

I Drew a Comic Daily-ish and put it on Instagram

How being structured makes you creative.

The 10-Minute Artist Session

I wanted to be a Cartoonist

Two Benefits from doing Morning Pages, that have absolutely nothing to do with writing.

“You should pick a style”, said the Voice

You are NOT an Artist

I forgot that I was a person who makes art.

Here’s why I woke up at 3am for a Watercolour Drawing Class

A MAP of my JOURNEY to become A PICTUREBOOK ILLUSTRATOR

How do you collect and store ideas?

Art is made of ‘thinking’ , but not just yours.

P.S: The process of discovering complementary thinking

Roadblocks to the Creative Path

Schedule a meeting with me

To get the Dream Job, Focus on being the Dream Candidate.

📦 A Portfolio Chat with a Senior Art Director

How on Earth do creatives make money these days?

How to go from blank page to idea to final illustration in record time!

P.S: Art is never finished only settled.

Tell us about your Creative Career

Intros: Tell us about your Creative Career!

7 Key Insights for Aspiring Illustrators

📦 How this illustrator sequences, days, weeks, years, and decades.

Let’s Talk About the sequence of your Goals

How to stop going in circles as a beginner (in illustration)

Your Next 3 Creative Moves

PS: Here are some ‘3-Move Recipes’ I’ve used over the past 3 years to find a market for my art, develop a portfolio and get work in publishing.

Nothing to say - Abraham Lincoln

☕️🌞 7 reasons, I write. And one reason it doesn’t make sense for me not to.

P.S: What I know about writing - a short list

How to turn around a dwindling day for peak creative output.

Early career mistakes to avoid as an illustrator.

PS: Let’s talk about ALL THE SOCIALS!

3 Uncomfortable Tactics to Help you gain and maintain Creative Clarity today

Coffee Sunday

P.S: Waiting Moves

On observation, picking your moves and the meaning of life.

Bricks and Walls

P.S: A list of things I should draw

Getting ideas

Invite your friends to read Adam Ming

“Daddy has to work…”

My Illustration Agency Portfolio Page

A person who does things.

Drawing the line - An illustrator’s exploration of AI

P.S: AI ART (And writing)

There is no path until you walk it

Illustrator’s island

Rhythms and Routines in Our Artistic Lives

P.S: On Routine

Advice on Style by an Art Director and Educator

An Excellent Strategy for not going insane.

The ‘Perfect’ Routine

Seeking Wisdom, Eating Fruit, and Moving Things

7 Little Things (or less)

On Lasting in a Universe made up of Stories

Seven Little Things.

7 benefits of posting daily to social media.

Does a Monkey Get Grumpy?

What would it look like if this was easy?

Making Friends on the Internet!

Smashing!

One tool to sift muddy waters of information.

Character Sheets and a Sketchbook Prompt

Post Scriptum

In the beginning, you don't even know what good looks like!

Coffee, Sunday? (April 23)

✨ Diaries and Dopamine Saturated Attention

Some Notes on having a Newsletter.

Join me on Notes

How I Became a Picturebook illustrator

Pause for Effect...

126: Things I've learnt from Liana Fink

125: What your following will do for you.

124: Steps to a cohesive online presence as an illustrator.

123: Carving Your Own Path as an Artist

I hope you Chime in!

122: Boxes for ideas

121: Two Artists: The Visionary and The Collaborator

120: Some work in progress.

119: Boundaries & Boosting Our Creative Energy

118: Night Owl Routine

117: Becoming a Night Owl (Again)

Working

116: Waltzing with shadows

115: Use Templates

Tension

113: Ninty Minutes or Less

112: I tried to ignore posting on social media in 2023

111: Inspiration to Invention

110: Starter List and a 90-Minute Timer.

109: Artist Date

108: How I plan my week

107: Find your torture.

106: Personal Assignments

105: Reasons I’ve sucked at using sketchbooks.

104: Clutter Pile

103: One Big Challenge

102: Retrospective

101: Notes from a 7 week Sprint.

100: Believe

099: The good advice you already know

098: Thinking about sketchbooks.

097: Drawing a palm tree, making art and how to make a colour palette

096: It’s my Birthday

📝 095: You can’t read the label from the outside

🦹🏽‍♂️📝 94: Supernotes

093: Pulling at a thread

From the desk of Adam Ming (We go again!)

092: Sketching as Workout

091: Sketchbooks as Collection

90: Sketchbooks as a Diary.

088: The model in the next room

087: Deadline Day

086: The Bologna Children's Book Fair in person (or at home)

089: Your Illustration Journey: From Doubt to Delight and Accomplishment

085: Flexible Routines

084: What I learnt from my Art Director this week

083: Illustration is a love language

082: Talking to Robots (as an illustrator)

081: Choose A Category.

80: Meet AI

Notes from a third world country.

078: Connecting

077: It's a little bit like being a gynecologist.

076: Pre-work and Product Market Fit

075: My Chair

074: My Desk

073: Finding my stride

072: Fake Yellow, Spaghetti

071: Jealousy and Disappointment

070: How to start an editorial portfolio as a children’s illustrator

069: Real life Education

068: Planning Creative Work.

067: A Letter

066: Hey, Banana -Wow.

📦 Learning about Color

Secret door to 064

063: What’s work for an illustrator?

How to feel Bad as an illustrator?

062: On Drawing for fun

061: Is just doing it the answer?

060: Sometimes

059: 🍷🎟 Scale Groupings & some Private Notes.

058: Who the, is Fabio

057: How to draw, or do anything faster.

056: What works for you?

055: How to unlock the secret gear in your brain.

054: Decision Making

053: A good time to take a nap.

🍷🎟 052: "I want to talk like that" - Jerry Seinfeld

051: Thoughts on Ai

050: Not Doing List

049: Wisdom in success and failure

048: Don’t be embarrassing …

047: Would you let me buy you coffee?

046: What to do with wisdom?

045: The Jump from exploration mode to exploitation mode as a creative.

044: One Simple Routine