The Visual Scholar

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This is the Fifth Episode of the Visual Scholar Podcast - With Tim Mcburnie.

In this episode, we discuss how to find more time for your art. Or more importantly... how to find more focus for your art.

This discussion follows on from Episode 4, where we discussed the concept of the Artistic Ritual as it relates to productivity as an Artist.

This episode focuses on Time, which is one of the most important tactical elements when it comes to creating your Ritual.

There are many aspects to time which are key. How we focus and use flow to maximize our productivity and artistic ability while creating is key. As is the idea of biorhythms.

Circadian, Ultradian, and Infradian rhythms are important to understand, as they all affect our ability to focus and get the most out of our time.

It's also important to appreciate that more is not always better... One of the key components to focus and productivity is to master the art of relaxation and rest.

These ideas of following your natural rhythms and building the muscle of focus can really help to get the most our of your time creating art!

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The Visual Scholar Podcast is designed to help you demystify the world of Art, Productivity, and Creativity. So you can get better faster, and enjoy your Art Journey.

We discuss Drawing, Painting, Illustration and Entertainment Design. Along with Productivity and Career Advice.

You Can Find The Visual Scholar Podcast In These Places:

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-visual-scholar/id1678505411

Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6VbdwbiZqy8nqb90ruKQCX?si=21b9c1d02c85419f

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MightyArtisan

Show Homepage:

https://visualscholar.mightyartisan.com

Where To Find More About Tim Mcburnie:

Learn Drawing and Illustration at The Drawing Codex:

www.thedrawingcodex.com

Take Your Career and Productivity To The Next Level:

www.mightyartisan.com

The Drawing Codex Youtube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@TheDrawingCodex

Mighty Artisan Youtube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@MightyArtisan

Portfolio: www.timmcburnie.com

www.artstation.com/tim-mcburnie

www.instagram.com/timmcburnie

x.com/timmcburnie

Check out my Free Brainstorming Workshop: https://mightyartisan.com/worldbuilding Learn to silence your inner critic. Ignite creative ideas. And watch a live demo of these techniques in action.

This is the Fourth Episode of the Visual Scholar Podcast - With Tim Mcburnie.

In this episode, we discuss Ritual, and Habit... and how we can use these ideas to help us build a positive relationship with our artistic practice.

Building positive habits through daily ritual is a great way to add art into your life! This can be contrasted to motivational styles involving Grit or Determination (Forcing yourself to do stuff you don't want to do).

Art often requires a good positive mindset while sitting down to create. (As we need to enjoy the process... and our emotions while creating can often be felt in our final finished art)

This is an important thing to get sorted no matter what stage you are at.

Often younger artists struggle with distraction and too much free time. Older artists might struggle with a packed schedule with no free time at all. Professional Artists can struggle to find time to create personal work.

Often the effective answer is to work on the natural pathways for creating an artistic habit.

The next few episodes will discuss more specific tactics for developing your Artistic Ritual!

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The Visual Scholar Podcast is designed to help you demystify the world of Art, Productivity, and Creativity. So you can get better faster, and enjoy your Art Journey.

We discuss Drawing, Painting, Illustration and Entertainment Design. Along with Productivity and Career Advice.

You Can Find The Visual Scholar Podcast In These Places:

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-visual-scholar/id1678505411

Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6VbdwbiZqy8nqb90ruKQCX?si=21b9c1d02c85419f

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MightyArtisan

Show Homepage:

https://visualscholar.mightyartisan.com

Where To Find More About Tim Mcburnie:

Learn Drawing and Illustration at The Drawing Codex:

www.thedrawingcodex.com

Take Your Career and Productivity To The Next Level:

www.mightyartisan.com

The Drawing Codex Youtube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@TheDrawingCodex

Mighty Artisan Youtube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@MightyArtisan

Portfolio: www.timmcburnie.com

www.artstation.com/tim-mcburnie

www.instagram.com/timmcburnie

x.com/timmcburnie

Check out my Free Brainstorming Workshop: https://mightyartisan.com/worldbuilding Learn to silence your inner critic. Ignite creative ideas. And watch a live demo of these techniques in action.

This is the Third Episode of The Visual Scholar Podcast - With Tim Mcburnie.

In this episode, we discuss the fun versus fundamentals.

On the one hand art can often be an enjoyable process. It can be fun just to draw, and to focus on creating the things we like. But often to get good... we need to embrace craft, to embrace the challenge. Getting the right balance between grinding your craft and enjoying the process is critical.

To unpack this problem, we discuss how learning art can sometimes be different from the way that we have learned intellectual skills in "traditional" education. Understanding these differences can be a great way to trust the process and appreciate how our natural skills can improve just by doing.

And I also go into the idea of integration and how important it is to apply the theoretical ideas that you learn about art into your everyday practice. To make them real.

Perspective, rendering, anatomy… Are only going to be useful if you integrate their information into the work that you want to create.

A good solution is actually pretty simple... spend a small portion of your time regularly focusing on craft. And to spend the majority of your time creating your own pieces and projects. The more you can integrate craft into your specific style and medium... the better.

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The Visual Scholar Podcast is designed to help you demystify the world of Art, Productivity, and Creativity. So you can get better faster, and enjoy your Art Journey.

We discuss Drawing, Painting, Illustration and Entertainment Design. Along with Productivity and Career Advice.

You Can Find The Visual Scholar Podcast In These Places:

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-visual-scholar/id1678505411

Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6VbdwbiZqy8nqb90ruKQCX?si=21b9c1d02c85419f

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MightyArtisan

Show Homepage:

https://visualscholar.mightyartisan.com

Where To Find More About Tim Mcburnie:

Learn Drawing and Illustration at The Drawing Codex:

www.thedrawingcodex.com

Take Your Career and Productivity To The Next Level:

www.mightyartisan.com

The Drawing Codex Youtube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@TheDrawingCodex

Mighty Artisan Youtube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@MightyArtisan

Portfolio: www.timmcburnie.com

www.artstation.com/tim-mcburnie

www.instagram.com/timmcburnie

x.com/timmcburnie

Check out my Free Brainstorming Workshop: https://mightyartisan.com/worldbuilding Learn to silence your inner critic. Ignite creative ideas. And watch a live demo of these techniques in action.

This is the Second Episode of The Visual Scholar Podcast - With Tim Mcburnie.

One of the questions that comes up again and again is... How much should I draw?

Do you need to draw 18 hours a day until your fingers bleed? What about burnout? Does more equal better results? What if you're a professional?

What makes a difference when it comes to learning? What is actually happening when we begin to learn and perfect a new skill like Drawing or Art.

In this Episode I go deep into the concepts of Time, Energy and Focus. What does it take to make it as an artist... What does it take to keep going and get to the next level?

I have spent a lot of time mentoring students and seeing everyone explore different strategies when it comes to learning art. There are many traps that present themselves when it comes to focus. Especially in the current age of distraction.

One of the best things you can do is to spend some serious time and effort understanding how you personally relate to the ideas of productivity and focus. Knowing your own mind and body is key. When do you work best... how do you work best... what can you do to set yourself up well to succeed- To give yourself the best chance of deploying your energy and focus properly.

This is not just about grit, determination and hustle... pushing yourself will only get so far. The key is to build good habits and rituals around sitting down... to create.

This episode breaks down some of the key ideas around focus, productivity and learning. With advice for how to apply them as an Artist.

Books mentioned: The Power of Full Engagement: by James E. Loehr and Tony Schwartz Flow: by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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The Visual Scholar Podcast is designed to help you demystify the world of Art, Productivity, and Creativity. So you can get better faster, and enjoy your Art Journey.

We discuss Drawing, Painting, Illustration and Entertainment Design. Along with Productivity and Career Advice.

You Can Find The Visual Scholar Podcast In These Places:

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-visual-scholar/id1678505411

Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6VbdwbiZqy8nqb90ruKQCX?si=21b9c1d02c85419f

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MightyArtisan

Show Homepage:

https://visualscholar.mightyartisan.com

Where To Find More About Tim Mcburnie:

Learn Drawing and Illustration at The Drawing Codex:

www.thedrawingcodex.com

Take Your Career and Productivity To The Next Level:

www.mightyartisan.com

The Drawing Codex Youtube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@TheDrawingCodex

Mighty Artisan Youtube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@MightyArtisan

Portfolio: www.timmcburnie.com

www.artstation.com/tim-mcburnie

www.instagram.com/timmcburnie

x.com/timmcburnie

Check out my Free Brainstorming Workshop: https://mightyartisan.com/worldbuilding Learn to silence your inner critic. Ignite creative ideas. And watch a live demo of these techniques in action.

This is the first Episode of The Visual Scholar Podcast - With Tim Mcburnie.

In this episode I discuss two of the most important and intertwined concepts when it comes to creating art ...What tools to use, and how to get good... FAST.

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The Visual Scholar Podcast is designed to help you demystify the world of Art, Productivity, and Creativity. So you can get better faster, and enjoy your Art Journey.

We discuss Drawing, Painting, Illustration and Entertainment Design. Along with Productivity and Career Advice.

You Can Find The Visual Scholar Podcast In These Places:

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-visual-scholar/id1678505411

Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6VbdwbiZqy8nqb90ruKQCX?si=21b9c1d02c85419f

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MightyArtisan

Show Homepage:

https://visualscholar.mightyartisan.com

Where To Find More About Tim Mcburnie:

Learn Drawing and Illustration at The Drawing Codex:

www.thedrawingcodex.com

Take Your Career and Productivity To The Next Level:

www.mightyartisan.com

The Drawing Codex Youtube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@TheDrawingCodex

Mighty Artisan Youtube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@MightyArtisan

Portfolio: www.timmcburnie.com

www.artstation.com/tim-mcburnie

www.instagram.com/timmcburnie

x.com/timmcburnie