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4. your work is a gift
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Look at Me
1seen, heard, loved
08:35 2knowing your butt
06:07 3why we're here
05:55 4your work is a gift
04:45 5a song to sing
03:31Love
6love (the assignment)
07:42love (the crit)
28:49Always the Other
8the ass divot
01:48 9like tarantino
04:30 10always the other (the assignment)
12:06 11the cliche
11:12 12always the other (the crit)
45:13Explodes in the Brain
13Explodes in the Brain
30:32Big Nothing Little Nothing
14big nothing little nothing (the assignment)
01:54 15don't fall in love
04:35 16big nothing little nothing (the crit)
53:23There Ain't No Rules
17ain't no rules
01:16 18yesterday, today, tomorrow
08:33Allow Freedom
19allow freedom
01:41 20show & tell
22:29Born (wildly) Creative
21born (wildly) creative
01:48Subscriber Bonus Lessons
22do the work
34:35 23show & tell (part 2)
16:04Lesson Info
your work is a gift
Hi. Hi. What's going on? Kati? Um, um, uh, tell me about why you're here. I'm here because, uh, I want to bring back those memories of my childhood when I was doodling for hours and hours and, um, how happy I was, how happy it made me. I want to feel as happy. Uh, now. Yeah. And my work is kind of related to doodling and I just feel like I'm doing it 4% of what I used to do being five years old. And I want, I don't know, at least 23% more. 23. We're gonna, you know what I can guarantee 23%. But, um, um, I'm gonna hold a reserve of the, uh, 47%. Ok. That's a deal. Ok, Rafael, tell me. Uh, so I've been a teacher for a long time now for graphic design and I love it. But year after year I leave my designs to the side. I don't design for me. I work on my students ideas and I give them, uh, show them things and talk to them for hours and then all those ideas leave out the door and there are none for me. So, I, I'm looking for that as well. I hear that. I hear that. Yeah. Yeah. For, you know,...
teaching in a, in a, you know, university for, you know, like I said, almost 20 years. I, I understand, like, after a while you're just like, so why am I doing this again? What, what, what, what am I here for? Yeah, I get that. Um, Sonya. Hello? Yeah, I just graduated uh with a graphic design degree and I've been avoiding design. Like it's the plague literally since I graduated. The only time I create something is when I'm making a gift to somebody or like writing a letter and I'll, I'll like straight up design the page and everything, you know, because I have wants to come out. But I've learned in school that like what I am designing, it's not acceptable to a certain degree so that I've internalized it so hard then. Now it's become like part of my identity, you know. So I just wanna shed that. Like I don't, I don't need it anymore, you know, it served me while I was in school but not any longer. So I just get in touch with the, like, what would I like to? What I, what do I find fun to design? What do I think? Yeah. What do I think? Oh here pick up your sketchbook. What does it say on the front? Oh, yeah. My work is, my work is a gift. Yeah, I mean, and the whole idea of that is exactly that my best work are little doodles I give to somebody and I'm like, fuck, I, I don't wanna send this away. One idea that is extremely important for you to understand is the concept of your work is a gift because my best work, the best things I do is when I uh it's a friend's birthday or I wanna say something meaning meaningful to somebody that I love and I scribble a little, a little note or something and I look at it and I'm like, oh my God, that's so charming. That's so smart. That's so endearing. That's so funny. I wish all of my work was like that, but I professionally want all of my work to be love notes. I want, I want the public to feel that right? So your work is a gift. When you understand your work is a gift, you understand that you no longer work to satisfy a boss or a client or even to gain a paycheck, you work to make something memorable and powerful and sexy and meaningful for other people. You work is a gift is when you give something of yourself, of your vulnerability, of your authenticity to your audience, whether it's an audience of one or, or an audience in a national campaign, that is when your work is a gift and that is a beautiful and dangerous idea. Um But yeah, here. I, I hate saying this but there's nothing like art school to take the creativity out of your fun. Right. Or take the fun moron. But, you know, you would think that you would get nurtured but it's the other way around. Sorry about that. Well, we're gonna shove some of that back in here. It'll stick for a while and then you have to keep it going. It's like, it's like you guys are coming with this, this, this, this furnace with a, with a, you know, a little spark and we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna turn that into a, into a fire. But after we leave, you're gonna have to maintain that, you know, and we'll, we, we'll, you, you'll know how.
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Richard Lynch
I really enjoyed the frank style that the class was delivered. Jealous of the 4 students who were in person. I work as an Aerospace engineer and am trying to find a way to relearn to be creative. This class and the exercises made me think and I have noticed that I enjoy taking different perspectives during boring meetings and drawing doodles that make me smile. Unexpectedly, my coworkers have said my work has improved lately. I think because I have become more open to possibilities outside of the tried and true.
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