PK 184: Kristen Aundrea – From start to pro level art in 7 months – what?!

Kristen Aundrea is absolutely rocking the Evolve Artist Curriculum: http://evolveartist.com Kristen has been speeding through the program but things weren’t always so rosy as you will see in her story below. Kristen’s college professor told her she couldn’t draw and after 10 years of believing that lie, she was inspired by the idea of showing …

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PK 183: Evolve Artist Community Review – Meet Evolve Community Superstar Peggy Durant

Meet Peggy Durant – Community Superstar and student at Evolve Artist: http://evolveartist.com Peggy is on a great path and people are starting to take notice of her amazing artistic progress, but it wasn’t always like this. About a year ago she had fallen off with her art practice and went for 8 months with doing …

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PK 180: Consistently creating award winning art students with Kevin Murphy

This episode about the breakthrough art curriculum now known as Evolve, was originally recorded in late 2016 after I heard about an illustrator who had left the professional world and had created an art school where the students were getting amazingly consistent results and winning all kinds of contests and scholarships. When I first did …

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PK 178: Sometimes You Need to Burn the Boats – Interview With Dorian Vallejo

This interview with Dorian Vallejo is a repost of the original interview.  It had a profound effect on Pencil Kings founder Mitch Bowler and led to opening the door to starting on the Evolve Artist program. While you are listening – ask yourself if there’s anywhere in your own life that you could also go-all-in …

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PK 177: Becoming a Children’s Book Illustrator – Interview With Matt B Lewis

Becoming a children’s book illustrator is a dream for many artists, but how can you turn this dream into reality and actually make a decent living from it? In this week’s podcast, Australian children’s book illustrator, Matt B Lewis, reveals how he eventually decided to take the plunge and go freelance after 18 years as …

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PK 176: How to Copyright Artwork – Interview With IP and Social Media Lawyer, Paul Lomic

Ever wondered how to copyright artwork? If you’re an artist, illustrator or any other kind of creative, there will most likely come a point in your career when you feel the need to protect your work and prevent others using it without your permission. After all, in recent years, there have been several high profile …

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PK 175: Travel and Living Creatively – Interview With Freelance Illustrator, Ladislas Chachignot.

Travel and living creatively often go hand in hand, with many artists all over the world moving to different countries to get inspiration and further their careers. But what if you’re too scared to make that first step? And what actually happens when you take the plunge, move to a city in a different country …

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