How to win at failure

Are you struggling to develop your career as an artist? Well, you’re not alone. Pretty much every successful artist goes through tough times, particularly at the start of their career.

Take Eisner-winning illustrator and comic artist . “Art school ingrained in me that I needed to get editorial jobs, which my work has never really been an obvious fit for,” she says. “So I spent nearly six years postgraduation spinning my wheels, trying to make a portfolio that would get me hired.” Only when she gave up and started to draw for fun again, did things turn around. “Folks can always tell when an artist is ‘faking it’,”