That’s the good stuff. If you’ve got a cracker of a piece gathering dust on your hard drive, post it below. I want to see the weird, the bold, and the slightly unhinged.
So if you feel like a fraud? Good. That means you’re stretching. Yes—I know “cracker” has other, uglier histories. In the US, as a racial slur for poor white Southerners. In parts of the world, as class-based shorthand. cracker illustrator
So You Think You’re a Cracker Illustrator? (Let’s Talk About Hustle, Humility, and Hard Edges) That’s the good stuff
#illustrationlife #crackerillustrator #creativeprocess #arttips So if you feel like a fraud
Here’s the secret: They failed in private. They drew 40 terrible hands before hand #41 made someone say “whoa.”
In certain pockets of the creative internet (especially the UK, Australia, and NZ), is a weird, wonderful, slightly chaotic word of praise. It means top-notch, belting, brilliant . “That’s a cracker of a composition.” “Your colour palette? Absolute cracker.”
I’ll admit it. There have been nights at 2 a.m., slumped over a Wacom tablet, coffee long gone cold, when I’ve looked at my own layer stack and muttered: “You absolute cracker. You did it again.”