Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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If you're like me, you find self-driven illustration projects harder than client-based projects. In this video we explore 5 possible reasons why.

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TIME STAMPS
0:00 - BC's Worst Natural Disaster: My Experience
3:17 - What does this video topic have to do with the floods?
3:42 - The usual intro stuff
4:24 - My personal project: A t-shirt graphic to support my community
5:10 - Why are Personal Art Projects so Hard?
6:10 - Reason 1: You have a total carte blanche — blank page syndrome.
8:24 - Reason 2: Nobody's asking you to do it.
13:28 - Reason 3: You have no client giving you feedback.
18:40 - Reason 4: There's no deadline.
21:39 - Reason 5: There are no constraints.
25:14 - Recap and Conclusion
25:57 - A darker reason why personal illustration projects are so hard
29:45 - Outro

FIND ME ELSEWHERE
Teaching: skillshare.com/tomfroese
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Twitter: twitter.com/tomfroese
Web: tomfroese.com

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