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Scribbling in your art can be an excellent starting point, or a disastrous dead end. In today’s episode, Marshall and Stan discuss how scribbling can reveal fresh ideas, how scribbling relates to categorizing thoughts, and how their training shaped the way they draw today.
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Bootcamps with Marshall and Vance Kovacs - https://www.marshallart.com/ 
Winsor McCay - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Winsor-McCay-s3e02.jpeg 
Kim Jung Gi - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Kim-Jung-Gi-s3e02.jpeg 
Jeff Watts - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Jeff-Watts-s3e02.jpeg 
Stan’s Quicksketch - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Stan-Quicksketch-s3e02.jpeg 
Edward Sorel - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Edward-Sorel-s3e02.jpeg 
Heinrich Kley - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Heinrich-Kley-s3e02.jpeg
Preston Blair - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Preston-Blair-s3e02.jpeg 
Elizabeth Gilbert Ted Talk - https://www.ted.com/speakers/elizabeth_gilbert
Back to the Future (actor swap) - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Back-To-The-Future-s3e02.jpg
Jeff Goodby and Rich Silverstein Masterclass - https://www.masterclass.com/classes/jeff-goodby-and-rich-silverstein-teach-advertising-and-creativity
The Natural Way to Draw by Kimon Nicolaides - https://amzn.to/3uLyNnz 
James Gurney - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/James-Gurney-s3e02.jpeg 
Barron Storey - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Barron-Storey-s3e02.jpeg 
Zettelkasten Method - https://zettelkasten.de/introduction/
How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens - https://amzn.to/3uEIlAF
Rome Research - https://roamresearch.com/
Edward de Bono: Six Thinking Hats - https://amzn.to/3dWlsSr 
Howard Pyle Painting (Man on Horse) - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/howard-pyle-s3e02.jpeg 
Howard Pyle by Henry Pitz - https://amzn.to/3dZjsJm 
Justin Sweet - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Justin-Sweet-s3e02.jpeg 
Vance Kovacs - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Vance-Kovacs-King-Louie-s3e02.jpeg 
Honore Daumier - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Honore-Daumier-s3e02.jpeg 
Cliff Edwards (Scat Singing - Singing In the Rain) - https://youtu.be/dRcr_5qWa-o 
Frank Gehry - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Frank-Gehry-s3e02.jpg 
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Stan and Marshall are back with a new season of the Draftsmen Podcast! This time they are looking at different career paths for artists: Employees, Freelancers, and Entrepreneurs. They discuss the pros and cons of these different career options as well as their varying levels of independence. They also discuss how to speed up the process of learning from your failures as you try and create a successful business.

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Draftsmen Art School as Project series: http://proko.com/artschool 
Making Money as an Artist - https://youtu.be/TX4IdBPB_Ko
Stan’s Music Video - https://youtu.be/XZoLqLtCCT4
Neil Gaiman’s Make Good Art Speech - https://youtu.be/plWexCID-kA
Seth Godin's Freelancer Course - https://www.udemy.com/course/seth-godin-freelancer-course/
Akimbo, Seth Godin’s Podcast - https://www.akimbo.link/
Do It Wrong Quickly by Mike Moran - https://amzn.to/3sRnjOI 
Confirmation Bias on Veritasium - https://youtu.be/vKA4w2O61Xo
Marshall’s Sun Picture - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Marshall-Sun-Pic-In-Studio-s3e01.jpg 
Triple R Method - https://conversion-rate-experts.com/rrr/
Triple 80/20 Method (from this interview with Eric Partaker) - https://www.smartpassiveincome.com/podcasts/ipa-best-version-yourself-productivity-staying-true-eric-partaker/
Judging Success (from this interview with Ryan Holiday) - https://youtu.be/1MyNOw45qp4
Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday - https://amzn.to/3cQTbNW 
Anatomy Course - http://proko.com/anatomy
Design Your Career with a Whiteboard - https://marshallart.com/SHOP/all-products/all-videos/how-to-design-your-career-with-a-whiteboard/
The PreHistory of the Far Side by Gary Larson - https://amzn.to/3dEaocr 
Gahan Wilson - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/gahan-wilson-comic-s3e01.jpg 
Bernard Kliban - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Bernard-Kliban-Omelet-s3e01.jpg 
Sergio Aragones - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/sergio-aragones-therapist-s3e01.jpg 
Draftsmen Social Media episode - https://youtu.be/Hgipbis1VTY
The Wrecking Crew documentary - https://amzn.to/3unNf4X 
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It’s the last episode of the season! Before Stan and Marshall go on break they share with you some of their favorite books that they recommend reading. Some of them are art related, business, marketing, fiction, and self help books. If you’re interested in picking up any of these check out the full list of books below. 
Answer the Survey - proko.com/season3survey.
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Marshall’s Books - https://www.marshallart.com/HOME/reviews/my-bookshelf/.

Previous Draftsmen Episodes About Books:
How to Learn Perspective – Draftsmen S1E26 - proko.com/369.
How to Learn Anatomy – Draftsmen S1E10 - proko.com/339.
Art and Fear – Draftsmen S2E24 - proko.com/446.
The War of Art – Draftsmen S2E16 - proko.com/428.
Building Art Communities, Picture Clarity, and Finding Art Mentors – Draftsmen S1E13 - proko.com/345.

Art Collection books:

Omphalos - Kim Jung Gi - https://www.kimjunggius.com/products/omphalos.

“Art of” Books:

The Tarzan Chronicles - https://amzn.to/3nlbnCd.
The Art of Pixar - https://amzn.to/2K3SUM1.
The Art of Up - https://amzn.to/2LxWf6l.
The Mandalorian - Art & Imagery - https://amzn.to/3oSVzHi.
Norman Rockwell - Behind the Camera - https://amzn.to/2LtKzBy.

The Man who Inspired Disney – Heinrich Kley ORIGINAL Sketchbook Tour - proko.com/466.
Adopting Art Parents to Develop Your Style – Draftsmen S1E05 - proko.com/330.

Art Instruction

Alla Prima II by Richard Schmid - Alla Prima II by Richard Schmid
Color and Light by James Gurney - https://amzn.to/2JWnBTv.
Imaginative Realism by James Gurney - https://amzn.to/2LDocd9.
Drawing Manual by Glenn Vilppu - https://amzn.to/2LCEDGA.

Self Help

The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod - https://amzn.to/387U2pI.
The One Thing by Gary Keller - https://amzn.to/3qUvWrf.
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl - https://amzn.to/34dlUaU.
The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle - https://amzn.to/3gOjLHP.
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss - https://amzn.to/383htRl.
I Will Teach You to be Rich by Ramit Sethi - https://amzn.to/37hB5lm.
Linchpin by Seth Godin - https://amzn.to/3mkG5K8.
The Practice by Seth Godin - https://amzn.to/3aa4LTg.
Tribes by Seth Godin - https://amzn.to/3milJRV.
Purple Cow by Seth Godin - https://amzn.to/2WifUcJ.
Zero to One by Peter Thiel - https://amzn.to/3njyygh.
The E Myth by Michael Gerber - https://amzn.to/2JVKeYc.
Gary Vaynerchuk - https://amzn.to/3mk2jfp.

Fiction

Off To Be The Wizard by Scott Meyer - https://amzn.to/3nxvH3v.
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline - https://amzn.to/3oOv0mv.
The Martian by Andy Weir - https://amzn.to/3oSXGLe.

Learn to Draw - www.proko.com.
Marshall Vandruff - www.marshallart.com.
Stan Prokopenko - instagram.com/stanprokopenko.
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Proko employee and artist Kristian Nee joins the podcast this week. He talks with Marshall about his secret to making friends with influential people, how his personal connections have opened up new opportunities for him and his friends, what road tripping has taught Kristian about humanity and why he asks crazy questions. On top of all the insight there’s also a few special guests that make it into the episode as well. 

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AI (Art Institute) - https://www.artinstitutes.edu/
Road Trip Photos - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/some-photos-from-kristian-travels-s2e34.jpg
Erin O'Shea & Mike Sheehan & Philip Dimitriadis - Saddleback College -
The Killers - https://amzn.to/3gqLnm3
The Killing - https://amzn.to/33U2RlU
The Intelligent Investor - https://amzn.to/3gsMnpK
Kristian and Marshall Zombie Art - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/kristian-nee-and-marshall-vandruff-zombie-art-prokochallenge-s2e34.jpg
Shep Gordon’s Book - https://amzn.to/33STOBT
Shep Gordon’s Doc - https://amzn.to/2W3TtYN
Erik Gist - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/erik-gist-god-of-war-artwork-s2e34.jpg
Jeff Watts - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/jeff-watts-mystical-woman-holding-skull-artwork-s2e34.jpg
Ben Young - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/ben-young-painting-portrait-s2e34.jpg
Scott Flanders - proko.com/356
Watts Bootcamp - https://www.wattsatelier.com/workshops-and-bootcamps/
Troll 2 - https://amzn.to/39SxBY7
April's Solomon Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/Aprilsolomonart
Loic Maltais - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/loic-art-portraits-s2e34.jpg
Lisha Maltais - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/lisha-maltais-various-artwork-s2e34.jpg
Kristian’s Website - https://www.KristianNee.com
Learn to Draw - www.proko.com
Marshall Vandruff - www.marshallart.com
Kristian Nee - kristiannee.com
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From Rocket Scientist to Professional Artist (ft. Jama Jurabaev)
Jama Jurabaev is one of Marshall’s former students and has overcome incredible and difficult circumstances to become the pro artist that he is today. He joins the podcast to tell his full story and hopefully inspire other artists that are working hard towards a career in the industry. Jama’s design work has influenced some of the biggest movie franchises in the past decade including Star Wars and Jurassic World. 
You can follow Jama and keep up with his work here - https://www.instagram.com/jamajurabaev/
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Tajikistan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajikistan
Hydro Electric Example - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/hydroelectric-dam-diagram-s2e33.jpg
MPC Advertising - https://www.moving-picture.com/
Matte Painting - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/jama-jurabaev-matte-paintings-s2e33.jpg
Jama's Student Work - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/jama-jurabaev-student-work-s2e33.jpg
ILM - https://www.ilm.com/
Jama's Freelance for Star Wars - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/jama-jurabaev-concept-art-star-wars-mandalorian-s2e33.jpg
Andree Wallin - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/andree-wallin-concept-art-star-wars-s2e33.jpg
Bernie Wrightson - A Look Back - https://amzn.to/2Jx2pTa
The War of Art - https://amzn.to/3lpY8y4
Art of Fear - https://amzn.to/3lmpOE9
Jama's Concept Art - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/jama-jurabaev-concept-artwork-s2e33.jpg
Terminator - https://amzn.to/3loyOIU
Fetchin - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/fetchin-portrait-drawing-old-man-s2e33.jpg
Jama's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jamajurabaev/
Jama’s Artstation - https://www.artstation.com/jama
Jama’s Gumroad - https://gumroad.com/jamajurabaev
Learn to Draw - www.proko.com
Marshall Vandruff - www.marshallart.com
Jama Jurabaev - http://jamajurabaev.com/
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Marshall sits down with professional fantasy artist April Solomon. The two discuss how April fell in love with drawing dragons and werewolves, the power of traditional art materials and the techniques she’s learned over the years, art festivals, what her art schedule looks like, and more. If you’re interested in supporting April be sure to check out her patreon - https://patreon.com/aprilsolomonart
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April is on patreon and instagram as Aprilsolomonart and twitter as Aprildragonlady
April's Dragon Art - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/dragon-paintings-and-drawings-by-april-solomon-s2e32.jpg
April's Werewolf Art - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/werewolf-paintings-and-drawings-by-april-solomon-s2e32.jpg
(for specific art talked about in podcast watch episode at proko.com/461)

David Solomon - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/waterfall-artwork-by-david-solomon-s2e32.jpg
Pageant of the Masters - https://www.foapom.com/
The Fantastic Art of Frank Frazetta (v. 1) - https://amzn.to/39aRppq
John Singer Sargent Books - https://amzn.to/33eHj38
zoo books - https://amzn.to/35ZR0Ea
D&D Art and Arcana - https://amzn.to/2UWCS8z
American Werewolf of London - https://amzn.to/3pQGtTM
Graphite Negative Space Art - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/graphite-negative-space-art-technique-s2e32.jpg
Myers Briggs Scale Perceivers Judge - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/myers-briggs-personality-types-chart-s2e32.jpg
Drew Struzan - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/drew-struzan-famous-movie-posters-artwork-s2e32.jpg
Painting Marshall bought From April - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/pink-lynx-commisoned-by-marshall-by-april-solomon-s2e32.jpg
April’s Influences (Jeff Easley, James Gurney, Donato Giancola, Daniel Dos Santos, Scott Fischer, Gregory Manchess, Rebecca Guay, Boris Vallejo, Frank Frazetta, Norman, Rockwell, Howard Pyle, John Singer Sargent, James Jean, Terryl Whitlatch, Joe Weatherly, Drew Struzan, J.A.W. Cooper, Paul Bonner, John Howe, Sulamith Wülfing, Julie Bell) - https://youtu.be/G4rly3_86vM?t=2387
CTN Convention - https://ctn-live.com/
Designer Con - http://www.designercon.com/
Dragon April sold to Drew & Dylan Struzen - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/red-dragon-art-commisoned-by-drew-struzan-by-april-solomon-s2e32.jpg
Donato Giancola - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/donato-giancola-throne-of-eldraine-kiss-art-s2e32.jpg
Aprils patreon page - https://patreon.com/aprilsolomonart

Learn to Draw - www.proko.com
Marshall Vandruff - www.marshallart.com
April Solomon - www.aprilsolomonart.com
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