Create

On making things, the creative process, and finding your way back to the work that lights you up.

I started drawing before I could read. Somewhere in my twenties, between HTML and corporate deadlines, I set it down. This is where I write about picking it back up — the illustration practice, the false starts, the creative fears, the slow and sometimes surprising process of making things again after a long time away.

If you're an artist trying to build a sustainable practice, a creative who's lost the thread, or someone who makes things and wants to make more — this is written for you. Not from the other side of figuring it out. From inside it.

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The creative in-between.

Every two weeks, three things: what I made, what surprised me, and what I'm figuring out next.

The Creative Brief is a short newsletter about what's actually happening behind the creative process, the wrong turns, and the threads still being pulled. Not a tips digest. Not a growth hack. Just an honest look at what building a creative practice looks like from the inside.

Sent every two weeks. Free. Written by Mike Tapia.