The Journal

Everything I'm learning, working through, and figuring out.

This is where I write. About drawing and illustration, about building a creative business, about the marketing side of things, and about the long, nonlinear process of making a living from creative work. Some of it is advice. Most of it is me thinking out loud.

Create

On illustration, creative practice, and making things again.

Build

On visual identity, design thinking, and looking intentional.

Grow

On marketing, audience-building, and the business of creativity.

Publish

On websites, SEO, and showing up online on your own terms.

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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.