3 Point Perspective: The Illustration Podcast

3 Point Perspective treats illustration as a daily practice, a career puzzle, and a community conversation. The show is informal, but its center of gravity is practical. One week, the conversation may be about studio setups: Wacom versus iPad, hardware-store storage, rolling watercolor carts, travel containers, mugs full of pencils, and the strange satisfaction of making tools visible and portable. Another week, it may turn toward the harder question of how an illustrator competes when shelves, feeds, and comic shops already feel overcrowded. The answer is rarely a slogan. The show tends to reach for concrete habits: maintain industry friendships, mail memorable self-published work to art directors, audit the time of day when creative energy is strongest, and build systems that protect deep work. Publishing comes up often, especially children’s books, author portals, royalties, market trends, dummies, page turns, final-art samples, and what buyers may actually be responding to. So does creative psychology. Episodes weigh the pressure to invent something entirely new against the more workable act of reframing something personally meaningful. Business episodes are especially useful because they connect taste to execution. A conversation with Dusty moves through board game branding, Kickstarter preparation, pre-campaign audiences, and the gap between having an idea and finding people who want it. The Raissa Figueroa episode adds a picture-book lens, including pitches, agents, abstract emotional stories, and the uncertainty of what publishers want in a given moment. The show’s loose banter is part of the texture. Jokes, interruptions, movie references, and imperfect intros sit beside real notes on craft and career. For working and aspiring illustrators, that mix makes the advice feel lived-in rather than polished flat. It is a show for artists who need both technical shop talk and reminders that creative careers are built through routines, relationships, experiments, and repeat attempts.