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Creative Pep Talk

491 - Determining Your Current Creative Stage and Shifting Focus with Illustrator Chris Piascik

Creative Pep Talk

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

What should you focus your creative energy towards right now? It helps to tune into the creative stage you’re currently in. Today on the show we chat with Illustrator Chris Piascik about how he went from a daily drawing practice to shifting gears and focusing on building his YouTube to nearly 100k subscribers. If you’re feeling out of sync with your creative season or need inspo for reigniting your personal work, this episode is for you! Join our January Virtual Pep Rally by supporting on Substack or Patreon! andyjpizza.substack.com https://www.patreon.com/c/creativepeptalk SHOW NOTES: Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller http://sophiemiller.co Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.co Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.com Chris Piascik https://www.chrispiascik.com https://www.youtube.com/@chris-piascik SPONSORS: SQUARESPACE Head to https://www.squarespace.com/PEPTALK to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code PEPTALK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

On the creative journey, it's easy to get lost, but don't worry, you'll lift off.

0:10.9

Sometimes you just need a creative pepsa.

0:20.4

What is the most important thing to focus on in your creative practice?

0:26.8

Is it about just grinding and trying as hard as you can to push it forward?

0:32.3

Or is it more about letting it go and letting it flow?

0:36.1

Do you need to focus on quantity and just pumping out as much

0:42.0

stuff as you humanly possibly can? Or is it about holding back, curating the quality of each

0:51.2

decision and each launch and what you put out there in the world.

0:56.6

What is the most important thing to focus on?

1:02.0

Everybody has different opinions and I would say they're all wrong because it's the wrong

1:07.4

question.

1:08.5

It's not about what is the most important thing to focus on in your creative practice.

1:14.7

There's a question before that, which is, what season are you in?

1:19.2

What stage are you in?

1:21.1

Because all of these things are important to be a top priority at different times in your creative process.

1:30.0

And the difficult part or the most, the most top priority that you have is to make sure

1:38.8

you know what stage are you in.

1:42.3

Discern what is the most important by figuring out the season you're in

1:47.2

because that determines what your focus needs to be. And that's a pretty big challenge.

1:52.8

Now, today on the show, we have Chris Piasik. He is a buddy of mine. He's a podcast guest that we had on just like seven years ago.

2:04.1

He's an illustrator I've known for a long time.

2:06.8

He's also ADHD cut from a similar cloth in some ways.

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