If You’re Not Scared, You’re Not Living (Split Screen Version)
summary
Quits a 17‑year graphic design career to redraw with pens, teaches himself screen printing, and sells illustrated London prints worldwide; paints a 40m BBC staircase in two weeks and skins a McLaren launch car under tight deadlines; converts 145 inquiries into 9 paid projects — 145 inquiries → 9 projects (6% conversion) — and self‑publishes 2,500 Covid visual diaries, self‑published 2,500 books, 80 presold, donates £7.5k and later £4.5k, designs 500 limited Brompton bikes that sell out, and lists clients like Pokémon and Credit Karma.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:34Stepping out of comfort zones
- 7:04From design to illustration success
- 10:17Embracing the unknown
- 12:23Playful creativity
- 14:57Public art meaning
- 19:21Knowing creative worth
- 23:19Trauma into fuel
- 25:48Believing in craft
- 28:19Drawing as life
- 32:35Travel diaries
- 36:02Unfiltered creativity
- 37:27Unexpected challenges
- 38:52Self-publishing lockdown
- 41:21Project to global fame
- 43:32Giving back creatively
- 44:59Imperfection and authenticity
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