Bad Advice, Good Advice

YMMV

Bad advice I've gotten over the years.

1: It's OK to spend whatever you want on business related items like art supplies, movies, and reference, because they're tax deductible.

2: Going to conventions is the best way to promote your art and make money outside the mainstream.

3: Your best investment is yourself.

4: Exposure is good for art no matter how the art is exposed.

5: If I allege someone has been bad to another person, then you must cut them from your life and work entirely. And if you don't, you're bad, too.

Advice people told me is bad advice, but it was good for me.

1: Do not fear the blacklist because the barrier to entry in art is lower than ever and the decentralized nature of the modern comics industry makes it hard to truly blacklist anyone.

2: If someone isn't good for your art, they're not good for you.

3: If someone can't be happy for you, they're not good for you.

4: Your biggest enemy in the creative arts is your fear of enemies.

5: People will deliberately give you bad advice in order to limit your progress, because if they failed with a particular association or project, they want you to fail too, and they want validation.

Look, I did a Detective Comics cover, pretty hunh?

Watercolor.