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13. Mary Kate McDevitt Invents Stuff Every Day
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Mary Kate McDevitt is a Vermont-based illustrator and lettering artist with a love of color, texture and humor. Since 2010 she’s written several books, hosted lettering workshops, taught five Skillshare courses and worked for clients like Nike, Nintendo, Target, Sephora and The New York Times.
She loves trying new things. Because personal projects provide a value that commercial ones sometimes can’t. Living by her mantra “This didn’t exist yesterday,” Mary Kate invents beautiful new illustration work every day. Recently she’s been exploring frame-by-frame animation. Like this cute duck character dancing to Wu-Tang.
On the newest episode, Mary Kate also opens up about her recent struggles with creative block and shares ways to cope with it. She talks about the importance of stepping away and taking it easy on yourself. “You have to listen to yourself,” she says. Go back to what brought you to making art in the first place. For her it’s going antiquing and looking at old ephemera. Until something clicks and she gets excited again.
There it is: Another fun and candid conversation with one of the greatest—Mary Kate McDevitt. Listen, learn and make sure to tell all your friends about it.
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SHOW NOTES:
• Watch Mary Kate’s courses on Skillshare
• Read Mary Kate’s new book, “Illustration Workshop”
• Learn Motion Design with Jake Bartlett on Skillshare
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FOLLOW MARY KATE:
Website: marykatemcdevitt.com
Instagram: @marykatemcdevitt Twitter: @MaryKateMcD Behance: be.net/marykatemcdevitt
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Hosted by Viktoria Cichoń and David Leutert. Music by Amanda Deff.
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