PK 242: Reinventing Yourself as an Artist

Diego Jourdan Pereira is an author of puzzle and activity books, including the Giant Book of Games and Puzzles for Smart Kids, The Big Book of Brain-Boosting Puzzles, Bible Power Puzzles, and the Astonishing Bathroom Reader. With a background in illustration, comic books, and graphic design, his clientele has ranged from Dover Publications to The Topps Company. In this episode: In this week's episode, Diego Jourdan Pereira walks us through how he went from a career as an illustrator working in licensing and completely reinvented himself as an author and book designer. Diego's story is a fantastic model showing how clear goals and hard work pay off to break into a completely new market and create new opportunities. If you have been sitting on the fence, not knowing what to do or how to do it, just listen up because the clues are all right here and if you are willing to put in the work, it's just a matter of continued effort and time before you're well on your way towards your dream career where you get paid to be creative. In the last part of the episode we talk about the difference between dreams and goals, and Diego has a great way of looking at how to set and make your goals a reality.

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PK 242: Reinventing Yourself as an Artist is an episode from Pencil Kings | Inspiring Artist Interviews with Today's Best Artists by Mitch Bowler.

This episode is 44:15 long.

This episode was published on Jun 16, 2021.

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