Draw me like a Frenchie

A pink hairdryer-shaped pig. A yellow boy with spiky hair. A kid in an orange parka who dies every single week. You know exactly who they are, and you haven't watched some of these shows in years. So why do they still live rent-free in your brain? In this episode we will go full cartoon nerds and break down what actually makes an animated character stick forever. Turns out it's not talent, it's no...

Sit down. Take notes. If you have that hard decision to communicate, where you need to come out to your family as a creative soul, once again, we have been there. Learn from our do's and don'ts and get readu for some mental exercise to break down some walls inside your head. We will explore the social constraints, our best friend the fear of failure and how to get the right support right where you...

Getting played is not nice. Getting played by deceptive design is even worse. Designers use their knowledge to shape the way we communicate, understand and experience certain products or services. This is not a way we support using creativity for. In this episode we're bringing dark patterns to the stage — the sneaky, manipulative design tricks that apps, shops and streaming platforms use to steal...

Did you come up with something really cool at 2am, you love it, and now you're wondering if this could actually be a thing? Monetise? Advertise? Overwhelming thoughts that spiral in your head and probably won't let you sleep tonight? Once again, we have been there, cried those tears and had those doubts. Baby steps little padawan, if you have an idea in mind, the strategy is more or less set and y...

We get it, we've been there and we've done that. Life can be pretty messy sometimes. Back pain can appear just because you sneezed in a weird way, and your to-do list probably has a to-do list. Normally in situations like this, we'd hear that you need to meditate or work out more often. Did you eat your protein? Have you been grateful enough lately? We believe there are other ways of finding yours...

Okay real talk. When you were a kid you could turn a cardboard box into a spaceship, give your Barbies a full dramatic love life, and genuinely believe that Santa made it all over the world in one night. You were THAT kid. An absolute creative machine. And then somewhere between school, deadlines, and someone comparing your drawings to your sibling's, you just... stopped. In this episode we will g...

Okay so. we listened back to Episode 1 and absolutely hated it. Wrote pages of notes. Rewrote the whole script and had to tell ourselves to just ship it. And here we are doing a whole episode about perfectionism because apparently we can't help ourselves. If you've ever had a project living rent-free in your drafts folder for three months, a portfolio you're this close to finishing, or a creative...

You know that voice in your head that whispers "they're going to find out you have no idea what you're doing" ? Yeah. We know her well. In the very first episode of Draw Me Like a Frenchie , we (Louise and Guillermo, nice to meet you) will crack open a gin bottle, sit down in front of a microphone for the first time, and tackle the one thing every creative mind knows intimately, the imposter syndr...