Often graphic designers, illustrators and comic artists don't see themselves as connected to art history. Here's how my thinking on that changed after hitting professional creative burnout, and an analysis of a classical painting that demonstrates how I glean ideas from works from the past even if my work seems nothing like it.
0:00 My Big Professional Burnout
1:36 A Wrong Way of Thinking
2:50 How Art History Changed Me
5:06 But How Do You Study?
8:00 Caravaggio
8:48 I Love Analysis
9:15 Calling of Matthew Analysis
20:50 What Can a Comic Artist Learn?
22:50 This Will Enrich Your Life
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