Stan and Marshall are back with a new season of the Draftsmen Podcast! This time they are looking at different career paths for artists: Employees, Freelancers, and Entrepreneurs. They discuss the pros and cons of these different career options as well as their varying levels of independence. They also discuss how to speed up the process of learning from your failures as you try and create a successful business.

Make sure to check out Marshall's course - Design Your Career with a Whiteboard

References and books

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Draftsmen Art School as Project series

Making Money as an Artist

Stan’s Music Video

Neil Gaiman’s Make Good Art Speech

Seth Godin's Freelancer Course

Akimbo, Seth Godin’s Podcast

Do It Wrong Quickly by Mike Moran

Confirmation Bias on Veritasium

Triple R Method

Triple 80/20 Method (from this interview with Eric Partaker)

Judging Success (from this interview with Ryan Holiday)

Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday

Anatomy Course

Design Your Career with a Whiteboard

The Pre-History of the Far Side by Gary Larson

Draftsmen Social Media episode

The Wrecking Crew documentary

Referenced Images:

Marshall Sun Pic In Studio

Gahan Wilson Comic

Bernard Kliban

Sergio Aragones