This is The Accidental Expert, a newsletter about success, failure, and digital art.

I will be sharing random lessons, anecdotes, opinions and ideas gathered from over twenty years of navigating the commercial art world, including:

• Personal stories about where my best and worst ideas have come from.

• How my body fell apart due to stress and negligence, and how I am still rebuilding it.

• Business lessons that I hope will help you succeed faster than I did.

• How I feel about what is happening in the digital art world.

• My thoughts on art education and my experience teaching in higher ed.

• My favorite resources for artists and designers.

• The many, many things I learned about business and entrepreneurship on the way to selling my digital brush business to Adobe.

• Thoughts on agents/representation for illustrators.

• More …

Please subscribe and tell a friend or two, if you think some of these topics might interest them or help them along. Thank you.