The Good Ship Illustration Nice illustrator loneliness & working from home
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🗓️ 24th Sept | ⏰ 1pm UK | 📍 Online
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Ok, on with the shownotes 🤓
Why we secretly love working alone (almost all the time)
This week we got a good question from an anonymous listener 'how do I deal with loneliness when working from home?'
Sometimes we love it, sometimes we do not 😅
In this episode we talk about:
- Why lots of us illustrators prefer working solo… sometimes
- Shared studios vs. doors-that-close
- Headphones, boundaries, and avoiding “being watched” energy
- Partner-as-studio-mates 👀 Can it work?
- Using Zoom to humanise client relationships
- Instagram as a “virtual kitchen”
- Local micro-communities, Good Ship meet-ups, and regular check-ins
- Assuming positive intent ❤️
Rough timestamps, for people who like that sort of thing
00:00 Anonymous listener Q: “How do I deal with loneliness working from home?”
01:00 Tania’s Hong Kong years: craving team vibes
02:30 Partners in the studio: the headphone solution
04:00 Open-plan offices, self-consciousness, and wiggly energy
05:30 The magic of a shut-the-door studio
06:30 Home distractions vs. helpful pottering
07:30 The dream setup: close to home, small, warm, tree view
09:00 Commit to the space: move the “big computer”
10:00 Cloud storage and keeping work in one place
10:30 Instagram as water cooler… or a brain sponge
11:30 Real-world chats that top up your social tank
12:30 Online threads that turn into real communities over time
13:30 Good Ship meet-ups: sketches groups and weekly Zooms
15:00 Why creativity needs privacy and no-one-is-watching energy
16:00 Lonely… but nice lonely (with planned people bits)
16:30 Zoom with clients to reduce email-anxiety and “they hate it” spirals
18:00 How to write and receive feedback without spiralling
19:00 The rule that saves sanity: assume positive intent
20:00 Quick answers: studios with doors, small communities, kinder stories
Byeee for now. Let us know if you're coming to the workshop. WE ARE SO EXCITED!! Here's the link again in case you missed it:
https://www.thegoodshipillustration.com/atlas
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