Pen Tales | Illustration and Art Podcast
Pen Tales | Illustration and Art Podcast
Podcast Description
Welcome to Pen Tales 
— I’m Stefan aka Plastic Pen, a freelance artist from Münster, Germany. In this podcast, I sit down with other artists, illustrators, and creative minds to talk about the real stuff: how we stay inspired, tackle freelance life, and navigate the ups and downs of being creative. No filters, no fluff—just honest, open conversations between two people who turned their passion into their profession.
https://pentales.art grossehalbuer.substack.com
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The podcast explores themes such as creativity, mental health, and career transitions in the art world, with episodes discussing topics like balancing freelance challenges and finding inspiration amidst restrictions, exemplified in conversations with professionals like Chester Holme and Dimi Pantazis. Additionally, focus areas include community building among artists and making comics.
Welcome to Pen Tales — I’m Stefan aka Plastic Pen, a freelance artist from Münster, Germany. In this podcast, I sit down with other artists, illustrators, and creative minds to talk about the real stuff: how we stay inspired, tackle freelance life, and navigate the ups and downs of being creative. No filters, no fluff—just honest, open conversations between two people who turned their passion into their profession.
https://pentales.art
Hey everyone, I’m starting the week with a brand new Pen Tales episode coming fresh from the Podcast studio aka my office! :)
I had a lovely talk with London based illustrator Chester Holme. We spoke about how restrictions can help your creative process, balancing mental health and freelance illustration work, and his comics for Mirrored Dreams.
I was surprised by the melancholic mood in both his comics, as much of the work I saw before gave me a rather uplifting impression. We talk about the reasons for that in the Podcast as well. It made me love his work he submitted to the book even more!
Having Chester as a guest now was good timing for another reason. We reached our first stretch goal for the Kickstarter campaign! Every backer will now get a bookmark with one of his panels, added to every book for free!
Support our campaign and the work of 13 artists here!
Hope you guys enjoy the talk as much as I did! As usual, you can also watch it with video on Youtube, too:
Cheers and have a great week!Stefan
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