Tending Creativity Podcast Episode 018 ✿ Going After What You Want ft. Illustrator Fabiola Lara
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Episode 018 ✿ Going After What You Want ft. Illustrator Fabiola Lara
For this episode I got to talk to illustrator, podcaster, and youtuber Fabiola Lara. Fabiola has created work for the Los Angeles Times, the Golden Globes, Instagram and more! She has a podcast called Draws in Spanish where she interviews notable Latinx visual artists. Fabiola has an incredibly tenacious spirit and I loved hearing about her journey as an artist and person!
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In this episode we talk about:
-Fabiola introduces herself
-Fabiola’s relationship with creativity as a child
-Viewing art as a hobby, not as a potential career, growing up
-Entering college after high school
-Majoring in a science degree
-Missing art and figuring out a way to get to take art classes as a science major
-Considering medical illustration
-Realizing she didn’t want a career in the medical field
-Discovering she was interested in media, tech, and social media
-Switching her major to marketing/advertising
-Getting internships in media
-Interning for Tumblr and a post-grad job falling through
-Feeling stressed and pressure about getting a job after graduation
-Dealing with negative family criticism
-Starting to get illustration commissions while working full time
-Transitioning from working a corporate job to freelancing
-Quitting her job after being accepted into an illustration program in Barcelona
-Moving to Spain
-Falling into a housing scam, the start of the pandemic, and returning back to the United States
-Freelancing as a designer and illustrator at the beginning of her freelance career
-Her first kind of illustration commissions
-How her work and freelance jobs have changed
-The evolution of her illustration style
-Work for clients vs personal work and closing that gap
-Advocating for her work
-Going from digital tools to analog tools to hone in on her style
-Self doubt as an artist
-Boundaries between identity and work-life as an artist
-What Fabiola likes to do for fun-watching tv, TikTok
-Having moved to a new city during the pandemic and finding friends being difficult
Fabiola’s podcast Draws In Spanish
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