Episodes

This 'About The Tings' episode is all about Death, with a lil bit of Life, thanks to lilDENNiS and Kitty, who have been at it all week creating baby lilDENNiSES :) The episode is a brain dump therapy type session, where I talk about Death and see what comes out. What comes out is tings like: Connecting With Our Higher Self, The Interconnection Between All Tings, The Cosmogonic Cycle, Finding Courage, What Happens When We Die, Are We Immortal? Calling Death a Dick, The Paradox of Time, Suicide, K...

No Kitty Kisses for lilDENNiS this week ... or are there? Face Masks and Freedom are the topics for this weeks episode, which sees me talking about the recent law that forces all UK people to wear Face Masks in shops. Is it right? Has our free will been taken? Is there anything we can do about it? Should we do anything about it? Lots of Topics on this one, such as: How We Always Have A Choice, Finding Courage, How You Have To Be In The System, To Change The System, Concentration Camps, Suicide, ...

An Art-Ickle in Issue 5 of the Character Design Quarterly Magazine, entitled 'Four-Word Characterization, with Dung Ho' was the topic for this weeks episode, and I found this one to be super powerful. Topics covered on this one include: Dealing with the Overwhelm of a Blank Canvas, How Story is Everywhere, Wondering What Happens to Discarded Ideas, Turning Words into Characters, How to Get Started, Ways to Engage the Viewer, and Being Mindful of What Your Drawing :) lilDENNiS also introduces us ...

An Art-Ickle from Graphite Magazine Issue 2, entitled 'Creating Creatures: Sketching and Concept Development, with Brynn Metheney' was the topic for this weeks episode, which saw me and lilDENNiS pick up a lot of lil art tips. This Art-ickle was really fun, and all about Exploring ideas and designs when Creating Creatures. I came away form it thinking How The Drawing Process Never Stops! Topics covered on this one include: Combining Creatures, Sketching Shapes, Should You Keep or Throw Away Old ...

This 'About The Tings' episode is about Lucid Dreaming, and some of my recent Lucid Dream Experiences. The Sub Conscious is the main Focus with such Lucid Dreams as: Are You My Sub Conscious, What Are You Wearing?, and Don't Slow Me Down. I also talk about: Dream Interpretation, Struggling to Stay Lucid, Fears, Robert Waggoner, False Awakenings, Dream Diaries, Inner Child, and film some Squirrels eating biscuits in the Park. Hope you enjoy like it :)

This is one of them Therapy sessions, where I empty my Mind on the topic of Acceptance. It's something that popped into my awareness this morning, after a dream I had last night where I was face to face with my Dad, talking about his inability to accept me as Transgender. Acceptance is such a big topic that I'll most likely cover it again on a future podcast, but on this episode I ask the question, Do You Need Acceptance From Others To Accept Yourself? Other topics include: How The Outer World I...

An Art-Ickle from the ImagineFX Art Book Fantasy Creatures, entitled 'The Nature of Faerie Art, with Marc Potts' was the topic for this weeks episode, which saw me and lilDENNiS dive into the world of Fairies, and other strange creatures. Topics covered on this one include: Are Fairies Real?, How Psychedelics seem to be linked to FAERIES, Other Artists Faerie Art, How to Fuel your Imagination, Brian Froud's Art Book, Folklore, Mythology, Being With Nature, Where to find Inspiration, How Not Draw...

An Art-Ickle in Issue 12 of the Character Design Quarterly Magazine, entitled 'Behind The Cover Art - Designing The Cover, with Sarah Conradsen' was the topic for this weeks episode; Found this one to be Super Fascinating and Fun. Topics covered on this one include: Mood Boards, Coming up with Story Ideas, Sketching, Relationships between parts of the Creative Process, The Power of Colour, Light and Shadow, How to Tell Stories Visually, Questions to Ask when Designing a Cover, The Power of Writi...

This 'About The Tings' episode goes pretty deep and made me cry, but I really enjoyed it. The main topics are Anxiety, the lil Demon and Angel inside my head, and the Power of Nature. I had no idea where this one was going to go, but I started off with a recent Lucid Dream, before covering other tings like: Facing Fears, My Transgender Journey So Far, OCD Free Will, Negative and Positive Energies, Our Creator, The Earth, Birds, Habits, Being a Human, and how Thoughts are like Fractals. lilDENNIS...

The final Website Development Diary episode before normal service resumes :) was a Crazy week, but the most Important week. I had so many notes for this one, I decided to throw them out the window and talk mainly about how I spent the past 7 days redoing all the stuff I had already done. I learnt how Sometimes you have to do it Wrong, to work out how to do it Right. Other topics include : Iterating Your Designs, How Painting is like Website Development, The Balance of Colours, Global Colours and...

Down by the River we go for this one, as lilDENNiS and I talk about more Website Development Diary stuff, and watch lil Ducks bobbing along the water :) The audio's a bit windy at times, but hopefully it's not too distracting. May is all about Working on me Website though, and this episode covers the main take away from the second week, which was How It's Easy To Get Distracted By New Ideas. More topics include stuff like : Going to Bed Late, Constantly Changing Tings, Resizing Images takes a lo...

lilDENNiS and I talk about Website Development on this one, and do a lil bit of African Drumming :) The month of May is all about Working on me Website, and this episode covers the main take away from the first week of me Website Development Diary, which was The Importance of Taking Breaks. This one also covers a lot of other stuff, including : How You Can Do More, by Doing Less, When You Rush You Delay, The Power of Dancing, Procrastinating, Focus and Discipline, Computer Glasses, Time Saving T...

We're joined by special guest Funny the Cat for this one, who plops in to say hello as lilDENNiS and I talk about Website Development. Me lil website broke months ago, and I decided it time to finally start bringing it back to life; so for the month of May I'll be Focusing on the Website and doing these lil Weekly Website Development Diary podcasts. This one covers tings like : The Challenge of Simplifying, Content Buffers, How Stuff Takes Longer Than You Think, Finding Focus, How Your Old Art c...

This 'About The Tings' episode is about False Awakenings within the Lucid Dreaming state. What Are they? How do they Feel? And What do I think is causing them? That's some of the tings I talk about, as well as stuff like: Sleep Paralysis, Fear, Keeping a Dream Diary, Multiple Dimensions, Alternate Timelines, Akashic Records, and Virtual Reality. I also talk a lil about the Netflix show Stranger Things, How Everything is Information, and I share some of my False Awakening Experiences.. Hope you l...

This is one of them Therapy sessions, where I empty my Mind on the topic of Video Game Addiction. It's something I've struggled with all my life; I thought I was over it, but it seems I'm still Trapped in the Cycle of Buying Video Games, Feeling Guilty and Selling Them, only to than want to Buy Them Back Again. I really have no idea what is going on, or what I'm supposed to do about it, but I know Talking About Stuff Helps. And some of the stuff I talk about on this one, includes: The Flow State...

An Art-Ickle in Issue 9 of the Character Design Quarterly Magazine, entitled 'The Language of Shapes, with Tom Hänni' was the topic for this weeks episode; It really got me thinking about the Power of Shapes and Lines when Designing and Creating Characters. This one covers stuff like: Drawing Exercises to Loosen Up, The Power of Writing, Keeping it Simple ... Stupid, Lines of Action, Detailing vs Simplifying, Big Bastard Basic Shapes, Silhouettes, Sketching, and Tom Hänni's Characters. I also ea...

This one was fun. I dive into the book Colour Therapy by Sue Lilly, and talk about all the different colours, and how they affect us on an energy level. There's lil Art Tips too, like how Yellow and Brown are good colours to have around while Studying to help focus the mind! Hope you enjoy this lil ramble about Colour Therapy, which covers stuff like: The Power of Colour, Society & Beliefs around Colour, Feelings vs Colour Theory, Balance, Character Design, Crystals, Using Colour to Tell Stories...

This 'About The Tings' episode is about Lucid Dreaming, and some of my recent Lucid Dream Experiences. Entities are the main Focus with such Lucid Dreams as: It's Nan! Part 2, The Swamp, and Smoke In Me Face. I also talk about: The Out Of Body Experience book by Anthony Peake, Talking Animals, Egregores, Becoming Lucid, Facing Fears, Communicating with Dead People, and False Awakenings on this one. Hope you like it :)

Wakey Wakey! Can you hear that? I never planned to talk about this topic, but it popped into my head, so I went with it ... on this episode I talk about the Virus, and how I see it as The Wake Up Call we all need. Something I've realised over the past few years is that Change is hard; the Transition from old to new is super Uncomfortable, but I see this lil period we're in right now as a Beautiful Opportunity for us Humans to Learn and Grow, and hopefully Come Together. Lots of Topics on this on...

What a weird week this has been. It's been a week of Distractions, and in this episode I talk about a lil article I found on Steemit.com, entitled 'Starving Your Distractions'. This ends up being one of those Therapy Session type episodes where I just talk and see what comes out of my head. I talk about: My Art Desk, Tricks of the Mind, Detaching from Negative People, Dealing with Negative Thoughts, Lucid Dreaming, Habits, Having Multiple Devices, Video Game Addiction, Video Game Characters, and...

An Art-Ickle in Issue 11 of the Character Design Quarterly Magazine, entitled 'A Quick Guide To Composing Characters, with Katarzyna Olbromska' is the topic of this weeks episode; and it's a super fascinating one about the importance and power of a Characters Backstory. This one covers stuff like Thumbnailing, Creating Characters Backstory, Shapes, Balance, Colours, Silhouettes, and Katarzyna Olbromska's Cool Characters. Funny the cat joined us for this one and decided to sit on the computer dur...

It's episode 100! Woohoo, and to celebrate we have my lovely Sister Lorna Lawson on the show, for a fun lil interview type ting where we sat down and chatted about stuff like: Facing Fears, Managing People, What Happens When We Die? Ghosts, Aliens, What Makes A Female? and Sausages or Fish Fingers? I hope you like this one, and thank you so much for all the Nice Comments and Tings you've sent me over the past 100 episodes. Love You Long Time!

NO! That's what I said out loud during the recording of a YouTube video when I got hit with a wave of Negative Thoughts about my voice. Once I had finished recording, I realised it would make a good topic for this weeks About the Tings episode of the So Free Art Podcast. Negative Thoughts are Pretty Powerful, and Super Sneaky, but once you start putting Awareness on the Mind, you see them for what they really are... LIES! It's funny though, because even when you know what's going on, they still ...

Books! I love even more books in this episode, which is part two of looking at the Art and Spiritual Books currently on me bookshelf. Part one covered mostly Spiritual Books, while this one is mostly Art Books. Some of the Books and tings covered include: Color And Light by James Gurney, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, The Natural Way To Draw by Nicolaides, Framed Ink by Marcos Mateu-Mestre, Perspective Made Easy by Ernest R. Norling, The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, The A...