Stop waiting for permission.
You're an artist now, not when your circumstances finally change.
FIELD GUIDE
FOR PEOPLE MAKING ART IN REAL LIFE
The Full-Time
Part-Time Artist
You don't need the perfect schedule, a giant audience, or permission to build a meaningful creative life.
An honest, practical field guide for writers, illustrators, and other creatives making art while also holding a job, raising a family, paying bills, and living a full life.
MAKE THE WORK. USE THE TIME YOU HAVE. BUILD A CREATIVE LIFE THAT CAN ACTUALLY LAST.
THE IDEA
Stop waiting for your "real" creative life to begin.
The Full-Time Part-Time Artist grew out of a mindset shift that changed the way I think about making art. Instead of organizing my life around the dream of someday becoming a full-time artist, I started asking a different question: how can I make the work I care about now, inside the life I already have?
This little book is about building that kind of creative practice—one that can survive jobs, family responsibilities, limited hours, disappointment, ambition, and all the ordinary pressures of life.
"I'm trying to make the art of my dreams in the small spaces of my life."— Michael Regina
THE FULL-TIME PART-TIME MINDSET
A practical creative philosophy.
The idea is not to stop dreaming about making art full-time. It's to stop putting your creative life and goals on hold until your circumstances change.
Change the meaning of success.
Measure success by the work you can control—finishing, improving, showing up—not whether you can quit your job.
Embrace the life you're living.
Fifteen minutes counts. Small drops of creative work eventually become finished projects and a body of work.
Let the work be the victory.
The Adamsville story is proof that the work itself can be the victory—and that finishing the work can open doors you never could have planned for.
WATCH THE VIDEO
Why I stopped waiting to become a full-time artist.
In this video, I unpack the idea behind the book and the mindset shift that helped me start making the art and books I've dreamed of while continuing to work a day job and raise a family.
Watch on YouTubeREAD A PREVIEW
Take a look inside.
These are full sample pages from the zine. Click any page to open the full-size image for easier reading.
TO ENLARGE
MAKE THE WORK ANYWAY
Your creative life doesn't have to wait.
Get the 24-page field guide in print or digital form and start building a creative practice around the life you actually live.