Just One Cup Minimalist Mindset (Creativity Matters Podcast 497)

Creativity Matters Podcast (CMP)

Episode 497 of the CMP, a Creativity Matters Podcast — A “Just One Cup” Saga and a Minimalist Mindset

This episode is related to a recent post on the Illustrated Life substack.

To see the related post, see Just One Cup – A Minimalist Mindset

Topics in this episode (and not necessarily in the substack post):

• Picking and choosing
• Filling whatever space you give me (including time and writing)
• A day off and a dead car battery
• Finishing Wolf Hall, finishing The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki, starting the sequel to Long Way to A Small, Angry Planet (by Becky Chambers)
• My top three picks for a day off; why I don’t tend to sit at a coffee shop anymore
• A one-coffee cup vignette – the benefits and perils (a stubbornly dirty cup) (“Modern stainless steel can’t keep up with me.”)
• I don’t want a warmer, or a cup with a built-in heater. I like stainless steel for my one-cup
• We are adaptable as people; we can find silver linings in the most random of moments
• The benefits of drawing coffee mugs (draw the same one over and over or draw all of them) – you can learn a lot about form and shape and depth and about drawing what you see rather than what you know
• The “favorite 9” mugs meme from 2020 – You can tell a lot about a person from their coffee mugs
• A “limiting” mindset (cup, shoes, pencil)
• A “not my cup of tea” allusion in one of my comic affirmations from the 2024 100 Day Project

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Tools

• Moleskine Art Sketchbook (my most commonly used book for drawing and my illustrated journal)
• Moleskine Art Sketchbook (the REALLY big one — A3 (11.75″ x 16.5″)
• Preppy Fountains Pen 02 – this is one of the best starter/inexpensive fountain pens you can buy!
• Preppy Fountain Pens 03 (multi set)
• Lamy Safari – always a good choice
• TWSBI Eco – my favorite fountain pen in the starter range (although I love my TWSBI Iris Vac even more)
• Dip Pen holder (with maru nibs)
• PILOT Iroshizuku Bottled Fountain Pen Ink (multiple color options)
• Diamine Fountain Pen Ink (multiple)
• Noodler’s Fountain Pen Ink (multiple)
• Monteverde Fountain Pen Ink (multiple)
• Platinum Carbon Black ink (what’s in my fountain pen)
• Sktchy app for inspiration photos
• Micron 08 (larger nib good for thicker lines or filling in small-medium spaces)
• Micron 01 (favorite for drawing)
• Micron Sampler
• Notes on large format sketchbooks
• ROYGBIV supplies: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
• Uni-Gel Alpha Shaker pencil (mine is listed as “slightly firm” – but it’s super cushy; they do come in other softness/hardness ratings. I really do love this shaker!)
• Pentel Hi-Polymer Block Eraser, Large, White (these things disappear like socks; you can never have too many white erasers lying around)

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