{"id":502,"date":"2019-08-28T11:10:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T11:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/shapesandletters\/?p=502"},"modified":"2019-08-28T11:10:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T11:10:56","slug":"mental-health-advice-from-a-freelance-illustrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health advice from a Freelance Illustrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-503\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/shapesandletters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-28-at-11.37.35-1024x754.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"498\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a nice interview with illustrator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilyamilstein.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ilya Milstein<\/a> who shares his journey as an artist with insights into how he has dealt with depression and anxiety. He discusses the importance of physical health, routine and maintaining balance in his life in order to be able to create. You can read the interview on Adobe&#8217;s 99u site here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/99u.adobe.com\/articles\/64049\/on-resisting-creative-stereotypes-confronting-mental-health-and-a-disciplined-studio-practice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/99u.adobe.com\/articles\/64049\/on-resisting-creative-stereotypes-confronting-mental-health-and-a-disciplined-studio-practice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take a look at his portfolio at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilyamilstein.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.ilyamilstein.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilyamilstein.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-504\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/shapesandletters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-28-at-12.08.22-1024x754.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a nice interview with illustrator Ilya Milstein who shares his journey as an artist with insights into how he has dealt with depression and anxiety. He discusses the importance of physical health, routine and maintaining balance in his life in order to be able to create. You can read the interview on Adobe&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[28,34,43],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-links","tag-freelancing","tag-illustration","tag-mental-health","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}