Our illustration collective has been meeting weekly for three years to work on personal projects together, but two of us have started getting real freelance work and suddenly the energy in the room is different - there's this unspoken hierarchy emerging and the feedback sessions have gotten careful and political. We used to push each other's work in ways that made everyone better, but now I can feel us all protecting our individual brands instead of taking creative risks together.
More people experience this than they realize.
Success has introduced an asymmetry that threatens the foundation of mutual vulnerability that made the group generative.
“Where Are You with Illustration and drawing?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.