Please don’t take my extended absence personally: I barely wrote anything in 2017. Let’s change that this year.

(2019 Edit:  So much for that.)

But this post, as the title says, wasn’t planned. It started out as an answer to a Reddit post asking what you should study if you want to go pro, but as I kept writing, I realized it was turning into a blog post.

So here you go: a list, from memory, of what I think an artist with ambition should be reading up on.

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