Mikey Hayes

@middleground

Sketch more, scroll less.

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Taming The Beast

While artists have many directives, a core component of our calling is found in taming the beast of our creative inclinations. On the surface, taming the beast may sound restrictive (or just weird) but in reality, it's nothing more (or less) than focusing our creative efforts, which eventually becomes the mechanism by which we learn

Open Notes

Open Notes shares small thoughts about the big picture and is a production from Middle Ground Made.

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Open Notes [No. 13] - June 12, 2025

Before jumping into a very competitive game I think you should look at the winners of that game and decide if you want to be like them first

Sherry x.com

Too often, we think of notebooks as a way-station: a necessary stop en-route to the perfected, polished work of art. But what if the notebook is the work of art? What if the process of taking notes is the point?

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We have a lot of ideas because a lot of ideas is the starting point.

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The Eyes and the Impossible

Go read this book it’s one of the rare ones.