Draftsmen - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Wonderful advice on art school, please take it seriously! I did graduate with my BFA from an elite and expensive school with over $100k in student debt, and while I am finding good freelance work and my first publishing deal five years afterwards, the value of the school was not worth a fraction of what I paid. I never had enough credit room to even take a painting course and have been teaching myself that post-graduation. I really wish I had attended an atelier and self taught.

Thanks for putting this info out there, guys! Save the innocent saps from misguided ideas of achievement.

I love listening to this podcast. I’ve been listening since it first started and Stan mentioned it. There’s always interesting topics, and the camaraderie between Stan and Marshall is great. Stan provides a great view as a younger guy around my age, while Marshall provides an incredible viewpoint from experience and wisdom grown from time. I can’t say enough good things about this show. So glad I found it, and started watching on YouTube!

Actual TREASURE in each episode. And while some podcasters’ banter is boring and canned, Mr Prokopenko and Mr Vanderuff have an actual conversation which always leads somewhere. And WOW!, do these men know their field and teach well.

Stan and Marshall bring out the most reassuring AND thought provoking points. And, often hilarious! The discussions embrace a wide range of the human creativity experience, which has me noting (and reading) books, authors, writers, and appreciating the conceptional, natural modes of all Creatives- some I had personally experienced, and others I’d never heard of. While I didn’t go to a fine arts school, (just graphic arts in trade school, just at the advent of computer typesetting) I kind of feel these guys are my Tribe! So glad I found them! PERFECT to listen to while prepping and making art! Cheers to them, and James Gurney for leading my attention to them! - Pat in New Hampshire, US