Skip to content

Transition to a creative career — one week at a time.

Creative Path 52
Join the H₂BA² programme InkFox

Coming soon The podcast

Real tools for a creative life that earns.

Honest, lively conversations: Damian Sémonin in discussion with fellow creatives, business minds, specialists and working artists sharing their stories and paths, plus open episodes that take a blog piece and crack it wide open into a proper debate with you. The craft, the head-stuff, the AI behind the scenes, and the business of making a creative life pay. Season 1 is written and recording now.

Straight with you: no episode is recorded yet, so there’s nothing to play on this page: no fake player, no dead “listen” button. What there is: a real list. Leave your email and the first episodes land in your inbox the day they go live.

Notify me when it’s live → Follow on Substack
Creative Path 52 · with Damian Sémonin · Real tools for a creative life that earns

Play the latest episode

01

Season 1 · The Making

The Palette That Taught Me Everything

Coming soon
––:––

First episode drops soon. The audio isn’t recorded yet, so this is a preview: get notified the moment it’s live.

What it's about

Part interview, part open debate. Some episodes are conversations with fellow creatives, business minds and working artists sharing their paths; others take one of Damian’s blog pieces as a springboard and open it right up, leaning on its ideas and turning them over with you, lively and ad-hoc, never a transcript read aloud. Five threads run through the season; they weave (most weeks touch more than one), but each episode leads on one.

  • The Making

    The craft itself: painting, drawing, teaching, and the daily practice of actually making the work.

  • The Walk

    Attention, the body, and why moving through the world (and noticing it) is what feeds the work.

  • The Block

    Perfectionism, shipping, and getting past the thing that quietly stops most creative people.

  • The Machine

    Using AI as a genuine collaborator, not a shortcut: the honest version, held back until the season earns it.

  • The Business

    Making a creative life actually pay: the channels, the courses, and the income under the art.

Season 1: the episodes

Twenty episodes, each one prepped and ready to record. These aren’t transcripts read aloud: every written piece is a springboard, opened up into a lively, ad-hoc discussion with you (and, across the season, with guests). Each shows a Coming soon state while the audio is recorded; the moment it’s live, this list turns into a real feed.

  1. 01

    The Making

    The Palette That Taught Me Everything

    How a single set of colours became the whole lesson, and why constraints teach faster than freedom.

    Ready to record · coming soon
  2. 02

    The Walk

    Why I Walk in the Rain

    Weather, attention, and the case for getting out in the conditions everyone else waits out.

    Ready to record · coming soon
  3. 03

    The Block

    The During

    The messy middle of any project: where the doubt lives, and how to keep going through it.

    Ready to record · coming soon
  4. 04

    The Block

    Ship the Thing

    Done beats perfect. Why finishing and releasing the work matters more than polishing it forever.

    Ready to record · coming soon
  5. 05

    The Walk

    Your Brain Is Wired to Miss the Good Stuff

    Why we filter out most of what's in front of us, and how an artist trains the noticing back on.

    Ready to record · coming soon
  6. 06

    The Walk

    Why Your Body Has to Move Before Your Creativity Can

    Movement as a way in: how getting the body going unlocks the work that won't come at a desk.

    Ready to record · coming soon
  7. 07

    The Making

    Draw Something Every Day

    The daily-practice argument, honestly: what a small everyday habit really does over a year.

    Ready to record · coming soon
  8. 08

    The Walk

    Why Where You Are Changes What You Make

    Place and the work: how your surroundings quietly shape everything you create.

    Ready to record · coming soon
  9. 09

    The Making

    We Don't Live Long Enough to Be Anything Else

    On committing to the work: why the shortness of a life is an argument for making, not against it.

    Ready to record · coming soon
  10. 10

    The Making

    What Teaching Art Has Taught Me About Learning Everything

    A thousand-plus students in, the lessons about how anyone learns anything, not just painting.

    Ready to record · coming soon
  11. 11

    The Block

    Stop Perfecting. Start Publishing.

    The publish-over-perfect case, made plain, and why the audience only shows up once you post.

    In prep
  12. 12

    The Block

    The Cost of Waiting Until It's Perfect

    What perfectionism actually costs: the work never shipped, the years quietly lost to polishing.

    Ready to record · coming soon
  13. 13

    The Block

    The 10,000 Hour Misunderstanding

    What the famous number really means for practice, and where it leads people badly astray.

    Ready to record · coming soon
  14. 14

    The Machine

    Using AI to Clean Up Your Thinking — Not Replace It

    The AI reveal: how the machine earns its place as a thinking partner without doing the making for you.

    Ready to record · coming soon
  15. 15

    The Making

    Is Bill Bryson the Greatest Advance in Human Civilisation?

    A love letter to curiosity: on reading widely and letting other fields feed the creative work.

    Ready to record · coming soon
  16. 16

    The Making

    I Was Building the Future Before I Knew What It Was

    Joining the dots backwards: how the scattered years were quietly building toward one thing.

    Ready to record · coming soon
  17. 17

    The Making

    How Not to Waste Your Rich Creative Vein

    When the ideas are flowing: how to catch and use a good creative run before it passes.

    Ready to record · coming soon
  18. 18

    The Business

    One Idea, Three Channels

    The repurposing engine: how a single idea becomes a post, an episode and a lesson.

    Ready to record · coming soon
  19. 19

    The Business

    The Creative Life Has to Pay

    The money conversation, named straight: creative doesn't have to mean poor, and here's why.

    Ready to record · coming soon
  20. 20

    The Business

    You Already Have a Course. You Just Can't See It Yet.

    The season's payoff: why what you already know is a product waiting to be shaped.

    In prep

Running order and titles may still shift: this is a living, ad-hoc show, not a script read cover to cover. Two episodes (11 and 20) are still taking shape; the rest are prepped and ready to record.

Coming soon Be first to hear it

Get the first episodes the day they land.

No audio is live yet, so there’s no feed to subscribe to today, and I won’t fake one. What works right now: leave your email and you’ll be first to know the moment episodes go live. No card, no catch, easy unsubscribe.

Notify me when it’s live → Or follow on Substack

Prefer a proper one-click signup? A hosted email form is coming here soon.

Live at launch on

  • Apple Podcastsat launch
  • Spotifyat launch
  • RSSat launch

Read now While you wait for the audio

The podcast’s in the studio — the writing’s already here.

Every episode in Season 1 springboards off a post. Read the blog, browse by theme, and subscribe on Substack so new pieces (and the podcast news) land in your inbox.

Featured from the blog

Stop Perfecting. Start Publishing.

The course I never released taught me more than the ones I did.

Read the piece

Previous articles

See all posts →

Browse by category

Substack

Get it in your inbox

Subscribe on Substack for new posts, and the podcast the moment it lands. No card, no catch, easy unsubscribe.

Subscribe on Substack