Who are you?

Hanif Janmohamed

What is your project?

The Reluctant Illustrator, Inky drawings, musings, links, perspectives, curiosities & occasional insights, is a pen and ink drawing practice, published as a newsletter and blog. The physical feedback loop of drawing is refreshing in its immediacy, and folding other types of content into the mix is curiously rewarding. I’ve launched this website with the scope of building a sustaining member base, offering sales of prints/merch, and spinning ongoing side projects – A Wandering food-based Abecedarium? A Creativity Card deck? A Book of Drawings and Musings? A Chronicle of Travels and Wanderings? At some point, I hope to engage in conversations with readers.

Can we see some photos?

A link to your work:

https://www.thereluctantillustrator.com/

A preview, snippet, or glimpse of your work in progress:

What will you ship at the end of 6 months?

At the end (is there such a thing?) of this road I will ship:

• A completed website with an integrated eCommerce component and print-on-demand fulfillment

• Some real-world print sales and happy recipients!

And I’d like to have:

• A clearer content strategy and a sketch of an outreach strategy for the promotion of this project.

• A growing body of subscribers

• A sense of a road ahead to paid subscriptions or Patreon-type support.

• A comfortable, rewarding drawing and blogging practice.

• The rumblings of a print project – like a book of drawings – in the works.

• Perhaps some fun collaborations and conversations in the works.

Link to anything you’d like the community to review:

• Feedback, reviews, and conversation are always welcome!

• I have put in place the beginnings of a gallery and store

• Specific feedback - I’m trying to find the balance for pricing prints while keeping inventory minimal

Check out Hanif’s Work-in-Progress here: the reluctant illustrator