Idiomics: handdrawn idiom illustrations

Idiomics is a collection of illustrations I made during the pandemic to help add a bit of life to the articles I was writing on Medium.

Throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

This was also my first ever launch on Product Hunt — can’t really say you’re in tech without one of these, right?

Skills #

Throughout the whole process, I managed to practice a few important skills:

• eCommerce copywriting and landing page design
• Promotional video creation
• Product Hunt (yes, this is a skill)

Not to mention the actual drawing itself. I’ve made all the illustrations free to download and use.

Key Takeaways #

I think there’s a lot I learned from building Idiomics. Here are my key takeaways:

• Sharing is caring: If you do something valuable for yourself, it’s probably valuable to other people too.
• Just ship it: I had this project on the backburner for about 2 and a half years before I finall pressed publish. Ship!
• Selling illustrations is hard: This project was never really meant to generate revenue (and trust me — it didn’t). But it’s because it didn’t solve a pressing enough problem.