After his longtime boyfriend kicks him out, a promising young illustrator moves to Arizona where he reflects on everything he’s had to do for money. As he tries to capture these memories in his paintings, he begins to understand all that he’s lost as well as what might be possible.

A struggling artist hopes to revive his social relevance by making a project out of his new neighbors, but he is forced to confront his own ruination as his obsession grows and old rivals enter the scene.

A man who is trying to find his place in the world tries his hand at multiple professions but ultimately settles with painting. Though he has talent as a painter, he leaves his patrons unsatisfied, taking wild artistic liberties he takes with commissions—a lesson which his two closest friends will come to learn when he paints a portrait of one of them.

A loveless, disturbed man with a hand fetish seeks out the perfect pair of hands and eventually finds himself drawn to a medical illustrator.

After he is buried alive by a mysterious figure, a hapless artist begins to think the form of intense and scattered fractals, that evoke his artistic background and tenuous relationship with religious iconography.

A magical painter who can perfectly capture a subject but must destroy it in the process decides to kill and immortalize her old lover.

Battling poverty, a brilliant but undiscovered statue maker and his pregnant wife try to raise funds for a headstone engraving apprenticeship.

When a mysterious new member joins a group of struggling authors, the friends discover that they may have a supernatural creature in their midst, who can grant a single author success above all the others—but at a cost.

When a neglected and lonely girl is approached by an illusion-making creature looking for an apprentice, she experiments with her newfound powers and makes a perfect version of herself. She quickly finds out that perfection isn't all it's cracked up to be and searches for a way to end the illusion.

An amateur painter attends his first art show, hoping to sell some of his work. He soon understands, however, that the path to success in art is not nearly as simple as he once perceived it to be.