From "Basketball is Life" to Published Illustrator

I'm More Than What I Thought I Was!

Thursday, October 15 — 2PM.

Clouds hung low, the sky split between gray and blue.

Caught up with Alvin Broussard (childhood brother) — a California-based professional portrait artist and published illustrator — who shared how the lessons he learned from basketball shaped his approach to art and personal growth. He talked about how daily repetition and consistent practice in sports, particularly basketball, became the foundation for developing his skill set, discipline, and creative flow—skills that now fuel his work as a professional artist and published illustrator

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Alvin and I both come from athletic backgrounds and now live in creative spaces. We often talk about how, when we were deep in our sports, we couldn’t see anything outside of it. We ignored our creative curiosities—our exploration and other sides of who we were—until the game was over.

We always wondered: what if we had held onto those creative parts while still playing? Maybe we would’ve discovered ourselves beyond performance—beyond the court or the field—earlier in our journey. Now, we talk about how athletes can start doing that today: leveraging their creativity, building their brands, and discovering themselves before their sport ends.

This conversation with Alvin is a perfect reminder that our time in sports was never wasted—it was training. The discipline, repetition, and resilience we built on the court were actually developing the skill set to fan the flames of our deeper purpose, passions, and abilities.

To see more of Alvin’s work, follow him on Instagram: @alriginal and @differentmediums.