We Artists Need To Learn To Create Like A Child Again And To Just Have Fun With It
This art thing was supposed to be fun, wasn’t it?I took a color pencil, and I started to make lines on the same paper.
The Reason Missing Deadlines Is Often A Good Idea
Why it can often be better to just miss deadlines.They would end-of-life a version of a product and then ramp up production of the new version. The company made a lot of money every day. The thing about that was that you couldn’t miss even a day. Each day you miss revenue, you will never get that back. So if I was one day late at delivering the software, the company lost a lot of money.
The Case Against Calling Yourself An Artist
Because being an artist comes with external expectations. People act surprised when I tell them that I don’t see myself as an artist.
A Weekly Reset Helps Artists Not Get Stuck In A Routine That Is Not Working
Do this every weekend. What went right, what went wrong, and what do you want to change for the coming week?
A Great Way To Improve Your Art Is To Find A Way To See Your Work As New Audiences Would See It
Look at your work with a fresh pair of eyes, like others would see it. Artists, eating dog food? Stay with me, though.
Become A Better Artist By Becoming A Teacher And Explaining Things You Learned To Others
Artist, Compete With Me! And do it for your own benefit! The thing is, he wasn’t necessarily sharing it because he thought my work was good. I mean, of course, it was good! But if you read the caption, what he was saying was, “Guys, look at this person sharing what they are learning along the way. You can do that, too!”
Games And Systems Can Be A Great Way For Creatives And Artists To Come Up With New Ideas
On making practice fun. An example is the famous Monty Python sketch where a customer tries to return a parrot to a pet shop. The customer claims the parrot is dead, but the shop owner doesn’t want to take the parrot back and refuses to agree. And so the game became for the customer to come up with as many ways as possible to say the parrot had died, gone to meet its maker, pushing up daisies, has ceased to be, et cetera.
As An Artist, Do Anything You Like, Follow Your Muse, Do Not Get Stuck Doing Things That Bore You
The benefits of doing many different things.The book “REFUSE to CHOOSE!” by Barbara Sher was a feast of recognition for me and probably for everyone who finds themselves constantly starting new projects and never finishing them.
As An Artist, You Need To Think About That One Thing You Want To Be Known For - Stick To Doing Only One Thing!
But should you stick to just one thing? I stubbornly make the case here. You know link trees: Instagram, and many other platforms, allow you to have one link in your bio. But you do so much! You have a YouTube channel. An Etsy shop! A website! And more!!!
What Are The Benefits Of Going To Art Academy, And Should You Go To One If You Want To Become A Better Artist?
Is it worth your time and money?Here are my thoughts on that.
Make Many Drawings Instead Of Trying To Make A Few Good Ones
The other half was instructed just to make as much as they could.
Heinrich Kley - Leut und Viecher, published 1912 - high-resolution scans
I mentioned before that I joined Marshall Vandruff’s course “Drawing Lessons From Heinrich Kley”, which was, again, a life-changing experience.
The Case For Just Making Things That Please You As An Artist
You choose which of the two is more applicable to you.
The Case For Making Art With An Audience In Mind - But You Get To Choose The Audience!
The case for catering to an audience.If you want to make money with your art, or if you are just out for admiration from an audience (and it is a good idea, to be honest about that, to know what drives you), you need to make something they need.
As An Artist, Should You Make Things That Are Popular, Or Should You Make Things That Make YOU Happy?
What would you choose?All I can do that could be of value to you is lay out the advantages and disadvantages of each.
The Relative Benefits Of The Top-Down Versus The Bottom-Up Approach When Learning To Draw
Two ways you can learn art. That sounds like a sensible approach, right?
The Benefits For Artists Of Working LESS efficiently!
Or rather, slow down!Seinfeld has this trick: he’ll sit behind his desk. He doesn’t HAVE to write, but he is not allowed to do anything else.
The Benefits For Artists Of Working MORE Efficiently
Or should you? The teachers would constantly contradict each other at the art academy, and I loved it! They would explain why, and each had their point, and they were each right in their way, leaving it to the student to decide which approach was best for them.
Rembrandt Did Not Have A PlayStation - Modern Day Artists Have To Create In A Very Different Environment
So do not beat yourself up over it. Rembrandt did not have a PlayStation. Think about what that meant for his productivity!
The BEST Introduction To Perspective Ever--And It Is Available For FREE Online!
There are amazing free online learning resources online. I was constantly struggling to with coming up with illustrations that go with a text. But then I thought, why? The illustrations are there to break the block of text and to give your eye a place to linger. All it has to be is an illustration, any illustration.
Marshall Vandruff Created This Free Figure Drawing Bootcamp Which You MUST Check out!
There are some amazing free educational resources out there. Check out Marshall Vandruff’s YouTube channel!
Expand The Definition Of What You Do Creatively And Do Not Limit The Creative Space You Explore
You do not have to stick to one thing. The Anatomy Of Habits - Why Is It So Hard To Start Drawing Every Day?
How habits work. So why is it so hard to draw every day? They are both habits, or they can be.
This Is A Cool Way For Artists To Measure How Much They Do Not Know Yet And How Much They Have To Learn Still
A cool way to measure how fast you are growing. We were developing a new geographical mapping dataset, and we hired a young student who had an affinity with maps to look over them to find out if there were mistakes in them.
