In this episode I’m sharing my recent thoughts on my brand, the things I want to create and represent with my art, future website changes and personal updates.
Here are the key updates:
Website – Planning major improvements for my website, making it a better hub for my content, and a better reflection of who I am as a person and as an artist.
Art Style – My desire to make my style more contemporary and authentic, for MY OWN enjoyment from it. Perhaps some movement away from the traditional, and more towards the pop culture and relevant.
Higher quality – Mentioned very briefly, this is a part of the trend I’ve experienced for a few months now. Taking a step back, working on my skills and improving the QUALITY of my work. I have no problems with quantity when necessary. However, I want to raise my own bar.
In this episode I’m sharing a personal update and talking about my low productivity in the last couple of weeks. And on a positive note – I’m talking about getting back into POKEMON cards! 😁
2020 has been quite a challenge so far.
I do hope to turn the tables with the last third of the year, from September-December.
Thank you for listening 😊🙏🏼
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In today’s episode I’m sharing 3 BIG business-related insights I gained over the last 7 years of building my art business. These are MACRO insights that I think you and anyone can benefit from, even if you’re NOT building a business.
Let’s get to it!
#1 – Things never work out the 1st, 2nd or 3rd time
I can’t even begin to count my failures. It’s simply an INHERENT part of doing something worthwhile – Learning a skill, creating a relationship, building a business etc…
I had to learn to recognize this fact, embrace it and continue iterating, improving and trying – until what I did WORKED.
Happens to me in painting, drawing, marketing, making content etc.
#2 – Learn from the BEST
This is another incredibly important insight I had.
If you want to learn something FASTER and more efficiently – find the person / place that’s the BEST that you can afford, and learn from that.
This will save you time, bad habits and probably even MONEY in the long run.
The ability to find these people and resources is something that will also improve with time.
#3 – Always give MORE than you receive
This is something I always try to strive for.
In any business transaction, or even personal life – I’d much rather give back more than I receive.
And again – this isn’t necessarily from a place of kindness (though I would like to think I’m kind), but rather – it’s PRACTICAL!
In the long run, you’ll always do better and get farther by providing more value than you ask for in return.
And along the way – it ends up really helping people, so why not? (:
Conclusion
These are some of my most meaningful insights from the last 7 years of working on building my art business.
There are plenty more, in all different areas of life.
Let me know if there’s anything in particular you want me to discuss here, on YouTube or any of the other channels!
In today’s episode I’m talking about the main problem I see that causes artists to lose motivation over the long run, and how to solve it (fairly easily).
Vision, Goals & Tasks
I believe many artists have a vision of where they want to be and what they want to achieve.
The fun part about being an artist is that there are basically endless possibilities.
Aside from having this vision, it’s important to connect it to smaller goals, and tasks. These are all extrapolated from the main vision.
The Disconnect
What I’ve seen happen many times is a disconnect between the mundane, daily tasks, and the grand vision.
Very often I can’t feel how what I’m doing at the moment will help me get there, and that’s a problem I know others face.
The key is to understand where the disconnect stems from, and squash it.
One option is that the daily tasks indeed AREN’T related enough to your vision and aspiration, and maybe you need to set up smarter, more efficient and effective tasks (and perhaps even goals).
Another option is that YOU don’t see the connection, despite it being there.
Make the Connection!
That’s the main idea of today’s discussion – make that connection!
The easiest way is to write your vision out, in a way that CLARIFIES without a shadow of a doubt how your actions today lead to your goals tomorrow.
Today’s another story time! I’ll share with you my relationship with art, drawing and painting from the time I was a KID! And all the way up til now.
I share in this episode some things I never shared before, so I really hope you enjoy it! 😊🙏🏼
Let’s Start at Age 5
First memory – Drawing at my grandparents porch, Dr. Seuss book on one side and my piece of paper on the other. I vividly remember drawing the fuzzy elephant as I saw it.
Elementary School – Taking part in an extra-curricular COMICS class! I remember drawing all sorts of characters, and being very impressed with the older kids’ results.
Turns out me and comics go wayyy more back than I even remembered.
Junior High – Barely made any art
High School – Discovered anime (mainly Naruto and Death Note) and started drawing random anime characters.
I was actually able to dig up these drawings I did, never seen before…!
Sasuke from Naruto – If you remember I did draw another version of this one recently. But this one is from around 2005A character from another manga I read at the time called Yankee Kun to Megane Chan
I spontaneously decided to look for old drawings in my old emails, and was so happy to find that I did have a few!
Military Service – During this time I was barely doing any art. Only in the last 6 months of my service I started moving towards that direction again.
I Could End up NOT an Artist!
That’s the craziest part here.
If you look carefully, you’ll see that from the time I was around 5 years old, all the way up to the military service, over more than a decade – all there was was a steady decline in how much I was creating.
Had the circumstances been even just a little different here and there, I might have not become an artist at all.
In the episode itself I got into a longer rant about the education system, parents and so on haha.
But luckily – I have become one! 😁
My Future Part in the Art World
I also discuss my future part in the art world, and how I want to go beyond my current niche and play a more major role.
More on that in the future, as it unfolds.
Thank YOU So Much
I’m very grateful for you, the listener / viewer / follower. I couldn’t have done any of the things I have without you.
I really appreciate that, and look forward to being able to share and help more and more in the future 😊🙏🏼
