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#186 - The Counter-Intuitive Way To Figure Out Which Creative Direction You Should Take

Finding your artistic strengths this way.

But it might be a good idea to turn that around: given a specific activity, do I have natural advantages?

#185 - The Thing That Makes You Different Can Make You Valuable

One thing large corporations get wrong.

Don’t be replaceable. Try to create your unique way of doing things. If there is demand for it, you are not easy to replace.

#184 - When It Comes To Making Art, Which Is More Important, Craft, Or Self-Expression?

The answer is yes.

Self-expression without craft leads to works that are not easy to understand.

#183 - Why Comparing Yourself To Other Artists Is HarmFul For Artists, But Being Inspired By Great Art Is Not

Your work will fall short. You see all the mistakes in your work and how amazing their work is. It can be demoralizing.

#182 - You Can Design And Configure Your Workspace So That You Can Not Help But Be Productive

When I was at university, you’d have these trimesters where you’d have an exam period at the end.

#181 - The One Thing You Need To Know About Zettelkasten

Combining ideas can give surprising, highly enlightening new insights. And that is what you need to take away from the Zettelkasten methods: don’t try to come up with as many ideas as possible, but rather with as many combinations between ideas as possible.

#180 - Hunting Versus Gathering In The Digital World

While you cast your net into the ocean once, haul it in, and then forget about it, it pays to nurture the plants and other flora in your garden.

#179 - What If All Online Advice (Including Mine) Were Wrong?

Ten years from now, the social media landscape will have changed unrecognizably, and all the work you put into creating social media posts will be for naught. What lasts is the tangible body of work you made as you went offline. That’s when we’ll walk through museums and see all the work made by people who had the sense to stay offline and in their studios.

#178 - Find-Your-Why Is Nonsense

The driving force is curiosity. It gets you jumping out of bed, continuing where you left off yesterday. Curiosity chases away feelings of emptiness.

#177 - How To Make Yourself WANT To Draw

What if there was a way to get a dopamine hit from the anticipation of making art?

#176 - When Your Audience Gives You A Hint

To share, or not to share. Depends on how an audience receives it. But that should be independent of whether you make something. That should depend on whether it pleases you.

#175 - Five Content Types Artists Can Share (Part 3)

Do decide beforehand what you will and will not share.

#174 - Proko On Memory Drawing

When you practice drawing from memory, you get better at drawing things you didn’t even practice drawing this way. You also get better at drawing from observation because you get better at seeing when and why lines and shapes are off.

#173 - Five Content Types Artists Can Share (Part 2)

You, as, say, a portrait painter, may share your process and tips and tricks when painting portraits. This shows off your expertise in that area and might get people to participate in one of your portrait painting courses.

#172 - You Have To Build A Good Drawing Habit Up Slowly

You will stumble. Just pick yourself back up again.

Bad habits are impossible to stop slowly, and good habits are impossible to start quickly.

#171 - Five Content Types Artists Can Share (Part 1)

The different types of “content” artists can share online.

You don’t want to share your Resources over and over again.

#170 - Artists, Give Yourself Permission To Just Have Fun Creating Art

This is a great drawing activity to do with children.

The pre-conceived reverie is where you imagine something in your mind, and then draw it. My drawing from memory exercises come close to that, and make you better at doing that. Practicing drawing from memory makes you better at visualizing something in your mind’s eye and then drawing it how you imagine it.

#169 - Finite Versus Infinite Games

The idea is that with a finite game, there is a goal, and there are rules. With infinite games, you may change the rules, and the goal is to keep playing. I haven’t bought the book (yet), but I instinctively understood the premise.

#168 - When Being A Teacher And Being An Art Student Become The Same Thing

We are all students! Some teachers just forgot.

You learn by explaining to others.

#167 - A Huge Opportunity Us Artists Are Missing Out On

Maybe the next image-based social media platform should have this.

A human promoting your work is way more valuable—as it is social proof—than a dumb algorithm sharing your work, yet we do design posts for the algorithms. We work for free for “exposure” for the algorithms, with no guarantees that anyone will see the posts we make for them for free.

#166 - The Algorithm Behind ArtPodPlay, My Podcast Player

And why human curation is still king.

It was inspired by TikTok, which does exactly that. It presents streams of highly addictive short videos, so apparently, it can be done. So, how do we go about that?

#165 - When Are You As An Artist Ever Ready For Art Instruction? And When Are You Not?

Does art instruction even matter?

When you teach, you will discover that when a student struggles with something for a week, they understand the problem so well that a half-word is often enough for them to understand the solution.

#164 - Some Fantastic Books - Some Free - On Drawing With Pen And Ink

(You could do Inktober or any other October challenge that now exists using my workbook ; choose a subject based on the prompt to tackle through memory drawing and warm up by doing a memory drawing from that reference.)

#163 - Becoming An Artist By Not Trying To Be One

Stay off social media as much as you can.

Focusing on pleasing others and making what you think the market wants can become soul-destroying.

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