So I am constantly watching successful people videos, listening to podcasts, trying to learn what they are doing good and I came upon this video: At the time I am very interested in the art business, how to monetize your art, how to provide value and similar questions. In this blog post I wanted …
You will never be fully ready
In this short blog post I want to talk about being ready to start something, for example business, commissions, quitting your current job and finding a new one, starting a YouTube channel, it can be whatever that you want to start. You just not feel like you are good enough, like you are just …
How to vectorize your pen and ink drawing?
Sometimes customers insist on having vector file for printing. Even though I am not a fan of vectorizing your hand drawn pen and ink drawing, because it distorts the image a bit and removes quite a lot of the details as well. Vectorizing your drawing digitizes it in a way that’s not very pleasing …
How to trademark check t-shirt ideas?
So you have got an amazing T-shirt idea – alien head drawing with a bold font saying “I want to believe”. Everyone who loves X-files will love it and the design will be killer right? That’s awesome and it might be, but you have to perform a trademark search before you use that saying …
What happened when I stopped caffeine ingestion
So one day I’ve decided to stop drinking coffee and black tea (and caffeine in general), just to see what happens to my body. I’ve also watched some videos on Youtube that caffeine is not very healthy on your body actually and it is a “drug” for sure. I also love self improvement of …
How to get free resources for your art projects?
How to get free resources for your art projects? I mean fonts, textures, photos / photo references for your art projects. https://pixabay.com , https://unsplash.com , https://www.pexels.com – free stock photos, great to use as a photo reference or you could use them for your design projects since they are free, just double check …
Why it’s important to charge the price YOU want for art commissions
You have to ask the customer to pay the specific amount for the commission that YOU want, not the low-ball amount, but that one amount, that would make you feel valued, respected and adequately paid. Why you need to do that? Well, because only then you can create your best work, it does not …
Though I’ve had while creating Memento Mori Art
So I’ve been reading about the Memento Mori theme online and found this beautifully dark 13th century poetry on Wikipedia: Original language: “Deyr fé, deyja frændur, deyr sjálfur ið sama; ek veit einn at aldri deyr, dómr um dauðan hvern.” In English: “13th century Memento Mori poetry Animals die, friends die, and thyself, …
How to bring value with your art?
I’ve been struggling with this idea for quite a long time, in fact, I am just now starting to realise that if you want to create a successful business of any kind it has to bring people value, and that also applies to the art business, and yes we artists have to think like a …
Zombie art process timelapse
This is speed up (speed up 21x times, real time is ~2 hours 30 mins) drawing process video of me drawing a zombie illustration inspired by the classic horror video games. I filmed it with my Canon A2600 camera and then I used Shotcut to glue the parts together and also to add effect, …
