Tiny Tips to Help You Improve Your Life as an Artist

Making art is easy to me, I just draw the thing and get done with it. Being an artist is hard. I draw the thing, show the thing, tell people that the thing exists. I convince people with money to pay me to live and draw more things.

It takes self-discipline, self-awareness, and self-esteem to be an artist. Some days, you feel like a fountain of ingenious creations! But other days, you feel like a worthless loser who can’t to do anything and regrets having interests. This is the life of most artists, musicians, actors, and other “creative” professionals.

This is a list of tips that I try to follow for myself for the past few years as I try to become a more professional artist.

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Pardon the Mess

It’s been a while since I’ve updated anything online. Over the past few months, I’ve made an extremely sloppy transfer to Bluehost in a rough effort to improve my website. My big goal is to set up my website as my core hub for all of my web presence including where I’ll post and sell my comics and post my news. I’ll still have my typical social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram but I want to one day sunset them as I think they don’t do much to help me out in my art journey.

Adam Mortell, Ryan Cambruzzi, Vincent Rusca and I worked on a game for Global Game Jam this year. I’m bummed that I didn’t do more for the game but, I learned how to make pixel art for the first time.

You can play our game here!

Besides that, I’ve been tackling some new freelance artwork and commission stuff including working on a new book in the Flawless Extra-Ordinary Superheroes Series. With this, I’m still trying to fund printing for Incident at The Game Store in color but some car problems have come up so money’s lacking.