"If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they won't even admit the knife is there." Malcolm X.
Pro Tips for Working Artists
- Stretch your hand every hour at least
- Take great care with emails.
- Draw your clients as monsters every now and then
- Eat crayons to improve color theory
- Hydrate
- Get a great chair, a throne preferably
- Increase your rate
If this pandemic has taught me one thing:
B-U-Y S-M-A-L-L-!
Saw something on Amazon you like? Look up the company and buy from them directly. It makes a difference of *epic* proportions. Trust me, I know!
As artists, we all have our own unique instincts that you must *learn* to trust. For some it is a gift for storytelling, for others, color or composition. 1/