Today’s podcast is all about ten skills that every artist needs. That’s from the creative side of things to admin or business skills.
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The Ten Artist Skills We Talk About in the Podcast
1. Manage time
- This might mean being selfish at times
- Treating art like an appointment
- Prioritising
- Realising how long your art takes with everything that come with it
2. Focus
- Ignoring social media
- Ignoring housework
- Commit to a project
- Challenges
3. See
- Draw what you actually see and don’t make assumptions
- Take notice of everything
- Try to look at your subject more than your paper.
- See tones of light and dark in what you are working on,
- See subtle changes in colour hues
4. Imagine
- Do what’s right for the art
- Generate ideas. This can be as simple as deciding what to paint and in what style, to generating weird and wonderful imaginative ideas
- Think a little differently
5. Get over failure
- We can’t learn without failing
- See if you can use that failure in any way.
6. Take criticism
- You will never please everyone
- They may not even be right
- If the person is right you can use it to learn from.
- If you try to please everyone your work might be bland or unnoticeable and in the end will not please anyone.
7. Self Promote
- Talk about your art
- Share it
- Learn a bit of techie stuff
- Don’t be afraid to say ‘I’m an Artist.
8. Accept rejection
- You won’t always be the right fit for galleries, podcast interviews etc
9. Say No
- Don’t say yes to other projects for fear of missing out FOMO
- Also say no to friends and family for free stuff unless its something you really want to
- To commissions if they are not the right fit or if you already have too many
10. Be Brave
- Experiment and try things out
- Don’t be afraid to get out there and sketch in public
- Be confident (or pretend to be)
- Be open to new opportunities
Also mentioned in the podcast
The Kick in the Creative’s first course – How to Use Water Soluble Wax Pastels
This week’s creative question
Q. Has a real-life situation ever inspired your work?
The best answers will be read out on a future podcast.
You can Tweet us your answers @KickCreatives or let us know in the Facebook Group, which by the way if you haven’t already joined, I highly recommend that you do! We will put the question up there and also on the facebook page… and of course, on our Instagram page @kickinthecreatives.
If you have any suggestions for the podcast or our challenges please feel free to get in touch.
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