Do you have to practice art every day? Do you need to paint or use Photoshop on a regular and consistent basis to keep your skills sharp? I get these kinds of questions all the time from students, and it's a really important subject. But I have to admit that…
Today I want to share some great tips about finding gigs and making it as a professional concept artist in today's industry. I get a lot of students asking me how I got to become a professional concept artist, making my living creating artwork for games, films, album covers, and…
A few musings on a pleasant afternoon in late November… I’m looking out my home office window right now at an absolutely gorgeous sunset. The Creator is really showing off. And I get to kick back, put my feet on my desk, and savor the equinoctial majesty. My friend David…
One time, very early in my business, back when every last dollar was precious, a guy called me on the phone. He was ready to spend $1000 on my Lead Generation system. He mentioned he was in real estate. I said, "Since you're in real estate, there are other systems…
The shortest path from your message to peoples’ wallets is video. Wouldn’t ALL of us make more videos if it wasn’t such a pain in the butt? What if video was a whole lot faster and easier? Surely there’s an easier way… and it turns out there is. A handful…
Got this from a reader of my ebook How to Sell Art Online: The Complete Guide... "I am doing everything from selling to invoicing. Difficult to even have the time to think about (strategic) things. Had I not read the book over Christmas, I probably would not have taken the…
Here are three autoresponder techniques that I have used successfully in my email newsletter. Using these ideas in your email newsletter can help you make autoresponders a high art. Autoresponder Trick #1: I use Aweber, and I've noticed that the people who are truly interested will open up my Autoresponder…
My brother took me for a ride in his Cessna 172, and for most of the trip - take off and landing - I was the pilot. It was scary. And exhilarating. The plane was wobbly and unstable at first. Every touch of the wheel seemed to send us off…
Do you subscribe to many email newsletters yourself? I subscribe to lots of them. Some I rarely read, or I stick them in a folder for "some time." ("Some time" usually never comes.) Eventually I unsubscribe, realizing that I'm never going to make time for them. Then there are a…
How do you view change? Is it frightening and intimidating? Or is it an opportunity for positive transformation? When Charles Dickens was a small boy, his father was sent to prison for poverty. As a result, the theme of imprisonment appears repeatedly in his many articles and novels. In one…
