How to stream your art! And benefit from it. by Suzanne-Helmigh, journal
How to stream your art! And benefit from it.
Has any of you ever thought about streaming their art on Twitch creative? But something keeps you from it.
I certainly recommend trying it! The audience on Twitch Creative is generally very encouraging and supportive.
You can grow your art-skills, get tons of work done, broaden your social circle, broaden your audience and if you like, even earn some money to buy food for your pet.
Here are some great benefits to streaming your work, in terms of skill development.
:bulletblue: 1. It keeps you from getting distracted by external things (Like social media, Youtube, gaming, procrastination etc).
:bulletblue: 2. It expands your social circle
A guide on making an art portfolio. by Suzanne-Helmigh, journal
A guide on making an art portfolio.
Hello! Very often people ask me to review their portfolio, often enough to detect a certain pattern of wrong choices that cause potential proffecional artists to sit longer on the side bench than necessary.
The following article serves as a guideline but in no way it it the absolute truth or only route into getting yourself a concept art position or illustration job. See it as a checklist, before approaching your dream job.
It's the big artist dream to simply paint what you like and be able to sell that and make a ton of money so you can simply keep making what you like. Even though there are some artists out there that are pretty much livi
Achieving your dreams. Before during and after. by Suzanne-Helmigh, journal
Achieving your dreams. Before during and after.
It’s been on my mind for 5 years now, started as a whisper in the back of my brain, hardly believing that I am capable of achieving it. Than slowly it developed into a goal, something that I might be able to achieve after all … perhaps.I want to illustrate for my favorite realm in the world: Magic the Gathering.
Phew, feels heavy saying it. The notion warms my chest and raises my heartbeat ever so slightly feeling the rush of adrenaline coursing through my veins. I’ve witnessed my boyfriend and some friends do work for them for 2 years now while I was too burned out from Studio work (concept art for computer games.) and hone
The Key to keeping yourself motivated properly. by Suzanne-Helmigh, journal
The Key to keeping yourself motivated properly.
Let me start off with telling you what motivation is and why you need it.
A motivation is a reason behind doing something a certain way to work yourself up to a certain goal. Just having a goal but no understanding of how to get there, means you have no way to motivate yourself and your goal will be hard to reach.
Therefore motivation is needed desperately in order to become truly good at something.
The motivation to eat is the feeling for hunger and the end goal of ending the hunger and feeling healthy and energized. This type of motivation is a feeling.
Which brings me to: Intrinsic motivation and Extrinsic motivation.
Shortly explaine
Taking your art to the next level in 2015! by Suzanne-Helmigh, journal
Taking your art to the next level in 2015!
I am taking my art to the next level in 2015, who's with me?
I want to fall in love with art all over again. Going through the painful process of growth as the art-bones stretch and your creativity get's set loose after wondering if you had any creativity at all!
2015 marks a new year and a new start, make the most of it and don't start it unprepared!
Here follows a list of things I'd like to do in 2015. You could call it a bucket-list. You can copy mine or make your own, but this might give you some ideas for yourself.
:bulletblue: 1. Going through all the fundamentals all over again.It has been a few years that I studied any fundamenta