Jan 14th 1-2-3: Make Friends
1: Make Friends ( 1 minute read )
It’s important for us as artists to focus on our fundamentals, and commit to consistent daily effort.
Having fellow artists to use as a ‘sounding board’ of sorts is how you make real progress in your journey. Go to any artist you admire, and ask if they would be where they are today without any friends to help bolster and inspire their art. Most would say that having fellow artists around was a crucial factor in the growth they achieved in their artistic journey.
So go look for where your people hangout.
Find where people like you tend to be.
Build real relationships with your peers. Don’t just ‘befriend’ someone because of where they might take you. Don’t be superficial.
Actually get to know them.
Get to know them for their strengths, as well as their weaknesses.
You might find that some of your strengths are their weaknesses, and vice versa. Learn how they approach the things they are strong in, and pass on how you approach your strengths. Learn to trade skills.
This will have the effect of strengthening your weaknesses, as well as learning your strengths well enough to teach and pass them on.
The marker of true mastery of a skill, is knowing it so well that you can effectively teach and pass on said skill to another.
In all industries of art it’s important to make true friends, because it is through true friends that big opportunities arise.
In a lot of cases,
It’s not about who you know, It’s about who knows you.
Now to find your people, make new friends, and grow alongside them!
2: Creative Prompts From Us (ex. Write a short story, a poem, a song, or draw a quick illustration of these! Let your imagination run free.)
I. Think about of friend of yours, and create character that is inspired by them. It can be a direct inspiration, or a more cryptic inspiration of your friend. Now put that character into a piece of your work.
II. Think about someone who wronged you in life. Think about what life must have been from their perspective to lead them to that moment they wronged you. Create, and implement a character into your work that embodies all that you’ve come up with.
3: Inspirational Quotes From Others
I. “You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”
-Walt Disney, American Animator, Writer, Business Owner
II. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
-Maya Angelou, American Memoirist and Poet
III. “Creativity takes courage.”
-Henri Matisse, French Visual Artist
Thank you so much for reading!