Comments on: Keep The Creative Juices Flowing – Tips For The Freelance Artist

By: Home Business Team

Home Business Team — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:28:02 +0000

Great article, alot of useful information to be had. This is definitely inspirational and it has a good amount of tips to get people motivated!

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By: Jilly

Jilly — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:03:35 +0000

Wow – Loved it – Good reminders & inspiration!
When’s your book coming out?

By: Susie

Susie — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:50:19 +0000

@Jacob, it honestly has been my biggest struggle to convince the power of blogging to those that are terrified of it. Its a great venue though, and IMHO they should look at it as pretty cheap advertising!

By: Susie

Susie — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:49:27 +0000

@Dot Com – Thanks a bunch!

By: Dot Com Mogul

Dot Com Mogul — Sat, 17 May 2008 14:56:19 +0000

Good article. I’m a freelance designer too – commercial art – logos, brochures, catalogs and such. I’ve seen your sketches and love them.

By: Jacob Cass

Jacob Cass — Sat, 17 May 2008 14:40:13 +0000

Yeah, the power of blogging is still so unknown to far too many.

By: Susie

Susie — Sat, 17 May 2008 12:18:08 +0000

@ Pam, I hear you on that, it seems if there is a pile of stuff to do, my motivation rises, one or two little things..haha.. It is than deck time!

@Homejob, I get the same way, I’ve had no professional writing training, and only by default have started pursuing it, often times I feel that I don’t have the skills to, but if I don’t try, I won’t know.

@Stan, you are completely correct, money, or as Gene Simmons said, the lack of money is the root of all evil. That unfortunately drives people in the wrong direction – IMHO

@blogzilla, your dedication to my work is always appreciated!

@Ty, criticism is tough to take, and often times harder to swallow, but if we take a step back, there really are lessons.

@Noob, thats how I feel about the creativity, we gotta continue to feed it!

@Ritu, The one piece of art that I struggled and struggled with, I thought was going to be a failure, no kidding, I started it up at least 7 times, and pitched everyone of them, it wasnt until then that I had to ask for a different picture of the subjects, low and behold..the detail was missing in the one they had sent, but I just couldn’t imagine how to make that one work. The second one came, and, truly shed “light” on the people. So, on one hand a failure, cuz I couldn’t do it, but on the other, I realized what was needed.

@Jacob, yes you are correct, so many new one’s and so many that do not have one. I read it will be expected of companies at some point and time for them to have a blog, just as it is now for them to have a website. This is a concept, that I can not drive home currently and struggle daily with the higher ups to convince them. I guess time will tell.. since one of my articles on the blog has brought in a potentially large client, I am sitting and hopeful this will turn into a project, and I will have my proof positive!

Thanks all for your kind words!

By: Jacob Cass

Jacob Cass — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:45:31 +0000

“It’s tough to get noticed when there are so many other larger dogs on the porch.”

And so many smaller ones too. Think about how many do NOT have a blog. Even by just having one that you post to every now and then you are a step ahead of the rest. I think at my uni in my design course, there would be only a handful that do blog, and the rest are missing out!