You can have multiple passions and some of these can be your side projects.Ĭutting of other passions for you to focus on only one is going to do you more harm than good. Your creativity doesn’t have to be solely one thing. To make your work feel more concrete, you’ll have to try to use your body in the process of creating your work. Sometimes, computers can make our work seem abstract because we’re just typing keys and clicking buttons. However, stepping away from them every once in a while is important to create something. In this digital age, we are very used to our laptops and gadgets. In this chapter, readers are encouraged to use their hands in making their art come to life. Build things you would for it to exist in this world. The same goes for draw the art you want to say, start the business you want to run and so on. This chapter was fairly short and straight to the point. And when you fail to do so, that’s how you evolve as an artist.įailing to copy your heroes is where your own thing comes to life. This way, you get a glimpse into their minds.īesides, you don’t want to imitate your heroes – you want to emulate them. Figuring out what to copy is the tricky bit.Ī good tip is to not only steal ideas from them but steal the thinking behind these ideas. It is easy to know who to copy – they’re your favourite artists, role models.

First, you have to figure out who to copy, then you figure out what to copy. However, copying here is referenced to practicing not plagiarizing.

Pretend to be making something until you actually have made somethingĭon’t wait any longer, just start copying.

Pretend to be something you’re not until you are.

One way to do this is to “fake it till you make it”: Most of the time we wait until we are ready because we think we aren’t ready (imposter syndrome) but no one is entirely ready, they just start with what they have. Do the work and you’ll figure out who you are along the way. In this chapter, readers are urged to start making things.

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