Building An Online Presence for your brand
When developing your visual identity online, several key factors come into play: your color palette, how your logo represents you, where you want to showcase your work, and whether you need social media, a website, or even both. The type of content you create helps guide these decisions.
A consistent brand helps you maintain a cohesive presence across all platforms. When people find your profile, they should immediately recognize it as yours. You want to eliminate any confusion about whether they're in the right place.
While you might be tempted to cut costs, your visual presentation and photography deserve significant investment. Quality images are essential for showcasing who you are as an artist and your brand.
Creating a Personal Brand as an Artist
What story are you going to be telling? A personal brand is what will bring clarity to you, your artwork and your story. It helps provide you with a goal and vision. Without this brand you may find yourself struggling to stay consistent or to even know what to make next. It also provides your audience with an understanding of what your brand does and what it stands for.
You don’t have to lose yourself to become a brand. This isn’t about selling yourself out or giving up on your authenticity. A personal brand is a tool we can use to help guide us in our story telling. Today I want to talk about what it looks like building your own personal brand and how to do it in a way that helps grow your authenticity instead of losing it.
The Power of Storytelling in Making Change
We all have a universal desire to want to make a difference and be part of positive change in this world. Sometimes it’s for selfless reasons and you go about humbly trying to make the world a better place. Or maybe you want to make change for a selfish reason, to gain favor or rewards.
Each of us has been through different life experiences and have our own unique stories to tell. The question is: how will we use these stories? Will we sit in despair about our struggles, or will we fight to bring change to this hurting world? Through storytelling, we can create meaningful positive change in the world. Whatever your reasoning is we all have a natural instinct to want to make an impact on the world we live in.
Balancing Commercial Success and Artistic Authenticity
Can art still be authentic if it’s made to sell? Just because you’ve found a way to earn money from your creativity—does that mean you’ve sold out? Many artists wrestle with the fear that once their work becomes profitable, it loses its purity. We struggle to find a balance between turning what we love into a career and keeping the passion alive. There’s a constant tension between creating for expression and creating for income. But do those two have to be at odds? Or is it possible for both to coexist—art that’s honest and also pays the bills?
The Therapeutic Benefits of Creative Writing
Has there ever been a time when you wrote something out and it felt like a weight was lifted off your chest? Writing can be so much more than a creative outlet for people. It can help bring yourself clarity in situations in your life, it can help you with your emotional processing and help you make better connections. With a little practice the art of writing can help you heal both mentally and spiritually as you go through different challenges in life.
The Role of Collaboration in Enhancing Creativity
Have you ever noticed that your best ideas often come when you’re talking with a friend or bouncing ideas off someone, rather than sitting alone, trying to force inspiration? This week, we’re diving deeper into the power of collaboration — and why it’s often the spark that takes our creativity to the next level.
I believe collaboration elevates creativity by exposing us to fresh perspectives, holding us accountable, and giving us renewed momentum.
Obsessed With Flowers
I love metaphors as a way to show what I'm thinking. I struggle to put words in my mouth but find my voice when writing my thoughts down. I struggle to speak but I thrive when I write. Roses as Humans is what has become my identity. We are all broken and in pieces, there's a thorn in our flesh. But despite these flaws and failures we were made beautifully and we are all beautiful.
Collaborative Storytelling
Now that you have been creating for yourself the past few weeks; or I least I sure hope you have if you’ve been following along with this blog, it’s time to start looking towards others for help. Maybe you’re not the kind of person to seek collaboration from others. You’re that lone wolf creator who thinks they have it all figured out and don’t need any help. Well I’m hear to tell you that will slow your growth as a creator down.
Building a Creative Routine
Being consistent is absolutely key to creative success. I promise you, this statement holds true across various artistic endeavors. Create even when you don’t feel that spark of inspiration, and perhaps you will discover that inspiration surprisingly finds you, or you may simply become a better and more skilled creator in the process. Often, we find ourselves believing that we can only create when inspiration strikes, leading us to wait around for that perfect moment to begin a new project. But what if that perfect moment never arrives? Imagine how many valuable opportunities and experiences you may miss out on if you don’t take the initiative to start today.
Poetry as Self-Expression
Last week we talked about using visual art to tell your story in a new way. This week we are going to talk about how using poetic forms to capture emotions and moments can help you in your creative journey. Maybe you are not a poet by trade or maybe poetry is the first form of art you run to. Today I want to take a moment to talk about poetry and how it can help you capture your emotions even if you aren’t a poet. Hopefully everyone reading this can take something away with them that will help them tell the story they are writing.
The Art of Visual Storytelling
So you’ve written your very first story, or perhaps you’ve recorded an inspiring and heartfelt song. Why stop there when the possibilities are endless? You’ve already taken the brave step of sharing a story, but have you considered telling it again in an entirely new and creative way? Not everyone absorbs content or learns in the same manner, so by expanding the methods in which you present your story, you can effectively help diversify your audience. In doing so, you can enhance your influence and reach, simply by reimagining and re-telling your story through various mediums and formats.
Discovering Your Authentic Voice
Since you are here reading this post, I think it’s safe to assume you’re probably a creative or some sort of writer or artist? You want to improve your craft and your reach, but you don’t know where to start. Maybe you have a favorite author or songwriter that you want to be like, and you spend hours searching the internet on ways that you can be like them. They have inspired you, and you want to chase the life they are living. You may want to try to emulate what they are doing and follow in their path. While this may seem like a great way to get started, it’s not always what is best for you and your journey. The world doesn’t need another blank. They have them and their work, and that is enough. What the world is looking for is your voice and the value you can add to it.
The Importance of Reading
You always heard it growing up in school, “you should really read more”, “it’s good for your brain”. Well I’m here to tell you that maybe those people weren’t wrong. Reading has many proven benefits and has been shown to even help boost creativity. When you are in a rut and don’t know what to create an outlet you can take is pickup a book and dive into a new world. Or find a book that teaches you a new skill that you’ve always wanted to learn. Or find something that inspires you to be a new and better person. Books have the ability to offer us an escape from reality they enter our minds into a new reality and allow our imaginations to take a journey. Without the use of videos or pictures we can use our minds in new ways to build our own images based on the words the author is using. They can be informative and teach us new things about this world we live in. Here are a few of the many benefits of reading a book whether it is fiction or nonfiction.
Handwritten vs. Digital Writing
So you want to start writing or keeping a journal and wonder what the best way to start is. Do you pickup a pen and paper and begin writing or should you open your laptop and start a new note. There are many opinions out there and just by doing a quick Google or YouTube search you are bombarded with responses to why each is better. There are many strong opinions out there but I would argue that what is more important is that you just start writing. It doesn’t matter what the means you use is as long as you are doing it.
The Effects of Personal Journaling
So you're sitting there, staring at your leather-bound notebook, wondering what you should put on those nice clean pages staring back at you. You're not sure where to start or what good it would do if you did. Would anybody ever read your work—or does that even matter? What's the point of putting all your thoughts out into the world? Aren't they fine living in your mind? People have been journaling for years but is there a good reason for it or was it just something to do in a world that was much simpler than our world is now. Today I want to talk about the effects of personal journaling and whether you should start your journaling habit today.
Practice writing lyrics
Sometimes you need to force yourself to create if you are going to continue to be creative. It’s okay to sometimes have a creative block. What is not okay is to allow that to make you give up all your goals and dreams. I promise you everyone who has successfully created something did not do it without having some low points. You are far from being alone.
3 Ways of an Effective Leader
So you want to become an effective leader? You want to help influence other people and accomplish goals? Have you ever been to where you are trying to bring people? If not how are you going to know the best ways to get people to where they need to be? What weight does your advice actually hold? Do you have clear “easy to follow” goals or are your methods confusing. These are a few areas we can look at and see if we need to grow ourselves to become better leaders. Here are three things that you need to do in order to be an effective leader. This is not meant to be an all inclusive post but instead a starting point to give you a few things to begin to think about.An effective leader must be willing to do what they ask of others.
Everything to Getting a Hit Today
So you want to have the next big hit but you don’t know what it takes to accomplish that goal? Let me tell you, it takes patience and consistency. And if i’m being honest with you is it even really worth it? There is no magical formula to success. No simple hack to make it happen quicker. Sometimes it even feels like it’s pure luck whether or not you go viral. It seems impossible to keep up with the ever changing fads of what is popular on the internet. It seems to be moving a million miles per hour. Where do we even start? These are all great questions that may not have any real answers because it is constantly changing.
Break the rules
So now that you know the rules what are you going to do? Don’t lie to me you are not going to follow every single rule there is out there. That is way to much to remember and what is the fun in that. Rules are meant to be broken. Well when it comes to being creative. Maybe some rules in life are meant to be followed, but this isn’t a post about life advice we are trying to be creatives. So let’s break some rules. We are going to look at the rules from last week and give some brief ideas or ways we can break those rules to help with our writing.If you read our post last week you would know these are the rules we want to follow. But how can we break them? Click the link to keep reading post...