Becoming an Artist

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• Steal like an artist. Study the masters. Copy the art that makes you dream of greater things.

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• Being kind is a skill that can be practiced

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• Artist Block
• Change your style
• Change your medium
• Change your subject
• Surround yourself with new art from a museum, art gallery or online.

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• Music is storytelling.
• Poetry is storytelling.
• Dance is storytelling.
• You may be a technically proficient guitarist, but if your songs don't tell a story, you're simply a mediocre musician.

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• Storytelling
• The story in your art
  Do the cool blues and grays make the audience feel a distant coldness?
  Do the warms make them feel happiness?
  Fear? Joy? Despair?
• The making of your art is the story
• You are the story

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• Thumbnails. Do them!

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• Don't allow insecurity to keep you from enjoying your art.
  You're on a journey. You and your art.
  Grow together. Explore together. Learn together.
  And share the beauty inside of you together.
  Through your art.