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What Makes a Good Designer?
A designer is a scientifically artistic problem solver. What is a good designer to you?
Tips on How to Genuinely Grow Your Blog
My best tips for how to consistently create content, share your content, and make meaningful connections with bloggers and readers.
What is your word for 2015?
Forget new years resolutions. The concept words of a year will weave themselves in and out of your real life, breathing purpose and energy into everything you do. Resolutions tend to feel like threats and shoulds.
The Perfect Gift for the Kid Who Has it All
The perfect custom gift for the child or adult illustrator, cartoonist, or artist in your life who has it all.
Straightforward Color Tips for Web and Blog Design
An easy to follow guide on how to use color in your blog and website designs, covering how and when to use color and focus on branding and clean design.
Increase Your Blog's Engagement on Twitter
In this post, I'll be talking about how to share your content on Twitter the right way, meaning more visibility, a higher chance of engagement (RT's, responses, clickthroughs), and getting the best outcome out of the smallest amount of work.
Home Workspace and Desk Tour - 2014
Early last week, I decided to rearrange parts of my apartment because I felt like a change of scenery would help with productivity. Whether or not that is just an old wives tale or not, I feel like it helped! I was inspired by a friend's recent desk tour post and wanted to share my new at-home work area. Enjoy!
What it Looks Like When You Find Your Passion
When you’ve found your passion, you’re in the groove and your surroundings can cease to exist. Here’s what it looks like when you’ve found your passion.
Illustrator and hand lettering tutorial: brush calligraphy using a Wacom tablet
Here's how to set up your Wacom Tablet for Illustrator to be able to have fun with brush pen lettering.
How to open an online shop
Have you thought about opening an online shop to sell handmade products? In this guest post, my dear friend Chrystina talks about her recent experience diving in and opening an online greeting card shop. She'll walk you through the business and marketing aspects as well as help you think critically through some parts that can be overlooked.
When do you draw? Unplug and make it happen
Dive in. Pretty soon the unplugged-creation-zone habit will be in place, and I guarantee you'll feel more balanced and accomplished.
12 Inspiring hand lettering works in progress
While it's always cool to see finished pieces, it's also equally as cool to see the work in progress. Seeing how people progress on hand lettering projects can help guide you in your own endeavors and can be extremely motivating.
How to look like a professional blogger: 6 Quick tips
Your blog is your baby. It's your creative outlet and your way to express yourself. It's important to look professional on your blog. There are a few quick functional and aesthetic fixes and checks to do just this.
Hand lettering starter kit
While the tools don't make the artist, the right tools can be more fun to use. You can definitely get by with a number two pencil, a sharpie marker, and copy paper. However, here are the supplies I recommend for a beginning hand letterer. These things will help you achieve finer and more precise results, and you may enjoy the experience that much more that you do it more often.
11 Female hand letterers to follow on Twitter
As a follow up to my posts on letterers to follow on Instagram, I wanted to share a list of amazingly talented female letterers to follow on Twitter. While you can follow these ladies via other networks, the binding ingredient a findable Twitter account, so there you have it. Plus, Twitter is my favorite.
How to create a hand lettered chalkboard drawing in Photoshop
It’s so fun and easy to create a faux chalkboard effect in Photoshop. Learn how to put your hand lettering on a chalkboard, digitally.
The done list
The Done List can help you keep a healthy balance of all three by helping you recognize your accomplishments.
How to start drawing and creating again
An old hobby or past time may feel clunky at first. But by taking it one step at a time and not expecting immediate stellar results, you can rekindle your love affair with your old favorite hobby or skill.
How to Maximize Your Productivity as a Creative
When you've got a lot going on (creative, multipotentialite), you're probably working on at least 5 things in your brain right now. At least 5. If you do what I've done, and make a physical list of all of the things you're working on or would like to be working on, you may be surprised.
What's in my pen case: favorite pens and markers
I'm going to Paris soon. I am starting to mentally pack for my trip and I need to bring my Biggest Bang For My Buck pens so I can doodle to my heart's content. So I wanted to share!