Advance your career as a Creative Professional

Is there a way or a resource to find the people who are decision makers and have the power to advance the careers of artists and creative professionals?

What's your advice or idea?

Comic-con June in Massachusetts

Im going to my first ever comic-con in June

http://www.massivecomicon.com/

Masters of Anatomy

http://mastersofanatomy.com/

ERIC CANETE

Eric Canete

http://kahnehteh.blogspot.com/

Love this artist.

George Lucas on the Meaning of Life

George Lucas on the Meaning of Life
by Maria Popova of Brainpickings
“There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.”

http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/03/17/george-lucas-meaning-of-life/

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REFERENCES:
BOOK: The Meaning of Life: Reflections in Words and Pictures on Why We Are Here

http://www.brainpickings.org/

Apologies to any artist! NOTE on copying, plagiarizing and studies

I know how vitally important it is to not plagiarize some elses art.

I have taken down any work that I feel I copied or plagiarized. As a beginning artist I wasn't making any money from my art and I DID NOT take credit for any work that I did not personally feel I created and produced myself.

There were a lot of STUDIES where I copied other art I found on the internet.

I have learned and grown to a point that I now make it mandatory that I include the artist and where I found the art if i am talking about it or using it as reference or using it for a study...

TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY!!!

If I can't find source for the material I usually don't use it.

Email is a creative killer

The Art of You

Ryan King

http://www.artofyou.tv/

Ryan King talks about how Email is a creative killer and explain the idea he learned in the book "War on Art" by Stephen Pressfield about creativity and resistance.

Good video. Thank you Ryan.

Please sign up with Ryan King
Direct link to video: http://www.artofyou.tv/get-to-twenty?wemail=rhinoarts@hotmail.com

HOW THE MIND MAKES MEANING

Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning

In this Lecture, based on his book, U.C. San Diego cognitive psychologist Benjamin K. Bergen draws together research in psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience to offer a new theory of how our minds make meaning. When we hear words and sentences, we engage the parts of our brain that we use for perception and action—repurposing evolutionarily older networks—to create mental simulations. Embodied simulation, as it’s called, is the reason why it takes time to travel over distance, even in our mind’s eye; why it’s possible for us to become better baseball players by imagining a well-executed swing; and why it’s so hard to talk on cell phones while we’re driving on the highway. Rather than merely calling up abstract ideas to understand language, as others previously argued, our brains engage in a creative act to construct rich mental worlds in which we see, hear, and feel.

Freelancers live without a net

http://www.comicmix.com/columns/2013/01/06/john-ostrander-freelancers-live-without-a-net/

Sketchlog

Today I learned! I started sketching from multiple drawing books today and for the millionth time I skipped over chapters on Gesture. As I was scanning my usual resources on the internet I began reading about the importance of Gesture. The article recommended a web site that presents you with timed models to practice speed, fluidity and timing. Here are my results.