Then, at the beginning of each week, write down how you’ll use each of the chunks of “art time” in your schedule.

My more limited palette is one of the ways my work is consistent.

are already making art full time, scheduling can help you make sure you’re allotting time for experimentation (and not just paid projects). If you

Finding your voice is one of the most important experiences you will ever have. And the process cannot be rushed. Likewise, it isn’t just something that magically “happens.” Instead, it’s both an exercise in discipline and a process of discovery that allows for—and requires—a lot of experimentation and failure. Most of the time, finding your voice

One of the first tips my former agent, Lilla Rogers, gave to me was that I should give myself assignments when I didn’t have paid work; I should use the time I had to make the kind of work I wanted to get hired to do by clients.

One of the outlets that acts of creativity give us is the opportunity to discover, and then to express, what’s inside us.

And there is no way you can get to where you want to go without making piles of work.

once I started to make art, it was like a floodgate opened. The boring interior life I previously related to was transformed into an inner world so intriguing to me that I couldn’t contain it.

But the problem is that once we get into working, we might not stop. Make sure that your routine includes at least one or two solid fifteen- to ninety-minute breaks for taking walks, eating healthy snacks and meals, chilling out in front of a movie, spending time with friends and family, or hanging out with your art buddies. Those breaks will