The Creative's Journey

Skylar- Composer/Musician - Your original passion for your art/value of doing free work/take creative risks

http://instagram.com/skylarbishil [http://instagram.com/skylarbishil] Take Aways - In your early days of creative work, take risks, don't do things just for the money. -The value of actually doing free work, sometimes it's valuable and can actually pay in exposure. -Sometimes you can do work for free -When your do creative work for others, be patient, let them take control a lot of times, because its their work, sometimes. People who consume and buy creative work think they know how work is done. When you get hired as a creative your a work horse Action Items * Write down or define why your started making things originally and learn about your original passion. Was it self medication, expression? Both? Or something else? * Be bold in your creativity, especially if you are young, take risks, works for free sometimes(if its something you believe in)

Cassidy - Young Adult Author - Tenacity,Failure, and Creative Friendships

Cassidy Social Media https://www.instagram.com/cassidy_thomas/ [https://www.instagram.com/cassidy_thomas/] Artistic Takeaways * Fluid process of working, don't get stuck  * Allow constructive negative feedback * If you want good work, consume lots of it(read lots of books to make good books) * Reading allows you to live many lives Life Takeaways * Self destiny, Cassidy turned her rejection from publishing houses to a positive by self-publishing taking matters into her own hands directing her own destiny * Tenacity, your mindset sets the tone of your life experience * Don't let others' opinions rule over you, like stated before, carve your own destiny Process  * Idea/Inspiration/Anchors - Story Ideas * Outlining/Scaffolding Work - Story General Outlining * Create Work/Write - Finish Chapters  * Revisions - Revise Chapters * (TOOL)Creative Partner - Critiques in revision stage and throughout process  Action Items * Make your proces fluid, find a new way to work on your art you haven't before. Draw in your closet, sing under your desk.  * Don't wait for things to happen, be proactive and find what you want from the world. * Find a creative partner to help you with your work.

Margo - Art Director/Surrealist Painter - Finding your self, importance of compromise, Overcoming failure

Margo's Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/holamargo/ [https://www.instagram.com/holamargo/] Artistic Takeaways Keep on making - pump out volume 1. ABC always be creating  2. In your head, a poem, a dance, who cares. In the beginning you will think pure aesthetic beauty is the apex of art, that is wrong 1. Find your message, read next point Art - Iterate on the past Life Take Aways Like much of america’s youth, myself included. Margo did not know what to stand for or what her message was at a young age. 1. Find out what matters to you. 2. How? Learn, read, consume information from people much wiser, aka books. Understand no work is truly finished, you have to part at some point 1. Life is not perfect, you must learn to accept things and compromise You can get lost in the sauce and make it out. 1. Cliche, but don't let your failures define you.   Being real/honest works for some people, and can empower you.  Process  * Ideation/Inspiration - What moves her, what's the message. * Research - Any direct or peripheral information regarding subject * Sketching/Working Intermittently - Sketching and drafting * Revise Drafts/Sketches - What are the common threads, what is the story here? * Flesh out work - Complete work  * Iteration - Revise and edit until completed. Action Items * Ask yourself artistically why and what you are trying to say * Make something every day, ABC always be creating * Be honest and direct about what you feel. Do it nicely; it will empower you.