Keep Going (Starter Kit)

or How to Keep Growing and Going without Burning Out.

I’ve put together 3 Starter Kits, to help you navigate the Ten Minute Artist Vault, and I’ve broken them down into three broad categories, depending on where you are at currently.

1. Make Art Daily

2. Break into Children’s Publishing

3. Keep Going without Burning out

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About this Starter Kit

In this starter kit …

1. Success is inevitable (pep talk)

2. Introducing Community Campfire

3. Directory of Community Posts

Success is inevitable if you Keep Going

Whatever you are aiming at, if you keep going you will succeed.

This is best illustrated by this John C. Maxwell story.

Suppose there is a tree that you want to cut down. And every day you go to it, with a knife, saw and axe. It doesn’t matter the tool and how much time or effort you spend only that you work on it daily.

Sometimes more, sometimes less.

If you keep coming back daily and cutting the tree, it will eventually fall.

There are two ways to fail here:

1. You show up every day but you work on different trees

2. You don’t show up

If you keep showing up, success is inevitable.

Community Campfire

My solution to keep showing up is to have a community to show up to!

A community where different creatives can gather and share their journey. It’s a place to share resources and offer help to one another.

And it’s a place where you will be missed if you don’t turn up.

I’ve started the fire, come and sit by it to get warm. Community Campfires look different every time but the goal to meet, connect and share with other creatives is always the same.

Here are some forms a Community Campfire can take.

1. Podcasts

2. Guest Posts

3. Threads and Chats

4. Drawing Workshops

5. Illustrator Roundtables

6. Meet The Maker

The directory points to some of the most ‘Successful’ Attempts.

Directory

1. UGLY WORK, A Manifesto

2. Tell us about your creative career , tell us about yourself and learn about other people building a creative practice.

3. Guest Posts by Chantell Holt, Beth Spencer, Anny Chen, and Jason Chatfield

4. The benefits of being part of a collective and how to start one, a conversation with the

   illoguild

5. Art Gym
   Workshop with
   Katie Stack
   on Creating Icons

6. Podcast with

   Rose Lihou
   on Writing and Illustrating Chapterbooks

7. Gallery of Bird Drawings from the corresponding Sketchbook Project

8. One to get you thinking, What are your next 3 steps as a creative?

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