Personal Development - Goal Setting Blogs on Artician

1.06.11 - Beginning by Xolramuh

Thu, 6 Jan 2011 23:08:34 EST

First day on Artician, woo! Left DeviantArt cause they are a bunch of pricks.

I plan on customizing the profile over the next few months. It will give me the chance to practice my html and css skills. Also, I'm going to take some stuff I have done for school over the past year and add it. This will be more for monitoring my progress than anything else.

Hopefully more to come.

~Xol~

Oh my. by Athywren

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:36:18 EST

Is anything as embarrassing as seeing your earliest attempts at art? Damn.

I've only just arrived and I already need to clean up my work?

Hello Place! by bombshellcat

Thu, 4 Nov 2010 18:32:32 EST

Alright, so here I am trying out this Artician site. So far so good!

Imported my old dA files (and finally left that site!) and hooked up my art blog RSS feed... I think we're ready for action.

Here is what I plan to do here:

-Archive my old stuff

-Start uploading NON-sketches here

-Which means actually finishing some art

Busy Bee by aquenan

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 20:29:48 EST

I feel like I've been moving a mile a minute since about March--Tons of job hunting, doing my freelance writing, trying to draw and paint as much as possible, running what was once a dying forum and turning it into something active again, roommate hunting for a while (it's kind of scary when a roommate bails without proper notice, leaving others to cover their portion of the rent)--Lots of stuff going on.

I've also decided that, in spite of all my whining when I was in school, I'm going to being pursuing a master's degree in information design & communication next spring. I never really had an opportunity to do an internship while I got my BA since I was working at PetSmart everyday I wasn't in school, which has kind of hurt me in getting a real job. A few years of retail experience doesn't really seem to do me much good in looking for a technical writing or editing position, and I figure I could probably use some more training in that area anyway. I've had a few naysayers bash this idea, saying a master's doesn't pay for itself like a bachelor's does, but I figure since I basically got a BA for free (yay scholarships), that's of little concern to me.

Hopefully I can find some time to be more active here. I really dig this community.

CHANGE by Jolik

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:46:32 EST

I guess it's about time for me to go forward developing skills.

I'm thinking about changing my present job

- regardless the crisis that is everywhere,

difficulties with finding a job etc.

There are of course other reasons of my decisition - money...

But now, now, don't thing it's money that moves me.

It's just my low payment.

Maybe I'm not a high-qualified computer master

but I know THE THING about designing, about typography and everything...

But I CAN'T BE GOOD AT EVERYTHING

cause this way I WILL NOT BE GOOD at ANYTHING.

Though I realize web-mastering it's gonna be as obvious as knowing english soon..

Nnnnggffffbbbllaaaarrrrggghhh... and such. by marej

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 03:39:57 EST

So, Artician. Hey.

TBH, I got fed up with DeviantArt. It might've been the "Art" in the title, but it led me to believe it was a community of artists. Naive, I know. Anyways, here's hoping I get my ass in gear and post a bunch of pretty shi... stuff on here soon. Yes, I enjoy cursing a lot. No, that doesn't seem very professional. No, I'm not sorry.

Sooo... I dunno if maybe I'll get more response here (unlikely), but lately I've been feeling like the stuff I'm doing is no good. Or, at least, not as good as I would want it to be. Is this normal, I wonder... I also find that I can't seem to persuade people to raise the bar, so, giving up seems like the natural course of things, though I'm not overly happy with what this means for me personally. Part of me wants to break off and pursue it solo, but... well, in both instances, that's just not a possibility. Well, fuck me. Right, enough emo... Goal setting. This is what this it s about.

So, as introductory activity to my hopefully productive life on Artician, here's a list of shi... um, stuff I want to do in the near or not-so-near future (Go, lists!):

1. Daily exploratory sketches (3, at least)

2. Weekly digital painting experiments (Assuming my tablet stops being an ass)

3. 24-hour comic. (Not any time soon, but it sounds interesting enough.)

4. H.A.M.L.E.T -- Dieselpunk comic based off Shakespeare's play. Yeah, I'm unoriginal. I won't deny it.

5. Animation, animation, animation. (Probably can wait till after finals, though.)

So, those last two are kind of vague, I know, but I have a bunch of animation ideas I'd like to do, if only for practice or showcase. Sadly, timing is off right now. I have a weekly webcomic and 5-minute animation for school to worry about, so maybe when one or both of these are taken care of properly.

2010 year of rebirth? by ghevan

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:52:37 EST

2009 was a year of decadence to me, to the point of almost loosing a finger. so In the recovery spirity that post operatory has put on me I decided to re-engage in my artist career. My goal is to make 1000 color illustrations (public viewable)no more W.I.P. submitted as finished. Also as a side goal I'll have to watch a lot of artists work, and also draw millions of sketches.

I hope I get to the thousend mark, but I I only do half of it, that would be even more than all of my lifetime illustration work.

-SMG-

fresh start by LaurenPowzyk

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:39:42 EST

whenever I sit down to write these things I'm always so flustered as to what to say....

...

My name is Lauren, I'm currently living in new york city. Just trying to get a hold on things and figuring out what's right.

At the moment I'm on my 3rd semester at the Fashion Institute of Technology studying photography.

...again whenever I try to think what else to say nothing comes. Sometimes you can't put life in words, you can't some it up with one journal entry. I can't explain to you what it's like to live in such a large city as new york or what it means to be a student in the city for that manner. Right now I'm just discovering, trying to encounter as many opportunities as possible and trying to absorb all of it. I want to take it all in. You know that feeling you get when you walk into a store or a room and there is just so much. So many books, items, furniture, trinkets...so much that you get totally overwhelmed....trying to capture every little detail, trying to understand everything. But you can't, there's just too much. That's the closest I can get to explaining new york there is no way not to take the city for granted because it's impossible to look at everything, impossible to understand everything. you're just completely overwhelmed.

Tell me about the sponge. by Lucid

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:08:11 EST

To all the fuckers that have the free time to read this shit:

You're not the pumpkin, your dog has the scissors, I ate your socks, and she's not going to call.

Deal with it.

Here's the low down.

To get anywhere now we're going to have to sacrifice part of ourselves. I know, I know it's a step in the wrong direction. Compromise at this point to get this particular thing we need will only make us more like them. Once you make a decision like this you can't change back quickly.

It's like jumping head first into an abandoned mine with no lights to carry, and the only way out is a network of caves and tunnel at the bottom. Like I said; Once you jump you can get out, but you can't see how to do it.

Some of us are to proud of not being THEM to make a decision like this rashly.

However, whether we want to admit it or not, we have hit bottom. We've exhausted all our options, and slipped into such disorganization we're even worse off than the THEM we don't want to be like.

I mean come on. By our age THEY weren't still living with their parents.

Never fear. THis isn't a "just cave in" situation it's a compromise. And as a compromise both parties get something.

They get our pinciples just by us working these terrible jobs.( we get jobs of course) But that doesn't mean we have to play fair.

This isn't a surrender it's a change in battle field. The compromise is, now it's on their turf where THEY make the rules. The situation has changed yes and yes we have lost control but that doesn't mean we've lost.

We need to accept that we have been on the ass part of an ass kicking for far to long.

Lets face it, our principles are about the only thing we have left. To give those up now would seem to betray the reasons for falling this far to begin with.

Our beliefs are what lead us to carry on the fight this long. And sticking to them as hard as we have is what has brought us to fall in the first place. Although our principles have caused us to fall we need to stop treating them like they're what's holding us down.

If it helps take this as a test of faith.

Do you trust yourself enough to remain yourself. Even after spending an extended period of time as one of the enemy?

Remember WE are US

To the THEM's of the world, this whole blog won't make a damn bit of sense.

Take solace in that fact.

BUT that's why we're US.

Away for a few days... by Drew

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:10:21 EST

Hey guys!

Just want to let everyone know that I'll be away for a couple of days, 2 to be exact, as I'll be visiting a college I'm interested in playing Lacrosse at. I'll be shadowing a lacrosse student-athlete around the school, then just having a good time with the team.

I need to do a few fixes on the current layout, as well as some edits, heck, might even code my own. I'll also have a bunch more pieces in general uploaded to my portfolio, ranging from some possible logos to layouts and manipulations, so be prepared!

Well, I'm out for now, see you guys this Sunday!

-Drew

Some opening remarks... by Akamu

Fri, 7 Aug 2009 13:54:56 EST

A little about me: I'm 24, financially screwed, not in class, and don't have much of a future, unless the economy turns around quicklike. I'm not depressed (at all) or really worried about any of that-it just is. That being said, I'm working my way out of debt and have plenty of time to figure out what I want to do with my life after I'm out of this mess. The only thing I'm certain of, right now, is that I want to become a better (actually, a crazy-good) artist. Making a living as one's an old dream that I think I'm going to have to put away for a decade or so, if not forever, but regardless of whether or not I get a penny for anything I make, I'd like to improve. My plan, thus far, is to learn working in traditional media (watercolor and graphite) then to jump over to using digital art programs after I know what I'm doing. Apart from that, I'm a sometimes photographer, and used to write 1500 words of fiction daily. This I did for months; as a result, I have a novel-length short story series, and a handful of other short stories, sitting on a jumpdrive waiting for me to work up the nerve to edit them. I've been in a creative slump for months, however, that I'm just now crawling out of. It has a lot to do with working third shift at near minimum wage, I think.

Which is half the reason for my showing up here; DeviantArt seemed like a good idea at first, but I feel like I'm a decade older than most of the members of that site, and I never put enough effort into getting out and meeting people (Mingling with high schoolers at my age just makes me feel well, old. Older than old.). I figure that if I do meet a lot (or even a few) like-minded people here I might actually stay in the art game rather than dry up and quit-or start and stop, the major trend in my work-for lack of a support group.

All that said, future blog posts are going to be art related-little discoveries or about things I'm working on or studying. I'm glancing through the list of topics; I may put the stray one on something else up here, but 'm hoping the majority will be art related. Anyone looking for some new friends or someone to chat with is more than welcome to speak with me here; I'll be doing the same and making awkward attempts at online conversation. I think I've done with putting personal stuff up here unless I have something important to say. The idea is to keep this blogspace from becoming a "Today I fed my dog, ate Cheerios, and went to work and slept" type of blog (I've done this in the past).

Gotta Get Busy by PureKate

Tue, 7 Jul 2009 02:04:34 EST

I gotta upload more stuff on here.

Have you ever noticed how you find a new place like this, use it like crazy for just a little bit, and then the inevitable taper occurs, where you visit daily, but fail to bring any new media to the outlet?

Or is that just a creative failing of my own?

Does anybody else do this, too?

I'm sure that I can comb through my pictures folders and find something that can make me happy to put up. That's how the little moth ended up in my portfolio. That wasn't a new shot. It was an oldie from my files. I still love those three pictures of that little moth, though.

I started off doing the same thing on dA. And flickr. I'm sure there's a few others out there that I am failing to recall at the moment... .

Come to think of it, I sometimes tend to treat photography in general the same way. I haven't taken my camera with me for some insightful, meaningful, artistic adventure in quite some time.

I've taken it with me and taken pictures for the sake of taking pictures, but I haven't really done much in the realm of creative shooting with intent. Thus, my poor portfolio remains stagnant.

Thus, I am stuck here, signing on daily, expecting that something will change, and nothing ever does. (except my views creep ever so slowly up...)

It's funny how I somewhat expect traffic, yet I fail to produce anything that might generate traffic. Ironic, isn't it?

I have a list going on my cell phone of things that I can start doing to keep myself from getting bored. The list includes things like cutting up old calendars for wall art and taking amusing video of my cats.

I should add 'take beautiful pictures and post them on artician' to that list.

Boo Yah.

New thing by YCAWANG

Fri, 22 May 2009 00:45:56 EST

Well, i got an email from this site so i decided to give here a try, since dA can be a douche at times

i guess i will call this my goal setting post.

my goal is to become an awesome artist! yay!

Intro by STAR

Wed, 20 May 2009 21:16:27 EST

Mmm, hello there.size>

If you're reading this, you probably heard of me through deviantArt.

If you haven't heard of me, feel free to check out my gallery! Username: Star-Hanabi

Anyway, this is just something to explain myself while I learn how to use this site xD
I'm new here, gimme a breaksize> <3

Hello World by institches

Sun, 10 May 2009 01:44:20 EST

Hello all you lovely people. My name is Katie, but you may call me Stitches(or any of my other user IDs, should you know them). I am a college student pursuing knowledge and skills in visual arts, particularly drawing, painting, digital media, and fiber arts. I've just finished(earlier this week, in fact) my second year of college and am also beginning to celebrate a new direction in which I would like to take my art. Artician sent me an advertisement e-mail at just the right time to accommodate this new direction. Although I have a deviantART account(two, actually), I was looking for something more professional and with more opportunity to communicate with other website users. I'm hoping I have found the place for that.

One thing I would really appreciate finding here are online friends who are willing to help challenge me in my artistic career by commenting and critiquing my work. Please, if you visit any of my art, once I start posting, feel free to point out what's both good and bad about it.

As my way of kicking myself into gear, I'd like to copy and paste the "100 Themes" challenge from dA onto my blog, here. I'll post in-between pieces, of course, but I'll have the entire set of 100, as well. I'll start with the "Introduction" piece once I figure out what an appropriate into of myself would be.

Here's hoping for good days to come!!!

xStitches

100 themes challenge

1. Introduction X

2. Love

3. Light

4. Dark

5. Seeking Solace

6. Break Away

7. Heaven

8. Innocence

9. Drive

10. Breathe Again

11. Memory

12. Insanity

13. Misfortune

14. Smile

15. Silence

16. Questioning

17. Blood

18. Rainbow

19. Gray

20. Fortitude

21. Vacation

22. Mother Nature

23. Cat

24. No Time

25. Trouble Lurking

26. Tears

27. Foreign

28. Sorrow

29. Happiness

30. Under the Rain

31. Flowers

32. Night

33. Expectations

34. Stars

35. Hold My Hand

36. Precious Treasure

37. Eyes

38. Abandoned

39. Dreams

40. Rated

41. Teamwork

42. Standing Still

43. Dying

44. Two Roads

45. Illusion

46. Family

47. Creation

48. Childhood

49. Stripes

50. Breaking the Rules

51. Sport

52. Deep in Thought

53. Keeping a Secret

54. Tower

55. Waiting

56. Danger Ahead

57. Sacrifice

58. Kick in the Head

59. No Way Out

60. Rejection

61. Fairy Tale

62. Magic

63. Do Not Disturb

64. Multitasking

65. Horror

66. Traps

67. Playing the Melody

68. Hero

69. Annoyance

70. 67%

71. Obsession

72. Mischief Managed

73. I Can't

74. Are You Challenging Me?

75. Mirror

76. Broken Pieces

77. Test

78. Drink

79. Starvation

80. Words

81. Pen and Paper

82. Can You Hear Me?

83. Heal

84. Out Cold

85. Spiral

86. Seeing Red

87. Food

88. Pain

89. Through the Fire

90. Triangle

91. Drowning

92. All That I Have

93. Give Up

94. Last Hope

95. Advertisement

96. In the Storm

97. Safety First

98. Puzzle

99. Solitude

100. Relaxation

Get busy livin' or get busy dying... by johnmatlockartwok

Sat, 9 May 2009 22:49:32 EST

"Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'!" A favorite line from the movie Shawshank Redemption. For some reason I've always felt I had a destiny in this life to be known for somthing. People would Know me by name and not ever have known me? Originaly in my younger years I had aspirations of going to the NFL as a placekicker. This obviously never panned out but my original feelings remained the same. From the age of 23 - 30 I bounced around in my life trying to find my niche. In 1992 I began painting for fun and from 1993-1999 I began selling my artwork at Outdoor arts festivvals along the East Coast. All of them were established shows but I had a very tough going at it. I hadnt picked up a paintbrush before then since My college days at the University of Massachusetts 1989. 5 years out of touch with painting- 5 years lost. As sales were sparse my father , a landscape artist before me, told me to keep with it, it will work if you just keep punching away. I lost my father 12 years ago this past October to cancer. He had already passed but my last parting words to him were "I'll never give up I promise!" It was a difficult transition period without his knowlege and input on the art. We would brain storm Ideas and discuss painting techniques together continuously. Now I had returned to work full time and slowly distanced myself from painting altogether. Always saying I should paint but found an excuse not to. So nearly 9 years went by with just a dabble here and there with my last words to my father still ringing in my head every day. Through destiny or fate I stumbled into a job that alows me to use my creativity and in the last 18 months I was allowed to show my artwork and sell quite well. In return I've been reaquainted with my paintbrushes and cant even keep up with the things I want to paint, the list grows daily! Still, 9 years gone by with hardly a painting completed. So all in all I had a total of 14 years that I didnt paint. To have those back to hone my skills? Man that would be nice. In every painting I do I honestly try my best to get better each time using each piece as a learning experiance. Patience and time .......... So I reafirm the last words spoken to the man who taught me everything in this life "I will never quit!"

Perhaps fame was not my destiny ? I'll take happiness over fame any day. So Get busy Livin' or Get Busy Dyin' , it's your choice ~ for me? No more excuses, I have to get busy painting. I've got 14 years to make up! Thanks for reading...

Soon! by Dani

Sat, 2 May 2009 18:13:37 EST

I intend to use this place to post specific bits of art that don't really belong anywhere else. Things like character designs, concepts, maybe made-up species and the like. As of right now, I don't really have anything like that that I'd want to post on a site full of such wonderful artists, so here this account sits, waiting on me to get my butt in gear!

First Blog by god-o-war7

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:54:08 EST

I plan to do many great things in my life. I just don't know what they are...

My Introduction Blog by Kurapika

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:21:52 EST

Art for me is a love hate relationship, I had a natural talent for it since I was a kid, and people would always praise me for it, unfortunately my drawing capabilities were not what I wanted to be praised on, sure I loved drawing but I wanted to be a writer growing up more then anything, but the only comment I would get from people concerning my future was "I can see you're going to be an artist when you grow up"

As the years went by I worked on both subjects, art and writing, but found that people would not make the time to read through my writing, as that took much longer then glancing at a picture for a few seconds. So again my illustrated art was outshining my written art, and not due to one being better then the other, but from people just not having the time to commit to reading it. At that point I chose one over the other, and decided to focus more on my writing. (I am dyslexic, so trying to work around that was frustrating and required my full attention)

Many years have passed from that point, and I desperately miss my now deteriorating art skills, I can't get the fact out of my head that I could have improved so much if I would have stayed with it, and I'm hoping to give it a second try. Trying to become active in art sites with artists willing to help me learn the knowledge that I've been missing out on all these years. I can't say that I haven't drawn now and again, or that I am horrible at drawing, what I mean to say is that what I have drawn looks no different from what it did eight years ago.

Now I find myself unable to work, with much more free time on my hands, and a need to find an alternate way of making money, but to do that I'm going to need a lot more self confidence in my work. Though I have sold my art in the past I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a professional , as I'll always be improving, learning new things and trying out new ideas and medias. But I will admit, making a working life style out of something you love is much better then working a job that prevents you from having the time or energy needed to do the things you love.

So all in all, I want to be a writer AND an artist again. My art style is a comic bookish / manga style (after all, that media incorporates both writing and drawing, so I decided to try out the style on a whim and absolutely fell in love with it) I can draw in the lifelike style as well, but only with old media, like charcoal, pencils and the like. Not the new digital media. Whiles for the cartoon / manga style I can do both.

I hope that I will fit in here, and that my time spent here will be pleasant and full of new possibilities.

Note: This was my introduction post in the discussion forums, I thought that it would also be fitting here.

ok ok ok i know... by plastic.john

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 00:49:11 EST

yeah...so hey its been a while...sorry haha.
ive been pretty busy and yet pretty not busy. after losing my job i had a little time to think about what to do next..and what i want to do is....yeah i dunno.
anyways i have been trying to focus on my "art" a lot more since i have the time. its been working out pretty well since ive finally had a chance to dust off a few of my old comics and start working on a cartoon that ive been planning for a while now.
i have two teasers out on youtube and right now im working on the first short. the cartoon will be called "Apartment 308"
any help i can get will be appreciated since im pretty much doing everything; story, animation, backgrounds, coloring, blah blah blah..so yeah it takes a while..
other than that ive been drawing in overtime and a few paintings here and there, which i'll be posting up as soon as i get camera privileges.
i hope to be more involved on here soon. in the mean time check out what ive got so far on my youtube page. coooool beaners...