by Henrike Dijkstra | Jul 30 2020 | Blog, Improvement, Making comics, Mindset, Overcoming obstacles, Personal projects
This blogpost has an accompanying video on my Youtube channel: What is a good artist mindset when it comes to making mistakes and imperfect art? And what do you do when you hit a roadblock in your art? I’ll tell you what I did when that happened to me in 2006: I...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Jul 17 2019 | Blog, Story Analysis, Writing
Welcome back to Pencils & Stories! Today marks the release date for the “new” Lion King movie and I though that was a perfect time to dive into the amazing cinematography of the original Lion King movie. The 1994 one. We’re going to talk specifically about the use...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Feb 15 2019 | Blog, Improvement
One of the most powerful ways to tell your story through your visuals is by making maximum use of your composition. Which is the way you arrange the elements of your work on the page/canvas/screen. Composition is a vast subject. If you really want to dive deep into it...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Feb 6 2019 | Blog, Personal projects, Writing
Hi and welcome back to Pencils & Stories! I took a little break in January. In the last quarter of 2018 I was hit with a lot of work and a row of medical issues. I spend the last month being very tired and in pain. I wanted to start the new year with a bunch of...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Nov 15 2018 | Audience building, Blog
Ah, audience building. We post our work online, we retweet other people’s artwork and tell our peers how much we love their work. Yet we look at those accounts that have tons of followers and we wonder: why am I still stuck at 100 followers? Is there something wrong...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Nov 1 2018 | Blog, Improvement, Mindset
We hear this a lot: “create every day, make something every day.” What does that mean? And what does that look like? In the video I talk about things you can do to stay in a creative mindset, even when you’re not in the possibility to create a tangible thing. Watch it...
