by Henrike Dijkstra | Sep 21 2020 | Blog, Mindset, Overcoming obstacles, Productivity
I think many artists know this feeling: Too many ideas!
Especially when you’re working on a longer creative project, like a comic, other story ideas will pop up in our heads.
What do we do with these ideas? Do we push them away? Or do we run with our ideas and try and cram in the time to make everything we want to make?
I can tell you that there’s a way to keep nurturing those new ideas without necessarily taking massive action on them. That is what this article is about.
by Henrike Dijkstra | Sep 3 2020 | Blog, Improvement, Making comics, Mindset, Overcoming obstacles, Tutorial
We want our comic pages to look good. But we also want to churn them out in a reasonable amount of time.
In this week’s video I show you how drawing MORE isn’t necessarily better. And how you can increase your speed by using your art skills to the max.
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 | Oct 23 2018 | Blog, Improvement, Overcoming obstacles, Personal projects
Welcome back to a new post and video! This week I talk about how studying art can become a form of procrastination. When I was still art blocked one of my problems wasn’t that I was doing nothing at all. I was studying hard. I consumed tons of books, articles, blogs...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Oct 10 2018 | Blog, Mindset, Overcoming obstacles, Personal projects, Project planning
Welcome back to Pencils & Stories!! Recollection City has been going strong for a year now. I have developed a course on making comics and taught it one time already. Today I finally relaunch the website and have a brand new Youtube channel to go with it! The...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Sep 5 2016 | Blog, Overcoming obstacles
Hello everyone, long time no see! I’m here to tell you about the future of this blog. Behind the scenes, I’m hard at work bringing you a new and improved blogging format. I very enthusiasticly posted about my plans for this blog at the end of 2015....
