by Henrike Dijkstra | Aug 27 2020 | Audience building, Blog, Making comics, Personal projects, Project planning
The perfect webcomic publishing platform doesn’t exist. But one or the other might be perfect enough for you.
by Henrike Dijkstra | Aug 20 2020 | Blog, Making comics, Personal projects
This is the associated blogpost that goes with this Youtube video: Nowadays, we have many tools at our disposal to make comics. There’s all kinds of materials, tools, programs and apps. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all the choices that we need to make...
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 | 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 | 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...