The reality behind "picking a niche"

Business, mindsetAlejo PorrasMarch 10, 2024niching, specializingComment

How to practice your creativity

Practice your creativity by adopting a trampoline mindset

mindset, InspirationAlejo PorrasAugust 13, 2023ideation, creativityComment

When inspiration becomes a distraction, do this.

We seek inspiration when we feel stuck but inspiration can quickly turn into distraction. Here’s how to avoid that.

Business, mindset, InspirationAlejo PorrasJanuary 29, 2023creative business, inspirationComment

Build a profitable creative business

Build a structure that creates a profitable creative business

BusinessAlejo PorrasJanuary 8, 2023creative business, smooth sailingComment

What keeps your creative business afloat.

You own and manage a creative business. Learn to keep it afloat by understanding the three main economic forces of business.

BusinessAlejo PorrasDecember 4, 2022stay afloat, floatie, creative businessComment

Sales Skills Pay the Bills

Creating great art is not enough to make a career. Every illustrator needs to learn to sell because sales skills pay the bills. This article contains three tips to get better at selling your work/services as a creative.

Business, salesAlejo PorrasSeptember 5, 2022sales, be helpful, solve a problem, make sales easy, build trustComment

Projects that help you regain passion

If you are losing your spark, these kinds of projects can help you light up again.

mindset, InspirationAlejo PorrasAugust 7, 2022passion, lumber, creative projectsComment

Create Passion in your Career

Create passion in your creative practice by starting with this one goal…

Productivity, Inspiration, FocusAlejo PorrasJuly 31, 2022passion, inspirationComment

How to be a better artist

It’s inevitable to become a better artist when you are helpful.

mindset, InspirationAlejo PorrasJune 6, 2022helping others, how to, be better, being helpfulComment

How to approach change

Change can be hard. These two tips will help you face it more effectively.

mindset, InspirationAlejo PorrasApril 18, 2022nails, guitar, facing change, non-scary changeComment

Turn Down the Volume

Turn the noise in your artistic life into music: Less commitments, more tiny purposes.

mindset, FocusAlejo PorrasApril 11, 2022purpose, rock band, noise, clarityComment

The Source of Fun

Some say that “the more you know, the less you enjoy”. I disagree. Here’s why.

Productivity, mindsetAlejo PorrasApril 4, 2022macgyver, childhood memories, learn fundamentalsComment

How to get opportunities as an artist

The main thing an artist needs to do to get more clients

Productivity, InspirationAlejo PorrasMarch 28, 2022doors, opportunitiesComment

Are you holding the TV?

What you should NOT do when you experience a creative crisis as an artist.

Inspiration, Focus, mindsetAlejo PorrasMarch 20, 2022earthquake, crisis, holding tv, creative crisisComment

What does BETTER mean to you?

You can’t hit a target you can’t see. Here’s how to define your goals so you can actually accomplish them.

Productivity, Focus, mindsetAlejo PorrasMarch 14, 2022goals, capacity, ideal day, adjust expectationsComment

How to Keep your creativity alive

Rotate your hobbies to stay creative

Inspiration, mindsetAlejo PorrasFebruary 20, 2022artist coach, creativityComment

Drawing is like a joke

Drawing is a language. Improve your drawing by learning the fundamentals first.

ProductivityAlejo PorrasNovember 28, 2021Drawing tips, tutorial, drawing fundamentals, artist coachComment

Where to find inspiration?

We can’t create inspiration but we can create the conditions to make it more recurrent in our lives.

InspirationAlejo PorrasMarch 10, 2021inspiration, creativityComment

Don't multitask

Avoid multitasking when doing creative work or problem solving.

PhotographyAlejo PorrasFebruary 12, 2021nature, manmadeComment

Worry Less

Worrying doesn’t help. Instead of that, slow down and focus on the actions you CAN take.

PhotographyAlejo PorrasFebruary 11, 2021greenComment

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