Elena del Castillo | Bringing Ideas Down to Earth
It takes more than passion to transform art from a hobby into a business, especially as a freelancer. In highly competitive fields, where prospective clients can seek rock-bottom pricing through ...
Rich Damm | A Hidden Passion for Handmade Lettering
It’s impossible to know how creative aptitude will turn out. That’s something that lettering artist and designer Richard Damm, knows all too well. The Long Island-based artist specializes in cre...
Lara Georgia Carson | Culture, Confidence, and the Art of Staying Personal
When it comes to approaching complex, artistic challenges, illustrator Lara Carson prides herself in taking unconventional approaches. Where artists would zig, she would rather zag. Based in Vanc...
Guillaume Wiatr | The Art of Visualizing Conversations
Though he might self-identify in many roles — management consultant, business coach, entrepreneur — Guillaume Wiatr doesn’t consider himself an artist. At least, not in the traditional sense of t...
Catherine Herold | Learn, Experiment & Grow
If there’s one thing Catherine Herold doesn't like, it’s a bouquet of cut flowers. It’s not that the flowers aren’t pretty or that they won’t look great on the kitchen table. It’s just that cut ...
Martin Morrison | On Trading Comfort for Joy
You’d never hear Martin Morrison say that his long road toward an illustration career has been easy, but he’ll tell you that his first foray into painting and illustration started with a camel. O...
Rob Sketcherman | Hong Kong’s Urban Sketch Hero
If you were to ask Rob Sketcherman about the formula behind his impressive foray into urban sketching, he would give it to you like this: urban sketching = place + time + eye. That’s the equation...
Lots of kids grow up obsessed with cartoons and comics, but few can turn that interest into a thriving art career with a client list that boasts big names like Amazon, Microsoft, and Marvel. But ...
Sam Gwilt | The Art of Designing the Future
A quick walk through an electronics store or a casual glance at the online equivalent might seem like a normal part of today's life, but hidden beneath the surface of each product is a journey th...
Bo Feng Lin is a digital artist based in Hamburg, Germany, though he considers himself an “aspiring Canadian” (you’ll find out why later). He specializes in drawing portraits of women, women who ...
Karin Newport | Building and Balancing a Creative Side Business while Managing 30 Employees
For the first half of her life, Karin Newport believed that she was just wasn’t cut out for art. She loved collecting pens and stationery, but wasn’t good at drawing. And though her parents encou...
Stephane Lopes | On Developing a Creative Career & a Love for Lettering
Making a career as an artist seems an almost impossible challenge for many creatives, but for Paris-based letterer Stephane Lopes, it seemed an inevitability. I spoke with Stephane a few weeks ag...