5 Things Our Artists Wish They Knew When Becoming professionals

1  Fundamentals

We never repeat enough that it is necessary to know art fundamentals if you want to create amazing art. We can’t break rules if we didn’t learn them first. For example, it will be harder to draw stylized characters if we didn’t practice drawing realistic ones before. You need to have knowledge in anatomy to draw hands in the correct manner, regardless of the art style. When we start as an artist, we get that fundamentals are important, but we maybe don’t realize that there are so many. 

2  Patience 

Learning fundamentals isn’t in the beginning of your career only, we never stop practicing and improving them. The earlier you master this process, the more efficient your learning gets. Even if an artist is talented, without consistency in his work, it would be hard for him to keep improving. To do so, everybody needs patience! This skill is also valuable in hard times when you are feeling low because it reminds you that your art needs time to reach the quality you want. 

3  Experiment  

Every painting is a new experimentation and if the result isn’t a success, it isn’t a tragedy. We shouldn’t be afraid to try something new every time. Making this constant effort, we can improve more quickly. If a subject matter is harder to draw, it means that you need to draw it more and not give it up. Staying in our comfort zone is easier, but trying new technic, art style… is the best we can do to make our art better in the long run. 

4  Feedback 

Every constructive comment on an artwork is important in our artistic journey. In a future blog post, we will go into this subject in depth because it isn’t that simple to accept critics. Feedback can also be about career choices by asking questions to more experienced artists about their path… We could think that learning is just us and our graphic tablet, but other artists’ point of view is also part of our learning process. 

5  Business 

Being an artist isn’t just sitting in your studio and paint all day, you must go out and sell your art. It takes time to find the balance between what you wish to do and what you must every month to live thanks to your art. The post Being a digital painter: creativity and business can tell you more about that. At first, making a living isn’t easy, hardware and software are expensive, working in a team with a hundred artists or of ten illustrators isn’t the same at all… Our artists wish they knew how to deal with those elements when they started working.