Art Condition will be interviewing industry experts, freelance professionals and serious hobbyists to discuss a wide variety of art related topics with a focus on the practice and the business of art, and how we can maintain mental health and well being in the face of all the challenges that artists must confront. Our hope is to expand the pool of resources and information for artists as well as inform and entertain!
How do you learn to make art? Can You teach yourself art? What should a beginner artist learn first? Can self-taught artists get hired in competitive industries? How do you learn to make art enjoyable? How do you keep the passion alive and keep having fun when it starts to get hard? How can we work to meet certain quality standards without feeling inadequate? Prior to working for Blizzard Jay worked in games development for over 11 years ranging from AAA to indie to mobile, as well as 15 years in freelance work.
They think if they get better, it will stop looking like they made it. A better person made it. But theres no level of skill beyond which you stop being you. You hate the most valuable thing about your art. How do you transition from fan art into new professions? How hard is it to move into more personal or original content after gaining a large following that expects fan art?
What are the legal ramifications surrounding fan art? How do you brand as an artist? Why is branding important to artists? How can we learn about marketing and branding without having to go to business school? How do artists get noticed? How do you find success in a variety of art careers? Are there skills and knowledge that overlap between widely different art careers?
What was it like in freelance commercial illustration before the resources of the internet? What tools from that era can artists use today? When is it beneficial to hire an agent? How do you transition from illustration to fine art? How do you transition from fine art to tattooing? I started painting tattooed artists in , obsessively documenting the men and women that have pioneered the genre of contemporary tattoo art and the history of modern tattooing.
