Inspired by my limited time and Gary Vaynerchuk’s Idea of documenting over creating. I’ve come up with a couple of ideas of how I can document my creative journey as I illustrate a kids book. When I hardly have any time to illustrate the kids book in the first place.

If you are having problems finishing a project, or even starting like me, maybe you’ve got a problem with perfectionism.

How do you document your creative process or journey in a way that is still engaging without going into your personal life. I talk about figuring this out as well as working out what your boundaries should be when it comes to your privacy.

If you are a youtuber and your looking for additional exposure there is no better way than sharing your message out to a podcast. It’s so much easier than you might think and it’s free. Plus it’s a great way to drive a new audience towards your YouTube channel

Daily vs weekly vs consistently. How often should I upload videos to YouTube to engage with my audience and be picked up and promoted by the Youtube algorithm? This is the very question that I’m pondering in today’s video after uploading 200 vlogs to YouTube.

I explore 3 different ways to get money as a starving artist and hopefully, maybe, become a thriving artist.

I’m back, it’s time to get into it, restart, reboot, stronger, faster, 10x, it’s time to kick some ass and get back into it.

I’ve lost my drive, I’ve been waiting for it to come back but it hasn’t. With all the stuff that’s been going on. Looking for a job, trying to sell a house, having a new baby in the house and my wife being in hospital for weeks, I’m spent. I’ve made this first vlog back about 3 times so far, all completely different. It just didn’t feel right. I’ve watched so many motivational videos and listened to inspiring podcasts that I’ve made myself a sick consumer. I’ve gotten so sick of myself that I decided today I hit record and I post. Because if I wait for inspiration to come I might be dead before I start creating again.

So I’m gonna start creating and hopefully then the inspiration and motivation might hit. Fear, anxiety, depression and no money are the killers of creativity. So as I attempt to get back on track I’m gonna tackle those things first. I’ve gotta get my head right my mindset right or I don’t stand a chance.

Where have I been? What’s been going on? There’s been some serious troubles behind the scenes but things are slowly getting better. I chat about mental health and using the Wim Hof Method to stay positive. I also chat about a brand new podcast #liveinthenow from another artist, Rob Kalemba who’s starting to document his creative journey. Youtube Creator Kevin Groner from Hope This Works ’Our Homestead’ and Makin’ Sawdust also drops in for a creator chat, about building your tribe and growing vegetables with limited space. To be involved in future creator chats join me on Instagram Live at andycmarshall

Book Links:

One Magic Square: Grow your own food on one square metre https://amzn.to/30XnGZH

How To Grow More Vegetables, Ninth Edition https://amzn.to/30Yke0T

So I didn’t meet my New Years resolutions. Maybe I can keep to my financial New Years resolutions, with a little self awareness. An update on the goals for my self published kids book project. I’d love a voice message to hear how your New Years resolutions are going and if you’ll be starting again on the 1 July like me - Record a voice message: https://anchor.fm/andycmarshall/message

I had a breakthrough last night which was awesome, while doing the sketches for my kids book. I’ve come up with a style which I'm finally happy with. It it's starts with me doing a pencil sketch on paper, then using an app on my phone I can cut that out. I then take that sketch and put it into the adobe draw app on my phone where I can paint it out and make the paint transparent. The great thing about that is I can adjust the transparency to see some of the scratchiness of the artwork in the sketch, which I think is providing a really cool effect. I'm really happy with the look and I think I'll be able to now continue on finally illustrating my kids books.

I’d love to connect with you and chat about creating art or documenting your journey using your phone over on Twitter https://twitter.com/AndyCMarshall