hello hi um thank you so much I've come for having me it's an honor and a pleasure so I am Janice and I'm an illustrator and I'm gonna talk to you a bit about my creative process as far as I've come Skillshare program so where to start so my job as a freelance illustrator is very diverse I get to do a lot of different things like you know one day I can be doing a mural and work on props and theaters or work digitally on my computer or make comics or make children books I you don't have to be Illustrated like that but I like being treated like that because one one thing that keeps me creative is juggling lots of projects at the same time I think I I always have at least five things going on and I think a lot of people can relate to that to that dynamic because having a lot of different things to do means that if there's one you think I know I really I have no idea how to do that yet you can procrastinate that one by doing something else that's equally important and helpful but it'll give you time to process what you think you're gonna do for the other one so you know where you're kind of tricking yourself into thinking haha I'm asked a finger job but really you're doing the other job so it's all good so I find that really really freeing and helpful and also it just keeps you making stuff you don't get stuck when you work from home and you're working on one thing is if you're stuck on it it can become really frustrating so so at least you keep producing and you don't think rely is the action of being creative what do I mean by that it's a bit like if you draw or maybe those I think you can transpose that to a lot of different forms of creativity if you have a sketchbook I teach drawing so I always tell my students you know you should have a sketchbook let sketchbook with you at all times and you should draw stuff in it constantly but they get very precious about it and they kind of they want to curate their schedule so that every page is beautiful and it looks like a book and stuff and that's really not good you should just doodle and do things that don't matter and do things that are wrong or you know wrong of ugly or just that you think wow that was nothing because you need to make the act of creating not sacred and special you need to make it an everyday thing and sometimes something wonderful happens and sometimes it doesn't but you need to have a chance of something wonderful happening you need the process to keep going so don't don't make it too special you know if you have the blank page anxiety of the blank page upon my ideas in English yeah just do it all night it's not white anymore now you can do whatever you want and I usually need it ode to dueling dueling is wonderful because it just it kind of gets the rust out of your brain and after a while the good stuff will flow and you might i like dueling to song or to an audiobook and fantastic ideas will just come up because you let them it's nice to kind of detach the must must have amazing idea and just draw so that was my advice if you if you want to draw or if you you're trying to unlock creative potential in away doodling is fantastic and don't take your sketchbook seriously it is there to serve you don't show it to anyone if you don't want to maybe that's the key don't this is purely for you and yes something about things being for you and getting pleasure out creativity because that's that's what it should be right and creativity should fulfill something within you hopefully could fulfill something and it should feel good and but that's really hard to keep that when it's your full-time job obviously because not all products or exciting not all not all clients go in the direction that's going to be the easiest for you and really you have to take other people's idea and make them your own and that was really difficult but if you're in that line of work I would say try to try to keep a version of your job that brings you happiness on the side all the time so even if you are going to you know working on projects that don't allow you much or don't it's not easy to find pleasure within it then drawing your own time or play music in your own time or film in your own time just make sure that the the art the craft doesn't become just another job because it's so hard to be a creative and it's so hard to become successful at it so when you do you don't want to look back and think actually I feel the same as I did a normal creative job I know it's really difficult but it's good to keep in mind am i enjoying this because I should be because this is wonderful you know this is how can I twist it to make sure I enjoy it I'm not saying that TV but I think it's it's good to keep that in mind now I'm try and take you through my purse my creative process so the third it's kind of difficult to just say this is how I do things because every project is different and that but so this project is called the Museum of now and it's kind of an online interactive Museum of objects that people have submitted from their house or you know it can be an object in the memory it can be something and and I did the album page illustration for that which is a kind of Victorian cabinet of curiosities the idea you know a mishmash of wonderful things and old objects coming together and that was a really really short turnaround because we wanted it to be done during kind of yes while I logged on we're still happening so that yeah people could still really enjoy that feeling of getting reconnected with others so the way I proceeded creatively because we had such a short turnaround was to produce a lot of little thumbnails showing ideas elements I'd like to see in the illustration the beauty of thumbnails is that you can get your composition and your impact across instantly and me fast and you can't get lost in details so I always start by doing lots of little thumbnails and seeing what's the most impactful and clear way to go the next step was because we want an image that's full of wonderful things was to make kind of a list of all the objects I'd like to see in there and so that was a lovely little creatures bit because I just had that son of a didn't use everything but that was a nice way of putting myself in the atmosphere of the drawing that I wanted with taxidermy and all things that evoke memory and all things what we do after this it's fitting all these lovely ideas together and making a sketch so this is the sketch I produced which is in black and white just to get the idea of the lighting and the atmosphere we'd like I send this kitchen the clients wanted a few things changed and after we all agreed I decided on a color scheme this is taken from the film Emily so we warm colors of greens and reds and this is the final result the homepage of our website I'm really proud of it and it's the result of a wonderful teamwork it was animated by Joe and yes I'm really happy with this project and I guess the way I made it is quite typical first thumbnails then further research a sketch and a final full-color drawing I hope you've enjoyed this breakdown of my process and you all want to