Reasons to Get Excited About Your Creative Product
Are you excited and proud about the creative work you do? Here are some reminders as to why you should be…
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For Money or Passion? Why You Need to Do Creative Work for the Money
The idea of doing creative work to make money, over doing it for love has often been met with scorn and heated opposition. Understandably so.
I want to talk about why, in most cases, people are wrong to resist the idea. I’m taking a gulp, because I know this could prove to be a contentious topic of discussion, but something I believe is true, and often ignored.
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How to be a Time Pro and Create 20 Extra Hours Every Week
How about gaining some extra hours? Here’s how to create an extra 20 or more each week…
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How to Quickly UnBlock Creative Block: A Visual Guide
Stuck? This Red Lemon Club quick graphic will show you some tips to get your creative brain thinking again, fast.
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Creating Value: How to Make a Creative Product that Gets Seen and Sold
As people in the creative industries, one of the most vital parts of what we do is the product or service we provide.
14 Things You Can Do Right Away to Have More People Buy Your Creative Products
'Rules for Freelancers', A Comic for Red Lemon Club, by Grant Snider
I’m pleased to show you Grant Snider from Incidental Comics’ second installment of some comics he is creating for Red Lemon Club. His first one: ‘Genius Is…’ can be found here.
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Why Creative Businesses Work: The Four Noble Truths
11 Powerful Ways to Motivate Yourself Right Now
What EVERY Creative Person with a Product or Service Absolutely NEEDS to Know
How I Got to Be an Illustrator at Google, with No Qualifications
In the summer of 2012, I was hired on a freelance-basis to work with Google in their Mountain View HQ (now remotely) as an illustrator.
I’m self-taught and have no qualifications in art or design. A lot of people have asked me how I did it.
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'Genius Is…', A Comic About Your Inner Genius, by Grant Snider
I recently asked one of my favourite comic artists, Grant Snider of ‘Incidental Comics‘, to create a comic for Red Lemon Club. A lot of his work looks at creativity and creative people, so I felt it a must to bring his perspective to RLC. I was pleased when he happily obliged.
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Why No One Likes Your Art: 26 Reasons
You work hard at creating pieces of art, design, writing, music, song and dance. But do people truly like what you do? If you want to do well, earn and survive in this industry, it’s quite important that at least a few people do.
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Red Lemon Club Interviews Illustrator Dan Matutina
I first came across Philippines-based illustrator and designer Dan Matutina’s distinct work many years ago. His hard-edged, original and absorbing creations drew me in, and I featured his earlier stuff on my other site Ape on the Moon.
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26 Tools for Chipping Away at the Fear and Becoming More Socially at Ease
As people of planet Earth who share an absolute necessity to relate and connect with one another, we see ourselves at an interesting checkpoint in our history. We are, as a whole, less at ease socially than ever before, even with the connective power of the Internet and the relatively advanced state of society in general.
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Slurping Noodles, 15 Earthquakes and Drawing Pictures: My 9 Months as a Freelance Illustrator in Tokyo
In the middle of March 2012 I headed out solo to live in Tokyo for 9 months for no other real reason than adventure. Having now returned, I wanted to share my story and some of the things I learnt as an independent freelancer when I was there…
Promo 3.0 Now on Kindle, and Win a New Kindle Paperwhite
**Winner Announced!**
Thank you so much to everyone who put in the time to write a review for the new book. Congratulations to Lisa Ahlstedt from Knoxville, USA for her review of Promo 3.0. Your free brand new Kindle Paperwhite device will make its way to you shortly!
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Poor Clients: Who They Are, Why We Work for Them and How to Work with the Best People
As creative people, unless we are producing things for no financial reward, and especially those of us who work on an independent basis, attracting and winning clients and customers is effectively the most important aspect of the package of work we do (beyond the creative work itself).
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10 Daily Habits that will Empower and Strengthen you as a Professional Creative Person
There is no doubt that a large chunk of what determines the fortune of a person is rooted in the little things that we as people do every single day. As such, the power that lies in a habit, good or bad, cannot be overlooked as we all find a means to get ahead in this busy world.
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