Fork in the Road between starving and thriving artist

Planning for the future of my Youtube channel, and how does documenting the creation of kids books fit in with the new COPPA ‘Made for Kids’ regulations. The books are for kids but the videos are for adults, this pretty much plants me firmly in the grey zone when it comes to labelling my content. Thank you to Fantastic Joe from YouTube channel Apps that Rule who weighed in on the topic check out h...

The new YouTube regulations around the labelling of ‘made for kids’ content is very confusing. I talk about being stuck in the grey area of not being kids content even though I’m creating kids books.

I’ve been looking forward to catching up with videographer and content creator Will Mosley for some time. But some days the technology, the apps, the everything stands in your way. We had a great chat on Instagram LIVE but the audio was so bad we couldn’t salvage it... This is that story.

Sometimes all the things that can go wrong with recording a podcast, do go wrong. I’m looking forward to having another go at the podcast with awesome creator Will Mosley in the future.

I look at traditional scheduling Vs. my ‘If This Then That’ Scheduling Idea, and is there any real benefit to going for a task sandwich? Listen to all my latest productivity ponderings as I make my way to my next lawn mowing job.

Receiving criticism is never easy, especially about your art. Because it can almost feel like a personal attack. And when it’s from a collaborator or client it can feel even worse. And I don’t mean you Crumpet, but you did get me thinking as you’ve been giving me detailed feedback on my preliminary sketches to your kid’s book that I’m illustrating. I’ve decided that… I’m here to say that… criticis...

Sometimes you know exactly what you need to do to succeed, but for some strange reason you still don’t do it. Why is that? I chat about all the things that I think I need to do when it comes to Mindset and health.

Can you become more productive with a simple mind shift? What Stories and internal chatter fills your brain? And does this effect your productivity? I also chat about some issues I have been having with the Prism LIVE Studio app.

I think the best platform that artists should make the most of, if they wanna go from being a starving artist to a thriving artist is Youtube. Here are a few reasons why.

Discovering that I have less time than ever. I try to figure out how I can use the 80 20 principal to give me more time to create my art and potential do it for a living. Life’s too short to do work you don’t love.

Go live across multiple streaming platforms including Youtube and Periscope from your mobile device using the PRISM live studio app. I was extremely excited to find this app for going live from my smartphone as I am a small youtube creator wanting to connect with my community. In this podcast I give an overview of how the app can be used. It’s great features and some features that could be improve...

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 abou...

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 Homes...

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 a...

On the subject of spending all my time documenting my documenting process and having it use up all of my time and not leaving me any time to do my creative work. I was editing that video last night, all about that, on that very subject. Because I'm mucking around with some new techniques that will hopefully save me some time. But I ended up spending all my time just making the video and not spendi...

There is one last way you can create more time that I’m overlooking. You can stop sleeping. However I would only recommend this if you want to become the worst version of yourself, You’ll be grumpy, forgetful, stupid and worst of all tired. So I’m thinking the situation is hopeless. But then I got to thinking. What creative work am I doing with my available time. And is it the best use of my time....

I’ve been flip flopping all over the place. With the birth of my second daughter. I’ve been taking some time to access this whole career pivot experiment thing, And why it isn’t working. Why isn’t it working? I could get down on myself and say I’m full of it, but that would go against my whole positive mindset thing. I could say I don’t have time, which is garbage. Everyone in the world has the sa...

I talk with photographer, filmmaker and Youtuber Chad Thompson from his channel Chad Everyday https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC21vlTmtzzW1E5gkU08Vvgw As Chad talks about separating his tutorial videos from his vlogs with two separate channels. I contemplate making videos that include tutorial and vlog styles in the same video. There’s no one right way but we consider the benefits of both. I’d lov...