One of the most daunting aspects of pursing a creative or artistic career for many aspiring artists is not knowing how to learn the craft. So, we asked some very talented artists and creatives to talk to us about how they learned their crafts and we hope their stories will help you in your journey.

Michael Kulick

I never went to art school or had a desire to. Growing up I would just study on my own the brush strokes and color pallets of some of my favorite artists. I didn’t want to study under a certain set of rules and guidelines in my art. Read more>>

Talia Molé

My path as a writer and developmental editor was forged by weaving both lived experiences and rigorous academic training. I specifically chose to focus my studies on the Humanities because they offered the space to be in conversation with the human condition. Read more>>

Mark Milazzo

I have always made art and collage for me was around 2018 but not like I do the craft today. Around 2020, during covid, i was making art or trying to find my way and I began to immerse myself. Read more>>

Taylor Jarrard

I started becoming interested in performing arts when I was 15 years old, a sophomore in high school. I was always a particularly shy kid, but I really wanted to try something new, and I had a lot of friends who were in the drama program at school. Read more>>

Kristina Orlova

Throughout my years as an artist, I have always aspired to further my technical abilities as well as develop a unique style. One of the key things that helped me in my learning process is studying things that I enjoy or challenges me as an artist. Read more>>

Jon Minton

I’m completely self-taught as both a programmer and a writer. I struggled in school, making poor grades through high school. High test scores were my only saving grace, and how I finally got accepted into college, but I struggled there and dropped out my first year. Read more>>

Rick Lundeen

Although I learned some fundamentals in art school, it was only after I’d become gainfully employed doing storyboards for advertising agencies that I started my real education. Read more>>

Albert Nolaj

This is one of the best gifts ever given to me, especially from above. I never received professional training until I realized I was given this gift for a reason– it felt like a was a mission I needed to complete while on Earth. Read more>>

Costa Gava

When you have limited resources it can be challenging making something of quality. I tend to take unconventional approaches to recording like using my car as a vocal booth. Read more>>

Armando Mesías

I was self taught in art for most of my life. I was then trained in design, painting and drawing. I always wondered if it was either skills or validation I was looking for when going to art school. Read more>>

Dina Ferguson

Design is a second career for me. Although I always had a creative side and was drawn to creative endeavors, I wasn’t sure how to make a living doing what I love. Read more>>

Taylor Stucker

I’ve been fortunate enough in my career to work in marketing roles that exist outside of both the traditional textbook definitions and the marketing sales funnel. Read more>>

Marco Labate

I like to think that my learning process started the moment I watched my first movie as a kid. That feeling you get after leaving the movie theater: Read more>>

Andrea Slomczenski

The Polish Proverb “Bez pracy nie ma kołaczy” resonates deeply throughout life, reminding us that without work, there’s no cake – encapsulating the essence of the English comparative – “No pain, no gain. Read more>>

Sade Mowatt

It has been a learning curve from the beginning! I knew that content creation was something I wanted to do for a very long time so I just watched a lot of YouTube videos and followed people that inspired me and tried to learn as much from them as well. Read more>>

Lucille Smithson

I started painting ten years ago. Before that, and before having children, I had worked as a graphic designer, and then as an art director at Saatchi and Saatchi in London. Read more>>
 

Marie Vibbert

Writing is a very long, slow journey. People talk about talent, but my father always said, “Talent is the practice you don’t notice.” As a child, I wrote stories for fun. It was play; I didn’t know I was practicing. Read more>>

Robert Tucker II

I had to learn how to establish essential skills for excelling in these roles. This includes effective communication to engage audiences, research proficiency to gather accurate information for reporting and interviews, Read more>>

Gina Kronstadt

I was raised in a household that played constant classical music. It became such a part of me, that as a very young child when it came time to take my afternoon nap, I’d ask my mother to turn the clock radio on to the classical music station. Read more>>

Garrett Gallego

The short answer to that question is: I studied. In my Sophomore year of high school, I auditioned for and earned the role of Algernon in “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde, after that I just had complete tunnel vision when it came to acting, Read more>>

Ellis Elliott

For both writing and ballet, I wanted to learn as much as possible about the craft in order to better serve my students and mainly because of my great love for both areas. Read more>>

Alexia Davila

I began to learn how to draw since I could hold a pencil in my hands, for many years I did not have a method or followed a technique; Read more>>

Lynn Emery

I learned through a combination of methods. First, I read a lot of books, which isn’t like work since I love to read. I paid attention to what worked for me in both fiction and non-fiction. Read more>>

Dalya Black

I am extremely grateful that I have an attitude of “let me just try this and see what happens.” I have always been artsy and just tried things out & fixed it after. Read more>>

Lila Ozture

I grew up in a country where art was not worth anything and was looked down upon. Therefore I had to teach myself a lot about art. Read more>>

Micah Slay

I started out in the Art Department building sets and props but soon realized I was more attracted to the camera department and made the move. Read more>>

Jan Buckingham

I learned how to write songs, and eventually, how to perform them, by loving music and listening to the radio, and hearing the form in which most hit songs were written, and how artists sang them. Read more>>

Huntly Plantz

Acting is a journey. When I first started, I remember being in a studio with my mom at 12 years old, and the acting coach asked us about my IMDb. Read more>>

Gene Selassie

I started pursuing writing in 2006. I’ve taken creative writing and screenwriting courses, however even before then, I read books such as Screenplay: Read more>>

Giulia Leonelli

It took me several years to deepens my approach of printmaking. At the very beginning, I’ve mostly studied the history of printmaking that completely caught me. Read more>>