Often there is no book or course to learn how to do what you want to do – so how artists and creatives overcome such challenges? How have some of the most talented artists and creatives in the community managed to learn their craft?

Qi

I love the craft of acting! the craft actually helps me in my own development as a person. I always think I’m a very strange person. my imagination and impulses. Read more>>

Reagan Chambers

I was brought in to this world as a weirdo. some people like to play nice and use the word creative as a descriptor, but I have always embraced the welcoming energy that surrounded weird. Read more>>

Corey Williams

As a child I always had a love for music. Music for me always reminded me of all the states I lived in as a military child. Growing up living in Georgia, My father would drive me to school in his yellow 240z listening to “Ride or die” by DMX (Ruff Riders Vol.1 ). Read more>>

Allison Dobkin

My path was definitely not direct, but I always knew creativity would be part of my work. I really followed my curiosity, and it ended up working out eventually. Read more>>

Coralie Jae

My first music teacher was my grandmother. She has been encouraging me to sing since I was very young, and was one of my first piano teachers when I was 7 years old. Read more>>

Andre Tan

The main thing that I’ve had to learn to create content these past few years is video editing. I asked a friend for recommendations on software to use (I’ve been using Davinci Resolve for a couple years), and from there I spent a lot of time Googling things. Read more>>

Lauren Ferebee

I’m really grateful for all the many writing teachers I’ve encountered over the years. I like to take classes in all different forms of writing. I learn different techniques and approaches, and I understand more about the ways in which creative writers are all the same (terrible procrastinators, big dreamers, etc.). Read more>>

Nicholas Rice

I really started taking cooking seriously and professionally in my mid 20’s. At first it was a job but I remember seeing my first real dish and thinking “Woah, this is art. This is beautiful” and everything changed. Read more>>

Chris Tos

Learning the craft of comedy for me was a blend of natural upbringing and deliberate study. I grew up in a family where storytelling and humor were second nature. Read more>>

Tally Schwenk

Growing up with a musical mom and uncle kickstarted my love for music, with kindergarten choir being my earliest memory. After school, I’d use my microphone to record songs off the radio into recording software and then burn them onto CDs. Read more>>

Daniel Quat

I got exposed to photography when I was 8 years old. My mother was an artist and so it was a natural thing for her to get me started in photography. Read more>>

Darrell Wallace

When I was 13 years old, I picked up my first guitar. It was a cheap balsa wood nylon stringed guitar. I had a book of guitar chords and slowly taught myself the chords, this was long before computers and the internet. Read more>>

Erin Murphy

I learned photography by doing it… a lot. Photography was always part of my job before I became a full time photographer so I was familiar but was still shooting on auto. Read more>>

Josh Fletcher

Learning to be a choreographer is difficult. There is no “choreographer school” and some of the most talented dancers I’ve ever worked with or danced next to you would say they are terrible at choreography. Read more>>

DooWop Byrd

Born from a creative mother and father, I have been an artist as long as I can remember. I was always the little kid with paints and coloring books at the ready. Read more>>

Ope Adekunle

Learning my craft has been a journey that started from the earliest days of my childhood. I remember grasping for items like crayons or brushes before I could properly hold a pen, expressing my thoughts through colors and forms when words were just beyond my reach. Read more>>

Derrek Sekito

I’ve been learning how to animate since I was eight years old making stop-motion Lego animations with a flip phone camera. I hadn’t realized until recently but growing up I had always gravitated toward opportunities for me to make things I think are awesome. Read more>>

Désirée Eckert

Before I was a hypnotist, I worked professionally as a celebrity tailor and theatrical costumer. I started sewing at a young age, went to high school arts programs, then studied at two of the top fashion schools in New York (Parsons School of Design and Fashion Institute of Technology). Read more>>

Lisa Pedolsky

I’ve been on a great journey as an artist. As a kid I identified as an artist, or perhaps as someone who loved “doing art.” Clay, my medium for the past 25 years, appeared on my radar when I was only five years old and I was wowed. Read more>>

Joan Liu

I grew up dancing, first at local dance studio, then at pre-professional schools. I was fortunate enough to train at some of the best schools in Taiwan, Canada, and the US with world-class teachers, which built a strong foundation for later studies. Read more>>

Justin Blake

I learned from YouTube and creating an experience of being on production sets going to photographers/directors I looked to for advice and help it’s okay to ask. Knowing what I know I would have started my journey a lot sooner and believed in myself more in the early stages. Read more>>

Tyler Cole

When I was a kid, I loved movies, so much so I wanted to make them when I grew up. I thought it would be simple, as often we do in the beginning, but the more I dove in, the more I realized just how complicated it could be from a purely technical stand point. Read more>>

Sofi Alexander

I started taking online classes before I even got my camera. I wanted to know exactly what type of camera would allow me to get started without freaking out with every feature, but at the same time it had to be a camera good enough to allow me to grow. Read more>>

Megan Seibel

I believe that we are all creative in our own way and I think that the best way to learn something is to do it. I became an actor because I fell in love with theater at an early age. I loved the process of acting from start to finish. Read more>>

Christian Angeles

I think one of the biggest misconceptions about being a writer is that it doesn’t take much effort to become one. You just start writing and congratulations, you’re a writer. Read more>>