Stephanie's Drawings

I have started building my courses for writers and artists. My big signature course is for writers and storytellers in any craft---so artists---you can come too---but since I'm also an artist I've started doing some fun little sketches for writing prompts and such. This was yesterdays.  This one I did after realizing that a friend who I considered super close was really using me as an option and rides to LAX--which I do love going to LAX-but still.  BTW if you want to know more about my upcoming courses check out my new landing page and sign up to be a VIP  www.judaniebean.com

Usually I don't write a lot here, I save that for my op ed blog-"I'm Just Sayin'" but I have to say something when I share these two paintings I did this week. First of all, I am an artist. I make 100% of my living right now as an artist-usually it's childrens book illustrations and sometimes I still get to work in animation. The style I work in is cartoony-I am a cartoonist and I love it. What people don't realize is that to be great or even good at cartoons we artists must learn the basics first, we are real artists. I took anatomy and life drawing after Disney had offered me a job-I could pass the animation test, but I needed to learn the basics. I admit I didn't spend years at art school and have been public about admitting that so people feel like they can tell me that I don't deserve my career and what I hear all the time "you aren't a real artist." I am not sure what they mean by that since again 100% of my living is from art...

This was the inspiration drawing I did for my free newsletter which I call "free smiles" on my site and "Doodles and Fun" if you want to sign up, here is how-click here. http://eepurl.com/QL0SH So I made this and posted it because things have been hard lately for so many of my artists friends and it's super easy to give up when instead we all need to keep going. Giving up is always the easiest thing to do. It's hard to follow your creative passion and dreams especially when there is little or no money coming in, trust me I know! So I did this as an inspiration and I hope that you will also keep going. If you want to comment on how you are pushing forward and what obstacles are holding you back, feel free to, I'd love to hear from you. :) Have a super day and don't ever give up.