Using Curiosity and Intention to Build Your Career
Lesson 4 from: Creating a Fine Art SeriesBrooke Shaden
Using Curiosity and Intention to Build Your Career
Lesson 4 from: Creating a Fine Art SeriesBrooke Shaden
Lesson Info
4. Using Curiosity and Intention to Build Your Career
Lessons
Class Introduction
07:25 2Overview of Brooke’s Journey
20:13 3Your Timeline is Nonlinear
05:37 4Using Curiosity and Intention to Build Your Career
03:26 5What Factors Dictate Growth
08:24 6Organic Growth vs. Forced Growth
05:18 7Niche Branding
04:57 8Brooke’s Artistic Evolution and Timeline
24:27How Can You Get Ahead if You Feel Behind?
10:02 10Ideation and Conceptualization to Identify Meaning in Your Art
05:54 11Idea Fluency
10:33 12How to Represent an Idea
07:01 13How to Innovate an Idea
07:07 14Creating a Dialogue With Your Art
05:48 15Conceptualization For a Series vs. a Single Image
03:43 16Transforming a Single Image Into a Series
03:12 17How to Tell a Story in a Series
03:28 18How to Create Costumes From Fabric
07:20 19Brooke’s Most Useful Costumes
02:19 20Using Paint and Clay as Texture in an Image
02:56 21Create Physical Elements in an Image
10:22 22Shooting for a Fine Art Series
05:45 23Conceptualization: Flowery Fish Bowl in the Desert
04:08 24Wardrobe and Texture
04:54 25Posing for the Story
05:32 26Choosing an Image
01:23 27Conceptualization: Rainy Plexiglass
11:34 28Posing for the Story
04:17 29Creating Backlight
02:37 30Photo Shoot #1 - Creating a Simple Composite
17:51 31Photo Shoot #2 - Creating a Dynamic Composite
06:31 32Photo Shoot #3 - Creating a Storytelling Composite
07:40 33Shooting the Background Images
06:14 34Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Working With Backgrounds
24:35 35Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Retouching the Subject
04:20 36Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Color Grading
02:45 37Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Floor Replacement Texture
15:24 38Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Final Adjustments
03:21 39Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Cropping and Editing Backgrounds
05:25 40Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Selective Adjustments
03:55 41Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Adding Texture + Fine Tuning
03:21 42Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Compositing Models
06:58 43Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Expanding Rooms
02:17 44Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Color
02:47 45Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Exposure
04:04 46Editing Composite Shoot #2- Masking Into Backgrounds
10:45 47Editing Composite Shoot #2- Creating Rooms in Photoshop
06:11 48Editing Composite Shoot #2- Compositing Hair
05:07 49Editing Composite Shoot #2- Global Adjustments
04:49 50Editing Composite Shoot #3- Blending Composite Elements
05:00 51Editing Composite Shoot #3- Advanced Compositing
08:46 52Editing Composite Shoot #3- Cleanup
03:34 53Materials for Alternative Processes
06:20 54Oil Painting on Prints
05:41 55Encaustic Wax on Prints
03:09 56Failure vs. Sell Out
05:14 57Create Art You Love and Bring an Audience To You
03:35 58Branding Yourself Into a Story
05:40 59The Artistic Narrative
05:26 60Get People to Care About Your Story
03:36 61Get People to Buy Your Story
11:36 62Getting Galleries and Publishers to Take Notice
03:41 63Pricing For Commissions
06:43 64Original Prints vs. Limited Edition Prints vs. Open Edition Prints
02:11 65Class Outro
01:00 66Live Premiere
16:14 67Live Premiere: Layers of Depth 1
04:41 68Live Premiere: Layers of Depth 2
07:12 69Live Premiere: Q&A
16:10 70Live Premiere: Photo Critique
47:33Lesson Info
Using Curiosity and Intention to Build Your Career
now, curiosity is my favorite topic. I love curiosity. I think that if everyone in the world were more curious than we would have a much more interesting world, and I think that there is there to conversations to be had about curiosity. There's curiosity in the form of organic growth, and there's curiosity in the form of stimulated growth or growth that you really take control over. Essentially, curiosity is the most wonderful thing that we could never embrace. If you do so with intention, if the way that you explore curiosity really, really has a purpose to it, then you're going to find this amazing marriage of the two things that cause success in people, which is curiosity mixed with intent. And when you can mix those two things, you are on the way. So curiosity is essentially intuition. If the word curious doesn't resonate with you, maybe intuition does. It's that little voice inside of you. It's your guts saying, Do this thing go forth and paint and sing and dance and I don't know,...
be an accountant if you want. I just had a really funny conversation with my mother in law, and I said, What's your dream job if you could do anything and she said I would be an accountant and I like my heart sank. I was like an accountant, but But there are so many creative things to do in the world. And she said, But I love accounting and I love that because it was such a perspective shift for me, you know, that was her intuition. Like that was her first answer. And it doesn't matter what your first answer is. Whatever it is, be honest with yourself. What is your curiosity? What is your intuition telling you and follow that thing? Even if it sounds like something that maybe you would put down or you think wouldn't be accepted in society, it's okay, whatever that ISS. So the flipside of curiosity is intention. Intention, really is your goals. It's it's what can you set forth to do? That gives you some guidance with your curiosity, And it's really funny because I think of sort of two types of people with curiosity. I think of one type who is like, I'm just gonna do whatever I want all the time. Nothing matters. I don't answer to anybody, and then there are other people who are so focused on intent. I have goals I have, Dr. I have dreams. I'm gonna achieve them. And I think that in my opinion, the best artists are the people who combine those two things. I like to say that intention is testing. It's being able to say, Okay, here's where I wanna be now how can I get to that place and you test? You put things out there and you see how it reads and you see how people receive it. You see how it feels for you. One of the biggest mistakes that people make is not asking yourself What do I want to do with my day? Just like every single day you wake up, What do you want to do, like what you want to spend your time doing? Do you want to sit at your computer all day and never look away like my husband? Do you wanna go play in the forest and get thorns all in your feet and be dirty like me? Maybe that's your thing. What do you want to spend your day doing? Literally. Our tow. Our It's important because if you don't consider that, then you may find yourself in a job that sounds good but really does not support your interests.
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Ratings and Reviews
a Creativelive Student
Brooke never fails to deliver. I found this course superb from start to finish. From exercising your creative 'muscle', demystifying taking self portraits, and showing that they don't have to be perfect before you begin editing, to walking you through her editing process and how to price your work. Brooke's enthusiastic personality and excitement about the work shines through it all. Definitely recommended!
Rebecca Potter
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Brooke for this amazing class. Inspired and so full of practical knowledge, this is the best class I've ever watched. You have given me the confidence to pursue what I've always been afraid to do. Watch this space!
Søren Nielsen
Thank for fantastic motivating an very inspiring. The story telling and selling module was very helpful - thanks from Denmark