For Students

Student Resources

Here's some information that I think will be particularly helpful to current students managing life in a creative field.

Here's my post on Professional Documents.

Here's my post on Drawing for Pleasure, with lots of links to art materials.

Apps and Websites

Notion
Scheduling and planning with calendars, spreadsheets and word processing. A great replacement for physical planners, thesis project tracking, and note taking for class.

Mishlist
A website to make quick and easy commission options, where people can see your example work and your pricing breakdowns. A great platform for interacting with clients and clearly communicating what you create.

Forest
An app that helps you create distraction-free time for you work, rewarding you with a tree for every successful sitting. At a certain point, they even plant REAL trees as a reward!

Monument Valley
My favorite de-stress game to play during breaks. It's soothing, beautiful, non-punishing and has lovely music.

Brush Box
A photoshop plugin that allows you to organize, group, tag, and favorite different brushes and brush presets.
It also makes brush names searchable. MAGIC.

Ko-Fi
This digital tip jar site allows you to post about your work, share a little about what you do, and receive any size of donations in a comfortable, positive format.

Notebloc
The best camera-scanner app I've found for taking pictures of sketchbook artwork.

Weebly
My go-to domain for creating websites. Their free site version is highly customizable. They have everything a student needs to make a free website to host their work.

Eyeleo and f.lux
Help save your eyes during computer time! Eyeleo tracks computer time and reminds you to take breaks. f.lux changes your screen temp depending on the time of day.

Lazy Nezumi
A photoshop plugin that stabilizes your brush lines in photoshop. They also have powerful perspective tools for technical drawings.

Mock Interview Questions

Tell us about yourself.
What are some of your strengths? (Artistic, Social, Work)
What are some of your weaknesses? My suggestion is to phrase them as things you’d like to learn more about.
Tell us about your previous work experience.
What were your responsibilities in previous positions?
Why are you interested in working at this studio?
Why are you interested in this position?
What is your desired career path?
What makes you stand out from other candidates?
How do you prioritize tasks you are given?
How would you handle a difficult experience at work?

Do you have any questions for us?
Here are some example questions to ask:

What do you like about working here?
Can you give me an example of how I would collaborate with employees in this position?
What would be my day to day responsibilities?
What have past interns done to succeed here?
Expectations with overtime?

Professional Social Media Worksheet

These are some sample questions to think about when creating your website/resume/portfolio/online presence.
They all aim towards thinking about your professional identity with consistency. Answering these questions should give you a pretty good idea of what kind of online presence you've created for your career.

What is your name? How would you like to be addressed by your peers?
What do you do/what is your label? How would you describe yourself? (artists, animator, illustrator, student, etc)
What is your current career goal? It can totally change so don't sweat it!
What kind of social media do you use? Do you post art on it?
Do you interact with others artists online?
What is your social media handle for where you post art? Does it have some sort of suffix that connects it to your label as an artist?
Is your social media handle the same across all media platforms?
Is your social media handle the same/similar to your website/email address?
Does your social media show your email address or website on your profile?
Is the art you post relevant to the skillset you're working towards?
Which social media accounts do you want to list on your art website?
Which social media would you rather keep personal?
What are some artists on social media that you admire? What do you like about their accounts? Do you like their profile pic, bio, cover image, post habits?