✨ The first 1,000 people to use the link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: skl.sh/mimipurnellillustrator10222 ✨ And to help you make the most of it I've curated a list of classes that I like in my video description 🥰
What if you are more creative in the evening to night? Ive been drawing for 15 years and I noticed I always draw late afternoon to night. In the morning I’m usually busy with other things like work and school. I noticed all my creative ideas come around those times.
I would love to become a picture book illustrator, that is my dream career and to be able to work from home as that's the most sustainable for myself and my family. I love your videos and I have found them inspiring. :)
Questions: 1:16 How do you want to be spending your time? 1:43 Where do you want to be working? 1:08 When do you want to work and how much? 2:30 Who do you want to create with? 3:00 What are your values?
Great video Mimi! This is invaluable information and often times overlooked - I used to just draw all day and try getting better without a clear metric of success. For me, I'm currently focused on growing my own CZcams channel and creating entertaining and helpful videos for artists. Some day, I hope to release my own artbook too! 😄
Great video! I just discovered you and I just love what you share and what you do! I always enjoyed drawing and just animation in general. I stop drawing for years now. So now I feel a little frustrated because I’m not drawing like I would like(tend to compare myself). I want to improve my drawing skills. (Working on it) I want to create illustrations that brings warmth, that is fun and is encouraging. I want to make physical products so I would like to create something from scratch and bring them to “life.” I have found another joy and that is pottery so I want to be able to blend both and create fun, cute and beautiful pieces. My dream is to do this from home since I’m a stay at home mom and I enjoyed being home with my kids. So creating illustrations and pottery in my own space while encouraging others in a peaceful environment surrounded with nature will be the career I want. To have the freedom to create what I want and share it with others 😊
Because of you I'm going to start illustration and publish my book. As a mother of 2 I put art on the back burner. Art bring me much joy. So thabk you . Watching your videos I feel more confident.
Great video. I have trouble with these questions mostly because there are so many things I want to do and as a neurodiverse, my passions can change. The one thing that has solidified over the last two years is that I want to spread joy through design and illustration
Hi Mimi, I just found your channel and let me tell you, this is JUST what I needed. I quit my full time corporate job 4 months ago to become a painter and illustrator. I have been progressing and have a very supporting friend group and family, however, as an artist I easily get caught up in the creative process of making art, which is amazing but I found myself not having any business plans or structure. Thank you for helping us organie and plan our art business, your content is incredible✨❤️🙂
So happy to hear that you're giving yourself the opportunity to become an illustrator, and glad that my videos can help you a little with the business side of things. Hope it all goes well for you! 🥰
I do appreciate the additional video recommendations at the end, there. A big part of not getting that one month trial is that I don't want to waste it on just one video, y'know? Gonna copy your list and get that trial now. After... Writing... Everything...
This video helped a lot! Thank you for that. I have answered all the questions and I'm going to post the answers tomorrow in my story on Instagram. I always love to do little exercises like this. In just a few minutes you have more clarity and new motivation to keep going on. A little preview: I love to be able to work around the world and sell my art everywhere I go. I want to have short working days and weeks so there is enough time to enjoy life.
I would love to open my own Etsy shop where I’ll be able to sell prints of my art to all the cat lovers in the world 🐈⬛ And I want to improve my art style too !
For my dream art career, I'm focused on making traditional watercolor art of robots, anthros, animals, and nature, geared towards children and young adults. Im kind of in between wanting to make my own stories and characters, but also occasionally working with companies and other artists, but also doing private commissions. But I value freedom in location and creativity, which seems to be a growing thing amongst artists XD I admit that I have n o t been working well on the Being Serious as a Career aspect as I should, as I kind of had a rough last year of college that affected me mentally, but decided recently I should push past the past, start planning and scheduling to make it a reality!
Dear Mimi, this is such a helpful video with so much guidance and support for those you are trying to start. Thank you so much for your support, kindness and genuity.
My dream goal is to be a full-time writer and artist making at least 5k a month, and I would like to work alone (or with a small team when I grow enough to need help). I value creative independence and freedom. :) I am working on my journaling CZcams channel and art channel growth, and am writing a book I will soon self-publish :) working towards my dreams a bit slow but steady :)
Thank you for sharing this, Mimi !❤ I was wondering about my art career these day, not enough business planning make my journey difficult. Your advice is very useful. Now, l am going to reorganize my plan! 😊
Thank you so so much Mimi for giving so much good advice about how we can start our own art careers. For me personally, I'm trying to restart my art journey. I loved art when I was younger but eventually stopped. Now, I am relearning art and it's both exciting and also intimidating starting again when I'm older. But you and other art youtubers are a big help in encouraging me to keep going. My goals are to improve my art skills and to hopefully grow my side business with the art that I make. I will take your suggestions to heart and again thank you for all your help!
Thanks Mimi, I decided to sign up and give some of the classes a go. I think our values on honesty and authenticity are very much aligned, we need more of that! :)
My dream of my art carrier, would be to hopefully someday to open up my own indie-studio in the future. I'm definitely going to make a checklist after watching this video to help me improve on my art so I can turn that dream into a reality someday. Thanks for this video mimi.
I want to be able to work from home and really develop my personal style. Sometimes I have friends and family ask me to do a portrait and it is life like, but I want to delve more into a style I can call my own as you did. I know I need to make goals on how often I draw and how to get out of a rut on what to draw.
Just wanna say thank you because your videos are so inspiring and I am always listened to them while Im drawing or painting it gives me motivation that I can achieve my goals and why should I not give up.
Thank you so much mimi for your nice video🥰 actually I love to do lots of things as an artist, I like to learn illustrating and selling merge like stickers, notepads, ... , I like to learn to animate and work at an animation company , I like to learn 3d modeling and work as a game developer, I like all of these things and I don't know which one to choose as my main goal😫😫😫
It’s surely good contents, because makes me inspiring and motivating. So my art career dream is not only makes money, but also hold on solo exhibition and run an art class in my own painting style. Thank you very much for sharing! ✨😍
awesome video! a lot of food for thought:) i like how your goals are quite focused and straightforward, and don’t leave room for complication in the way to approach them. It’s looks easy but it’s not, when we are overwhelmed with choices and outside restrictive factors that influence our vision of the ‘ideal’ scenario i for one would love to do murals for families, schools and hospitals and also i would very much enjoy creating greeting cards with little poems, as well as book covers
Love your content! So glad to be a part of this community. Can't wait to see a video on how to convey clear, concise, helpful and interesting information in your voice overs as well in the written content for all platforms, Instagram, CZcams and website. Did you take public speaking courses??
Hi Mimi! Thank you so much for taking this career path and making also teaching part of your work! I admire how have you grown from things and how you have developed, and I hope to learn from all of this (already a subscriber for a while)
great video😊 I actually watched it twice. The first time I listened to your goals and notes. The second time I took my own notes. Now I have two pages filled with goals I want to work to🥰 Thank you❤
Great video as always! I love skillshare, I would have immediately clicked the link if I didn't have a subscription already 😊 I would love to see a Mimi class/course over there too 🍀
Awww I was one of the comments in the beginning 😄 I did not expect that and felt really charmed 🥰😂 Again a wonderful video. I really believe starting is the hardest part especially when you are told so often in this world that it is very hard or even impossible to make money as a self-employed artist which makes your CZcams Channel all the more important ☺
Such a good video! I'm in the process of setting up my first Etsy store, very nerve wracking, but videos like this give me hope and encouragement :) Thanks a lot!
My dream art career is to be an illustrator and to draw comics. I’ve always had story ideas when I was a kid watching tv or playing video games. I’m really hoping to get to a point where I can do this part time but I’m currently struggling with finding my audience. I think some of it has to do with me attempting to draw every day for the past two years but didn’t get any momentum from it. I don’t want to do that again for a while because it burnt me out so much. 😅 Right now, it’s just trying to find ways to gain some momentum. Wish me luck! 😁
Wonderful video, Mimi! Could you do a video around how you organize your creations/files, etc. I get so overwhelmed with all the things and no matter what I do, I can't find all the things. For example, you have all these little graphic pieces (like the Start/Finish icon pictures), etc. I feel like you must be very organized with digital files so you can be efficient. Thanks!
With some things I'm quite organised, and some things not so much 😅 My artwork is named with the date first (in reverse order so yymmdd) so that they're always in order and easy to find, the other files are loosely grouped into folders for icons, branding, textures etc. Will have to make a video someday!
Hi Mimi. Thanks a lot for your lovely videos. It’s giving me hope and strength every time. I wish to could live from my illustrations. I am on the way to built my own art style.❤ I would love to have success with my artshop and could illustrate calendar’s, books and greeting cards.Kind regards from Canary Islands😊
❤ Hi Mimi! Thank you for this video with useful tips and links. I liked the list of questions to answer and that you shared your answer. Sometimes I read those type of exercises and I don’t know what’s “allowed” as an answer. Lol. I know it’s up to me, but I want to do things right, then I worry. When I read something like “write a business plan” I feel fear/dread. How does one figure our who their “target audience is” beyond “someone who likes what I make and will buy it”? ❤
I would love to be able to use my passion for illustrating and designing to make my own products to sell from my very own online shop. I'd love to generate enough income to support my family and my business, and to donate what's left to ideal organisations. But first I need to overcome my own perfectionism and fear of rejection 🙈
I think my art dream is ...hmm, don't actually think I have one.yeah would be great to get into character design but I dont know if I consider it a dream goal
I was writing my wishes along with the video, gonna paste them below in case anyone will ever find this comment, lol. -- I want to do ANYTHING related to design. Creating concepts, working for clients, fullfilling wishes, mostly. I want to work preferrably in an atelier. Be it at home or a rented office space. I want a small team to possibly split up the work where needed, for animation, atleast. I can handle the design alone. A social media guy to be hired would also be pretty good, if my business will have an account. I'd like to work from afternoon-to night. But if that doesn't work, I could get up as normal. I'd like to make work-hours flexible for if I get coworkers. Possibly a 5 day, 7-hour job for all. I definetly want to make sure, that the people who'd work under my watch are well-cared for and can visit families and just take their time on their work. A small team, where publishers and financial backers can have influence though, too. Any sort of opportunity, is good opportunity. I care about quality, mostly, and making sure that noone in my team will be under any sort of stress. I want to be as honest and frank as I can be, without coming off as rude or harsh. Sustainability would be the 2nd priority.
✨ The first 1,000 people to use the link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: skl.sh/mimipurnellillustrator10222 ✨ And to help you make the most of it I've curated a list of classes that I like in my video description 🥰
What if you are more creative in the evening to night? Ive been drawing for 15 years and I noticed I always draw late afternoon to night. In the morning I’m usually busy with other things like work and school. I noticed all my creative ideas come around those times.
I would love to become a picture book illustrator, that is my dream career and to be able to work from home as that's the most sustainable for myself and my family. I love your videos and I have found them inspiring. :)
That's a wonderful dream to have! Working from home is so nice 😊✨
Questions:
1:16 How do you want to be spending your time?
1:43 Where do you want to be working?
1:08 When do you want to work and how much?
2:30 Who do you want to create with?
3:00 What are your values?
Great video Mimi! This is invaluable information and often times overlooked - I used to just draw all day and try getting better without a clear metric of success. For me, I'm currently focused on growing my own CZcams channel and creating entertaining and helpful videos for artists. Some day, I hope to release my own artbook too! 😄
That sounds like a great plan!
I hope to be self employed with my own online shop with my characters I design
I'm a calligrapher, and novelist working on my 1st novel. As a calligrapher, I want to make cards, calendars and wall art.
Great video! I just discovered you and I just love what you share and what you do! I always enjoyed drawing and just animation in general. I stop drawing for years now. So now I feel a little frustrated because I’m not drawing like I would like(tend to compare myself). I want to improve my drawing skills. (Working on it)
I want to create illustrations that brings warmth, that is fun and is encouraging. I want to make physical products so I would like to create something from scratch and bring them to “life.” I have found another joy and that is pottery so I want to be able to blend both and create fun, cute and beautiful pieces. My dream is to do this from home since I’m a stay at home mom and I enjoyed being home with my kids. So creating illustrations and pottery in my own space while encouraging others in a peaceful environment surrounded with nature will be the career I want. To have the freedom to create what I want and share it with others 😊
Because of you I'm going to start illustration and publish my book. As a mother of 2 I put art on the back burner. Art bring me much joy. So thabk you . Watching your videos I feel more confident.
I love that, so excited for you!
@@MimimooIllustration thank you so much
Great video. I have trouble with these questions mostly because there are so many things I want to do and as a neurodiverse, my passions can change. The one thing that has solidified over the last two years is that I want to spread joy through design and illustration
Hi Mimi, I just found your channel and let me tell you, this is JUST what I needed. I quit my full time corporate job 4 months ago to become a painter and illustrator. I have been progressing and have a very supporting friend group and family, however, as an artist I easily get caught up in the creative process of making art, which is amazing but I found myself not having any business plans or structure. Thank you for helping us organie and plan our art business, your content is incredible✨❤️🙂
So happy to hear that you're giving yourself the opportunity to become an illustrator, and glad that my videos can help you a little with the business side of things. Hope it all goes well for you! 🥰
I want to create a CZcams channel where I share my art journey and be the art friend I wish I had ❤ thank you for this video Mimi!!
I needed this, thank you 🥰💕✨
Thank you Mimi for this awesome video
I do appreciate the additional video recommendations at the end, there. A big part of not getting that one month trial is that I don't want to waste it on just one video, y'know?
Gonna copy your list and get that trial now. After... Writing... Everything...
Thanks for the mention, @Mimimoo!
1:56 Exactly this!
This video helped a lot! Thank you for that. I have answered all the questions and I'm going to post the answers tomorrow in my story on Instagram. I always love to do little exercises like this. In just a few minutes you have more clarity and new motivation to keep going on.
A little preview: I love to be able to work around the world and sell my art everywhere I go. I want to have short working days and weeks so there is enough time to enjoy life.
I would love to open my own Etsy shop where I’ll be able to sell prints of my art to all the cat lovers in the world 🐈⬛
And I want to improve my art style too !
This is a video i desperately needed. Thank you so much, Mimi 🥰😍
For my dream art career, I'm focused on making traditional watercolor art of robots, anthros, animals, and nature, geared towards children and young adults. Im kind of in between wanting to make my own stories and characters, but also occasionally working with companies and other artists, but also doing private commissions. But I value freedom in location and creativity, which seems to be a growing thing amongst artists XD
I admit that I have n o t been working well on the Being Serious as a Career aspect as I should, as I kind of had a rough last year of college that affected me mentally, but decided recently I should push past the past, start planning and scheduling to make it a reality!
Dear Mimi, this is such a helpful video with so much guidance and support for those you are trying to start. Thank you so much for your support, kindness and genuity.
Thank you for this video it was helpful!
My dream goal is to be a full-time writer and artist making at least 5k a month, and I would like to work alone (or with a small team when I grow enough to need help). I value creative independence and freedom. :) I am working on my journaling CZcams channel and art channel growth, and am writing a book I will soon self-publish :) working towards my dreams a bit slow but steady :)
Thank you for sharing this, Mimi !❤ I was wondering about my art career these day, not enough business planning make my journey difficult. Your advice is very useful. Now, l am going to reorganize my plan! 😊
Thank you for this. Im working on my plasn. I do quite a few things so I need to manage them all.
Thank you so so much Mimi for giving so much good advice about how we can start our own art careers. For me personally, I'm trying to restart my art journey. I loved art when I was younger but eventually stopped. Now, I am relearning art and it's both exciting and also intimidating starting again when I'm older. But you and other art youtubers are a big help in encouraging me to keep going. My goals are to improve my art skills and to hopefully grow my side business with the art that I make. I will take your suggestions to heart and again thank you for all your help!
So lovely to hear your story and your goals! 🥰
A really helpful video Mimi - thanks so much for sharing 😁
Thanks Mimi, I decided to sign up and give some of the classes a go. I think our values on honesty and authenticity are very much aligned, we need more of that! :)
Couldn't agree more! And I hope you enjoy the classes!
The perfect timing to release this video. I'm actually in the beginning stages of planning my goals. So maybe a sign I should really get going.
My dream of my art carrier, would be to hopefully someday to open up my own indie-studio in the future. I'm definitely going to make a checklist after watching this video to help me improve on my art so I can turn that dream into a reality someday. Thanks for this video mimi.
I want to be able to work from home and really develop my personal style. Sometimes I have friends and family ask me to do a portrait and it is life like, but I want to delve more into a style I can call my own as you did. I know I need to make goals on how often I draw and how to get out of a rut on what to draw.
I would love to work from home. Maybe like 4 to 5 days a week... Illustrating, graphic design, commission work, and eventually CZcams art tutorials...
That sounds great! 4 day work week is definitely the dream 😄
Just wanna say thank you because your videos are so inspiring and I am always listened to them while Im drawing or painting it gives me motivation that I can achieve my goals and why should I not give up.
this is so amaizing thank you for sharing
This could not have come at a better time! I will watch this tomorrow morning with my coffee and planner xx Can’t wait! But I have to go to bed now 😢
Amazing class recs!
Thank you so much mimi for your nice video🥰 actually I love to do lots of things as an artist, I like to learn illustrating and selling merge like stickers, notepads, ... , I like to learn to animate and work at an animation company , I like to learn 3d modeling and work as a game developer, I like all of these things and I don't know which one to choose as my main goal😫😫😫
It’s surely good contents, because makes me inspiring and motivating.
So my art career dream is not only makes money, but also hold on solo exhibition and run an art class in my own painting style.
Thank you very much for sharing! ✨😍
awesome video! a lot of food for thought:) i like how your goals are quite focused and straightforward, and don’t leave room for complication in the way to approach them.
It’s looks easy but it’s not, when we are overwhelmed with choices and outside restrictive factors that influence our vision of the ‘ideal’ scenario
i for one would love to do murals for families, schools and hospitals and also i would very much enjoy creating greeting cards with little poems, as well as book covers
Love your content! So glad to be a part of this community. Can't wait to see a video on how to convey clear, concise, helpful and interesting information in your voice overs as well in the written content for all platforms, Instagram, CZcams and website. Did you take public speaking courses??
Hi Mimi! Thank you so much for taking this career path and making also teaching part of your work! I admire how have you grown from things and how you have developed, and I hope to learn from all of this (already a subscriber for a while)
great video😊 I actually watched it twice. The first time I listened to your goals and notes. The second time I took my own notes. Now I have two pages filled with goals I want to work to🥰 Thank you❤
Aw that is so lovely to hear!
Great video as always! I love skillshare, I would have immediately clicked the link if I didn't have a subscription already 😊 I would love to see a Mimi class/course over there too 🍀
I'd love to put a little course on there some day!
Thank you Mimi! Glad I found your channel!
I love all the courses of Brooke Glaser! She's awesome! 💛
Thanks for the video, Mimi! I will directly look for the other titles you mentioned. 😍
Awww I was one of the comments in the beginning 😄 I did not expect that and felt really charmed 🥰😂 Again a wonderful video. I really believe starting is the hardest part especially when you are told so often in this world that it is very hard or even impossible to make money as a self-employed artist which makes your CZcams Channel all the more important ☺
So fun that you saw your comment! I know what you mean, it feels like there are so many hurdles and like it'd be impossible, but it can happen! 😊
Such a good video! I'm in the process of setting up my first Etsy store, very nerve wracking, but videos like this give me hope and encouragement :) Thanks a lot!
Hi, my name is Enrique I’m 27 and hoping that I’m not too late or too old in my life to start a create an art
Thats some steps to figure out the dream career. Thanks for sharing🥰
My dream art career is to be an illustrator and to draw comics. I’ve always had story ideas when I was a kid watching tv or playing video games. I’m really hoping to get to a point where I can do this part time but I’m currently struggling with finding my audience. I think some of it has to do with me attempting to draw every day for the past two years but didn’t get any momentum from it. I don’t want to do that again for a while because it burnt me out so much. 😅
Right now, it’s just trying to find ways to gain some momentum. Wish me luck! 😁
Awesome
Wonderful video, Mimi! Could you do a video around how you organize your creations/files, etc. I get so overwhelmed with all the things and no matter what I do, I can't find all the things. For example, you have all these little graphic pieces (like the Start/Finish icon pictures), etc. I feel like you must be very organized with digital files so you can be efficient. Thanks!
With some things I'm quite organised, and some things not so much 😅 My artwork is named with the date first (in reverse order so yymmdd) so that they're always in order and easy to find, the other files are loosely grouped into folders for icons, branding, textures etc. Will have to make a video someday!
Funny enough.. I just did that class by Brooke
Hi Mimi. Thanks a lot for your lovely videos. It’s giving me hope and strength every time. I wish to could live from my illustrations. I am on the way to built my own art style.❤
I would love to have success with my artshop and could illustrate calendar’s, books and greeting cards.Kind regards from Canary Islands😊
Thank you so so so much! Every questions has so much sense and helps a lot
Love this video Mimi! I have now ideas to become a full time artist. Thanks! 😊
❤ Hi Mimi! Thank you for this video with useful tips and links. I liked the list of questions to answer and that you shared your answer. Sometimes I read those type of exercises and I don’t know what’s “allowed” as an answer. Lol. I know it’s up to me, but I want to do things right, then I worry. When I read something like “write a business plan” I feel fear/dread. How does one figure our who their “target audience is” beyond “someone who likes what I make and will buy it”? ❤
I'm the same! I often feel like there's a 'right' way to do these exercises even though there isn't 😅
Thank you I really needed this video today. ❤
I would love to be able to use my passion for illustrating and designing to make my own products to sell from my very own online shop. I'd love to generate enough income to support my family and my business, and to donate what's left to ideal organisations. But first I need to overcome my own perfectionism and fear of rejection 🙈
Thanks for the vedio..
I think my art dream is ...hmm, don't actually think I have one.yeah would be great to get into character design but I dont know if I consider it a dream goal
That's a great place to start though 😊
Isn't art will be taken over by ai ?? Will it be relevant in future??
I was writing my wishes along with the video, gonna paste them below in case anyone will ever find this comment, lol.
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I want to do ANYTHING related to design. Creating concepts, working for clients, fullfilling wishes, mostly.
I want to work preferrably in an atelier. Be it at home or a rented office space. I want a small team to possibly split up the work where needed, for animation, atleast. I can handle the design alone. A social media guy to be hired would also be pretty good, if my business will have an account.
I'd like to work from afternoon-to night. But if that doesn't work, I could get up as normal. I'd like to make work-hours flexible for if I get coworkers.
Possibly a 5 day, 7-hour job for all. I definetly want to make sure, that the people who'd work under my watch are well-cared for and can visit families and just take their time on their work.
A small team, where publishers and financial backers can have influence though, too. Any sort of opportunity, is good opportunity.
I care about quality, mostly, and making sure that noone in my team will be under any sort of stress. I want to be as honest and frank as I can be, without coming off as rude or harsh. Sustainability would be the 2nd priority.
I would have loved to be a full time painter, but 'making enough sales' is a hard goal to reach 🥲