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Re-igniting energy by cultivating creative confidence and community
Discovering Creative Confidence with Stacy Kijewski | Create Today with Beth Buffington
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Beth: [00:00:00] Welcome to another episode of Create Today with Beth Buffington. Today we have a very special guest to come and talk to you about their creativity. Today I've got Stacy and she's gonna give you the correct pronunciation of her last name. But I've got Stacy, one of my students that has been with me for a while now.
She came to learn the art of Procreate. She joined the visionary group. She's been in the membership and I have just been enamored by the work that Stacy's been producing that I thought it was a good idea to bring her on the podcast and let her talk to you about her creativity. So Stacy welcome.
I am so glad to have you here today. Oh
Stacey: my gosh, thank you so much for having me. I've loved working with you the past gosh, is it [00:01:00] like three, four years? No.
Beth: Oh, I don't think that long yet, but I know it's been at least two. I know that. So maybe we're heading into our third year.
I think so.
Stacey: I'm flies when you're.
Beth: Oh, I know. Time flies when you're creative. It really does. Cece, first of all, tell everyone how to say your last name because I always just butcher it so I want you to say it correctly.
Stacey: That's okay. I didn't say my. My husband's last name for a very long time while I was dating him and I was down visiting a friend or my aunt, I should say, who is 100 percent Polish and I go, how do you pronounce this name?
I spell it out. She goes, Oh, Stacy, that's an easy one. It's Kievski. She was like, fricking Kievski.
Beth: When you say that doesn't sound hard, but when you look at how it's spelled that's where you get very anxious and you worry that you're going to just slaughter it and make you feel bad. So thank you for sharing that.
Tell us a little bit about. your background because I know that you have a very [00:02:00] interesting creative background. Please tell everybody like who you are and what you have done with your creativity up until today.
Stacey: I'm from, I live in Cleveland, Ohio. I grew up in Michigan, but so I moved to Cleveland originally because I got a job at American Greetings and I started off in point of purchase there.
And after a while, I started working for the colors first group, which is a group that we look at colors and, recommend colors to everybody. And then I got promoted and I went up to creative where I worked on seasonal not in card. And I was there for, I worked for my greetings for nine years and it was an amazing experience.
I loved every minute of it. I'm very lucky that I got the opportunity to work there. Worked with a ton of great artists a ton of great writers illustrators. Everything was, it was a blast. And then I got pregnant. I had my first son. [00:03:00] And he was born with a lot of food allergies. So I'm like, okay, I don't think going back to work full time is For me, because I just needed to be with him.
So I decided to start freelancing and I was still working a little bit with American greetings, doing some freelance work, but then I started sending out actually snail mailing printouts of my artwork. Yeah,
Beth: that was the day.
Stacey: And just sending them out to a bunch of different companies throughout the work country, basically, and then I started getting a bunch of stuff like, Oh, we love this piece of work.
Oh, we want it. We want to license this, or we want to buy this. And it was awesome. And then I would, do the final files for them and I'd ship it off on a little CD because the internet wasn't that great yet. So with a lot of mailing back and forth, a lot of FedEx, I had a FedEx number to ship stuff off all the time.
And I [00:04:00] just kept pushing and pushing and, eventually I had about 25 clients at one point. And, tons of contracts coming in and it was a great time. It was fun. I also did some stuff on Etsy. I sold a bunch of designs, mostly invitations on Etsy.
I worked for an invitation company for a long time and then they went unfortunately she got sick. So They sold the company and then it went gone. But So I'm like, Oh, I'll start selling some invitations on Etsy, which was fun, but it ends up being a lot of work on top of licensing artwork and then keeping up with that because they wanted to print it out.
And, so I'm like, have my kids out there helping me prep stuff with envelopes and everything. Cause at this point they were a little older, but Yeah, in SO sold, it was like selling a bunch of artwork like on dish towels and on onesies and that kind of stuff. So I've ran the gamut of different things.
Beth: I did like little art fairs too [00:05:00] and sold on society six, which I still have a store, but I don't know what it does. I don't really keep up with it. It was like at the very beginnings of it. And I had sold some local Cleveland type artwork on that. You've been very busy.
So how did you first discover that you had a passion for creativity? What? What did that look like for you?
Stacey: My dad's side of the family was creative, very creative. My grandmother, She was like, incredible she could hand stitch stuff, she sewed and taught me how to needlepoint.
I've always loved to draw. Getting that box of crayons, I remember like when the 64 pack first came out. It was like the best.Then I just kept drawing and I used to do little cartoon characters and come up with little stories and stuff, just different things.
And my teachers, I think, could tell. And once I got to high school, she was my favorite [00:06:00] teacher by far. Math was not my strong point, but art was. And she this is Petro. She was awesome. And she's the one that kind of pushed me towards going into design she even came up with a little program.
She's Stacy, I really think you should go into graphic design. I think you'd be great. She goes, you can draw, you have design sense. And so she came up with a little program for me and helped me go through different colleges. Oh, this is this. Good school. This is, I wanted to go to an art school, but my dad was like, I think a well rounded university would be good for you.
Beth: Yeah. Yeah. I heard that story too.
Stacey: It's I don't want my daughter selling paintings on, at the gas station, on the center of the guest. Yeah. Remember those days when they had the,
Beth: I do. All right. So much of that was on velvet. I think
Stacey: it was on velvet. Yes. Whatever.
Besides the corner gas stations.
Beth: Yeah. [00:07:00] Yeah.
Stacey: And then I went to, I ended up going to Bowling Green State University and I have my Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design, but I also have a minor in watercolor and like drawing. It was perfect. I get to do everything.
I got to take sculpture and I got to You know, take jewelry making and enameling and it was just a blast.
Beth: Yeah.
Stacey: And I also worked for the newspaper there, which was fun. And Beth, I'm sure you remember back in the day, you had to typeset things. You didn't have. I
Beth: totally do that. Yes. My first job out of college the typesetter guy came every day to get the text that we needed to have typeset.
And we would tell him the font we wanted. We had to tell him the size and the letting, and how wide our lines were. And then he would take it out, come back with all of the text. And we had to proofread it all and then send out edits. And [00:08:00] it took forever to get a brochure done because you weren't typesetting your own information.
Stacey: No, and it was not instant gratification, but when there was a deadline, used to have to take that exact and take their, like they, the proofreaders would come in and they'd be like, No, that's spelled wrong. That's not it needs to be an A. So you're taking this tiny little exact, Oh, taking this tiny little letter out of a newspaper, cutting it out from a one scrap piece of
Beth: putting it in.
Oh my gosh. I totally remember doing that, making sure that it didn't look a little cockeyed and then you had to burnish it down really hard. So it didn't pop off before it got to press or while it was going through the press. Systems. Oh, my gosh. All the wax or the what was the spray fixative that we used to use that that was so sticky.
Yeah, let's frame out. But yeah,
there you go. Yeah,
Stacey: Smelled so bad.
Beth: Yeah.
Stacey: Yeah. Yeah, that was Those were, that was fun. But [00:09:00] in the other thing, I was also at that part of school where we learned also on the Macintosh, the little tiny one.
Beth: Yes.
The Mac SE, right?
Stacey: Yes. And it's now in, it was only black and white and the screen was probably, so tiny. Yeah. And so it was, With my kids at the Smithsonian, I'm like, oh my gosh, there's the computer that I first learned on. It's
Beth: in the museums now, it's in the museums.
tell me with your creativity right now or as you became a professional artist, now that we're talking about. Computers. So what do you have the any specific tools or rituals that you like to rely on that help you foster your creativity?
Stacey: Of course, my favorite tool is procreate right now.
Beth: [00:10:00] Yes.
Stacey: Awesome teacher. And it was interesting when I first started trying to figure out procreate. I'm like, I really want to learn this program. It seems so interesting. And I was going online and I'm trying to figure out different. And I'm like, Oh, these people are, they're going too fast and I'm having to rewind and everything.
And then I ran into your class, which was awesome. And you broke it down into tiny, perfect, little chunks. It was easy to understand and figure out and made me want to keep going forward and moving with it. It made it a lot of fun and it was easy to understand.
Beth: Yeah, Procreate is a very large program to learn as we all know, but if as an artist, what you need to do is figure out how to use Procreate so that you can just make your own art.
And that's what I ran into when I was learning Procreate you're watching various videos, but you always are not sure about a few things because you have these big holes in your knowledge. when I put together, learn the art of procreate, my goal was [00:11:00] to piece it together.
So you could figure out what your favorite things were and what your techniques were, and you would learn how to make your own arts
So yeah, that was my whole idea behind learn the art of procreate and watching you on your iPad now is so exciting. Tell us a little bit about where you are right now with your procreate art and what you're doing with it.
Stacey: Right now I I got an agent, which I'm very excited about.
It's the one art Avenue that I haven't hit in. But after dealing with years of dealing with it on my own. I did go through a little creative slump because I think I was just so exhausted raising three kids, dealing with contracts and dealing with everything and how many Christmas trees can I draw?
How many snowmen can I go through? Like it just becomes, it became like overwhelming
Beth: Let's take a look at that slump for a second. You were [00:12:00] so busy and you were doing so well, what caused your slump and where were you in life? I think there could be a lot of people out there that will really be able to benefit from this story.
Stacey: Yeah, I think it's I think there was a lot, there was a lot going on at that time. But yeah, my kids were getting older, so it wasn't like they could, I could corral them with somebody that could watch them all the time. And I was always involved with them, like picking them up from school and picking them up, preschool drop, doing the drop offs and the carpools.
And then all of a sudden they're like, we got to go here and there and everything. Cause they get older, they get more involved and That came into play. And then I unfortunately had a, we had a death in the family. My mother in law passed away.
And so that was a stem of it. It's like a lot of it, a lot of little things. And, I was trying to, it was still doing freelance for some friends and invitations and that kind of stuff. And then all of a sudden it was just like just, I just couldn't do it anymore. And I took a little, I took some, a side job [00:13:00] working.
I'm like, Oh, this could be fun. Cause I love decorating. I love interior decorating. So I'm like, Oh, I'll work for this like high end furniture place, near us. That became a little bit too much for me working on commissions and working on sales cutthroat kind of people. And I'm like, Oh, okay.
This is not for me. I need to go back into my art. And yeah, but it's. Yeah, the slump it's a tough thing, but I got myself out of it. I started taking some painting classes again, be a, and then I ran into you.
Beth: So something you said, I think is so important. Often when you're in a slump you do go somewhere else.
and that I think is very healthy to do. It gives your brain time to clean up the things that were burning you out. And give a space for some healing from areas that were causing you that friction. And then it also, absence makes the heart grow fonder, right? So when you're [00:14:00] away from your passion, you realize that it really is a passion that you can't just turn off like a switch Oh, that was a fun decade, but it's time to move on to something different, that your art.
We'll continue to call to you, even though you think you've closed that door, which is, which sounds like what happened to you. I love interior design. I'll be creative doing that. And yet your drawings were still calling to you. And then I love what you did. And that was, I'm going to learn some new things.
And I do believe wholeheartedly for creativity. The best way to get past feeling burned out or feeling like you're in a slump or you're overwhelmed is to go and do something that might be adjacent to what you're working on but still in that same vein. So when you took your procreate class, you were [00:15:00] learning to draw in a different way.
That's what I saw you do there is continue your learning. Did that help you pop out of your slump? How long did that take?
Stacey: No, I pretty much as soon as I took the painting classes, then I said, I'm like, I got to get on this procreate thing. And then I, and I found you. And then it was like one of those, I just loved it.
And I just I really love to draw. This is really what I should be doing. I was giving paintings away for Christmas that year and it was awesome. And I think that with the procreate. Because I was such a high power user with, Illustrator and with Photoshop. and that made a huge change because I really wasn't upgrading my stuff because I was in that midlife slump and going to procreate and learning that whole thing was great.
Yeah. And I've always been a person like. Take a lesson if you want to learn how to play tennis, or you want to learn to snowboard, or you want to learn how to golf, or you want to take a lesson, learn how to draw I'm a huge [00:16:00] proponent of that. I, I do it all the time. I still do it. I, I love to learn new things.
And so everything's good now. But yeah, but you always like learning new things.
Beth: learning new things. And then I think too, when you can find a community of similar artists that you can meet up with and find out that you're not alone with where you are, if you're a creative and you've been really busy or you're in a slump or you're a creative, that's very frustrated because you haven't been able to.
Find the traction that you need when you can find that you're not alone, because a creativity is quite often a very isolated experience. So when you can find an online community that has your people showing up to talk about what you're doing or talk about your frustrations, talk about what your goals are, where you're headed, it's very helpful. Did you find that to be true?
Stacey: A thousand percent. And I'm like, even with, meeting [00:17:00] with Lisa Murphy yesterday, I'm like, I'm always so grateful for those times that we have together because it really is a lovely community and It's so nice, like you said, to be around people that are going through the same thing and just getting their advice I'm like, Oh, yeah, I feel the same way or the same thing.
And yeah, it's good because today with zoom it's easy. It's so easy. Yeah. We long for that human connection, right? We need it. Yeah. Yeah. I like that. I like being around people and especially, with creative.
Beth: When you can find a creative who can say something that you thought, Oh, I thought it was only me.
That happens time and time again, I have that same thought and it can be a celebration or it could be something that your inner critic was always calling you up on. And when you find out that you're not alone, then you realize there are ways to Solve [00:18:00] it, celebrate it.
A really healthy thing to find those people and commune with them.
Stacey: It is. And it's you're like, even I said yesterday, I'm like, Oh, I needed that today. Like just the stage is Oh, I just needed to be with that person, which was, it's nice. And I look forward to every time we meet because it is.
It's good. It's good for your brain and it's good for your mental health and it's good for your mind, body, and soul.
Beth: Yes. And what Stacy's talking about is in the membership I bring in speakers that are kicking it in the creative industry that they are selling in.
They just come in and share their knowledge and you get to meet and chat with them person to person. it is just a feel good moment or a moment where you think.
Oh, this is something I'm going to plug into my side hustle or my business or my artwork. it's always good to see you there Stacy. So let's let's take a look at [00:19:00] confidence. I think that creativity, it doesn't matter how talented an artist is.
When you are lacking in confidence or when you have confidence, it is a game changer in what happens with your art or the goals you're trying to achieve, Answer this question for me, Stacy, cultivating creativity, how has it influenced the confidence you've had towards tackling challenges like.
How have you seen confidence affect? The way you create your art.
Stacey: I think being confident, it was easier when I was younger. I felt more confident. and then I went through my little phase and I'm feeling more confident. Getting like some responses from people you have to get your work out there in order to get anything done, right?
if you're not confident, [00:20:00] you're not going to see your stuff out in the world, which is so much fun, like it, creates confidence is hard, but you just do it. to me, you get on that horse and just. Put it out there. Yes. Yes.
Absolutely. You just have to get it out. Andif I didn't do it, I wouldn't have seen my stuff in Target or, Hallmark or, Walmart, CVS, like everywhere, like. All the fun stories. And then what happens, you too, you get all these big boxes of stuff sent to you.
Beth: Yes. It's
Stacey: so exciting.
Beth: Christmas
Stacey: morning. Everything.
Beth: It is. It's just like Christmas when you see your work in a store or you get samples sent to your door. That never gets old, never gets
Stacey: old. So fun. yeah, being confident, I think you have, you just have to just get over that mountain, right?
Sometimes it might be a little harder to do it. Yes. Sometimes it might.
Beth: It's a cyclical thing, So you have to be consistent with your art, and then you have to be consistent with getting your [00:21:00] art out there, and then consistent with making more art, and getting your art out there.
Stacey: Yeah. And I think that's the big thing now.
Sometimes I'll be like looking at something, I'm like, Oh, I don't know, I could tweak it here, tweak it there, tweak it every which way, but then I'll look at it, I'm like, All right. I'm just going to do it. That's it. Just release it out. It's
Beth: work is a okay. Yeah.
Stacey: Yeah. It's yeah, I think everybody struggles with confidence, right?
Beth: Oh, yeah, absolutely. Of all, I have yet to find a student that has come to Learn the art of procreate or come to one of my workshops that hasn't talked about. where they feel unconfident. And I have seen this in artists that have come to me and I look at their work and I think, Oh my gosh, this is amazing.
And then I hear [00:22:00] them I, I don't know. I don't think it's ready yet, or I don't know who to send it to. I don't think they'll like that these colors are wrong or it's not finished yet. So many reasons why work isn't ready to get released yet. Yeah. And so much of the reason art's not released is a confidence thing.
Yeah.
Stacey: Yeah. And it's what being part of a group is good. I think that, that helps a lot with confidence, like with your confidence. Yeah,
Beth: when you're in a group, we often share our artwork and when you hear the comments from your peers talking of your artwork, I think that does make you say, Oh maybe this is ready.
Let's Maybe it is time to go find the place, the audience, the clients, the licensor, the agent that might want to represent my work, buy my work, license my [00:23:00] work. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's talk a little bit about the exciting thing that happened to you this summer with Cruise and Associates.
Stacey: Yes, it was. That was very fun. Yeah we met Sarah in during one of your masterminds which was so much fun. And so I like I did the 75 day project and I have all this artwork, but of course I do not have a website anymore. I do. I still have my old portfolio, that I used to take in and show all my work It's still like immaculately perfect, like ready to show, but I needed to update a portfolio. So then I took a portfolio class to learn how to InDesign and I'm like, before I start sending this out, I want to send this out to Sarah, to Susan Cruz and Associates and I sent it out to them. I had a nice interview with Sarah, which was so much fun.
We had [00:24:00] a lot in common. She actually lived in Ohio for a while.
She knew a lot of the stomping grounds where I live and yeah, so now I'm giving them artwork for them to license, it's been fun and I like it because I think that was one of my problems. It was we talked about this before.
I had issues like, what should I do? What project should I do? What? I think I've always worked under somebody , we're looking for birthday or we're looking for Valentine's day, or we're looking for this, that, or the other thing. And then you have maybe trend sheets or something.
And even though I was trying to keep up with, color trends and, design trends, it was hard for me. I'd like somebody telling me what give me ideas what to do better that way. So I'm really happy because we get these are calls.
I've submit artwork, I try to submit a few pieces of our every week to see. Hopefully, it's only been a few months and I know. That's the problem with licensing and everybody should understand that it does take [00:25:00] time. when I first started, it was a lot easier.
But as I progressed through the years, it's Oh no, we have to see what this is going to look like. We have to get approval from this client or that client or this or that or see what it's going to look like in their planogram and everything. But now I know it could take six months. To a year to end up getting something licensed,
There's no, even though we have procreate and we can design something really quickly. We, it's not that way in real life. There's no instant gratification, I guess I should say. Patience is a virtue with it. Yes.
Beth: you're right. It's a consistency and it's a time thing. The more that you upload to the site, the more artwork their clients will see, and it only takes that one place where someone will land on things and then suddenly you become their favorite artist and they want you to come back and do more of what you did last year or another fabric design, or, the repeats [00:26:00] will happen and it'll get.
You'll get busier It just takes a little bit of time to get your traction. Yeah.
Stacey: And I know that from the past, so yeah, it's, but it, it ends up it's, it'll work out in the long run, I think, and I know it'll work out in the long run, I should say, yes, my power of positive thinking.
Beth: Absolutely. Absolutely. So I'm really excited to see what will happen with your portfolio with Cruz and associates. So congratulations with that. I'm very excited. So let's talk a little bit about. Advice that you might have for other creatives. Let's say a creative that might be where you were when you suddenly felt that slump.
What's your advice?
Stacey: I think taking the break is good. It was, I will say it was a little painful for me at the time
but [00:27:00] overall as just getting back on that, get as a kid, get back on that horse and keep moving draw a little bit every day. That's what I've been trying to do now, especially consistency, which we talked about positive being positive and patient is also a good thing, And learning new things. that makes your brain get out of your funk too. I got me out of my funk. Boom, got like so much better and so much happier and, now I have to set timers when I'm working, cause I might have to be somewhere to have to do something or make dinner.
I'm like, Oh, I got to make dinner. So I had I set my timer cause I'll be on my iPad drawing and I'll get so involved. Set timers for yourself.
Beth: Good idea. Great idea.
Stacey: yeah, just being kind to yourself. Yeah.
Beth: if you're feeling that slump right now, it's okay to take a break. It's okay to go find something else that [00:28:00] might be filling a need and allow your to heal a little bit where you feel burned out. I
Stacey: mean, it's just like an athlete, might get into it a little bit, might be tired.
You got to take a break, get that drink of water, get that burst of energy back.
Beth: Yeah.
Stacey: I think there's days I just like, oh, I don't feel like, I'm like, I'll get my iPad. I'll jog, jog, like a couple lines or squiggly. I'll have my sketch, one of my 800 sketchbooks and like just draw something in it or, whatever.
I'll go through a magazine and look for ideas or Pinterest, just trying to keep my mind into the whole groove of everything. Yeah. I think I have a sketchbook in almost every room of my house. Even by my bed, I have a little pad of paper in case I wake up in the middle of the night.
Beth: Yeah,
Stacey: myself stuff too. I like a text idea to myself. ,
Beth: I do that too. I come up with podcast ideasSo yes, having little notebooks, sketchbooks all over [00:29:00] the place is important. I feel
Stacey: like a squirrel with my nuts stashed everywhere.
Beth: So those are some really great points. that you've brought up. And I know when you were writing to me, you had written down be positive and patient. I love that. That note, because giving yourself patience. That's that grace that you need so that you don't have to be perfect every day and burnout or a slump is a serious thing that you need to take care of.
But then to stay positive, look at the goodness that you have, the blessings you have, the strength you have from whatever it is that you are going to step away from for a little bit and that it is okay to come back to it. Cause that's what we've seen in you.
That you really walked away for a while, and then you felt it calling you back home, and you came back home.
Stacey: I'm drawing snowmen and Christmas trees again. [00:30:00] There's a lot of snowmen and Christmas trees, no.
Beth: Your artwork should not be hidden under a bushel basket. It needs to have that light out there.
Your artwork is beautiful, and I am so excited that you are doing so well with it right now.
Stacey: You're a very good cheerleader.
Beth: Thank you.
Tell us, what are you working on right now? And how can people find you and follow you, Stacey?
Stacey: I'm working on Christmas stuff. But I have it's in my sketchbook. So I'll take it like my little sketch up. They have like I'll just take whatever, like marker. My favorite thing really to sketch on besides my sketchbooks are like graph paper.
I've got a sharpie. I'll just oh, idea, take a picture of it, scan it into my iPad.
Beth: I want to learn how I might get better at hand lettering. I know hand lettering is a huge thing right now. So that's, those are two things that I want to focus on.
Good. It's always good to have [00:31:00] what you want to learn next, in your head, where do you want to go?
What might that be? 2025 is just around the corner. I love that you already have that list made. Yeah.
Stacey: I have yeah. And winter's coming.
I feel like I always have more time in the winter.
Beth: The days are shorter, but it's just cold and miserable. I'm like, Oh, I don't, I don't need to do that today. I don't need to go out today. in the summer, I feel like you just, I'm like, Oh, let's go like on walks and everything.
Stacey: I take my breaks obviously, but yeah. Yeah. It was a good month to,
Beth: yeah, we do the same thing in the summertime, seven o'clock we're still out biking, but in the winter time it's too dark. It's too cold. So it's a great time to be indoors and doing a little more drying, doing a little more, anything that's creative and taking advantage of maybe all those photos that you took while you were out doing summer things.
Stacey: So do those drawings now get caught up. Yes, exactly. Idea. So Stacy. How can we follow you on [00:32:00] socials? Where are you? My biggest one that I probably post the most would be
Beth: Instagram.
Stacey: That's easy. I am on Facebook, but I don't really go on Facebook that often. But Instagram seems to be my favorite thing. And I'm also on LinkedIn. LinkedIn. Yeah. I'm trying to figure that out. I'm like, I go in, I get notifications. I look, but yeah, I am on LinkedIn and it is under Anastasia 5.
0 on Instagram.
Beth: Okay. Yes. That will be in the show notes, everyone, so you can go and take a look at some of Stacy's beautiful work. I think you'll enjoy it. So Stacy, this has been such a nice chat. Thank you so much for coming in and sharing about your creativity today. I think it's so helpful to meet other creatives and find out a little bit about their world
And Stacy, did you tell us? Where you live. I'm not sure you did. Tell us how
Stacey: I'm in Cleveland. Yeah. I moved to [00:33:00] Cleveland. I've lived in Cleveland. but yeah. Cleveland, Ohio. Yeah. John Carroll university. Anybody knows anything about that? Yeah. It's where I'm at. I'm a east sider and east side of Cleveland.
Which is interesting because the West Setters don't like to go east, but the East Setters will go west. It's really funny. It's really funny. Yeah. But yeah,
Beth: that is hilarious. Yep. Now everyone has their littleEccentricities about a city about where you would go, where you wouldn't go
It's just a city. I
Stacey: know, it is funny. Yeah.
that's just how you set up a personality for the area that you live in. Yeah, it's fine. So Stacy, thank you so much for coming today. I think people are going to learn so much about. their creativity, where they are in their journey with their creativity and find some good [00:34:00] inspirational events that they're going to be able to feel some camaraderie with or learn from and say, Oh my gosh.
Beth: I am in the same place that Stacy was in. And here's what I think I'm going to do next. So thank you so much for sharing all of that goodness. And if you're interested in anything about the Create Today community, make sure that you check it out and come and meet Stacy at one of the masterminds because she's part of the Create Today community, the membership we have.
So Thank you so much, Stacy. You're a sweetheart.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for everything, Beth. You're the best. Ah, you're so sweet. So no matter where you are in your creativity today, I hope that everyone will find a moment to do a little drawing or just do something creative for yourself and stay positive and always stay creative, my friend.[00:35:00]
We'll see you again next time. Bye bye.
00:00 Introduction and Special Guest Announcement
01:14 Stacy's Background and Journey into Art
03:10 Freelancing and Building a Client Base
05:16 Discovering a Passion for Creativity
07:00 Educational Path and Early Career
11:41 Overcoming Creative Slumps
16:09 The Importance of Community and Continuous Learning
18:56 Exploring the Role of Confidence in Creativity
19:52 Overcoming Self-Doubt and Sharing Your Art
20:15 The Joy of Seeing Your Work in Stores
20:53 The Importance of Consistency in Art
23:03 Navigating the Licensing Process
26:32 Advice for Creatives Facing a Slump
29:12 Staying Creative and Positive
31:56 Connecting with Stacy and Final Thoughts
How to find Stacey
Email:
[email protected]
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/anastasia5_k
Portfolio:
https://indd.adobe.com/view/b18321a4-7062-4421-9109-260c4bb381f3
Suzanne Cruise Creative Services, Inc:
https://www.cruisecreative.com/artist/CON02840
Linkedin:
www.linkedin.com/in/anastasia-stacey-kijewski-0672229
Offerings at BDI Create.Today
Register to the Create-Today Workshops!
https://www.bdi-create.today/workshop-events-calendar
Register for “Learn the Art of Procreate”
https://www.bdi-create.today/courses
Tutorials and other resources at Create-Today:
https://www.bdi-create.today/almost-free-resources
