Winged eyeliner is tough at first, but practice makes perfect! I found some solutions for Summer. Let’s face it, it’s hot… I don’t know...

I imagine what some kind of here looks like and it's pretty okay. Here is what life is shaping up to be right now: Work. Work, work and...

Q&A for artists come up every once and a while in my inbox. I have to admit I am really slow to respond to interview requests simply...

Happy Monday and welcome back. I’ve been working mostly on writing for clients and for my own pleasure. I’ve also been doing some file...

My very strange nightmares of working in retail returned a few days ago. I woke up at around 4 am and then went back to sleep until...

It is a strange thing to be able to manage my time in a way that lets me do the things I love to do. This excerpt is from a fiction novel...

Happy Monday everyone, there are changes to the vlogging schedule coming as well as new content on the way.

I made a deadline for myself on writing a blog post every Monday or at least once a week. I do have clients to take care of but this is...

Happy Monday! I've been suffering from chronic long term pain for many years now and about 5 years ago I was finally diagnosed with...

Happy Monday! I've got big announcements for Spring 2016. First, new books as a part of the A Designer Explains Series are coming. But...

When paid client work is slow I tend to rotate my thoughts to my fiction novel. I completed about 14 points on index cards, and I’ve...

Happy Monday everyone! I didn't have a plan for this blog so here's some random things going on right now. Things are winding down for my...

A Designer Explains now has a companion ebook on the Kindle Store! Get it here for a special price during the month of February. Thank...

Coffee, cats and catching up… Why bother waking up early? I honestly don’t know. To be fair, I used to be a really early morning person,...

Mondays mark the time of the week where I post things about creating. I’ve been participating in National Novel Writing Month/...

​Hello, I forgot about posting a blog update on Monday but I figure this weekend is a pretty good time to catch up on writing, designing,...

Hello and Happy Monday! I’ve been in contact with a person at Upwork, formerly oDesk, who brought to my attention that my profile is...

I don’t know what to write about for this blog post but I didn’t want to just not write anything this week. This is supposed to be a...

I’ve been writing for clients since 2002 and some things you would think get easier. I touched on this a few blog posts back, saying that...

I was reading this article and although I’m not a great writer, I do have some kind of a routine I try to stick to. It seems like people...