• Consistent Practice: Regular practice is essential for improving your skills regardless of the art of trade. Artists need to continually understand their medium to help create more refined work as well as build a proper muscle memory.
• Experimentation: As an artist, one needs to be open to try out new techniques and materials to determine their direction of growth. Sticking to one aspect of art may become monotonous both to the artist and their audience. The artist may fail to produce more work, while the audience may move onto other artists with more vibrant works. Therefore, one should try to get out of their sell and explore new methods to express their work.
• Education: In any aspect of life, continuous educations assists the individuals to improve the knowledge, hence understand new ideas. Artists need to continually learn their craft and ensure that they expose themselves to new crafts and ideas so that their work remains dynamic and attractive to their audience. More so, one will easily understand new techniques and technological methods to improve their works.
• Seeking Feedback: As someone who puts their work out there, you will always get both positive and negative feedback. However, it falls on the artist to decipher the kind of feedback that will be crucial in improving their work. Thereafter, the artist will make necessary improvement to ensure that they incorporate the feedback given. Incorporation of feedback from the audience also shows a willingness to learn and appreciation of the audience.
• Observation and Study: An artist should be open to studying other people’s works to help them gain insight on composition, technique, and concept. Observing how others solve artistic problems can spark new ideas and approaches.
