The case of the overly inspired

You know when you were way too excited about creating something, but for some reason ended up producing nothing, because you were too busy getting motivated and collecting inspirational material instead of working? That’s the case of me and my Skillshare Premium account.

When I heard about Skillshare offering 3 months premium membership for just $0.99, I joined in agad and eagerly browsed at the many classes offered by outstanding artists. A month into it and I realized I haven’t finished a class, let alone sat down and started drawing anything. So disappointing. I wasted an entire month jumping from one class introduction to another, adoring the trailers, the project galleries, but never enrolling.

Now, I want to make sulit the remaining months I have into actually finishing a class and producing something of creative value. Naks haha. Earlier I took the liberty to enroll in all the classes that interest me, particularly within the arts and design category, and grabe lang the joooooy of watching the video trailers showing snippets of the gurus’ design processes and project outputs! Sobrang nakaka-inspire! Aaaaargh!

I’m calling this phase inspiration hoarding.

To the uninitiated, Skillshare is an online learning community where you can learn a skill or share your skills. In there you can take online classes about design, technology, business, film, photography, etc. and engage in a streamlined learning process in order to complete a class project.

Here are the top 5 visual arts classes I’m most excited to start (in no particular order), but will most likely ignore for the majority of the week (or month) cos that’s just how I roll (unfortunately).

1. Mastering Inking: Basic and Pro Techniques

by Yuko Shimizu
http://skl.sh/1MQEysJ

2. Paint a Portrait in Photoshop: Blank Canvas to Finished Illustration

by Gabrielle DeCesaris
http://skl.sh/1RWNrjx

3. Drawing Collections: Illustrating Stories through Taxonomies

by Kate Bingaman-Burt
http://skl.sh/1MQzXGY

4. The First Steps of Hand-Lettering: Concept to Sketch (Lettering I)

by Mary Kate McDevitt
http://skl.sh/1Wanq3j

5. Perspective Drawing: Creating Illustrations with Dimension

by Matt Laskowski
http://skl.sh/1MQEucq

To be honest, if I hadn’t spent time working on this post I could’ve finished a class already but who cares! We all know my time’s gonna be spent somewhere else like my Pinterest boards or, oh right, my job. 😛

Join me!

Let me get you in the same offer and let’s marvel at all of the classes together. The truth is if you join by being my referral, I’ll get a free month! Yay! And you will too if you join and refer. 🙂

$0.99 is roughly ₱50 for 3 months access to premium classes. Most classes run for an hour which is divided into multiple segments per topic. If you take at least one class per week, you’ll be able to finish 12 classes and produce 12 creative outputs! And your monetary investment? ₱50 lang, bongga.

Here’s the sign-up link: http://skl.sh/1R0xxpl

Or you can also comment your email address so I can invite you another way. 🙂

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The case of the overly inspired

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