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Is Skillshare Premium Worth The Price?
I’ve been using Skillshare for a good 4 years now. Skillshare is a learning platform where you can find tutorials on a huge number of subjects. I’ve found some really useful tutorials which have helped me with coursework at college and university. Some classes on Skillshare are free but you have to pay to access most of the content on the site. Last year I signed up to a 12-month Skillshare Premium plan. I got a great deal, only paying half of the full price. Looking back over the last year Skillshare has been a really useful resource. I’ve used it to help me with university and personal work. So…
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How To Post Consistently On Your Blog
I have been blogging for over five years now. And for a good part of that time, I have been posting consistently multiple times per week. Today I thought I would share a few tips so you can figure out a posting schedule that works for you and how it can help you to post consistently. HOW TO POST CONSISTENTLY Get A Schedule That Works For You Having a regular posting schedule is great. So long as you can stick to it. From an SEO point of view updating your blog regularly helps. People will say you should be posting 3 or 4 times a week. But there is no…
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Sticks + Ink | Get Painting Workshop
Here is something you probably don’t know about me. I love creating textures. And turning it into art. Creating texture is an essential part of my design process. If you’ve seen some of my work like my David Bowie book you probably already know that texture plays a huge part in that design. So when I saw the new Get Painting 5 day workshop from Sticks + Ink I knew I had to try it out. Today I’m going to share my process from every day of the workshop. GET PAINTING 5 DAY WORKSHOP DAY ONE Day one of Get Painting was all about buying supplies. I was quite fortunate…
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A Beginner’s Guide To SEO
If you’re a blogger there is a good chance you’ve heard of SEO. Or search engine optimisation. If you’re anything like me you probably know about SEO but have no idea where or how to get started with implementing it on your blog. Today I am going to share a few simple ways I have improved the overall SEO on my blog. WHAT IS SEO SEO (search engine optimisation) is the process of gaining organic traffic from search engines. So say someone searched for Muji Planner review found my link and ended up on my blog. That was the result of SEO. Search engine rankings are quite complicated but essentially…
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A Designer’s Guide To Pinterest
Today I thought I would share how I use Pinterest. From reading a few tutorials it appears I don’t use Pinterest the same way as most, or even really the way Pinterest has designed it to be used. I don’t use any of the social networking aspects. I mainly use Pinterest for doing and collating research as part of my design projects. Because Pinterest has become so huge my method could probably be applied to any project you’re working on, not just design. It’s important to remember you shouldn’t just use Pinterest to do research. Books are an important research tool too. But it is an extremely useful way to…
