Do You Need an Art Style? Join the Art Style Challenge + start your 90 Days project!

Design Tribe Podcast

Guess what starts TODAY!!!⠀(I'll get to that in a sec.)⠀

But first think: Do you really stand a chance as a designer/artist/creative who's MAKIN' IT if people can't even recognize your style?⠀

What exactly is your signature? What does your voice sound like?⠀

I'll be real with you: when it comes to daily routines I'm literally the WORST. One night I'm up late, the next day I'm up early.. Discipline just ain't my thing. BUT! I really AM a hard worker (... on my own time, lol...) And...⠀

One of the most important things you can do as an artist is: developing your own Art Style. Which is why I'm hosting a

90 day ART STYLE CHALLENGE that goes all summer!!!!!⠀

YAY!!! I'll be sharing daily prompts in my IG Stories and in the Design Tribe FB Group for the next 90 days.⠀

90 days is really the perfect amount of time to accomplish anything you set your mind to. Quarterly goals are SO attainable! They're totally in your reach - yet, you also have enough time to really make some SERIOUS change!⠀

And look, I totally failed at starting the 100 days project so please don't feel intimidated by this challenge. It's here to help you - feel free to do as much or as little as you are able.⠀

Everyone's schedules are different, which is why I'm making this challenge EVERGREEN. Woooo hooo!!!

Yes, you heard that right. Join the Design Tribe FB Group and you can refer back to the prompts at any time. You can do them in order or skip ahead to the same day the group is on.⠀

Use #90DaysofDesign and tag me @LaurenLesleyStudio - I'll be sharing my favorites in my IG Stories!

Make sure to follow my hashtag #90DaysofDesign to cheer on fellow artists.⠀

TRANSCRIPT

Speaker 1: 00:01 Guess what starts today? Okay, so I'm actually going to get to that in just a second. But first I want to ask you a serious question. Do you really think you stand a chance as a designer or an artist or a creative who's really making it? If people don't recognize your style? I guess I'm asking you, do you have a style? What exactly is your signature? What does your voice sound like? What is your aesthetic look like? I'll be real with you. When it comes to daily routines, I'm literally the worst. And I found myself in this situation where I was leaving my full time job back in January and I was kind of scrambling because I was like, Oh God, like I don't have my own style. What is my style, what is my style? And it's because I didn't really put in the work to starting to develop my own style before I went out as an independent artist.

Speaker 1: 01:00 Right. And part of that was because of the situation. You know, I, my husband proposed to me and then all of a sudden we were moving to Alabama and my current job wanted me to continue working full time remotely for a while and I was also planning a wedding. So like on top of all that, I don't really have a lot of time to discover my in develop my own art style, but how'd I started, you know, years ago then I would have been well on my way to recognizing my own style, you know, my, my Instagram would've looked cohesive, etc. Etc. So the point is one of the most important things you can do as an artist is developing your own art style. And that's why I'm hosting a 90 day art style challenge that goes all summer. So it's awesome because it's a summer challenge and I'll be sharing daily prompts in my Instagram stories and in the design tribe Facebook group for the next 90 days.

Speaker 1: 02:02 So if you're not a member of the design tribe Facebook group, go over to Facebook. You can type in the URL, facebook.com/groups/design tribe, Lauren, Leslie, Leslie is with an e, y as I've mentioned, and you'll be asked a few questions just to make sure that you actually are a creative and make sure it's a good fit. But I'm just fill out those questions. I am not going to accept anyone who doesn't answer that questions y'all. So you have to answer the questions, um, and joined the group and basically it's going to be so amazing because everyone's going to be posting their 90 day project and you're going to use the hashtag 90 days of design. And in the Facebook group I'll be posting and daily prompts, um, I'll, I'll put it out every Saturday. Yay. Sabado Sabato but I'll, yeah, I'll be putting out the prompts every Saturday and there'll be daily prompts.

Speaker 1: 03:03 And seriously, if you know you're overwhelmed one day and you're like, oh, I can't get to my art style challenge, it's okay. Like, no one's going to die. It's going to be fine. And I'm sure I'm going to have those days as well. Just Fyi, I'm not the most disciplined person in the world, but I had to get my act together because I was showing my designs and collections at blueprint, which happened two weeks ago. So yay. So I had my very first exhibit, um, and I, you know, exhibited at this show and it was really awesome. And basically I was like, you know, starting in, starting February 1st I was like, crap, I'm showing, I'm showing my work at the show, but I don't even have a style. I don't have any work. What am I going to do? And instead, so usually when you're under the gun like that and under a bit of pressure, you're able to figure it out and just pull it off.

Speaker 1: 03:56 And that's what I did. And that's also kind of, you know, it was my inspiration to create this challenge because I was like, holy crap. Like I was able to create my own style in 90 days. Now is it the best style in the world? No, but it's mine and I like it. It's going to continue to develop and get better and progress. The more, um, the more art I make and the more challenges I do. So 90 days is like really the perfect amount of time to accomplish anything you set your mind to. Quarterly goals are so attainable, seriously, their bite sized, you know, it's not like an annual goal where we were like, Oh yes I have the whole year to accomplish this and you know, it's going to get done eventually. No like you have 90 days, this is happening now. So it's totally in your reach but you also have enough time throughout 90 days to really make some serious change.

Speaker 1: 04:49 And that's what I love about this art style challenge is that it is three months. You know, it's not going to take you all year. It's not like a commitment like a four year art school or something like that, but it is enough time for you to make some serious change and some serious progress in your work. And that's what I'm super excited to see. Um, and look, I totally failed at starting the 100 days project. Like, so, you know, I mean, I, I hesitate to even join some of these challenges sometimes because I'm like, oh, I'm not going to be able to do it. I'm not going to be able to finish. I'm totally gonna feel like a failure and I'm here to tell you that I'm making this an evergreen challenge so that you don't feel that way. You are here to, you know, do as much or as little as you are able to.

Speaker 1: 05:36 I realized that everyone's schedules are different. Some of you have kids, I don't have kids and I'm still gonna like fail a day here and there at this challenge. So it is okay. I promise. Um, you know, it's, it's going to be evergreen so you can literally do it prompt by prompt by prompt and if it takes you longer than 90 days, that's totally cool because hey, you're still doing the work. Um, I'm just making it a 90 day challenge because that is what I did in getting ready for blueprints show in New York. Um, but my first trade show and it really did work. Okay. Okay. So 90 days is just a great schedule and I am going to be keeping with the schedule just to keep everyone motivated and to kind of keep the group together. But if you need to go at your own pace, it's totally cool.

Speaker 1: 06:25 Just go back to the Facebook group, you know, go prompt by prompt. And I'm also going to be sharing these prompts every Saturday in my email list. So if you're not a part of my email list, then you will want to go ahead and sign up for that. Um, and you'll do that by just joining the Facebook group already. And if you're not part of my email list or you're not getting my emails for some reason, just shoot me a private message and I'll gladly add you. So yes, that is pretty much it. I don't have a guest on today. I just wanted to tell you about the art style challenge that's going to be happening all summer long and I want you to join and it's going to be amazing and mixture to use the hashtag 90 days of design and tag me at Lauren Leslie Studio.

Speaker 1: 07:11 I'm on Instagram because I'll be sharing my favorites and my Instagram stories as well. And I want to encourage you to also follow the Hashtag cause you know how you can follow hashtags on Instagram now. So follow the Hashtag 90 days of design. 90 is literally the numbers, nine zero days of design. And because I want to encourage you to share each other's works as well. That's how you gain exposure, right? If one person shares my work to their audience and you know, 10% of their audience follows me, then that's amazing, right? And if five people shared my work, then that would be a 50 new followers, you know, so it just, I wanna encourage you guys to share each other's work. I'm going to be sharing your work, but you guys share each other as well. Um, because it's just a really great way to promote each other and give back and just encourage each other and make friends.

Speaker 1: 08:08 Right? Um, but you do want to ask people if it's okay. Um, you can, you know, you could put it in your stories that you're happy to share. If people respond to your stories so that way you don't have to go in and DM like a million different people. But that way people can respond to your story and then you can just share your favorite um, piece from their feed just like that. So it's a great way to share works and get exposure. And guys, if you do this art challenge, you are going to have your own art style in 90 days or less. I mean, sometimes it happens really quick once you really commit to making them this amount of work and you're just, you're never going to find your art style if you can't commit to making the work. And like I said, if you miss a day is okay, it fine.

Speaker 1: 08:55 You are not a failure but you still have to do the work. Okay, you have to get up the next morning and do it the next day or stay up a little bit later, you know, 30 minutes later or draw something on your lunch break. You know, you have to commit to doing the work and just find a way to do it and prioritize it. So that you can have your own art style, because we all want to be like famous in our own field, right? Like now, like Hollywood famous. But you know, we want to be, we want to do a good job. We want, um, we want to be the best that we can be, um, and have that rewarding feeling. So anyway, thank you guys for tuning in. I will catch you in the next episode. Bye.