My Project Ideas & Rythm map

My Project Ideas & Rythm map - student project


Hello! 

First of all, I really want to thank you for this class. As I'm currently a college student taking a very time time consuming course (Veterinary Medicine), it's hard for me to manage studying and drawing. I really wish to get better at time management and improving my use of social media so I can make the most out of the free time I have. 

I'm a traditional artist, use mostly watercolours as well although I've been slowly trying to get into digital art too. Being a hobbyist artist means that I do it mostly for fun and relaxation. It's my escape from daily concerns and a great way to focus on a specific task. This being said, my main goal at the moment is to improve my skills, start to build an audience and maybe get to selling some of my works. 

As I wanted to keep this class project and maybe print it out I did it using canva :)

1) PROJECT IDEAS

My Project Ideas & Rythm map - image 1 - student project

As I don't have much free time, I chose to plan for the long run so these are my goals for the next 6 months. 

LARGE PROJECTS
I plan to offer my friends pet commissions as birthday gifts. I think this can be a nice way for me to practice digital media and gain experience to maybe open way to be able to offer commissions in the future. I also have a sticker set already designed that I would love to launch and perhaps do some prints. 

MEDIUM PROJECTS

As I feel like I'm currently learning a lot from skillshare, I decided to invest on the full year subscription and to make the most out of it I wish to complete at least 1 class per month. This way I push myself to maximise my learning through this platform. I also need to do a bit of research to make my large projects happen so I set those as medium projects. 

SMALL PROJECTS
Like I said previously, I want to improve my social media presence. I wish to do so in a planned way so I simply have a schedule to fulfil and work towards a more healthy connection with these social networks. I use mostly instagram and recently started a twitter account so I'll focus on those. Since I wish to keep my account with more complete works or some more detailed sketches, I set the goal to posting 1x/week and keep my daily presence via instagram stories. 

 

2) RYTHM MAP 

My Project Ideas & Rythm map - image 2 - student project

 

Based on what I mentioned, I built my Rythm map. This represents my month planning which I'll be doing for the next 6 months. Hopefully I can keep track of what I'm focusing on.

Regarding the pet commissions, they're about 5 so I'm setting the goal of doing 1/month and I can use that as content to share on instagram.

I'm also trying to think of different ways to engage with followers and maybe I'll create small events with stories. For example, setting one day per week to share the best works I've seen that week that inspired me, maybe doing one day when I show what I've been doing on my sketchbook, all on the stories to keep it more simple and quicker ^^ What do you think about these? I would love to get your opinion! 

Once again, thank you a lot! I feel like I've learnt enough to be able to do this by myself and keep using this method in the future!