Believe in yourself and others

Believe in yourself and others. Believe you can become the artist you dream about and believe others can help you and can achieve their goals with your help. It is like the adage, it takes a community. As an artist, you need to believe you can do it and you need people who view your art. Helping other artists along their journey will, in my opinion, help you along your artistic travels. How do you ask? Great question!

Believing in yourself is obvious. It gives you the confidence to create your art. Believing in others and helping them allows you to grow both as a person and gives you a feeling of meaning and satisfaction. It also builds the concept of belonging to a community where you are supported and valued. In this community we help each other, we don’t take more than we give. I’ve found this through running social media groups, photography meets, photography club interactions, and mentoring. Believing in others and help can often be as simple as sharing photographs of your work or participating in discussions. I run two groups on Facebook, one for models & photographers with over 2,000 members and one for just photographers with just over 200 members. In both groups around 1/2 are active on average during the past six months. Engagement on a smaller basis runs about 15-25%. Lots of creativity results from that 15-25% so just imagine if that number was increased.

Get involved. Believe in yourself. Share your thoughts, questions, support. It will not only help you but helps the community of artists of which you are a part.