"The Artist" with Govind Shirsale The Artist (original edition) | Page 9

wHAT ARE ARTISTIC SKILLS?

Creativity

This skill is being listed first because it is actually informal on the list. Creativity is a skill that often drives the other artistic skills. While many artistic skills are things that must be practiced and perfected, this is what guides them.

Practicing creativity is an effective way to take an artistic skill to the next level. It is what makes these skills and help you to use them for creation. Think of creativity as a background skill base for all of the others.

Creative people often exude 5 characteristics:

1. Not afraid to experiment

2. Are curious

3. Have high standards

3. Are able to look at something and have ideas on 4. how to make it better as well as accept thoughts others may have on how to make their own work better

5. Like challenges

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