Lesson Info
60. Get People to Care About Your Story
Lessons
Class Introduction
07:25 2Overview of Brooke’s Journey
20:13 3Your Timeline is Nonlinear
05:37 4Using Curiosity and Intention to Build Your Career
03:26 5What Factors Dictate Growth
08:24 6Organic Growth vs. Forced Growth
05:18 7Niche Branding
04:57 8Brooke’s Artistic Evolution and Timeline
24:27How Can You Get Ahead if You Feel Behind?
10:02 10Ideation and Conceptualization to Identify Meaning in Your Art
05:54 11Idea Fluency
10:33 12How to Represent an Idea
07:01 13How to Innovate an Idea
07:07 14Creating a Dialogue With Your Art
05:48 15Conceptualization For a Series vs. a Single Image
03:43 16Transforming a Single Image Into a Series
03:12 17How to Tell a Story in a Series
03:28 18How to Create Costumes From Fabric
07:20 19Brooke’s Most Useful Costumes
02:19 20Using Paint and Clay as Texture in an Image
02:56 21Create Physical Elements in an Image
10:22 22Shooting for a Fine Art Series
05:45 23Conceptualization: Flowery Fish Bowl in the Desert
04:08 24Wardrobe and Texture
04:54 25Posing for the Story
05:32 26Choosing an Image
01:23 27Conceptualization: Rainy Plexiglass
11:34 28Posing for the Story
04:17 29Creating Backlight
02:37 30Photo Shoot #1 - Creating a Simple Composite
17:51 31Photo Shoot #2 - Creating a Dynamic Composite
06:31 32Photo Shoot #3 - Creating a Storytelling Composite
07:40 33Shooting the Background Images
06:14 34Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Working With Backgrounds
24:35 35Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Retouching the Subject
04:20 36Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Color Grading
02:45 37Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Floor Replacement Texture
15:24 38Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Final Adjustments
03:21 39Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Cropping and Editing Backgrounds
05:25 40Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Selective Adjustments
03:55 41Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Adding Texture + Fine Tuning
03:21 42Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Compositing Models
06:58 43Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Expanding Rooms
02:17 44Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Color
02:47 45Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Exposure
04:04 46Editing Composite Shoot #2- Masking Into Backgrounds
10:45 47Editing Composite Shoot #2- Creating Rooms in Photoshop
06:11 48Editing Composite Shoot #2- Compositing Hair
05:07 49Editing Composite Shoot #2- Global Adjustments
04:49 50Editing Composite Shoot #3- Blending Composite Elements
05:00 51Editing Composite Shoot #3- Advanced Compositing
08:46 52Editing Composite Shoot #3- Cleanup
03:34 53Materials for Alternative Processes
06:20 54Oil Painting on Prints
05:41 55Encaustic Wax on Prints
03:09 56Failure vs. Sell Out
05:14 57Create Art You Love and Bring an Audience To You
03:35 58Branding Yourself Into a Story
05:40 59The Artistic Narrative
05:26 60Get People to Care About Your Story
03:36 61Get People to Buy Your Story
11:36 62Getting Galleries and Publishers to Take Notice
03:41 63Pricing For Commissions
06:43 64Original Prints vs. Limited Edition Prints vs. Open Edition Prints
02:11 65Class Outro
01:00 66Live Premiere
16:14 67Live Premiere: Layers of Depth 1
04:41 68Live Premiere: Layers of Depth 2
07:12 69Live Premiere: Q&A
16:10 70Live Premiere: Photo Critique
47:33Lesson Info
Get People to Care About Your Story
you're writing, you're speaking. You're putting your work out there. You are branding yourself. How do you get people to care? How do you get people to care about the work that you're doing and what you're saying? You have to understand, first and foremost, that your story is interesting and valuable, and most people don't believe one of those two things. It's easy enough to convince someone that they are interesting or that they are valuable. But you have to believe both that what you have to say is interesting to somebody and that it is valuable to somebody. You have to understand that, and then tell people why your narrative is interesting and valuable. If you don't tell them why you are interesting and valuable, how will they know? And this is where people get scared to brand and to become a business and to put your art out there because it feels weird and awkward and selfish toe have to say, I'm interesting and I'm valuable. But it shouldn't be. We should all have that knowledge d...
eep inside of us that were interesting and valuable, and that everybody in the world has the potential to be interesting and valuable social media video in person communication. However you do that, however, you communicate that story, choose how to operate within those venues. So within social media, how are you going to communicate that story in person? How are you going to communicate that story? Is it through writing? Is it through voice? Where do you feel most comfortable communicating to an audience? People are overloaded with content. It's a fact. We are just on content overload. There are so many people doing interesting and valuable work out there, So how can you communicate it in an innovative way in a way that people haven't seen before? That hasn't been overdone, and I don't have that answer for you. I can't tell you do this, and people will notice you and people will find you interesting and valuable. I just can't do that. I can't tell you what that is, but you can think about it and test and try different things to communicate your story. Most art is old the moment it's finished because we're often creating from a slightly derivative place, and I say that of myself. First and foremost, we're creating, based on a set of guidelines that have been set up in our life of experiences that we've had and different ways that we have learned to see the world. So yes, a lot of art is derivative. Of course it is. But that's okay, because art is the practice of creating. You have to do it. You have to put that out there to find them or innovative place. You will never just on the first try, create something amazingly innovative that changes the world. Everything takes practice, but if art is the practice of creating than great art is the practice of bravery. And I really believe that instead of limiting yourself to saying what I want to make, good art and good art is just creating its's doing the work. Yes, it's doing the work, but it's not the work of just creating. It's the work of digging so deeply within yourself that you have found the point of courage, the point of bravery, where you have to make a choice if you are brave enough to go deeper within yourself than you have ever gone before. And yes, let me say it because this is the final segment of the class, it is the cosmic onion, and you have to appeal it apart.
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Ratings and Reviews
a Creativelive Student
Brooke never fails to deliver. I found this course superb from start to finish. From exercising your creative 'muscle', demystifying taking self portraits, and showing that they don't have to be perfect before you begin editing, to walking you through her editing process and how to price your work. Brooke's enthusiastic personality and excitement about the work shines through it all. Definitely recommended!
Rebecca Potter
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Brooke for this amazing class. Inspired and so full of practical knowledge, this is the best class I've ever watched. You have given me the confidence to pursue what I've always been afraid to do. Watch this space!
Søren Nielsen
Thank for fantastic motivating an very inspiring. The story telling and selling module was very helpful - thanks from Denmark
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