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About Creative Clutter

Thinking is my greatest pleasure and my greatest distraction. Sitting by the window with a cup of coffee, I get lost in contemplating work, projects and creative challenges. This habit of getting lost in thought has shaped both my artistic practice and the direction of this blog – a direction that’s about to change.

I’ve been having a lot of trouble with this blog, to be honest. For years now. I’d love to help creative people, but I really need to focus on my work as an illustrator and comic artist. For a while, I tried doing this blog on the side, but it never worked out the way I wanted it to.

Finally, I had an idea of how to get things going again. When I was thinking about my blog, I thought “Why not tell people what I think?” Because that is what this blog is. Even though I love helping people, I still think about creative problems because I have them too. And by researching and thinking about these problems, I also help myself.

That is why I decided to share my thoughts with you in a new and shorter format. You will learn what I did today, what I thought about, what problems I encountered, and what solutions I came up with. I will try to do this much more frequently, attaching a sketchbook page of the day to the writing. Yes, that’s five times a week.

I am going to call it “Creative Clutter“. It is a mixture of writing and my sketchbook, which may or may not be related to the content of the post.

Here is a list of topics I want to do:

Creative Process & Mindset

Insights In My Daily Work
Thoughts I Had
My Creative Process
Mindset and Motivation
Emotional & Mental Wellbeing

Projects & Problem-Solving

Problems With Personal Projects
What Helped Me Today
Productivity and Work Techniques
Storytelling

Resources & Inspiration

Skills & Resources
Inspiration
Note-taking
Cool Apps I Found

So basically everything I already have on my blog, but now in a more diary-like essay form and shorter.

What’s in it for you?

You will get more stuff on almost the same topics that were already on the blog and first-hand insight into my working process. These will be highly subjective and less researched than the other posts I have made on this blog. Still, it should be worth your while. And you’ll get some silly drawings along the way, so that’s a plus.

What’s in it for me?

I will be focusing more on a daily sketchbook, which I have wanted to do for ages. I am a bit of a “loose paper”-drawer and have a lot of sketchbooks lying around. Now, instead of drawing on every available surface, I will draw on one sketchbook page a day.

I love writing and this will help me learn to write better, something I still struggle with. I will be actively trying to learn to write better, so hopefully this blog will get better over time.

And finally, my blog is now more a part of my work as an illustrator and comic artist. So we’ll see how l will manage this because doing this more often than the old blog posts and adding a sketchbook page to it is a lot of work! But I like challenges.

Suggest a Topic

When I sit down to plan upcoming posts for my blog, I find that some of the most insightful ideas often come not from me, but from the experiences and interests of you, the reader. That’s why I’m excited to introduce a new way for us to work together: a topic suggestion form.

Your unique perspectives, questions, and interests play a critical role in shaping the content I create. Whether you’re struggling with a specific challenge or simply curious about a particular topic, your input is invaluable to me.

Please take a moment to share your thoughts using the form below. It’s an easy way to suggest topics you’d like to see covered on the blog. Additionally, feel free to contact me via email or my contact form if you prefer a more direct approach.

Suggestion Form

Your input will not only allow me to tailor the posts to your needs better but will also foster a sense of community where we can learn and grow together!

Thank you for being a part of this blog and for your continued support and readership!

Updated Creative Work Problems Posts

Creative Work Problems failure — *One of my Creative Work Problems Comics.*

I have updated all of my Creative Work Problems Comics Posts on this blog!

I uploaded them for a while to Instagram and my blog as solo posts. When I did them, I mostly just posted the comic itself, and rarely some more information about it. Well, now I’ve updated them all and added additional help and knowledge for almost every topic. I’ve also updated the name of the post so that it’s no longer named after the comic. Each topic is now more easily identifiable by the title of the post. You can now search the hell out of this site if you are looking for a topic you need help with.

I have listed below every post I have made with these comics in it. So if you’re interested in more information about a topic you see at the bottom of the list, don’t hesitate to go there.

Creative Work Problems old projects — *One of the last comics I did of this series.*

Blog Update

Oh, my blog update! Hello, dear friends! I have reworked my little website and put my blog in my undersized portfolio. The reason for this was that I found the blog kind of funky, so cold and boring. Now that it is integrated on my main page, the thing fits me much better! You can see who is behind these articles and the whole thing is much more personal and warmer. It feels so much better! You probably don’t notice any of it, but to me, the blog seems like it’s breathing and living! Maybe I have taken too many drugs. BLOG DRUGS!

In exchange, I now have my store as a separate website, because there were things in the background of my portfolio page that bothered me with all the store plugins. For example, everything was super slow with all this stuff running in the background … Like a 200-year-old man trying to run a marathon. Now my store is on a different running WordPress website and therefore much faster! Rumor has it that my products have become even better to buy! Cough. Cough.

The future of this blog

The goal is to write a post every month around the same topics as before: to help artists and designers with problems in their creative work. Since I was extremely focused on the visual aspect of the blog before, I’m shifting gears and focusing more on quality writing. Of course, visuals won’t be lacking, but I won’t stress myself out trying to draw the perfect pictures for an article. That always slowed me down a bit and they were not always 100% useful. In fact, these pictures with the help of Behaviour Change were supposed to help you change for the better. Did I manage to do that? I doubt it! Send me an email if you disagree!

I will also write the articles for this blog a little bit more humorous because I have a lot of fun writing like this.

There is also a change in the Creative Work Problems Comic, which I will tell you about soon. I hope you like this new blog update! Stay tuned and see you soon!

My “Creative Work Problems” comic is now easier to read!

If you want to look at all my “Creative Work Problems” comics I did so far or want to catch up with the new ones: I made it easier to scroll through them. I did a new page where you can see the latest of my comics at the top. You will be able to scroll through them in chronological order, and at the bottom, you see thumbnails from all I have made so far. You can find the page in my menu at the top.

I try to make a comic every week. Do you have an idea for this topic of creative work problems? You can send me an email to give me your lovely ideas or just some thoughts of yours!

The new page is still a work in progress. I’m not 100% satisfied yet, but maybe I should not be such a perfectionist. 😉 I’m thinking if I still should do a post for each comic every week. But it is always a lot of work for not that much benefit. I will let you know about it soon.

I wish you a nice day!

screaming man illustration — Your reaction a few weeks ago trying to find the newest Creative Work Problems comic.