We Help Artists Bring Their Creative Ideas to Life

More than anything becoming a Pencil King is a state of mind where you feel connected to a larger community of artists that can relate to your ideas, while also feeling confident in your abilities to bring those ideas to life.

The first step is the hardest because it is counter-intuitive. Creatives have TOO MANY IDEAS, and this double edged sword is our greatest strength and weakness at the same time. It’s a strength in that we can easily come up with enough creative projects to fill 10 lifetimes, but this also makes focusing on one single idea a challenge.

Often we’ll see artists who are stuck because they have no foundation at all, they’re simply hopping from idea to idea, inspired by what they see and feel, without realizing that they are actually like a car spinning its tires in the mud. It feels like a lot of progress is happening and you may move a little, but for all that effort there isn’t much forward momentum.

We see people stuck all the time… thinking they aren’t good enough and so they fall into the skill trap of constantly trying to improve, and while improvement is good, if you’re always working on learning and never releasing anything it’s easy to spend years stuck in learning mode.

When your foundation is set you are surrounding yourself with people who understand and support your vision

In order to create work you are truly proud of and is of the best quality that you can produce you will need to expand both yourself and your ideas. This means having a growth mindset, and realizing that you can change, expand and create new realities and new work that is far beyond what you are capable of right now AND you can do it without needing to spend years and years doing it.

This is the space where once your foundation has been set you can safely explore and look at where to put your effort to take that idea in your head and take the first steps towards making it real, without feeling any pressure. While you are expanding your idea you’re in a safe place to make things.

Ironically this is the stage where most aspiring artists get stuck… they continually look to build and refine skills, however because they have never set their foundation they spin endlessly in this loop of feeling like they are not good enough, while simultaneously being inspired by the next video, image, game, comic book or movie they see and dive right back into learning. Eventually life gives them so many responsibilities to deal with that their time and space to be creative diminishes, and this is really a sad reality which could have been avoided.

When done in order and correctly this phase is where rapid learning and improvement happens where huge leaps in ability happen in very short periods of time.

One the foundation and growth has happened it’s time to assemble everything together and finally take that big idea and create the polished work that is a true reflection of your ultimate abilities and the best version of taking that idea from your head and presenting it to the world.

Usually this would be a scary step, but because you’ve done all the work aleready to make this idea the best that it can be you can release it to the world with confidence because you know that you’ve pushed yourself and your idea to the best versions of both that you can read right here and now (not in 10 years from now!), and you’ll have your people who will back you up and cheer you on as you reach the finish line and release your idea to the world.