Your hopes and dreams, as well as your perception of the world around you, come through in your work and make it unique.

You owe it to yourself to make your creative development a top priority.

Don't dwell on your mistakes. Set achievable goals: a confident line, effective use of values, interesting shapes, exciting texture.

Creativity doesn't just happen - you make it happen. Changing daily routines is one way to access creativity.

Listening to music as preparation or background for your work brings you into a creative mood... choose one type of music to calm down, another to reach a higher energy level, depending on the artwork you are doing.

Use design as a framework to bring order out of chaos.

Pay attention to the inner voice that tells you when something feels right. Much of your creative problem-solving occurs at an unconscious level.