Your Creative Push

Ashleigh Izienicki aka Miss Upacey is a Colorado born illustrator and tattoo artist who works in both digital and traditional mediums. She graduated from Laguna College of Art and Design and now resides in Califonia. Her work often features dark and macabre themes with a cute and feminine touch. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/351 In this episode, Ashleigh discusses: -Early potential career paths as a paleontologist and an animator. -Her advice for getting over the fear of posting your art online. -Her biggest lessons and takeaways from teaching her course, “Artists as Entrepreneurs.” -Making a five-year plan and going absolutely crazy with it. -Neil Gaiman’s advice to imagine your goals as a mountain and to continue moving towards it. -Her advice for pricing original pieces, especially for artists who are just starting to sell their work. -How she developed her style. -Her love of the Golden Age of Illustration, Norman Rockwell and Charles Dana Gibson. -Her advice for getting past the fear of the