To Do: Juggling Music, Comics, and Reselling A Week in My Creative Life

I delve into the tasks I need to do this week for my different online businesses. As an online musician, reselling business owner, and webcomic artist, I have a full list of things I need to do each week.

I share my weekly goals and reflect on my accomplishments from the previous week.

Symbols for the tasks

✅ = Done

⏲ = Still waiting

Vintage reselling business, The Pop Culture Roadshow.

This week for my vintage online store:

✅ Pack orders

✅ List 5 items a day (Check out my recently listed items on eBay)

⛔ Record a "what I got" video

My band, Lorenzo's Music.

Things I need to do for my band this week:

✅ Upload the next song for distribution - (You can Pre-Save the song here)

✅ Schedule Live show (Watch the live show replay on YouTube)

✅ Record podcast interview (Watch the Lorenzo's Music Podcast on YouTube)

My webcomic series, Bobert and the Monster

Things I need to do for my webcomics:

⛔ Color Current Page

⛔ Live stream coloring

⛔ Pencil next page

I hope sharing my approach to managing these tasks and my productivity here can help anyone looking to balance their own creative passions with business endeavors.

Artwork for the original Candy Land game by Milton Bradley from 1955.

I have a vintage Candy Land game from 1955 by Milton Bradley and I was about to sell it so I thought I would add it to my personal art history course concept I've been doing . I'm going to try and see if I can find out how this game was created, designed and why? Here is what I found out about this game https://candy-land.fandom.com/wiki/Candy_Land_Wiki Candy Land is a board game about children exploring a world made out of candy and other sweets that originally came out in 1949. In every version of the game, there are a group of children that go through Candy Land. In the earliest versions of the game, it was a realistically drawn boy and girl. Drawing of the Candy Land kids I did on my phone ☝ https://board-games-galore.fandom.com/wiki/Candy_Land The game was designed in 1948 by Eleanor Abbott , while she was recovering from polio in San Diego, California. It's rumored that Eleanor also did the original artwork but I didn't find anything that...

How I use one Gmail address for multiple Soundcloud accounts

Do you know the Gmail "+" trick to use one email for multiple accounts on one service? Here's a little trick I use that works for any service. I talked about this on the podcast episode I did with artist Mortimur K . In this case, let's say I used up all the uploads I have for my free Soundcloud account . With this trick, I can open a new free account and use the same Gmail address. I don't want to create another Gmail account to sign up again. Using my one Gmail address for multiple accounts on the same service I don't remember when I learned this but you can alter the name on a Gmail address. Like, let's say mine is "tom@gmail.com". To be clear that is not my email. I wish it was, but this is just a short example. Start with the original Gmail address Add a "+" after the email name Where it says "tom" on the address I can put a "+" after that. Add a "+" after the email name After that "+" I ca...

Can I Buy And Resell Copies Of My Own Book From Amazon KDP?

There are two questions that I get asked about publishing my webcomic books on Amazon KDP . 1 - Can I Order A Print Copy Of My Own Book From Amazon KDP? When I started printing on Amazon KDP I also had that question. The reason I put the books together is I was just kind of doing it for myself. I could make a paperback version of my webcomic books and then I and my family could get a copy. It didn't even occur to me that I could actually start selling the book in public. I thought it was just print-on-demand and then maybe I could order one. But when I print a book on Amazon KDP I can also get up to 999 copies and sell it on my own! I was able to get my own copies from Amazon KDP sent to me. As the author, I can get them at printing cost . So they're at a discounted price. The option to order author copies is right in the KDP publishing setup. The button is next to the book in KDP. 👇 The other question I get about publishing my book on Amazon KDP... 2 -...

An artist who turned trash into a canvas.

Triangulador is Liu Szwako , a Mexico City-born street artist and muralist in Madison, Wisconsin whose work started out as an awesome series of street art, using discarded furniture and mattresses around the city as a canvas. I got a chance to meet Liu on an episode of the American Bandito Podcast In the meantime , check out some of Triangulador's work below: View this post on Instagram First pieces of VeinteVeinte "2020" #art #abstractart #SupportLocalArtist #Spraypaint #streetart #MontanaBlack #doodles #publicinstallation #publicart #MadisonWisconsin #herenowgonetomorrow #myownstyle @montanacans @montanacans_usa #triangulador A post shared by 𝐋𝐢𝐮𝐛𝐨𝐯 𝐒𝐳𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐨 / 𝕿𝖗𝖎𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖚𝖑𝖆𝖉𝖔𝖗 (@triangulador) on Feb 3, 2020 at 6:24am PST You can learn more about Triangulador at the website triangulador.com

Tom Ray

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