To Do: Overcoming Tech Troubles A Week in My Creative Business Life

The week kicked off with a series of unexpected technical issues. My phone began to fail, shutting off after only a minute of use. Simultaneously, a malfunctioning video card on my laptop made it so I couldn't do any video editing.

But I got a new phone and fixed my video card issue. So this week I go over what tasks I completed from last week and take a look at the tasks I have to do for my online creative ventures this week.

Symbols for the tasks

✅ = Done

⏲ = Still waiting

1. Vintage reselling business, The Pop Culture Roadshow

This week for my vintage online store:

✅ Pack orders

✅ List 5 items a day (View new items in my eBay store)

✅ Record a "what sold" video

⏲ Create reels from the videos

2. My band, Lorenzo's Music

Things I need to do for my band this week:

✅ Start planning promos for new song (Listen to the song "If I was alone" here)

✅ Reels of song hook

✅ Send playlist pitch

3. My webcomic series, Bobert and the Monster

✅ Color Current Page

✅ Live stream coloring (Watch a clip from the live stream here)

✅ Pencil next page

Watch the video to hear the full story and take a look behind the scenes into how I'm managing multiple creative projects.

4. Email list

✅ Create a download offer for email list sign-ups

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...

How do I print and distribute my webcomic books?

How do I distribute my book? I distribute my book specifically on Amazon through Kindle Direct Publishing or KDP.

Vintage Illustration Artwork from Calling All Girls Digest from 1962

Here is some illustration artwork from a vintage magazine digest I found from 1962 called " Calling all girls ". This was a magazine that was for teens that later became Young Miss magazine. It has a lot of really cool two-color illustrations for each of the articles in the digest. If you would like to see more of the books that I've collected from resale shops over the years I also sell them in my eBay store . Each issue also had a minicomic called Tizzie by Kate Osann . Tizzy, the title character, was a stereotypical teen-aged American girl. The episode drawn in this comic was Tizzie and her first job as a babysitter. And much like the rest of the book it used a two-color theme. I actually like to try and recreate old ads like this and repurpose the artwork by illustrating them for band flyers. If you would like to see more of the books that I've collected from resale shops over the years I also sell them in my eBay store . Save this on Pinterest

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