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Apr 15 2024 
Behind the scenes of an illustration for professional client: Creative Adventure with D in Design
My client, Diệp Nguyễn, is a UX designer who just launched her brand, which focused on podcasting and spreading the knowledge of how to apply UX design into building a fulfilled life. Since her brand just arrived to the market, Diệp felt a need of some striking, high-impact, and as personalized as it could be to bring more visual support to her brand display. -
Apr 05 2024
1 retrospective and 5 reasons that will save 5 years of your creative life
Since the launch of my blog in December 2021, how did I manage to go from working 3 months to produce a 3-minute video, to creating two trilingual articles a month in addition to a 15-minute video a month? -
Mar 05 2024
How to build a strong support network as a creative freelancer?
Being a creative freelancer can sometimes feel like walking a solitary path. When you choose this path, you quickly realize there's a gap between your daily life and that of those around you. -
Jan 05 2024
Finding a balanced, authentic hobby when you (already) have a creative profession
My favorite thing in the world is drawing. And that's why I became a professional illustrator. And since I started my business, there's one piece of advice that comes back to me every week, whether from friends, or experienced entrepreneurs or in the medias I follow: "You need to find a hobby other than drawing, now that drawing has become your profession." -
Oct 05 2023
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Jun 05 2023
The Present Day planner – My secret weapon for creative productivity
It is a weapon, because its power is mind-blowing. It is a secret, because its author took 5 years to design it in secret. Let me give you a head-up, this article is not sponsored. And it is absolutely not because the author of this planner is both my idol and my boss that I am advertising this secret weapon. -
May 15 2023
Behind the scenes of a real client illustration project
The last time I shared with you a behind-the-scenes of a true client project; it was about a year ago.Since then, for the past year, I was able to let you know about my work process only through my personal projects and a "fake" client project. -
May 05 2023
Choose the color palette for your visual identity (simple, fast and free)
If you are a creative person, the color palette is essential! The color palette is even more important than the logo! Colors can help create a particular mood or evoke specific emotions in your audience so that people can remember you. -
Apr 15 2023
(Almost) Kill five birds with one stone
There is one realization that weighted a lot on me. Contents consumption, including blog posts, videos or social media, has become somewhat similar to fast-fashion consumption. We seek contents increasingly more in quantity, increasingly in shorter time, and then, we forget just as increasingly easily and quickly what we just consumed. -
Mar 05 2023
The loneliness of a creative freelancer
This article is NOT about loneliness due to isolation!
The afternoon when loneliness drowned me
I couldn’t keep my promise.
It was Tuesday, February 28, 2023, the Tuesday that just passed. I was all motivated to finally free up 30 minutes in my…
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