Coding and Design Tips & Tutorials

[caption id="attachment_9470" align="alignnone" width="620"] Photo: Jody Morris via Flickr[/caption] The trope of the "starving artist" is so old, it's practically not even a trope anymore. Instead, it's more like a creepy bedtime story we tell potential working artists, as if to scare them out of the pursuit of art and in to some other career path.

[caption id="attachment_4703" align="alignnone" width="620"] Photo by Izzy Hudgins in partnership with with French Knot Studios for RuffledBlog[/caption] In 2018, you couldn’t attend a corporate event, a party, or a wedding without being handed a plastic mustache on a stick and getting pulled into a photo booth. Photo booth companies – like our friends at the Slow Motion Booth – got creative with their offerings, breathing new life into the old carnival staple.

“A lot of people don’t know that there are editing apps,” says Diane, which are usually either free or inexpensive and can help adjust the color and other elements of your photos. Todd and Diane recommend VSCO, Snapseed, and Photoshop Express.

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As an artist, creator, or hobbyist, it is hard to always have creative ideas. We caught up with illustrator Whitney Sherman to get drawing exercises to spark your creativity when you are stuck.

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[caption id="attachment_6997" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Photo courtesy Scott Robert Lim.

You have the ideas, you have the motivation--but the money isn't all there yet. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to fund your side gig or side hustle if you know where to look.