Creative Communities - How To Find A Creative Community That's Right For You

Are you part of a creative community? A group of like minded creative people that meet up – in person or online – to share their artwork and support each other?

If you’re not, you could be missing out on one of the best ways ways available to help you be more creative than you thought possible.

Here are some of the major benefits a creative community can offer:

Sharing of artwork – Get other people’s opinions and feedback on your own work in a safe environment, before you release it into the big wide world. You also get to see the art of others and all the inspiration and community feeling that nurtures.

Discussions of the common struggles of creating – Nearly all creative people have similar kind of struggles, the big issues are all the same: perfectionism, procrastination, lack of focus, finding enough time, fear of failing, to name just a few. Hearing how others are experiencing and overcoming these issues is invaluable.

Widen your audience – By connecting with others in a creative community, your creative network instantly becomes as big as the combined network of everyone in your group. Through joint projects and promotions you can widen your potential audience many times over.

Collaborations and swaps– Find people to collaborate with on new creative projects, or join a swap group where members exchange art, either online or physically.

Increased accountability – Get involved in a group and you instantly feel more accountable in your creating. Rather than creating just for yourself, you now know you have a waiting, supportive group of people who will encourage you to reach your creative potential.

Any valuable creative community will offer the framework for all of these major benefits.

What’s most important though, above all of these, is that you feel the community is supportive, welcoming, and nurturing.

You need to feel safe there in contributing your creative work, your ideas and your thoughts.

If you don’t trust the community, you’re not going to find it helps you be more creative. In fact, a negative experience in an unsupportive community can actually dent your confidence, cause you to close up and create less freely than you did before.

The best way to find a creative community that’s right for you is to try to some out.

In person this means going along to a few meetings and getting a feel for what the community is about and what they offer their members.

Online, this is much easier. You can browse through the existing content of a community, read member’s contributions and get a good idea in a short time whether this is something you’d like to be a part of.

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