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How To Get On The Same Page As Your Clients — 5 Key Principles

One of the most fundamental mistakes to make early in your freelance career is underestimating just how important it is to be on the same…

Feb 14, 2020

How To Get On The Same Page As Your Clients — 5 Key Principles

Feb 14, 2020

How do You Deal with Being Frustrated with You Creative Work?

Over the last few years of being a full-time freelancer I’ve had the pleasure of receive hundreds of questions from my followers across…

Apr 1, 2019

How do You Deal with Being Frustrated with You Creative Work?

Apr 1, 2019

How Illustrations Can Benefit Your Brand

Every week I receive inquiries from prospective clients looking for help to create illustrations for their websites, mobile apps or…

Sep 28, 2018

Sep 28, 2018

What You Need Before You Start Your Next Design Project

Learn about a key part of my process that I neglected for so long and one you may be neglecting as well.

Jul 11, 2018

What You Need Before You Start Your Next Design Project

Jul 11, 2018

Finding & Using Inspiration | Part Two

In the first part of this blog post series on finding and using inspiration, we talked in length about finding and growing your inspiration…

Mar 19, 2018

Finding & Using Inspiration | Part Two

Mar 19, 2018

Finding & Using Inspiration | Part One

First off let me be perfectly clear, I am a huge fan of inspiration.

Feb 20, 2018

Finding & Using Inspiration | Part One

Feb 20, 2018

Using Illustrations to Help Reach Visual Learners

Do you remember back in elementary school through high school, teachers would talk about the different types of learners? Today we know of…

Feb 13, 2018

Using Illustrations to Help Reach Visual Learners

Feb 13, 2018

Why Does Hiring an Illustrator Cost More than Buying Stock Illustrations?

A few months ago I had a prospective client come to me looking for me to create some illustrations for their new landing page. We chatted…

Feb 9, 2018

Why Does Hiring an Illustrator Cost More than Buying Stock Illustrations?

Feb 9, 2018

How Much Should I Budget for Illustration?

Figuring out how you should budget for illustration work is definitely a tricky thing to figure out. If you’ve never hired an illustrator…

Feb 5, 2018

Retro Cash Register Illustration featuring 3 dollar signs.

Feb 5, 2018

Q&A | Are You Born Creative?

Short Answer: No, Creatives aren’t born, they’re created over time and in the right environment.

Feb 2, 2018

Q&A | Are You Born Creative?

Feb 2, 2018

Rocky Roark

Rocky Roark

Father, Creative Director, & Branding Designer—Helping Startups Raise $97million in Funding w/ Design—Founder of Blue Cyclops—Host of The Design Break Podcast

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