To Do: Juggling Music, Comics, and Reselling A Week in My Creative Life

I delve into the tasks I need to do this week for my different online businesses. As an online musician, reselling business owner, and webcomic artist, I have a full list of things I need to do each week.

I share my weekly goals and reflect on my accomplishments from the previous week.

Symbols for the tasks

✅ = Done

⏲ = Still waiting

Vintage reselling business, The Pop Culture Roadshow.

This week for my vintage online store:

✅ Pack orders

✅ List 5 items a day (Check out my recently listed items on eBay)

⛔ Record a "what I got" video

My band, Lorenzo's Music.

Things I need to do for my band this week:

✅ Upload the next song for distribution - (You can Pre-Save the song here)

✅ Schedule Live show (Watch the live show replay on YouTube)

✅ Record podcast interview (Watch the Lorenzo's Music Podcast on YouTube)

My webcomic series, Bobert and the Monster

Things I need to do for my webcomics:

⛔ Color Current Page

⛔ Live stream coloring

⛔ Pencil next page

I hope sharing my approach to managing these tasks and my productivity here can help anyone looking to balance their own creative passions with business endeavors.

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...

Some history about artist Alex Toth

So recently I decided I was going to try and learn something about each item in my toy collection and the artwork behind it . Kind of like my own impromptu art history class. Then I'm going to sell it so I can start collecting more! :) Moltar One of the first things I put up for sale was this Space Ghost Coast to Coast Moltar Action Figure from back in 2000. By the way, I learned a valuable lesson when shipping this item to the person who bought it. Never let the people at the post office touch your collectibles! The Space Ghost Coast to Coast show actually used the original artwork from the Hanna Barbera Space Ghost cartoon from the 1960s. Those characters were designed by Alex Toth . I knew his name but didn't really know anything else about him. Here is a sketch I did of Moltar on my phone. So I decided for my first art history lesson I would do a little bit of research on Alex Toth . he died at his drawing table on May 27, 2006, from a heart attac...

Balancing Creativity and Business: My Week Ahead

I go over my weekly to-do's managing multiple creative projects while preparing for a solo performance in Jackson, Mississippi.

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