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How to operate in the rogue artist economy.

The Sovereign Artist (Program)

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  Enrollment Open

  Sign up now and you will join the S.A. program & community immediately.

  🔍 Problem

  The main challenge we are now facing is learning how to leverage the tools of the Digital Age without degrading the sacred character of our lives.

  💡 Solution

  The S.A. program is a practical framework that teaches you how to live wisely in the modern world, blending the best values of ancient philosophies with the best tools of the Information Age.

  🎓 Curriculum

  1. Seize the Digital Age

  2. Build Your Talent Stack

  3. Leverage Online Resources

  4. Learn to Write Persuasively

  5. Create Impactful Content

  6. Build Products & Services

  7. Sell Products & Services

  Brief Description

  The S.A. Program addresses how to use the Internet to build your talent stack; find projects and clients; grow an online community; create product-centric content; develop antifragile digital assets; and overall build a creative internet business from the bottom up.

  The ultimate aim is to organize your work and transform your skills into digital assets.

  Save 2,000+ hours of market research. Learn how to fail without losing money. Place wise bets. Take strategic risks.

  In a nutshell, this program shows you exactly how I’d help you if you hired me.

  The Complete Package

  + The Sovereign Artist Philosophy

  + Visual Lessons & Case Studies

  + Presentations & Strategies

  + Workshops & Challenges

  + Online Community

  Once you get on board, you will enjoy a lifetime S.A. membership.

  There are 7 Learning Blocks. Each Block has between 2-6 lessons. A new lesson gets published every 4-8 weeks.

  This program is (largely) self-paced—you can access the materials whenever you want.

  You will be invited to join a community of hundreds of like-minded people. You will be able to ask questions, share your progress, get feedback, ask for help, brainstorm business projects, and more.

  🏆 Who is this for?

  You’re patient, humble, and comfortable with uncertainty & sharing your work online.

  Level 7

  You want to learn how to use the Internet to build your talent stack, find projects & clients, grow an online audience, or develop a creative service from the bottom up, but you need help getting started.

  Level 57

  You’re already self-employed—but you need more freedom. You want to earn with your mind (not with your time) and become a minimalist (online) entrepreneur. You want to turn your online audience into a supportive community & design a creative service you can sell at scale.

  Level 93

  You’re an internet entrepreneur and/or artist that’s built a reliable business, but you need help getting more customers, building premium digital assets, or doubling your profit without sacrificing your freedom.

  Artist (Definition)

  The word “artist” instinctively makes us think of painters, musicians, writers, or sculptors. But this would be a terribly reductionist definition. The term includes virtually all occupations. An artist is anyone who is creatively producing new knowledge. Umberto Eco came up with a wise remark: “Critical creativity—criticizing what we are doing or inventing better ways of doing it—is the only mark of artistic function.”

  Your Instructor

  My name is Vizi Andrei. I’m a designer, writer, independent researcher, and (internet) business strategist. My projects led me to work with Gumroad, Larry Sanger, Naval Ravikant, Ed Latimore, Jim O’Shaughnessy, and more.

  The Platform

  The lessons are delivered in a visual fashion on an exclusive digital platform. They involve presentations, strategies, case studies, challenges, but also workshops and Q&A sessions.

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  Can you imagine living wherever you want and working on what you are passionate about. Without bosses, offices, or schedules. Focused on your mission and impacting the world in a direct way?

  This situation which would sound illusory a few years ago is today a growing reality. Every day more people live like this, and far from being a fad, it is the new economy that many are not yet aware of.

  These new entrepreneurs are creating a new future. They are taking control of their lives and work, living by their own standards, and are making a personal impact on the world.

  This manual will make you one of them.

  You will learn how to find the idea. And build it:

  • Why should you create an online business
  • Practical exercises to find your purpose
  • Learn the basic lessons to create a successful business
  • Know the basic characteristics to build your product
  • Follow a roadmap with specific steps
  • Learn from case studies of successful personalities

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  I think the best way to prepare for the future 20 years is find something you love to do, to have a shot at being one of the best people in the world at it. Build an independent brand around it, with your name. Naval Ravikant

Original:

Rogue Artist is a term coined by artist and writer Rafi Perez a few years ago to describe artists who are independent creatives, making a living outside the ‘main stream art system’ of formal post graduate art education, galleries, critics, collectors, organizers and institutions.

Rogue artists are, to be clear, distinctly not ‘outsider artists’ as current culture and the main stream of art label artists who also are social outcasts (those clearly anti-social and or suffering personality disorders).

The key idea is that as a rogue artist you want to do two things: you want to be uniquely creative (true to yourself, not showing unconscious influences of often-in-vogue methods, schools, trends, or even social conventions) and you want to impress (by successfully capturing that creativity in your expression).

But you can’t capture your originality and unique creativity if you don’t know how to fully use and abuse the tools of the trade. It is that simple. This is what Picasso meant by “Pro”.

You impress when your work shows true mastery and command of the ‘tools of the trade’, or the Craft - as well as a conscious ability to be creative with the limits of that craft. You show that the craft and its current conventions do not have command of (or limits on) you, but you have complete command of the tools. This is what Picasso meant by ‘break them like an artist.’

The difference between a true Professional and a craftsperson, or even master craftsman is that both have mastered the craft, but the Pro also understands the ‘why’. And then as an artist, understands when and how and why the rules can successfully be broken.

The true artist, the rogue artist, then works to master craft so that the craft is in service of the Artist’s creativity. And then breaks the rules like a Pro, to achieve the original.

In my case, I have studied and practiced art techniques for thousands of hours, from life drawing to formal architectural rendering, to studying colour theory to mastering the use of colour in various mediums, to learning how to refine my own oil painting mediums and mull my own colours, to understanding how to make, use and manipulate supports and surfaces. The more I learn and master and understand how and why, the more creative I can be with my craft.

Picasso may have meant ‘learn the rules like a Pro’ referring mostly to the formal rules of drawing and composition, colour theory and pictorial design, but the idea encompasses all of the tools of the trade and the craft of employing them.

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If you understand how something works, then you can change it.

A great many artists in the 1950s, 60s and 70s paid less attention than they should have to basic procedures, such as how to prepare a canvas or what types of paints to use. While breaking artistic and aesthetic rules, they also paid little attention to the “rules” of how to make sure a painting survives. The result is a lot of work for art conservators who struggle to keep millions of dollars of art from falling apart. If you don’t understand a process, it is foolhardy to ignore it.

This advice also referred to the artistic side of things as well. If I truly understand the vibrancy of mixing two particular colors together, or the effect of negative space, or the workings of two-point perspective—to name just three things—then I can play with those concepts. I should hasten to add that this understanding does not have to be academic. Unlike technical aspects of art, the aesthetic understandings can be arrived at in many ways: non-verbal experience, intuition, trial and error, etc.

The point is: learn your stuff so you can be creative!

Art is often about testing boundaries and doing things our own way. If you look at art across history many new movements were an attempt to question the status quo and contemporary (to the time) definitions of art. Impressionism, Realism, Conceptualism, even looking back at the Renaissance and the transition into Baroque considers this.

An artist isn’t bound by any rules, instead s/he/they learn what’s been done before to help inform whats next.