If you’ve ever doubted your creative path… read this.

Nov 29, 2025

Stability and a creative career → are they synonyms, or opposites that never attract? Time for a POWERFUL weekend boost, breaking the myths around what it truly means to follow your passion when almost the entire world tells creatives, “better safe than sorry,” when thinking about going full-time with their ideas.

But before that… my dear friend, our LEGENDARY drawing program that started it all 5 years ago is retiring FOREVER, and I really-really-really want you to see it and try it with your own hands. This is the skill that creates a true BREAKTHROUGH in creative expression whether you want to communicate your ideas through iPad drawing because you’re in the “if I ever turn on a computer render, I’ll give up on my project” camp like me (lol), OR whether you want to collaborate with dream brands and draw plans and 3Ds like I do in my commercial illustration career since 2020.

And yes, the demand only keeps growing with AI (and you and I already know how to integrate AI seamlessly into our work). The AI block is included in the course as well, with real examples from my most recent commercial illustration projects.

👉 iPad Drawing + AI Course Retiring Forever TOMORROW 🛑 Get instant access HERE 

P.S. This is the last time ever I’m offering lifetime access and such a comprehensive roadmap with 100+ lessons. Once it’s retired, you will still keep everything but securing it now is the right choice because in the future this structure will no longer exist due to a complete restructure of my work and freeing up space and time for my own ambitious creative career goals (about which we’ll talk below, not mine specifically, but the idea of being a full-time creative and truly making it work).
And now, get ready for a very open-minded and slightly controversial perspective on what it’s really like to draw and design for a living, and how to balance dream life with the reality of daily and monthly costs, contracts, and payments that must be made.

First and foremost, we should tattoo this on our foreheads:
NEVER ask for career advice from people who have nothing to do with the creative industry. They will project their own realities onto yours and give advice based on their life situations. Only a successful creative who has been making a full-time living for YEARS can objectively tell you what is actually possible when it comes to building a sustainable creative life.

Short and sweet... being a full-time creative is actually one of the most stable fields. I promised controversy!

Here’s why. In “stable and secure” jobs, your project flow is predetermined. In the creative industry, you CREATE your own projects. Your workflow depends on YOU, not on external validation. Don’t have a project on the horizon? Invent one. PITCH IT. That’s literally my entire career in one sentence, hehe. Now you know one of my golden nuggets, the rest are inside the course :)

Last week, I received my first feedback from one of my dream brands for a potential collaboration. The first roots have started, and I truly believe this will turn into a partnership because I’m about to do my follow-up (hello to my former mentor Ryan Serhant’s approach :D).

And they literally told me:
“In the era of AI, this is such a fresh and beautiful style to look at.”

That means AI becomes our PARTNER - to develop ideas, speed up workflows (just like I did with my latest commercial project... INSANE!! and included inside my course), and to never get stuck in creative blocks again.

WOW.

And I know this may sound cheesy, but as long as you TRULY believe in the originality of your work and you are OBSESSED with it - you have a MASSIVELY high chance of making it work in a surprisingly short amount of time. Dreams and goals are not forgotten because we aren’t talented enough. They disappear because of constant comparison, spiraling, and overthinking costing us MONTHS, if not YEARS.

Please, PLEASE don’t let that happen to you.

This year, I partially fell back into that trap myself. I started endlessly scrolling for new style ideas because I thought mine wasn’t good enough. I had become so intuitive and automatic in my process that I mistakenly believed it was boring and needed replacement. FALSE. You do keep exploring and testing but not through comparison, and not by letting others dictate what’s good or bad.

Remember this forever:
If you think your style is AWESOME - IT FUCKING IS.
Period.

So, to wrap this up: I truly hope you become part of the very last group of my legacy drawing course that started it all - with proven, practical techniques, guaranteed results (with your commitment), approachable methods, and a new favorite creative hobby with real potential to become part of your career… or even your entire career.

With big drawing energy,
Anna at @andshedrawsbig

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