I have no reason to discourage any one from thinking you can’t be creative without money but you do need money. I have followed on the internet and read about lots of creative people doing so well for themselves which inspired me to push myself to my limits.  Creativity is not cheap in anyway and you have to find a way to turn your creative skills to money. But before turning your skills to money how do you improve on yourself to create more awareness of your existence.

The best things about creativity are not cheap, I know you have a brain but believe me your brain needs nourishment from people with ideas, books, videos and practice. Yes, you will say I already know about that but you should confirm how much those ideas, books and videos cost. I’m sure you will be wowed the same way I was when I saw the price for a photography video online. Oh my God! I was knocked off, confused and I said to myself am going to learn it on my own which I did but my experience forget about it. I was wasting my time for 4 months then a great discount came online, the course was 90% off and like seriously was I dreaming. I clicked buy like it got gold in it, purchased the course and believe me it was supernatural. It changed my life since then I have spent 90% of my income on books, videos and online classes.

Wait and think about it, even a professional, specialist spends a lot of money schooling on a particular field of study just to be a ‘pro’. The same goes for creativity you need knowledge, equipment, software and experience which is possible by organizing self projects. Self projects, they do cost money to pull it off but it pays because you have things to show to future paying clients.

All creative fields need money but one thing money can’t buy is the passion, the love for what you are doing, how it makes it feel and most of all great happiness. Passion money can’t buy but apart from that if you really want to improve on your creative self you need money so my advice is to get a source of income to be able to push your creativity to a good stand.   

We photographers and photo retoucher don't really know how much people appreciate what we do until they tell us how amazing we are with a smile. I am writing this short blog as a response I received from a makeup artiste I met on BBM via my sister in another State. She was in Lagos (where I stay) for a short visit and we decided to see for a photo shoot which was cool. I had high expectations as I fell in love with her face right from the day I saw her picture. She came by, we had a shoot which to me is a normal process and when the picture retouch was done I sent it to her. She was funny with her response but to my surprise she did a picture mix of herself un-retouched without makeup and the retouched picture. She titled it 'Imperfect Me'.

I looked at the picture once again and I realized I had worked hard on the picture to make a statement about myself to her which turned out great. We just don't understand the role we play when people are happy to see a transformation of themselves.