I define “success” or being “prosperous” as having all that you need in order to fulfill your God-given assignments.
Fulfilling those assignments or ”calling” is usually an innate drive (passion), placed there by God Himself. But the irony is that we often exclude the God-given solutions that will fulfill that God-given passion.
That’s why, you as an artist or designer may have been frustrated somewhere in life when pursuing success with your creativity, but the following scriptures can shed light and give clarity on how to be successful according to God’s plan for you life …

Our latest interview of an artist that is actively walking in his God-given gift is with my online and off-line friend Mel Rivera! Mel just so happens to be the brother of ALFG subscriber Frencci Rivera (whom we’ve interviewed previously), and has mastered a unique balance of pencil portraiture with his passion for comics.
Check him out and his amazing testimony:
 
1. Tell us who you are and what you do as an artist/designer:
My Name is Ismael Rivera, in the South I’m known as Mel a shorten version of Ismael (but I …

I consider this method a “secret” tool because, although it’s common in the corporate business world, it is almost totally unheard of when it comes to artists and designers using it to plan their projects or strategizing their creative business.
It’s called a “S.W.O.T. Analysis” and is used to help business and project leaders evaluate the favorable and unfavorable internal and external factors involved in making the project or business initiative happen. It starts by defining a desired end result or objective, then uses the following:
What are your or your company’s:
• S-Strengths
• W-Weaknesses
• O-Opportunities
• T-Threats.
At …