bluebee feature: Carina Lindmeier

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Carina is an illustration artist from Austria. Her style is influenced by music and typically features people, animals or plants. She paints digitally as well as with traditional material like ink and watercolours. Making art can be a lonely and stressful place. Self-doubt or too much self-confidence can hinder your artistic career and a reality check amongst other artists can level you out. Carina is part of several organisations, including the Women Who Draw, Backlab Collective and the Guild

of Illustrators. “If I have a creative block or crisis, I always can fall back on this network to support me. But, we are also there for each other to bounce ideas and to support each other, if someone has an exhibition or event.” There is a saying in Austria “Through talking, people come together” and new things happen. Carina explained that cooperation and networks are very important in her artistic life. She recommends to network as much as possible, not only with artists from your own field, but as well as

with artists from other areas. She loves connecting with artists from food and fashion industries and enjoys collaborating with them. Although Carina exhibited her work internationally, most of her success comes through the internet. Instagram is one of her main channels of raising awareness. Potential clients get in touch with her to commission artworks, and she also finds that it is a way of communicating with influencers and other artists. Carina has a strong social media presence and recommends that you try and be present on many networks, such as Instagram and

Behance, but it does takes time and effort to keep them alive and to monitor them. In the beginning, stick to a few ones and do them correctly rather than spread your effort too thinly. Don’t be afraid to share your knowledge. It will come back to you. And don’t stress yourself to get as many followers and likes as possible. It’s more about whom you know – quality over quantity.