The Smartist–The Call

Alphabet Illustration

Sample illustration for an Alphabet Book. The final illustration will be in water-color.

Illustration Friday–Together

Once more, all together – aaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

What You Need to Know about Content Marketing

What is Content Marketing

Content marketing is concerned with generating informative and promotional content that is relevant to your business. Unlike regular advertising, where a direct pitch to buy is made, content marketing underlines the usefulness of the product or service, and explains why it might be a good idea to purchase or subscribe. Basically, you establish communication lines with potential customers, and this has been found to be more effective than trying to convert them with continual sales pitches.

Read more about Content Marketing.

WIFI–Ray Bradbury on Writing

A very entertaining talk by Ray Bradbury, and some excellent advise for writers.

Sketchbook - Yucca

 

The  Yucca plant in our garden has sent out this very tall – over ten feet – stalk. We are now waiting for it to bloom.

I got this plant from a neighbor. He was at the Post Office and there were workers uprooting several Yucca plants from the garden there. He asked if he could have some, and they said, take them all. So he brought them back and gave me this one.

I planted it first in a rock garden, which was later sacrificed during our home extension work and the Yucca went in between the grapefruit and the Bakul, both of which were too shady for its liking. It didn’t grow at all there. Then I decided to move it to a sunnier corner and it has been thriving ever since.

Illustration - Bhakti Singers

Pen and ink illustration.