Great blog, and holds two challenges - Creative Every Day Challenge, and the Art Every Day Month Challenge (every November) - the later has been running for eight years now. Leah Piken Kolidas is the owner and artist.
Chris Guillebeau's website wants to “help people live unconventional lives, make their own choices, and change the world”. The Unconventional Guides are available here also - on topics such as making a living as an artist, working for yourself and becoming a travel ninja.
Jonathan Fields blog Awake at the Wheel and his book Career Renegade are excellent resources for creative entrepreneurs.
Conversation, community, communication – as a creative entrepreneur, these are the building blocks of your marketing strategy (and a healthy chunk of your innovation process), and there’s no better place to learn about them and see them in action than Chris Brogan’s Blog.
Brian Clark is the founder of Copyblogger and the online business empire that radiates out from the blog - Lateral Action, Teaching Sells, Third Tribe, Thesis (theme) and Scribe. Join up with the e-mail newsletter Internet Marketing for Smart People. Copyblogger is edited by the wonderful Sonia Simone, and features razor sharp marketing and copywriting advice from not only Brian and Sonia, but also a roster of great guest writers.
Hugh MacLeod's eclectic website, full of his cartoons and thoughts. Author of 'Ignore Everybody and 39 Other Keys to Creatvity'
Naomi Dunford’s blog IttyBiz is for people who run tiny weeny businesses from their kitchen/basement/local Starbucks. It’s for people who hate marketing but know they need to do it.
Very personal style on the posts here, plus free courses
Life beyond Code is Rajesh Setty's blog, posting at the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology and personal development.
Garr Reynolds is on a mission to rid the world of ‘death by PowerPoint’ – the proliferation of tedious presentations. Whether or not you’re a public speaker, Garr’s ideas will help you simplify your thinking and make you a better communicator, whatever medium you work in.
If you want to stay in touch with the latest thinking in online marketing, you need to know what Seth Godin is saying.
Steven Pressfield is the author of The War of Art, and now Steven is now writing a killer blog about, creativity, writing, entrepreneurship and related matters.
Lateral Action is all about creativity and productivity, containing posts for creative entrepreneurs, and a free course, The Creative Pathfinder.
From Your Desks explores the contemporary incarnation of the artist’s studio — the creator’s desk — through candid, unstaged portraits of workspaces.
"ARTISTS, ILLUSTRATORS,
DESIGNERS & CREATIVE
FOLK SHARE THE STUFF
ON THEIR DESKS..."
design*sponge, one of our favorite design blogs, has lesser-known yet wonderful section entitled What’s Inside Your Toolbox, probing into the creative processes of prominent designers, illustrators and artists by way of the tools they can’t live without.
Melissa Dinwiddie is a creeativity coach, and owner of the Thriving Artists Project and 365 Days of Genius.com also. At her blog you can read about her own creative life also.
Resources, a blog, and advice for artists wanting to sell their art online
Milo - a writer and web-editor based in Edinburgh. Interviews and tips for creative types.