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12 tasks. 4 weeks. Real posts on your real feed. Make it yourself. Make it with AI. Compare. That's how you develop the eye. Before you start: Fill this in and pin it. Every task comes back to this sentence. "This is for __________, and I want them to __________." All you need: Canva (free), Claude or ChatGPT (free), your phone / camera.

You made something good. Now help the right people find it, understand it, and connect with it.

Work with your energy. Remove blocks. Release fear, grief, anxiety. Manifest goals. Awaken your inner self. All of it is energy — fear, grief, anxiety, the block you can't name. You don't have to identify it or trace it back. Notice what's bothering you, call it up in front of you like a ball of energy, and delete it, the way you'd delete a folder and empty the trash. Gone. Metaphysics and mechanics to help you live a more joyful life.

Create work that make someone feel something the moment they see it.

Two photos, same subject — one stops you, one doesn't. Learn to see why, so you can do it on purpose. I spent decades on Hollywood key art, working with the best in entertainment. For a recent project, I made 800 images for a songwriter's living songbook. The songs are exceptional. The art had to be too — stock, AI, layers, painting, Photoshop. The images pull you in as you listen. Like a dance. Vision. Decision. Execution. This course shows you how.

You have one second. That's how long someone gives an image before deciding to look closer or move on. This is the bar everything here is built to clear.

Start with intent. What are you trying to say, and to whom? Get this right and every choice after it gets easier.

Turn direction into an image. The sequence for building a visual that carries your message — composition, focus, hierarchy.

One songwriter. 800 images. Every tool available. Hal Pollock has written over 300 songs. When he decided to publish his complete living songbook — and asked me to create it — every song needed artwork: an image that communicated the emotional intention of that song in one glance. Stock photos looked the same. AI images looked flat. So I had to combine tools — photography, AI, Photoshop, color grading, light painting, and painted elements — to make the images as exceptional as his songs.

Where good becomes finished. Refine, cut, and direct your frames until only the strongest survive.

The decisions that sit between vision and final visual — and the toolkit for making them quickly and with confidence.

You know what you want. Now build it. The full workflow, start to finish, so you can repeat it every time.

Client work and overnight production. How to deliver at a professional standard, on a real deadline.

Your shortcuts: the Prompt Kit, world-building and component frameworks, and the resources that speed everything up.

Bring your work and your questions. We review them live, together — and you learn as much from everyone else's as your own.

A creative-direction masterclass for designers, creators, authors, filmmakers, and marketers — building a whole campaign, not just a single image.

Designing for print isn't designing for screen. The fundamentals that keep your work from falling apart the moment it leaves the screen.

How to get clients, keep them, and build a career on creative direction — not just talent and hope.

The Archive of Real-World Redesigns Missed a session? The Live Vault is where we store every past Directorial Review.