Tengo mucho para comentar sobre esta entrada, pero me lo guardaré para conversarlo un día con un café y un libro. Creo que así se le haría más justicia.
Me dejaste con la curiosidad 🫣 pero sí, es un tema largo, incluso mientras escribía sentía que había mucho más que quería agregar. Espero que se haya entendido igual 💕✨🙂↔️
Son anécdotas y recuerdos más que todo, de lugares donde tu historia, la de Shihho, y la mía se encuentran.
Solo un adelanto: yo había desistido de escribir, solo li hacía para mí y para Shihho, hasta que ella me dio la sorpresa de que me pondría como coautora de Our Story versión libro (me enteré al ver la maqueta). Si te fijas por ahí, mi nombre no aparece en la versión fanzine.
Quiero mucho hablar sobre esto cuando nos veamos 🥹💕 que lindo ver esas coincidencias. Por lo que estoy entendiendo, la Vale es para mí lo que probablemente Shihho es para tí 🥹💖
Take this from a bloke who hasn’t made a mistake, but after years of not being able to embrace life… but doing 30k worth of art anyway and now finally being a full timer… the trick to getting there is to embrace being the artist first, and enjoying the process of creating… then you get commissions. Because you’re not creating work you hope other people like enough then being the sales agent
Then keep time each day aside (I choose a little in the morning and at night) for creating MY art.
So you can easily make it to full time, if you’d like.
Slightly tougher than part time artist. And sometimes you have to draw stuff you find boring.
I just graduated with a degree in art — but I actually feel similar doubts about the path I chose. But what you wrote reminded me that the four year sprint I just finished was full of non stop discovery about my artistic voice. Despite my joy, it was so tiring though, and I feel more artistically fragile now — I think also all the pressures around employment are starting to leak into this more confident vision of myself I’ve built — a version of myself who accepts that I’m not just an artist, but also a whole person. The pressure leaks into my art and I’ve been in a bit of a block since. But how easily I forgot what a joy doing my degree was for me — after reading, I can see that more clearly now.
Your story is so relatable! I had the exact same dream—living in a tiny apartment with 2 cats and creating art for a living. Instead I work a corporate job and sometimes go months without so much as drawing a straight line hahaha. Still, I hope to change things some day and chase that creative path that once drove me.
Anyway your art is absolutely lovely! Thanks for sharing ❤️
Tengo mucho para comentar sobre esta entrada, pero me lo guardaré para conversarlo un día con un café y un libro. Creo que así se le haría más justicia.
Me dejaste con la curiosidad 🫣 pero sí, es un tema largo, incluso mientras escribía sentía que había mucho más que quería agregar. Espero que se haya entendido igual 💕✨🙂↔️
Son anécdotas y recuerdos más que todo, de lugares donde tu historia, la de Shihho, y la mía se encuentran.
Solo un adelanto: yo había desistido de escribir, solo li hacía para mí y para Shihho, hasta que ella me dio la sorpresa de que me pondría como coautora de Our Story versión libro (me enteré al ver la maqueta). Si te fijas por ahí, mi nombre no aparece en la versión fanzine.
Quiero mucho hablar sobre esto cuando nos veamos 🥹💕 que lindo ver esas coincidencias. Por lo que estoy entendiendo, la Vale es para mí lo que probablemente Shihho es para tí 🥹💖
Take this from a bloke who hasn’t made a mistake, but after years of not being able to embrace life… but doing 30k worth of art anyway and now finally being a full timer… the trick to getting there is to embrace being the artist first, and enjoying the process of creating… then you get commissions. Because you’re not creating work you hope other people like enough then being the sales agent
Then keep time each day aside (I choose a little in the morning and at night) for creating MY art.
So you can easily make it to full time, if you’d like.
Slightly tougher than part time artist. And sometimes you have to draw stuff you find boring.
But it’s still awesome.
I just graduated with a degree in art — but I actually feel similar doubts about the path I chose. But what you wrote reminded me that the four year sprint I just finished was full of non stop discovery about my artistic voice. Despite my joy, it was so tiring though, and I feel more artistically fragile now — I think also all the pressures around employment are starting to leak into this more confident vision of myself I’ve built — a version of myself who accepts that I’m not just an artist, but also a whole person. The pressure leaks into my art and I’ve been in a bit of a block since. But how easily I forgot what a joy doing my degree was for me — after reading, I can see that more clearly now.
Your story is so relatable! I had the exact same dream—living in a tiny apartment with 2 cats and creating art for a living. Instead I work a corporate job and sometimes go months without so much as drawing a straight line hahaha. Still, I hope to change things some day and chase that creative path that once drove me.
Anyway your art is absolutely lovely! Thanks for sharing ❤️
Nice.