It's not all experiments I am drawing lately. It's also real work, where people actually pay me to draw. That is pretty awesome, who would have thought... Even though I really wanted to be able to make a living out of doing what I love and I am so happy that it is really starting to go somewhere for real, it also scares me and I have some demons to fight. The usual I-Can't-Do-This, This-Is-Crap and Who-Am-I-Kidding type. You probably know them. They tend to show up in most aspects of, well, life. I try not to pay too much attention to them. They're annoying little buggers who should just shut the **** **.
People ask me to draw things I have never drawn before, obviously. And that's a good thing of course, otherwise it would be a real bore. But how can you say YES! when you don't really know if you can... I started a long time ago by saying that I was going to try and I made sure the newspaper I was drawing for had a back up in case I failed. That was many years ago and it was a one-time-thing (it was published though!). After a few years of silence, doing other things and building experience and confidence, it is easier for me to just say yes, even though I am definitely not always sure.
Most of the time I don't even know how things will turn out. But that is also exactly what I love about it. I can surprise myself (and disappoint...yeah that too). Now I am really trying to skip the maybes and the tries. I just say yes and see what happens.
Here are some of the illustrations I have been working on lately. These have been published in AD Magazine. First one is a part of the world map on where flamingos live. The second is part of a whole production on pigs and these are three out of 5 types of domestic pigs.
People ask me to draw things I have never drawn before, obviously. And that's a good thing of course, otherwise it would be a real bore. But how can you say YES! when you don't really know if you can... I started a long time ago by saying that I was going to try and I made sure the newspaper I was drawing for had a back up in case I failed. That was many years ago and it was a one-time-thing (it was published though!). After a few years of silence, doing other things and building experience and confidence, it is easier for me to just say yes, even though I am definitely not always sure.
Most of the time I don't even know how things will turn out. But that is also exactly what I love about it. I can surprise myself (and disappoint...yeah that too). Now I am really trying to skip the maybes and the tries. I just say yes and see what happens.
Here are some of the illustrations I have been working on lately. These have been published in AD Magazine. First one is a part of the world map on where flamingos live. The second is part of a whole production on pigs and these are three out of 5 types of domestic pigs.
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