Ideas hit you when you least expect them. I used to dismiss them saying to myself “I’ll remember that” but now when I have an idea, whatever it is, I note it down on my GOOGLE CALENDAR REMINDERS as cartoons to draw and when I have time to kill between lessons in my day job I work through the list of reminders. Sometimes they retain their potential, but sometimes I have to keep them as reminders and let them simmer longer.
HOW DO YOU REACT TO YOUR IDEAS?
I remember whenever I would join art meetups in Bangkok to meet people who are into the same thing as me. When they realize that I draw comics, their looks change because they paint and aspire to have their paintings exhibited, but they can’t draw like me HE HE.
People need to write, because writing is a form of thinking.
First of all because it forces you to make sense, writing allows you to organize your thoughts. As I do it more and more I am also realizing that I can find the contradictions in my reasoning.
I started writing this blog with cartoons because I have a lot of things to say. As different my ideas are from each other, they seem to coexist without collapsing and without me ending in an asylum (Do they still call it like that?).
So writing allows me to connect these ideas. I don’t even know if I should say I am lost or I was lost when it came time to decide who I am going TO BE, things I am going TO DO. Then I put all the things I do for no good reason other than to express myself.
I will share the diagram I came up with the next time.
Bonne journée.
i sometimes think back on how arrogant I was. My plan seemed simple then: Quit my corporate job, find a teaching job (to teach English/French) to make money and pay the bills while I try to make a name for myself as a cartoonist, comic book artist.
Why teaching? I figured it would be a job which would give me enough free time to work on my art.
I said I was arrogant because I was so sure that I would find a teaching job easily. As achievable as it was I forgot that I chose to do it in Bangkok, Thailand. I love it here but there are still a lot of people who think only native speakers, meaning people from the U.S, UK, Australia and so on who can teach proper English.
I am proud of myself for finding the teaching job and spending the free time creating cartoons, webcomics, podcasts, videos about movies and blogging. I am also proud of the company which hired me as teacher.
When I see my friends on WhatsApp group complain about MONDAYS and waiting the test of the week for FRIDAY. I see the time fly as I enjoy teaching and creating. So I consider myself lucky.
I am a strong believer in learning by doing because I don’t have a choice and I hope I will get better and give better content here and the other platforms on which I create. I am only getting started, If you are an artist talk to people and keep yourself informed.
Always have a plan even if the plan only makes sense to you.
Bonne journée.
SKETCHMAN BORIS 