comicsforbeginners.com/ Do you envy people who are more succesful than you? Then you're like 99,9% of all creatives. But in this video I argue that you should wallow in your lack of success!
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comicsforbeginners.com/ Do you envy people who are more succesful than you? Then you're like 99,9% of all creatives. But in this video I argue that you should wallow in your lack of success!
More videos and resources at comicsforbeginners.com/
Nobody has never headaches somebody has always headache 😂
This is definitely a good perspective to have
Another good video, Palle! There's a certain freedom in being unknown- you can create anything with far less pressure of what other people will think. 👍
Exactly! No fans means no fear of losing fans :-)
The more time passes, the more I agree with you haha. Given the choice, I would not trade fame for money.
Hard to get one thing without the other though!
I decided that if I want to make a big project or a big story I want to do it while I have the least amount of followers possible. I find that if I make a story with lots of people watching me it influences the story in one way or another and it becomes something I would have never made if I had been alone in my own mind. I could feel all those eyes watching the story, so it ended up taking all these turns and went down all these routes that I regret all to try to meet those followers wants. In the end I nuked the whole thing and am starting all over without posting it to any social media until it's done.
There are definitely pros and cons to this approach. On the one hand you're right that it's tempting to change direction depending on what people like and don't like. On the other hand it can be helpful to see what people respond to and give some motivation along the way. Toiling away for years on a big graphic novel and then releasing it, only to find no one wants to read it... That has some downsides as well!
Thank you that message was hilarious! I actually was recently counting my blessings that I can go anywhere I want to go, whereas some very famous people have to be careful and don't feel this kind of freedom. Watch it, you may become famous! You have enormous talent!!!
Thanks, Lynne! Glad you can relate, ha ha! Let's hope we can keep our anonymity a little longer :-)
@@comicsforbeginners lol! I will print out and frame your response, because in future it will be extremely valuable! ;)
@@lynneetetz I highly doubt it.
There is an upside to every situation. As a creative person you have to stay positive imho. Should fame and fortune present itself, we won’t say no, but if it doesn’t, at least we can be proud that we did great work and could do it without the stress of being famous :)
Exactly!
I wanted to be 'rich and famous' when I was younger. Then Jim Lee told me about the time when someone approached him for an autograph... while he was standing at the urinal. That was 25+ years ago. Now with social media... man, I'm glad I don't attract much attention. :D
Hahaha, the urinal is a no-go, fer sure! Now I feel even luckier not to be famous!
@@comicsforbeginners -- Jim ended that story saying he answered "Mind if I wash my hands first?" LOL
I wouldn't mind being famous. I have the lifestyle of a monk... there is nothing exciting in my everyday life, so much so that I hardly noticed any modification during the pandemic. Paparazzi, journalists and tabloids would sell nothing with me.
Boring is good :-)
Nice Stiletto print! I don't really crave for attention, I just want people to buy my books. If I could quit my job and just write and draw, I would be happy.
Same here :-) Except I don't have a job.
@@comicsforbeginners 😂
Being nobody might be not that bad, but being forgotten? I think about that since years, I'm a musician (not this channel) and I'm not a known artist at all, even taking into account that I'm involved since I started my music education at 8 yo. So I'm usually asking myself - whats the point of giving my heart and life to something that will be lost anyway, just like it never existed at all. That makes my whole life a big mistake...
If you put all your importance as a human being on your art and that fails... Well, you're in trouble. That happens to a lot of CEOs and workaholics when they retire. If I'm not my job, who am I? This is where friends and family becomes (even more) important. You are more than your music.
@@comicsforbeginners thanks
thats good to be nobody but surely a moderate recognition wouldn't hurt? just a little bit of popularity to help your comic work spread.
True dat.
You know it's interesting, I've always wanted to be famous but I think being content with where you are is important. Imagine 50,000 people seeing the cringey content I used to put out maybe four years ago. I think for that reason, I was spared XD
That's a good point too. Once you "break through" you get a lot of eyes on your work and some of it will probably not be up to par with your current taste/talent.
Maybe that goes with your mantra, "Care Less"?
Is that my mantra? Ha! Well, if it involves doing the best I can in the areas I have some control over and not obsessing about external validation, then yes.
@@comicsforbeginners Ha! Lessons from Thomas Alsop could be applied to other crafts and aspects. I think this content is one of them.
@@adrianpatangui1575 Right, I thought that video was what you were referring to. I think I called the principle "postpone judgement" in my mind. "Care less" sounds like a hack philosophy, but I get your point.
I love all the no - bodies
...and you are...?