What Are We Doing Here?
It's time to define the relationship with my 6k followers
You heard me right. Get to those comments! It’s only fair.
Here are some questions I want to ask you, my brand new friend:
Where are you from?
What do you do for a living?
How did you find my newsletter?
Is your life going the way you thought it would?
If money was no object, what would you want to do with your life?
What are you most insecure about?
What’s a lie you like to tell others?
There. Don’t you feel sooo much better?
No?
Well, I feel better!
Now you finally know what it feels like to be me!!!
Hi Lian! I hear you about shouting into a void. Thank you so much for sharing your insights, processes, and journey, and for being vulnerable with us. I'm happy to reciprocate :)
I live in Kansas City, Missouri but have also lived in Montreal, NYC, California, Hays Kansas, and Raleigh, NC (where I grew up and where I consider myself "from").
I'm an illustrator (working on my first book, and also illustrated greeting cards in the past) and I run a subscription box business and substitute teach.
I don't remember how I found your newsletter!
Life - I've done a lot of things that I'm happy with but I wish I had more money to show for it.
If money were no object, I would travel, draw, and volunteer my services to help people, animals, and the environment. If having a degree in education were no object, I would love to be a literacy specialist working with at-risk kids (in addition to being an illustrator!).
I'm pretty insecure about my illustration skills.
It's not a lie per say, but I don't really share my age with anyone anymore. Ha!
This actually made me snicker out loud, totally understand what you mean (even tho i dont have a huge following).
I'm from Toronto, working as a concept artist on games, but my heart is in animation & illustration. I actually saw your book & display at the SOI in NYC when I visited a month ago! So wonderful.
Found your newsletter from instagram probably, I can't resist some comics in my mailbox, and love learning about people's creative process.
Life is definitely not going the way I pictured, but it isn't bad either, just working on ways to do the things I really wanna do :')
If I had all the money, I'd probably split my time between comics, short animated films, just sketching, and social work/activism.
Insecure about... art? My work just isn't where I want it to be but it's hard to find the time to get to it T^T
A lie... probably just "I'm fine" when I'm not really but like the katy perry meme goes,,, sometimes you can't get into it LOL