4/11/2023 0 Comments Funny sticky notesIt was a large piece of me that was missing for a while, and I’m really happy I got it back, that’s for sure. I picked up cartooning regularly, maybe about two years ago. Then there was that kind of period of in between time when I was probably starting in high school, and then definitely in college, when my mind shifted over to, “Okay, what do I practically, really want to do in life and make money from?” Art just really fell by the wayside, so there was a period in my life where I maybe, I would say a year or two years in college, when I wasn’t actively drawing or creating any sort of artwork, just because I was trying to figure things out, what my career ladder was and my major. and I wanted to grow up to be like a Looney Tunes animator or a Disney animator. and then I would just write scribbly words. I was illustrating and writing books even before I could properly write. It was something I did as a little child. If you would ask friends and family, and anyone who was around me as a kid, I was meant to be a cartoonist. SH: Yeah, I would say that I was born to draw, and then I lost it for like 20 years, and then I came back to it. JG: Have you always been an artist? Have you always been drawing, or is this something you came to later in life? That’s where the phrase motivational cartoonist comes from. Why I love the phrase so much is because I’ve taken my medium of choice, my craft, which is drawing and writing, and I use it to inspire and infuse a little positivity in the world, and help people make people feel better about where they are in life. That’s actually a perfect way to describe what I do.” He said, “You’re like, a motivational cartoonist.” I was like, “Yeah. One, because I had a motivational speaker actually tell me that’s what I do. SH: I’m a cartoonist, and an author, and a writer, and so those are all titles I use too, but I landed on motivational cartoonist. JG: You call yourself a motivational cartoonist? JG: Well Stephanie, welcome to the show. “SH: As I started adding the cartoons, it started building this confidence inside me that I had something of value to offer to the world that was beyond whatever job I had.”
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