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Vladimir Putin's LJ

Vladimir Putin's LJ

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Okay, this is very strange.

I don't know if any of you remember when I won a comic contest for a newspaper, about a year ago. Well, I did. I got first place in the 10-16 category, and have since been enjoying my monthly delivery of comics.
We also still have a pile of newspapers downstairs. It's especially cool because the cover of my comic got put on the front page of the paper.

I thought it then, and I still think it now: I don't deserve it, really. I'm not very good and it saddens me when people who are a million times better at drawing than I am get ignored.
I'm just lucky.

And this luck has maybe come back.
I won't tell you the whole story, but basically: a teacher of mine apparently has frequent meetings with a Portuguese editor, and she wants to show them my drawings because she thinks I could maybe illustrate a magazine or a children's book or something.
I'm going to give her my 'portfolio' of sorts tomorrow. The drawings I've included are as follows:
High on Hashem
Love Etc (Don't Have to be Beautiful)
Koo Koo Kachoo
p-p-p-poker face (self-portrait, kind of)
Bruno
Bar Mitzvah
DINOSAUR RACE
The comic with which I won the contest, Pills.
The cover and a page from my comic The Five Stages of Love.
And maybe:
Nature Boy
Je Vais Quitter Paris

I don't think anything will happen but it's still very flattering to know someone thinks I'm good enough to get published. Wish me luck, I guess.
 
One only thinks they're bad because they're too used to seeing their own drawings and can pick out flaws rather easily when compared to other's styles, or know that they can do way better, so that they think other people are going to notice, point out, then say you suck.
It's the same for me. I personally think I'm not very good; everyone else I know says otherwise. I can't see why because I'm myself and I know I can do better.

Because you really are that good and do deserve being published/winning that award. Congratulations.

If that top part sounded in any way rude or demeaning I apologize, I'm not very good at this sort of thing so feel free to point out if it did.
But I actually got my point out correctly for once. >>
 
Oh wow, that's absolutely amazing; congratulations! :D And the very, very best of luck with everything~

(it amuses me somewhat that after seeing Pills someone immediately thinks kid's books because, seriously, that comic scared me and I was 18. Not that lots of the stuff you draw isn't criminally adorable, but still. Pills.)
 
Congratulations!

Don't worry; you probably do deserve it. You're your worst critic, like most other artists.
 
Whoo! Congratz~ ^_^ I think you're amazing; I personally can't draw for my life. So uh yeah, good luck~
 
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