10 November 2006
Earlier in the week I talked about the value of doing things for which you have no discernible talent... and to illustrate the point I published my first ever cartoon. It was rubbish (obviously), but then I am usually rubbish at things I have never done before. Who isn't?My big problem with the cartoon wasn't the stick-man visuals, or the derivative gag... it was the fact that it didn't say anything interesting about its subject, Creativity. But it did get me thinking, and this is the result.
Okay, so it's still not Shakespeare, but it is quite a lot closer to what I wanted to achieve. It alluding to something that has been true for me, from time to time... that 'Blind Panic' sometimes succeeds as a creative engine when everything else has failed. I've done some of my best work in a 'blind panic'.
But the real point is this... if I had strangled the first cartoon at birth (which I think we can all agree it deserved) the second one could not exist. Yes, I'm still a rubbish cartoonist... but I like the second effort twice as much as I liked the first. I wonder where I can get to if I keep at it..?
And the cool thing is I have 'no discernible talent' for almost everything... I wonder what I'll do next week?
Posted by Nick Warren at 8:56 AM
