I will be saying I'm a taxidermist from now on 😂✊ When I say I'm one I've had some strange reactions from people. Some are gushing like, "wow that must be such a fun job!!" Inside I'm like, yeah...'fun'. Or a small snigger and a condescending look over their glass, "hmmm you're a cartoonist". With emphasis on the cartoonist. So inside m…
I will be saying I'm a taxidermist from now on 😂✊ When I say I'm one I've had some strange reactions from people. Some are gushing like, "wow that must be such a fun job!!" Inside I'm like, yeah...'fun'. Or a small snigger and a condescending look over their glass, "hmmm you're a cartoonist". With emphasis on the cartoonist. So inside my mind I'm always musing what I am. But hey, I'm much happier being in this line of work than the millions of previous jobs I've had in my life. Some near enough killed me and some near enough killed others 😃
Ha! Nice. I can say the same about some of my previous jobs before going full time with cartooning.
My A/B test on peoples' reaction when you say "Cartoonist" vs. "Artist" is a good litmus test for the cultural reverence for fine art vs. cartoons. Sometimes they assume you work for DC/Marvel as a comic artist. (But even then; they aren't aware that there are pencil, inkers, colourists etc.) They may smile and say "That sounds like a fun job!" when you say "Cartoonist", but when you leave it at "Artist" they make a different assessment of you, professionally-- despite 'Artist' being a perfectly true answer.
(Note: I may be biased as I'm only really testing this on New Yorkers.)
I used to work in local government in London. Not the worst job but not what I'd trained for. I was Issuing licences for skips, cranes and scaffolding... I absolutely loathed telling people what I did. Now when I tell people about my tooning work (and I know all work has its elements of shite) I just use it as a gathering info exercise of people for my future cartoons 😄 Always building my internal morgue files to use for a later date.
I will be saying I'm a taxidermist from now on 😂✊ When I say I'm one I've had some strange reactions from people. Some are gushing like, "wow that must be such a fun job!!" Inside I'm like, yeah...'fun'. Or a small snigger and a condescending look over their glass, "hmmm you're a cartoonist". With emphasis on the cartoonist. So inside my mind I'm always musing what I am. But hey, I'm much happier being in this line of work than the millions of previous jobs I've had in my life. Some near enough killed me and some near enough killed others 😃
Ha! Nice. I can say the same about some of my previous jobs before going full time with cartooning.
My A/B test on peoples' reaction when you say "Cartoonist" vs. "Artist" is a good litmus test for the cultural reverence for fine art vs. cartoons. Sometimes they assume you work for DC/Marvel as a comic artist. (But even then; they aren't aware that there are pencil, inkers, colourists etc.) They may smile and say "That sounds like a fun job!" when you say "Cartoonist", but when you leave it at "Artist" they make a different assessment of you, professionally-- despite 'Artist' being a perfectly true answer.
(Note: I may be biased as I'm only really testing this on New Yorkers.)
I used to work in local government in London. Not the worst job but not what I'd trained for. I was Issuing licences for skips, cranes and scaffolding... I absolutely loathed telling people what I did. Now when I tell people about my tooning work (and I know all work has its elements of shite) I just use it as a gathering info exercise of people for my future cartoons 😄 Always building my internal morgue files to use for a later date.
Outstanding.
Oh and just to be clear, I haven't told people I'm a taxidermist yet 😃 I will though. Just to see people's reactions.