I&P1

What questions should I ask myself? What do I have to ask myself? Historically, I’ve been concerned with questions like, how do you prepare a portfolio? How to submit a project to a publisher? How to get followers on social media? or how to reach customers? These are all questions about selling something. At the…

Draw or illustrate What is an illustration? To that question, I answer a drawing that tells something. What is a drawing? An image composed of a set of strokes created by a human being using some instrument and represented on some support. What is an image? If I ask myself that question, I’d say it’s…

Systematic Doubt The next question is how to achieve this own discourse. I believe that a discourse is achieved by resolving doubts. Which leads me to a systematic doubt. To an infinite question. Radical. I’m here because I don’t have answers to my doubts so I can’t go to many places. They are doors, which…

The Assassination This part is awkward. As hard to recognize as it is essential. I have to murder that egomaniacal little king who lives inside me and thinks he’s talented. There is no other option. He must be killed. He’s wrong. That talent doesn’t exist, and if it really exists, I don’t have it. That…

Total Destruction I’ve been feeling it for a long time. There is an unavoidable step. This whole path goes through the total self-destruction of principles. That step, it scares me. That’s why I’m postponing it. That’s why I don’t dare. That’s my fear, to give up, to feel like I’m useless. It’s not just about…

The Rush Now that I know I’m not offering anything, the rush has to go. Any shortcut in the state I’m in will end in frustration. That is clear to me. It’s time to make good the turtle Cassiopeia from the book Momo by Michael Ende and understand that sometimes the slower you walk, the…

Not being in control Where to place an item? How to reinforce sensations? What makes an image work? What’s that about having images? When I start to plan a drawing, I rely on the principles of film shots. Correct plans, which show the object to be represented in a well-framed way. I do it by…

Creative Block It’s the fifth time I’ve started drawing the same panel. It’s the first panel of a new comic book, but something is wrong. The same pattern is repeated as the other times. I start, I move forward, and I get to a point where everything loses its meaning. I play with the sizes…