I&P1

What questions do I have to ask myself? What do I have to ask myself? Historically, I've been concerned with questions like how to prepare a portfolio, how to present a project to a publisher, how to get followers on social media, how to reach clients, and how to sell something. These are all questions that are about selling something. At the point I'm at...

Drawing or illustrating What is an illustration? To that question, I answer myself a drawing that tells something. What is a drawing? An image made up 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 would say that it is...

The beginning of it all How did it all begin? Where did human beings begin to tell things with the images they created? I look back and I don't see where to start. From whatever point I take in history, there is always something earlier with images that tell things. That brings me to .... prehistory? cave paintings?....

Systematic doubt The next doubt is how to achieve this discourse of one's own. I hold on to the idea that a discourse is achieved through the resolution of doubts. Which leads me to a systematic doubt. To an infinite question. Radical. I'm here because not having answers to doubts, makes me able to go to few sites....

The assassination This part is uncomfortable. As hard to admit as it is essential. I have to assassinate that little egomaniacal king who lives inside me and thinks he has talent. There is no other option. He must be assassinated. He is wrong. There is no such talent and if there really is, I don't have it. That egomaniacal king...

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 much is clear to me. It's time to make Cassiopeia the turtle from Michael Ende's book Momo good and understand that sometimes the slower you go, the slower you...

Not being in control Where to place an element? How to reinforce sensations? What makes an image work? What is it about counting with images? When I start to plan a drawing, I rely on the principles of film shots. Correct shots, which show the object to be represented in a well framed way. I do it...

The creative block It's the fifth time I start drawing the same cartoon. It's the first vignette of a new comic, but something is wrong. It repeats the same pattern as the other times. I start, I move forward and I get to a point where everything loses sense. I play with the sizes of things....