Drawer.
“There is something mysterious about this word. For me, that’s it. Probably someone more clever than me can come with etymological reasoning behind it, but the fact that DRAWER is so many things: one of those boxes inside a cupboard, some kind of underwear to cover your lower region and also (although we hardly use this word for it), an artist who makes drawings. One word being all this, makes a magical word to me.Of course the act of drawing is even more magical. If you’d follow the point of a pencil on a surface with a camera (very close), you have no idea what the drawing is going to be like. As I see it, drawing is a random act, leading the pen on a page can be such a volatile matter: go a bit to the right and you have a disproportionate nose, go too short to the left and the ear is not going to fit under the hat… I believe in accidents and probably that is why I do not draw in pencil first or make sketches before doing the final drawing. Just start and let destiny determine how beautiful or ugly the piece will be. That makes me, I have come to realise, a kamikaze DRAWER”.
I believe in coincident too and the creation of this post is the proof!
Last week I was wondering – again? Yes I know… but I always wonder – about who nowadays is an artist… A graduated from the fine art academy with a diploma that certificate that she/he is an artist, but after the academy that is it… A person who trained her/himself in a studio of a renowned artist/creative, as used in the history? Anyone who just feel it? Anyone who just want to be?
While these questions were turning round and round in my head, I have seen Luis presentation: I became an Artist and so can you.
Triggered by the title I watched it and I found it so inspiring. Luis loves to draw since he was little. Following his passion he became a graphics designer. As some of you, might know, working as graphic designer – takes you a lot of time – sometimes is an overwhelming profession… “No time for nothing” Luis said. As almost burnout designer, Luis decided to take a break and flew to Tokyo.
There he suddenly realized… “I had nothing to do” so in an urgent-need of an assignment he gave himself a task… Making a diary and draw in it something special that happened in his every day life.
Since that moment he started to draw more and more, funny, honest and expressive little art works. Following his passion Luis painted his career with a more artistic nuance.
What touched me by watching his presentation was how he sincerely invites us to follow our passions. “It does not matter if you wants to bake cookies or talk on the phone, or talk for hours to friends… he might hide the treasure behind… Maybe you can become a partner consular or open a pastry shop”.
The best thing his words taught to us is to really listen yourself! Try to do what you are happy to do. Do not hide your passion inside yourself, but let them shine and just do it. You never know where they can bring you!
Thanks Luis to share with us your experience and to give us a little ‘push’.
Luis Mendo is an artist and editorial designer with a bouble life as drawer! He moved form Barcelona to Amsterdam, were he founded GOOD Inc.®. He has been nominated in the ‘Top 10 best Art Directors in The Netherlands’. Two years later he created the Goodfellas Network. He decided to follow his passion for drawings and became artist as well. He found the way to let it go… you can see his expression of art and also his soul on: Luis Mendo.com.
I wish you all to be brave enough to follow your passion and make, out of it, a successful career.
Drawer.
“There is something mysterious about this word. For me, that’s it. Probably someone more clever than me can come with etymological reasoning behind it, but the fact that DRAWER is so many things: one of those boxes inside a cupboard, some kind of underwear to cover your lower region and also (although we hardly use this word for it), an artist who makes drawings. One word being all this, makes a magical word to me.Of course the act of drawing is even more magical. If you’d follow the point of a pencil on a surface with a camera (very close), you have no idea what the drawing is going to be like. As I see it, drawing is a random act, leading the pen on a page can be such a volatile matter: go a bit to the right and you have a disproportionate nose, go too short to the left and the ear is not going to fit under the hat… I believe in accidents and probably that is why I do not draw in pencil first or make sketches before doing the final drawing. Just start and let destiny determine how beautiful or ugly the piece will be. That makes me, I have come to realise, a kamikaze DRAWER”.
I believe in coincident too and the creation of this post is the proof!
Last week I was wondering – again? Yes I know… but I always wonder – about who nowadays is an artist… A graduated from the fine art academy with a diploma that certificate that she/he is an artist, but after the academy that is it… A person who trained her/himself in a studio of a renowned artist/creative, as used in the history? Anyone who just feel it? Anyone who just want to be?
While these questions were turning round and round in my head, I have seen Luis presentation: I became an Artist and so can you.
Triggered by the title I watched it and I found it so inspiring. Luis loves to draw since he was little. Following his passion he became a graphics designer. As some of you, might know, working as graphic designer – takes you a lot of time – sometimes is an overwhelming profession… “No time for nothing” Luis said. As almost burnout designer, Luis decided to take a break and flew to Tokyo.
There he suddenly realized… “I had nothing to do” so in an urgent-need of an assignment he gave himself a task… Making a diary and draw in it something special that happened in his every day life.
Since that moment he started to draw more and more, funny, honest and expressive little art works. Following his passion Luis painted his career with a more artistic nuance.
What touched me by watching his presentation was how he sincerely invites us to follow our passions. “It does not matter if you wants to bake cookies or talk on the phone, or talk for hours to friends… he might hide the treasure behind… Maybe you can become a partner consular or open a pastry shop”.
The best thing his words taught to us is to really listen yourself! Try to do what you are happy to do. Do not hide your passion inside yourself, but let them shine and just do it. You never know where they can bring you!
Thanks Luis to share with us your experience and to give us a little ‘push’.
Luis Mendo is an artist and editorial designer with a bouble life as drawer! He moved form Barcelona to Amsterdam, were he founded GOOD Inc.®. He has been nominated in the ‘Top 10 best Art Directors in The Netherlands’. Two years later he created the Goodfellas Network. He decided to follow his passion for drawings and became artist as well. He found the way to let it go… you can see his expression of art and also his soul on: Luis Mendo.com.
I wish you all to be brave enough to follow your passion and make, out of it, a successful career.
