Call me Ken Syd.
This is the first of many posts to come and I’ve got a lot to say.
I’ll start with who I am and what I do.
I’m an artist who writes and draws comics and illustrations. Not professionally yet, but I’m getting there. Been doing this since I was 11, so I have a good 10 years of amateur work under my belt. It wasn’t until a couple of years ago that I started producing anything anyone would consider “good”. You can check out my work here.
To be honest, I never thought things would turn out like they are today.
I thought by now I’d be in Japan plugging away at my first hit manga series, Tetsujou. Yes, it has a name, and yes, it’s in a high school. I wrote it when I was 15.
You know what my original plan was?
Draw a ton> Learn to write> Learn Japanese> Go to Japan> Create a hit manga series> Get an anime and watch my creations in action> Make that $money$> Be set for life like Kishimoto-sensei> Have adventures and create more manga> Die.
I came up with that when I was 12.
What Changed?
Well, as you can imagine, a lot has happened to steer me off of the original path, but nothing could have been more beneficial for me as a person.
Since deviating:
- I’ve gone on a real adventure where I ended up homeless, yet felt more alive in those 2 months than in the last 20 years of my life
- I’ve expanded my conscious awareness and learned and the truth of the law of attraction
- I have experienced depression and extreme lethargy and managed to crawl out of it even stronger than before
- I’ve had the time to contemplate and really decide what I want out of life.
- I’ve developed a master plan to bring my vision to fruition
- I now have the drive to share it through my blog work and stories I create.
Having been lucky enough to go down this “detour”, I learned that life is not as cut and dry as I once assumed it to be coming out of high school. The fact that my desire to be a comic creator was stronger than anything else meant that college wasn’t necessary for me to make a good living. This allowed me to explore other avenues of learning and earning for a long time.
This meant TONS of books and YouTube videos, highlighting alternative mindsets and paths for one to take in life. The last three years have just been an insane download of information, internalized through observation, application, and testing, which I hope to elaborate on in future posts.
With this blog, I hope to connect to people with like minds and tastes who really believe in the latent potential in animation and comics; who won’t settle for less (in their art or their lives), and are determined to win their own (financial) freedom and do the art they love.
I’m still figuring this stuff out myself. So I’ll be sharing any insights and resources I find along the way.
However, I don’t want to get mired in analysis and theory for too long because all I want to do is demonstrate to you the ideas brewing in my head. If you want a taste of the aesthetic I want to present, you can take a look at my dedicated Pinterest board here.
Like I said, it’s hard to put into words, but I’ll damn well try!
To be honest, I feel like I shouldn’t be revealing the secrets behind this style, because it’d just ruin the magic within. But hey, someone had to say something and I don’t see anyone else talking about it!
STILL…
Saying it is one thing, doing it is another.
THAT’S where the fun’s at.
Until next time, folks.
-Ken
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