About Me!

 

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Hello, visitors! 👋🏾👩🏾🐹

Welcome to my blogsite! I'm K-Tee! And I like to draw...a lot. I also like to create my own characters and wanted to give them a new place to shine. ✨

I want to sell them on items as I introduce them too! Right now, I'm using Redbubble and Teepublic to do so, but eventually, I would love to have a more personal shop of my own. (Gotta start somewhere!) 

I hope you'll like what I have to offer! And I hope we can have some fun on here in the process! 😄

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A BIT OF BACKGROUND

I grew up watching a countless amount of animated projects. And as I grew older, I discovered that a team of adults were working together to bring these projects to life. The amount of effort they were putting towards these collaborations deeply inspired me to pursue a career somewhere in the artistic field. 

Before I could fully grasp what animation was, I had already been drawing and creating stories for a long time. Once I became serious about having an artistic career, I used a How-to-Draw-Manga book [link] to help develop my skills and selected all of the art-related classes throughout my education.

In the years that followed, I constantly fantasized about the day where I would finally do something bigger with my art....but it never felt like I was ready.

 I didn’t have the money to purchase the right resources and school was taking up so much of my time. By the time I was completely freed up from school, I started to become doubtful of making it in the animation industry. It was beginning to look really demanding…it made me question if my work, or work ethic, was good enough. 

It also made me feel like I wouldn’t meet the expectations of my employers.

Instead of putting forth an effort to reach out to someone about this, I allowed my fears to stall me much like I did when I was a student. I convinced myself that my career would happen at some point, but I continued to kick that can down the road as I occupied my time with everything else.

My biggest distraction was creating fanart [link?] of my favorite properties. I found it easier for me to build off of a pre-existing world than to build one from scratch. Other than sticking closely to making fanart, I was too busy watching other people succeed in the type of career I wanted instead of allowing it to motivate me. 

The other jobs I was taking in place of that were unsatisfying. Nothing really seemed like a good fit for me…it felt like my contributions weren’t meaningful and that my presence was more of a nuisance than anything. I wanted a job where I could feel confident about what I was doing. And I was tired of being broke when I could be putting my artist skills to use.

So, towards the end of 2021, I finally got fed up with keeping that student mindset and began to make plans for my business journey.

Even now as I launch this website, I’m still not ready to reveal the characters and stories I’m the most passionate about. But I need to get started somewhere. I should at least drum up some interest to help me build up to that point. 

As I get there, I intend to produce content like showcasing my artistic process, reviewing products, and sharing my own take on art trends and challenges. I also hope that my journey will inspire others who have been hesitating on their dream job too.

I hope this first phase of K-Tee’s CreeativeWorks is the start of something great.

Let’s see how it goes!✍🏾