Here’s another cartoon that I drew for Tracy Plaice’s book titled Face The Music and Win .
Here’s an extract and cartoon from the first chapter…
Memories of mistakes and humiliation…
One of the worst Sundays I recall, all my relatives were there, my Mum, Dad and sister – Beverley, my Grandma, Grandpa, Aunty Margaret, Uncle Raymond, and my cousins – Kate and Steve.
“Tracy, Beverley; play us a tune,” came the request after lunch. My sister had taken up the piano after me. She sat down and dutifully and perfectly, played a simple piece of music. Then all eyes were on me.
I felt the muscles in my back tense up, my stomach folded into knots and I squirmed and tried to get out of it, but to no avail.
The pit of my stomach was churning and all I could think about were the mistakes I was bound to make, how awful they would sound, and the fact that they would expect me to be so much better than the performance I was about to give. I hated feeling this way.
I sat down to play and did as I was told, stumbling my way through the music. After just a few bars, fear got the better of me and I froze. It was like someone had pulled the plug; my brain no longer being connected to my fingers. I couldn’t think straight. All I remember is an overwhelming feeling of absolute embarrassment. I wanted the ground to open up to swallow me and the piano stool – whole.
After that experience, whenever anyone asked me to play in public that dreadful feeling instantly came back.
Later in the book Tracy goes through the stages she went through to overcome her fear. Stay tuned for more!
So if you have a book in your mind that needs illustrating I’m your man!
The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak. Ralph Charell.(So keep it positive at all times!)
If you hear a voice within you saying, ”You are not a painter,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh (People used to say to me “You gonna be a cartoonist? Get a real job!” I silenced them!)
Although some of the self talk I heard people using was constructive and beneficial, most of it was the opposite – the kind of self talk that was counter-productive and self-defeating. Shad Helmstetter
Here’s a few ‘Failure’ quotes I found on my surfing travels:
My reputation grows with every failure. – George Bernard Shaw
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. – John Dewey
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. – Lawence J. Peter
Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed. – Lloyd Jones
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordon
There I was the other night sat in my armchair with
one eye on my laptop surfing the net for motivational
quotes and the other eye on the TV watching ‘Who Wants
To Be a Millionaire’ – using up a couple of life lines on
the £100 question.(I blame the lack of concentration!)
When I came across a quote from Denis Waitley
which then sparked the attached cartoon idea…
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”
William Penn
1644-1718, Religious Leader and founder of Pennsylvania
When commissioning cartoons… Pick TWO of the three options!
Good+Fast = Expensive Choose this and I’ll postpone every other project on my drawing board, my round of golf or give up my footy match ticket and work day and night to get your job done. It WILL NOT BE CHEAP though!
Good+Cheap = Slow Choose good and cheap and I’ll still do a great job at a discounted price. But you’ll have to be patient while I fit you in after my higher paying clients, updating my web site, going down the gym, my footy matches, rounds of golf and liquid lunches!
Fast+Cheap = Inferior Choose this option at your peril. It will still be delivered on time but it will be inferior, as many corners as possible will be cut. You know the saying ‘You get what you pay for!’ The least favorable option in my opinion!
Later in the book Tracy goes through the stages she went through to overcome her fear. Stay tuned for more!
Recent Comments