Do your comic or novel creating skills ever come in handy for unrelated situations?

[Rhonder]

I'd like to hear stories that people have of their skills from their creative pursuits coming in handy for work, or school, or other random scenarios!

My recent experience that prompted this topic is that I've recently gotten to flaunt my comic flatting skills at work. For background, I work as a draftsman/designer at an architecture office. This week I was handed a number of building elevation line drawings and asked to flat them basically, as we prepare some exterior color schemes to present to our clients. I was like "awwww yeah, I do this all the time "

Anyone else have similar experiences?

[DualDragons]

I created a logo once for one of my projects at college..

Well, that's it

[Inspector_Spinda]

I made an animated film in college when my live action film footage came out total shit and it was too late to refilm

[Freemints30]

I just drew and submitted artwork for a grade for my theater class...I also put skills in clip paint studio as a skill on a resume, so that's something.

[Leverance]

For me, having fixed people's false problems (lied about abuse etc and much worse). And considered I've written such situations and will write some in the future.

Though, I've learnt to take what people online say with a grain of salt.

Not everyone is what they seem.

[NUG-Boster]

i made some friends and it helps with some of my classes when i have to draw for and assessment and i get extra marks in math and science cuz of my diagrams

[foxnflames]

I was publicity chair for my activities board in college. And I had to make a birthday card for my boss’ boss since my coworker snitched and told everyone I could draw . And I think I’m very persuasive and can talk my way out of about anything. My motto, “when in doubt, make it up”

[tfairbankssecond]

I actually was offered a few professional editing and writing jobs on websites and blogs. Not really related to my novel creating skills, but for my short stories in high school and college.

[Iris-Grimoire]

Because I like to analyze interesting things to study them later, be it in pictures or real life, it's come in handy to notice things my roomates or relatives didn't even know were there. I'll sometimes bring up stores because they had a weird name or because the plaza next to it was pretty, while they were looking up Google Maps for anything along those lines.

That said, I rarely remember street names, so it's not always useful.

[Crusoe]

I used to write stories and analysis of shows I loved all the time when I was in highschool, which really improved my analytic and english writing skills. Now I basically need to write analysis of popculture all the time for college, so I guess you could say those skills have really come in handy.

I also had to make an animated short in high school and my creative skills were really great there, especially since I designed a really easy character to replicate, so our short turned out very long and we were even able to colour all the frames. Not easy since we created it traditionally.

Let's not forget us artists are great at Pictionary as well haha

[Rhonder]

Ah yes, lots of school project stories! I remember trying to flex my drawing into that as well

I created a logo once for one of my projects at college..

I made an animated film in college when my live action film footage came out total shit and it was too late to refilm

^ Wow, that's actually an impressive effort! Amazing that the live action footage was so bad that making an animation was the easier route xD Awesome!

I also had to make an animated short in high school and my creative skills were really great there, especially since I designed a really easy character to replicate, so our short turned out very long and we were even able to colour all the frames. Not easy since we created it traditionally.

Related to the above, that's pretty cool The closest I ever got to animation in school was my friend and I making some sprite animations in microsoft powerpoint, which we ended up using for a class presentation haha!

I just drew and submitted artwork for a grade for my theater class...I also put skills in clip paint studio as a skill on a resume, so that's something.

i made some friends and it helps with some of my classes when i have to draw for and assessment and i get extra marks in math and science cuz of my diagrams

^ Friends, woo! Also wow that's pretty cool about extra points for diagrams I spent more time doodling in the margins of my papers than putting them to good use for my assignments ahaha...

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For me, having fixed people's false problems (lied about abuse etc and much worse). And considered I've written such situations and will write some in the future.

Though, I've learnt to take what people online say with a grain of salt.

Not everyone is what they seem.

Seems solid! There are too many real problems for people to be bogged down by false ones. Good on ya

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I was publicity chair for my activities board in college. And I had to make a birthday card for my boss’ boss since my coworker snitched and told everyone I could draw . And I think I’m very persuasive and can talk my way out of about anything. My motto, “when in doubt, make it up”

lmaoo Fake it 'till you make it is my life! I've avoided any mishaps like the birthday card thing since, while not artists necessarily, most people in my line of work are designers xD Instead there's another guy that uses photoshop to digitally collage together christmas cards and the like for our boss lol!

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I actually was offered a few professional editing and writing jobs on websites and blogs. Not really related to my novel creating skills, but for my short stories in high school and college.

Eyy that's pretty legit Did you take any of the offers?

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Because I like to analyze interesting things to study them later, be it in pictures or real life, it's come in handy to notice things my roomates or relatives didn't even know were there. I'll sometimes bring up stores because they had a weird name or because the plaza next to it was pretty, while they were looking up Google Maps for anything along those lines.

That said, I rarely remember street names, so it's not always useful.

I used to write stories and analysis of shows I loved all the time when I was in highschool, which really improved my analytic and english writing skills. Now I basically need to write analysis of popculture all the time for college, so I guess you could say those skills have really come in handy.

Double analysis stories, those skills are definitely handy!

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Let's not forget us artists are great at Pictionary as well haha

... I feel exposed lmao. I'm actually kinda trash at pictionary because I'm horrible at sketching fast

[tfairbankssecond]

I didn't take the offers because I'm studying medicine. I don't want to major in English. A few are still open and I might do part-time to make some money though.

[Leverance]

Seems solid! There are too many real problems for people to be bogged down by false ones. Good on ya

Exactly! Which is why my inner friend circle is so small. I'm very picky with people I talk about my mental issues with.

[SagaHolmgaard]

Haha this happens to me too! Or I will mention asomething like... "Hey this lighting makes your hair looks really cool" ... and no one hes has noticed it apparently

[Jenny-Toons]

Makes engineering easier. When you spend a lot of time spotting details you missed and mistakes on certain layers, you're able to apply that to othe4 detailed orientated fields.

I'm able to spot mistakes in pole maps, know which cable line is connected to which feeder within a maze of electric connections and so on.

[Rhonder]

I really need to up my detail game tbh. I agree completely with what you said, and yet make an embarrassingly large amount of errors on our building details at work...

[muchazuke]

I used to be a content manager in a game publishing company and we had a booth in a game convention. I ended up doing a live-drawing session of the game characters out of boredom. It actually drew some crowds so the boss was happy lol