Illustration — Your route to extroversion.

*Confident people, this post is not for you. Extrovert, chat-to-everyone, centre-of-attention, always-getting-mentions, face-to-face, star of the show, front page people — this post is not for you.*

This post is for the quiet ones, the introverts, the shy things, hiding, mumbling, fumbling, blushing, private, personal people.

And illustrators, this post is for illustrators.

Ok it’s just us now, no-one can speak over us, no-one will interrupt, we’re all equally quiet and passive and politely sitting in our place. No-one is on stage, we’re just here in our own spaces using the internet to connect, right? Let’s go.

I don’t know if there’s a name for this, and I’m not one to analyse, but I feel like I’ve had ups and downs between being an outward person and being an inward person my whole life, I’ve never been an extrovert, but I’ve been confident. At school up until 13 I was always getting in trouble for talking in class, I felt confident enough to speak in a group and all was good. As a teen I closed myself off, I didn’t need classroom popularity, I had a Letraset airbrush and Nirvana CDs and Henry Chalfont books (get on the Google on that), but I certainly never had much of a voice outside of my own head. Leaving home and going to college I found more confidence, classic 90s art school stuff…