Artist Mixes Optimism With Pessimism In His Unexpected-Yet-Relatable Comics (30 New Pics)
Interview With ArtistLife is about balance - we need the darker moments to appreciate the happy ones, and vice versa. This idea is greatly reflected in the comics of Optipess, which has it built in the title that optimism and pessimism can coexist.
Originally, Optipess was created by a Norwegian artist, Kristian Nygård, to show the life and drama of people suffering from depression. The project has been on air since 2008 and has since produced many entertaining comic strips.
Scroll down to see the latest work by Kristian, and don’t forget to check out previous Bored Panda posts about Optipess comics: part 1, part 2.
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When asked how long it takes him to finish one of his comics, Krystian said: “Total working time to make one of my comics is usually about 3-4 hours but often spread throughout an entire day or even several days. I like being able to let an almost finished comic sit for a while so I can look at it with fresh eyes and make some final adjustments. But most of the time I don’t have the opportunity to do so and I keep seeing things I’d change if I just look at the comic the next day.”
If you think tha'ts 'f'd' up, consider what every religion says. You'll never sleep again
Load More Replies...Yes! I'll use an Xbox for a while then try to use a switch and mess it up! And vice versa lmao
Which has an x button in the bottom of the group, no?
Load More Replies...“My workflow is usually split between my iPad and Wacom tablet, and I tend to do most of the sketching on my iPad before moving on to the Wacom tablet. But I’ve made plenty of comics entirely on my iPad, usually because I would be too lazy to get off the couch,” the artist says about his work process. “I work almost exclusively in Clip Studio Paint, but occasionally I use Photoshop or Procreate. Actually, for the longest time, I sketched in Procreate, inked in Clip Studio, and colored in Photoshop. Luckily Clip Studio in recent years has expanded its feature set to fill almost all of my needs.”
I dont think this is a creepy pasta? Like other people said, it's more Trevor Henderson
Load More Replies...When talking about inspiration, Krystian explains: “Ideally I want comic ideas to just appear 'naturally' by reading or seeing something unrelated and having it trigger the idea perfectly formed as a comic in my head. This does not happen often, so my most used technique is to brainstorm ideas in my Notes app on my iPad. If I am truly stuck I will sometimes put my music library on shuffle and make myself come up with a comic based on the band or song name before the song is over. This doesn’t always work, but at least there is another song coming in a few minutes.”
Therapy is healthy for everyone. We all need to put all our mind-stuff somewhere.
Please don't say this. This is why I don't want to go to a therapist. They've heard worse than me and I don't like the idea of wasting someone's time.
There are so many legal and ethical boundaries in place that the situation in the comic would never happen. Also, if you're responding to someone else that I missed, as someone who has BEEN through lots of bad stuff (CSA and neglect and physical abuse as an infant, severe unalive urges/attempts and self-hrm, PTSD from adult parental abuse, etc), your struggles and pain are valid. You're not wasting someone's time, they are literally being paid to help you, and they're in that job because they want to help anyone who needs it. Just because other people have been hurt doesn't mean you're suddenly not hurting, and no one's going to say "oh you're fine, that's not bad enough for me to deal with" (or if anyone did, they should immediately have their license revoked). You deserve help and to feel better, and whatever you've faced that was hard, I'm sorry you had to go through it.
Load More Replies...As for his future aspirations, the artist told us: “I’ve been at this for so long that I can’t really see myself stopping any time soon. Every time I take an extended break I eventually start to feel anxious about not getting anything done, so I’d rather start making something instead. But recent life events have slowed me down lately, so for the coming months, I just hope to find a more consistent release schedule. Hopefully, more things will fall into place after that!”
And in prison you have a plaque outside your cell telling everyone why you are in jail lol
They are your pet not your slave....that's why you gotta treat them well...😑
If being alone with your thoughts is scary, than meditation is exactly what you need!
That's exactly the opposite of what I need at that time. If being alone, and especially alone with my thoughts is the problem and making mental health issues worse, how do you propose meditation will help? Please don't guve me the same tired excuse of "you need to get used to it and accept it bullshit. "Being alone and especially alone with my thoughts makes me depressed enough to think about suicide, what do I do?" "Have you tried meditation?" Wow
Load More Replies...If you're really depressed/anxious it might not be the best idea. Point is same things don't work for everyone.
If your nagging Obsessive thoughts rush back after meditation, or you just don't think you're getting any better after meditation, there may be an underlying issue why you aren't seeing benefits, please get checked out for sleep apnea, it could save you from getting a stroke, or worse. Your life could depend on it, get checked.
That's sweet but even a demom wouldn't let you have those before bed. You'd be up all night.
I think it's supposed to be that way because the demon is acting like a mom hence a "demom"
Load More Replies...Glad to see you're doing well even if your "friends" were led on a bit of a rabbit chase.
Load More Replies...Easter is a holiday to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, but in today's culture, most have lost sight of that, and instead, it's all about the Easter bunny to them. This comic depicts how the Easter bunny stole our Savior's spotlight.
Load More Replies...That's what seems to have happened these days.... the easter bunny has hijacked the real meaning of the Easter Sunday resurrection of Christ
Yeah, its SO WEIRD that xans stole a holiday but weren't able to completely subvert it.
Load More Replies...Why not? You don't like fertility symbols in spring?
Load More Replies...Nah, Activision would be smack in the middle of a nuclear wasteland.
Load More Replies...Haha! At this point, it wouldn't shock me if something like this happened. I think most of the world would be like, "Meh. What else is on?"
We can already tell that the whole world vould be a simulation, so whats new?
Especially if you were just playing on switch and went to xbox
Load More Replies...I want to kick his a**e into the rain and leave it there till the next millennium
Load More Replies...I shall find thou Glasses Guy, and thy death shall be the most painful
Haha! I heard about a woman who wanted her ashes scattered at her favorite beach. The whole family gathered for the event. When they poured out her ashes, the breeze coming in from the ocean blew her all over her family. I'm wondering now, if, maybe, she did that on purpose? Lol!
I'm amazed at how many folks don't check wind directions before the toss. My mom was born in Niagara Falls, NY. I told her I would be willing to toss her ashes over the falls. She said she'd still scream. Lol
Load More Replies...We commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean, which you loved so well. Goodnight, sweet prince.”
Load More Replies...I want my ashes to be scattered in front of a working, industrial fan at the Thanksgiving dinner
Seeing a playstation move controller triggers something in my psyche 👀
Nobody is, but they all pretend they are... Just like in real life!
Load More Replies...My best friend is legally blind. She couldn't see the red flags, but they were flying right in front of her. I warned her, but, she didn't listen. She learned the hard way that I was right.
Fun fact: it's the chicken! We know this because the protein mechanism that builds the eggshell structure is only found in adult hens. ✨
actually is the egg dinosaurs laid eggs why before chicken existed
Load More Replies...It is egg. There can be two ways to explain this: 1) It has not been said whose egg it is. So even dinosaurs laid eggs much before chicken came to existence. 2) If you have studied evolution in biology during highschool you will come across the topic chemosynthetic origin of life. It basically says that the atmosphere reacted in presence of uv rays resulting in formation of biomolecules. These biomolecules later accumulated to form more developed organic molecules. Since egg is the best and the purest source of protein it can be understood that egg was formed first until more and more molecules started combining to form more complex beings.
And for a chicken to have been created, it would have had to mutate inside it's egg... Correct? Edit: grammar
Load More Replies...Answer : it was the egg, an egg that was laid by not-really-an-hen-yet and which hatched the first hen.
The egg would have come first. Something close to a chicken but not quite one would have laid an egg where the embryo had some genetic difference or whatever that created the chicken rather than the previous species. It would have been a beneficial enough change to survive and breed and create more like it until it took the place of the previous species.
The egg. Chickens are descended from the therapods, and they laid eggs.
Jump to grab the top, put feet on the chain, try and thrust yourself over the gate.
As if I have the upper body strength to lift myself over
Load More Replies...Maybe not the place to make this observation, but I've always thought this particular witticism about insanity is stupid. Doing something over and over is exactly how you get better at any learnable skill.
It’s because it’s doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome is the insane part, and it doesn’t mean stuff like playing a piano. It’s like if you keep walking into a wall and expecting to get on the other side of the wall as you’re walking into the same spot over and over again.
Load More Replies...That definition is poorly used. If you fail at something, do it again. But do it BETTER. That's what happen: not giving up, and slowly learning something. It ain't insanity.
Jenny Jenya just wrote about this travesty going on in social media. Stop applauding these cruel, heartless people.
Am I the only one who gets anxiety from weighted blankets? It feels like they’re strangling me
Well in case you did not understand, he fell in love with himself so also started having sex with himself. In other words he masturbates.
He would need to be looking at a completely still pond, mirror, window, or some other reflective surface. That's how narcissism started according to legend
Load More Replies...Storing dead people at home should be illegal... Traumatic accidents are so easy to happen.
Yes! I remember them in Mad Magazine. I knew something looked familiar, good catch.
Load More Replies...Yes! I remember them in Mad Magazine. I knew something looked familiar, good catch.
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