This Illustrator Creates Motivational Images That Might Help You Take Life Into Your Own Hands (40 Pics)
Interview With ArtistIf you're looking for some motivation to begin writing that essay you've been putting off for too long or start working out after that whole Christmas feast, you came to the right place! Jun Han Chin is an illustrator who, according to his Instagram, can help you be "3x more awesome"!
Jun Han Chin creates positive illustrations, giving you that much-needed kick to take life into your own hands. Hey, take a deep breath, everything's going to be okay!
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THIS IS SO TRUE!!! I always think up these paragraph-long thoughts and then say one sentence to sum it up while leaving out the most important parts lol
Good thing it's like this, otherwise every time I say something it'll take an hour
And it always seems to be the people in work meetings!
Load More Replies...Honestly most of the time this happens to me because I forget or get distracted
This perfectly describes an introverts mindset for any introverts out there (myself included).
I usually end up saying what’s on my mind most of the time and I can’t really think it through because otherwise I sound like some sharp tongued and tactless person.
Bored Panda got in touch with Jun Han Chin to learn more about him and his creative process. The illustrator revealed that he has been illustrating ideas since late 2021, but his content creation journey started earlier by writing book summaries. "I was embarrassed whenever my friends asked me what I learned from the books I read. While writing summaries helped, I found that illustrations made it much easier to recall the ideas I learned."
I'm gonna write a witty comment... oop, a notification! what was I doing again?
update, it's just not showing me my notifications, the pain is even worse now
Load More Replies...Me: *Focused on doing my homework that's due tomorrow* My friends: *Spamming the group chat* My phone: *Pinging me like crazy* Me: *Reaches for my phone to put it on Do Not Disturb* Also me: *Gets caught up in the drama happening in the group chat* This happens everytime!!! 🥲
I made a super long vibration for my notifications which I called Alarm on my iPhone and this post made realize that was a dumb idea because it’s annoying.
I was the one peice of a puzzle that did not have a puzzle. Back in elementary, the school, staff, and students were all one puzzle. I was part of a whole other puzzle that was missing except that one peice. This still impacts me a little bit because I still have not found the all pieces to the puzzle I am part of.
Give it more time Loonie. Your best is yet to come and your peeps will be waiting for you when you get there!
Load More Replies...Ok thats cute but on another note THE OTHER DAY I DID A PUZZLE THAT TOOK ME LIKE 10 HOURS AND THERE WAS A PEICE MISSING
Life is like a puzzle. We find the pieces and then piece them together to eventually complete the puzzle.
Jun Han Chin told us that inspiration can be found everywhere if you keep an eye out for it! "My ideas come from books and podcasts to ordinary daily conversations and experiences."
According to the illustrator, most people seem to enjoy his work. "A good thing about social media is that I get to see the different views of my audience from their comments. I've learned a lot from the comments of my audience." Jun Han Chin added that initially, he never thought that anyone would be interested in his illustrations. "I can still remember the surprise when I saw my first illustration getting over 30 likes on my new Twitter account. It was surreal. I feel privileged to be able to share what I learn with people across the world, thanks to this skill and social media."
In 5 years time, you're probably looking back and calling yourself an idiot. Or maybe I just do this...
Everyone does it. Also I love ur username
Load More Replies...Depends on what “it” is. Abuse doesn’t work like this. Neither do major life issues.
Mine would be a speck of dust cause I can remember what happened five years ago😙... thats not normal?.... SHUT UP IM A RAVEN IM PROBABLY NOT EVEN FIVE YEARS OLD
Aye I like raw spaghetti, I like most food tho... especially seeds
After being asked what makes him passionate about creating these illustrations, Jun Han Chin replied that he wants to share in a way that people can easily understand, use and remember. "There's so much information available but so little we can remember."
"I don’t see myself as an artist or designer. In fact, I'm terrible at drawing and painting. I don’t aim to create breathtaking works of art. I’m a visual communicator. My illustrations focus on sharing useful ideas to inspire reflection and action."
Or many little achievements. Why is negativity always emphasized the most?
Load More Replies...Micro habits. A minute of self care here, a little stretch there, take the one flight of stairs, choose a carrot for an afternoon snack, read one page, say one positive affirmation. All less than a minute one their own, but suddenly you're well on your way to a healthier you, physically and mentally
Why are you depressed? What have you got to be depressed about? (Answer: i don't know. Nothing. And that's even more depressing. Oh and did I mention that i did not choose to be depressed?)
Load More Replies..."There are other people who have it worse you know" YES I KNOW BUT IT DOESNT WEAKEN MY PAIN IT JUST MAKES ME FEEL WORSE BECAUSE IT INVALIDATES MY FEELINGS
"Help, my friend hates me for no reason." them: "just be kind to him!" I LITERALLY DID THAT DUMMIES
As for his future plans, the illustrator hopes to teach people to illustrate their own ideas and work with more businesses to connect with their audience through illustrations.
If you'd like to share your ideas effectively, or become a better thinker and communicator, Jun Han Chin has a beginner-friendly online course, Illustrate Impactful Ideas. "I've put everything I learned there. No experience in art, design or social media is needed. This course is created with my younger self in mind. I put all the principles, skills and mindset I’ve learned there. I’m also actively working on it and will add more useful content there over time."
I would put this as a wall poster in my art studio. Beautiful! (Alternately, "practice makes progress")
I love that! Practice makes progress is realistic. Expectations, and results. Don’t stress to be perfect.
Load More Replies...I feel like ignorant and mastery should look s little different from each other...
Mastery - programs/robots evolve to do your job - gig job - compete with migrants
Anyone else try to follow the line but loose it then give up
But for the love of god, if you think earth is flat and there are 5g chips in vaccine, don’t just find people who thinks the same, just start using brain and google and “round your edges”
Yeah, most of those kind of people find their echo chamber…
Load More Replies...My recent experience doing a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle tells me: there's always room for that one weird, unexpected differently coloured piece, that you think MUST be part of a sunset cloud, but ACTUALLY it's an orange curtain blur in the middle of an otherwise bright blue area. - - - Find out your place in life, not where you're least noticeable!
This reminds me of Young Sheldon. He didn't fit in his enviroment. Then went to university and found like minded people. He then did fit in.
Jun Han Chin draws something every week. "At times, when inspiration strikes, I can make a whole bunch of them in a single session."
The illustrator shared that the main message he wants to translate with his work is: "Live optimistically! One way or another, things will get better."
Truth - isn't that the definition of courage - to do what is right *despite* being fearful? If you're not at least somewhat fearful of doing the action - it's just "doing the thing" it's not brave or courageous.
Load More Replies...not really, because Archimede: the courage will "sunk" in ratio...
Load More Replies...A stolen quote: "Courage isn't the absence of fear, but the ability to move forward despite the fear."
"courage is not having no fear, it is being the only one that knows your afraid" quote from civ.
Bravery is knowing something will hurt, stupidity is the same. That is why life is hard ?
That's the point. Same height scaled, just by taking smaller steps. Break big obstacles down into many small ones so they are less daunting.
Load More Replies...I was literally here to say exactly that. The job you don't start takes the longest to finish.
Load More Replies...I think that this is a reminder to take baby steps during life instead of going big chunks at a time. 👣
The only reason for time is so everything doesn't happen at once! I have to remind myself of this daily
So THATS why my life has no good things in it
Load More Replies...patience is great but I do not have any... any ADVICE how to cultivate it, instead of JUST DO IT? that would be great...
Nobody LIKES to wait tho it pays to be patient while waiting for things to happen that will make your puzzle piece fit... eventually.
I made tea for my mom and it took a whike until it turn the original brown color
Yeah! My special interest is plants and when I was a kid people would praise me for not playing video games all the time. I do play video games all the time. We can like both!
Load More Replies...My goal this year. Make better use of my time. And yes. Being on BP can be good use of my time, especially reading comments from all you Pandas. Many times you are my laugh for the day, and like here, many comments to consider. Happy New Year to all of you.
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Load More Replies...Brene Brown ‘s difference between guilt and shame- shame is a destructive s**t show, guilt creates opportunity for positive change
Kākāpōs are doing very well at the moment, so carry on with whatever you are doing
Load More Replies...Yes so me, whenever i eat some snacks, i always think eating 1 more. But i end up eating all of it
In systems programming, first write the entry and exit routines. What goes in-between (the 'process' portion) is then relatively trivial.
In other words, know the input and output first before figuring what happens in between
Load More Replies...A jigsaw is the perfect metaphor for how staring at the messy whole can be devastating, but starting with one piece at a time can bring structure and beauty. Put things to the side that you can't sort out right now, start with what's obvious to you and work from there. Even things that are confusing as f in the beginning get better with progress. - Of course, there ARE different levels of difficulty...
Same here, do you have any books to suggest? What genre of books do you like?
Load More Replies...It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas and starts thinking 😂
I know the reference, but I can't pin it - either Titanic or Beauty and the Beast
Load More Replies...especially when ur writing a book. read other ones for ideas. movies help too
YESSS thank you! I lift weights and do agility training and I do it often because it kinda de-stresses me, but I get a lot of weird looks when I talk about it to my friends/peers
Load More Replies...I talk too much! And my emails are long winded. I ALWAYS find it necessary to make sure that the other person understands SO completely that they don't have to ask me any silly questions.
And if your on break the weekdays can go as fast as the weekends
For me it feels sooo slowww but that's because I have 4 periods in a row with my boyfriend and not seeing him as much as I usually do makes the day feel slow ._.
Load More Replies...Make the crises different sizes and the normals last for varied amounts of time, and you have my life.
This is me saving edited files 😂 assignment.doc, crisis, assignment_revised.doc, crisis, assignment_edited_new, etc etc
Someone said something to me like this about being in a 'time of transition.' we are always in a time of transition because things are always changing. Weird to think of but very true.
Like when Covid happened. I wished it would go back to normal and i still so.
JFC this is me. One week before Thanksgiving, my beloved guinea pig died. Two weeks and two days later, pet rabbit died. Two weeks later my f**ing transmission died. I have no job since my last extensive shoulder surgery. And now my next shoulder surgery (other one) is in 2 1/2 weeks. F**k my life.
Some ideas should NOT be actualized. Like, what I want to do to [name deleted].
Agreed. As much as I would enjoy ripping off [redacted]’s tongue and nailing it to his forehead, that would not end well.
Load More Replies...That similar to the road to hell being paved with good intentions (which I also know well as procrastination).
Maby basic in that it is one ingredient? Though several missing here.
Load More Replies...Just eat them both then jump up and down! Then you have sushi in your stomach
I hate fish. Even them luxury orange kinds. But rice and white cheese and cucumber hide this horrible taste. Cuisine is applicable magic.
It's actually more like actionable feedbacking criticism, since it also shows an alternative 😁
Load More Replies...“People who are right a lot listen a lot, and they change their mind a lot. They wake up and re-analyze things and change their mind. If you don't change your mind frequently, you're going to be wrong a lot. People who are right a lot want to disconfirm their fundamental biases. This is why it's so important to be open to criticism. Negative feedback is like a freshly mined diamond. To the naked eye, it's ugly. But if you cut it and polish it, viewing the criticism not as an attack, but as potentially valuable, you can use it to improve and grow. Much like how a diamond cutter takes a raw diamond and turns it into something beautiful, you can learn to extract the benefits of criticism.” (From an interview with Jeff Bezos)
“When one rests on the laurels of their victory, they forget the work that has to be done. When one does not rest on the laurels of their victory, they do the work that has to be done to earn another victory.” -Me
Good habits happen with repeated efforts over time. "Weekend warrioring"? Gone with those two days.
I multitask and then I get to have a lot of breaks :) It's stressful but worth it.
Sorry, but I cannot hold back. For the life of me, who is this OP person, whose life is so peaceful and structured that they DO NOT have to multitask? Everyone has to multithink and multi task, it's the reality of life now!
As someone with ADHD, I can confirm, I don't even need a single notification to get distracted.
Load More Replies...i dont have adhd (i think) but ya, for me this is living in a nutshell
Yep. ADHD at its finest yet, no one believes that we don't do this on purpose...Boy oh Boy, they have no idea that we do this for a living, even without trying.
We need to drink eight cups of water a day! Oh no, my cups have been CUT IN HALF… Now I’ll have to drink SIXTEEN cups of water a day!
Depends how you poured the water if it is half empty or half full
Again, what was it they said about generic advice?
And charge it to someone else's account, right?
Load More Replies...There is no amount of work that will wake depressed wages go further.
My gem of learned wisdom: Need it? or Want it? Healthy distinctions to know.
Best one so far- Prioritizing and patience - doesn’t solve everything, and no, doesn’t make up for inequities, but in long run can really make a huge difference in quality of life. Learned this philosophy reading Terry Pratchet. Buy an expensive but really quality pair of boots in classic style once & they last twenty years- or keep rebuying buying cheap ones each year and pay much more over long run. His Sam Vimes on how wealth preserves wealth- wealthy people don’t have to buy basic things as often because what they can afford to buy lasts forever & for some is just preference- my bestie likes to buy a bunch of super cheap jewelry and just tosses it when wears out or breaks but has tons of options- I spend about the same amount but on just a few classic pieces I wear all the time. Some folks want a flavored drink to go every day & others spend same dollars on vacation fund. Neither is wrong, if conscious about their choices. Good to examine “can’t afford” once in a while though.
You can read this two ways. Left to right is things you want. Right to left is things you need. The whole thing is just the average person trying to exist in a world where the money they work all day to earn is less valuable year after year.
Oh geez. Wait for me... maybe the day after tomorrow...
Load More Replies...So, in a nutshell avoid growing/maintaining alive the part of you that speaks out? And replace it with action? What if the person is a highschooler in the US (cannot apologize for the example, because the world knows that this is a messed up reality in the US, so example stays) contemplating a mass shooting? Are you suggesting he/she doesn't talk about this and just go ahead and do it? Who TF writes this?.
Why does this sound funny but disturbing at the same time.
Load More Replies...OK, do you want to say this way of thinking/acting is applicable to anything in life, presumably from when to eat a popsicle to how to get through a crisis? If yes - please apply it to suicidal thoughts? If no - then what TF is this supposed to depict?
This image is from give or take 20 years ago. everything is different nowadays, therefore this image and the analogy it attempts to depict, is irrelevant and inapplicable. A lot in this BP article is wrong, who TF writes this stuff anyway?
Most of my problems get fixed with a stab. I miss my family. (This is a joke don’t hate me)
Load More Replies...Well, I like violence so I'd rather stab it, but I am not a chopstick so doesn't apply to me
Sorry, but do not agree. Solo is as good as working together. You are enough by yourself, you do not need to have a partner, companion, or whatever else word you wanna choose. Stab the effin sushi, there - you just changed the approach and succeeded by yourself and by adapting.
That's how you know you can win! (sorry I didn't know if this was what you were going for but I had to.)
Load More Replies...“When you fail, learn from your failures and mistakes and then improve upon your failures. Make your failures your strength to become successful because the road to success is paved with failure. Keep failing until you succeed.” -Me
Please do this in every language currently spoken in the world. Otherwise, this is hardly applicable.
Okay, which hamster ate the paint off of the first rocket ship?
I get the attempt at motivation - but people rarely start in the same place. Some are starting much further along than others.
Exactly what I was thinking, since everyone gets different opportunities in life and some are able to take them and some aren't for different reasons, and opportunities are only one factor out of many that decide where we are in life :]
Load More Replies...Some people start with more fuel (born rich) or have a better designed ship (better education/opportunities) and have better maintenance routines and options (can afford preventative and post-incident healthcare).
First ship overly confident. Took off without directions????
Load More Replies...Then what happens to these phrases "deep dive" and "dig into it" or "sink your teeth into it" also "dig deeper"? Asking for a non-English-speaking friend....
*crosses off all of it and writes “PROCRASTINATION” instead*
Tomorrow is the day before the day after tomorrow, so it's yesterday. There is no today.
Make a deal with yourself to work for just five minutes (set a timer) on whatever it is. If you still repeatedly cannot find the motivation to continue when the timer goes off, you need to stop what you are doing and do some serious soul-searching of why you are doing whatever it is.
but they're too cute! why not just juggle them around and scream at yourself for putting so much on your plate?
Load More Replies...Family should be at top above social and work. What's pictured is what damages family the most.
Are you promoting the mindset of fruitlessly trying to whack your family, work and social life? What TF does that even depict? Try to whack them all, but you know you can't?
Most advice is good, just people don't want to listen to it. My 300 lbs boyfriend was getting xl soda with his fast food meal today and an older clerk was concerned about his health and made a comment which got my boyfriend really upset.. I talked to the clerk later that day, he told me he just went through a bypass and had stents put in his veins after a heart attack and he's much older than my boyfriend... listen to unsolicited advice with open mind sometimes and think about it before you leave a comment..
This is why I don't ask questions on the internet anymore. You just get every answer imaginable.
I’d rather have more water, which means I should be impatient…?
I only have 2 hours until I’ll only have 3 hours and then I’ll only have to be at school for another 1 1/2 hours! (Longer on Tuesdays, I have student council stuff till 4:15 😬 😁)
Load More Replies...uh oh. WE NEED MORE DIFFERENCES WE CANNOT HAVE COMMON GROUND CUZ I LIKE ARGUING
No it's Friday because Monday is before Tuesday and Tuesday is the day before Wednesday and Wednesday is the day before Thursday, which is basically Friday, so Monday is the day before Friday so Monday is therefore Friday.
Whatever floats your boat, as long as you’re not hurting anyone.
Load More Replies...Kinda unrelated but I got a huge puzzle recently that looks like pictures, it comes in a container that looks like a polaroid camera. I'll probably post a picture of it when I finish the puzzle!
Notice the steps may change as we adjust along the way but still progress.
Repeat till you are at least 10 km away from the problem before somebody notices it
Or you can sleep the entire day. I like doing that but I have responsibilities.
Dont do it, cus then u wake up at midnight feeling like sh*t
Load More Replies...Nah man i have a syndrome that makes my body ok with just 5 hours of sleep im good
All those things combined equal success, at least that's my interpretation of it.
Load More Replies...Sigh - the faith and motivation are flagging for me rn... rejection stings.
In my anxiety filled brain it's more like: Analyze your options. Create more options. Now there's too many options. Cry now.
When I do something like this out loud people usually say I'm overthinking.
LOL, I can't drive a tree to the grocery and return home with anything tasty.
If you sit in the tree, maybe it will bear fruits. But you will need to eat leaves untill then
Load More Replies...I really enjoyed this post. Words of wisdom with simple graphics can help drive the point home. More, please :)
I liked the simple drawings also. Good advice broken down to it's basics. Would definitely like to see more!
Load More Replies...This list was all over the place. Some was great, but the bad was really bad.
HOW DID I READ THE TITLE "THIS ILLUSTRATOR CREATES MOTIVATIONAL IMAGES THAT MIGHT HELP YOU TAKE YOUR OWN LIFE" ???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really enjoyed this post. Words of wisdom with simple graphics can help drive the point home. More, please :)
I liked the simple drawings also. Good advice broken down to it's basics. Would definitely like to see more!
Load More Replies...This list was all over the place. Some was great, but the bad was really bad.
HOW DID I READ THE TITLE "THIS ILLUSTRATOR CREATES MOTIVATIONAL IMAGES THAT MIGHT HELP YOU TAKE YOUR OWN LIFE" ???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
