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“Yes, But”: Artist Draws A Series Of Sarcastic Comics That Show 25 Funny Contradictions (New Pics)
Safe to say that the life we live is rather complicated. Very few things are just “good” or just “bad” as we’re constantly exploring the grey area with all the different circumstances. Anton Gudim is an artist who’s great at noticing little ironic everyday situations and illustrating them in a “yes, but” format. We’re pretty sure you have experienced at least one of them.
"I am not doing anything on purpose. I am not out for a 'safari' with a camera on people to see them in their habitat. I just live my life: and my life is both everyday affairs and social networks,” Gudim told Bored Panda in a previous interview. “As soon as I started the 'YES, BUT' project, I began to notice examples of this format literally everywhere. So I just live and take notes." Scroll down to see the artist’s newest illustrations and don't forget to check out our previous posts about his work: part 1, part 2.
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What makes Gudim’s illustrations so entertaining is the way so many of us can relate to them and notice similarities between the “YES, BUT” moments we experience in our own lives. By posting his art continuously, Gudim has accumulated over 1.6M followers on two of his Instagram accounts.
If you'd like to see some of the creator's older work, check out our posts here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
Yup, happens to me all the time. "oh wow this product/place had very good rating, oh... 10 reviews, I see"
In a previous post, the Moscow-based creator told us that drawing was not his main occupation for a while: “I graduated from a technical university (since I was successful when it came to mathematics, this is also another factor that makes my drawings very calculated and unemotional, if one could describe them that), and began working as an engineer.
I changed jobs, grew professionally, but I was constantly bored and felt that my life was not as fulfilled as I’d like it to be. It was then that I realized that I’d like to return to those childhood hobbies, but with a more formed worldview.”
Oh I actually collect snow globes and I really don't care where they are made. I either buy them where ever I go to visit or ask someone's who traveling if they can bring me one when they're going on vacation. To me the only thing that matters is that the snow globe reflects the country or place where or someone else was
“It takes from a few hours... to infinity,” the artist says about the time needed to finish one of his comics. “There are many factors when it comes to creating comics. First of all, the speed of creation is influenced by how finished and how good the idea for the drawing is.
Secondly, like any creative person, there are days when you simply cannot do it: even after several hours of work, I may not be satisfied with the aesthetics and graphic solution of the drawing. Then I return to draft the very next day, or I simply hide this work somewhere far away.”
I will always make sure my animal has the best food and I make sure they get to eat before I do. When I didn't have a job my pets came first. I took them in with the understanding that they rely on me to protect and take care of them and I take that job very seriously.
Both my mother and father use this feature a lot. My father also started to use the self parking feature in his car too and I agree with that. If I'd pay how much he paid for the car then yes that thing better damn be able to park itself
Just the way they’re drawn. Those are the pinkness of her cheeks. (Spelling mistake)
Cotton swabs used to be on wood stick or cardboard, now they use plastic.Just last week was looking for none plastic ones, they are all gone from the shelves, so instead on putting the used ones into the compost, they end up in the trash, recycling don't take them.
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They forgot to add the disposable masks to this. I am appalled at the amount of masks I see strewn about in parking lots and other areas that people gather since they are slobs and unable to dispose of them properly.
Been at a lake. And there were soo many masks on the shore
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It's amazing how we ban plastic straws to save the turtles, but what about the plastic drink rings that can trap fish AND birds and possibly other smaller animals?
Those are getting phased out, as many soda and beer companies are ditching plastic 6-pack rings.
Load More Replies... I fully support creating less plastic waste and saving the planet but why did we declare war on straws? Particularly those of us that live inland. There’s so sea turtles here.
And before anyone pounces, I use re-usable straws at home. This mainly applies only to eating or drinking when I’m away from home, and it’s not convenient to bring my own utensils and supplies.
Load More Replies... This is a no brainer: since there are always gonna be things that require to be made or wrapped in plastic (especially medical equipment), we need to reduce or avoid the use of plastic for things that can be made of other materials. Do we really need a plastic laundry basket? Wouldn't a fabric/wood/rattan basket do the same job? This is just a silly example but it's the principle.
Hell-of-stupid. Almost no-one does need a straw - even people with handicap will find alternatives - but yeay, it is still a pandemic. So we do need medical supplies. And yes, sterilised and packed. No but.
Some things have to be single use. Others don’t. Cotton swabs? Single use. Anything that will be used inside a person that is absorbent that is that small can’t be cleaned. It’s too high risk. Although putting them in bulk would be ok so long as the jar is sterile. So single use item not too bad single item packaging yes bad.
Plastic can be recycled instead of ending as waste and microplastics
This is dumb. What's he trying to say: We shouldn't have swabs individually packed; just one big bin everyone roots around in? Or that we need to eliminate all plastic even if it's for medical use? Or maybe that "Covid is a conspiracy!"?
All this stuff should be bamboo. Or at least everything that can be bamboo should be bamboo. No idea why that’s not a widespread thing.
Starbucks: giant plastic cup, flimsy paper straw. Saving the environment one straw at a time.
How I miss plastic straws. You never realize how much you miss something until the replacement has disintegrated in your mouth.
Unpopular opinion here, but I find absolutely crazy all this war against plastic, especially during covid times! Plastic, disposable things are NECESSARY, and so are individually packaged things. I ain't putting my mouth where another person did. Not while covid exists. Probably not EVER.
Once again it's successful corporations and governments who have put the responsibility on the end user instead of absorbing the costs properly themselves. The issue is the correct *disposal* of all single use products. Far easier (and cheaper) to get end users to demand paper straws, instead of spending the money working out how to deal with overflowing landfills. BTW there are still alternatives to plastics for certain single uses.
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I'm sorry but some things NEED to be made of plastic and straws are one of them. Paper tastes funny and melts quickly, metal tastes bad and gets dangerously hot for hot liquids, silicone tastes bad, wood can splinter, all of the alternatives have problems that plastic just doesn't have. I do agree that we have wasted way more COVID tests than we needed to though.
Well, it’s been able to work that way on iPhones for a few months now
I hate the ridiculously long nails. Can't wait for that trend to go away.
as someone on the last one of these posts said, these drawings seem to say more about the artist than about society
About half of these work for me, the rest seem like he was just trying to come up with more content.
as someone on the last one of these posts said, these drawings seem to say more about the artist than about society
About half of these work for me, the rest seem like he was just trying to come up with more content.
