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24 “Yes, But” Illustrations By Anton Gudim That You Might Relate To (New Pics)
Interview With Artist
Anton Gudim is an artist who’s great at noticing how contradictory our everyday life can be. Besides his quirky short-paneled comics, the artist also creates sarcastic and relatable illustrations he calls "Yes, But" that depict two sides of the same circumstance.
The idea of creating "Yes, But" comics came to Anton in 2016. This format was inspired by reflections on how people get along with a lot of contradictions in their lives. The artist found the actions of some people very contradictory: hence this "but" appeared.
If you want to see our previous posts featuring more "Yes, But" comics, click here, here and here!
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One of my cats loves the scratching post, but also adores the already ruined leather armchairs (previous kitty went to town on the leather furniture), and she loves the kitchen bench. The other cat sometimes forgets what the scratching post is for, but loves one of the carpets that she is allowed to scratch. Oh well. People who want perfect furniture should not have pets that can ruin it. Oh, and anyone who declaws a cat is a garbage human being and should have the same done to them.
Anton's ideas come from observing everyday life. As the artist mentioned in previous interviews, over the years he has trained himself to notice something and to be in a constant search for ideas. Since he has formed an absurd surrealistic style, Anton looks at the world through the prism of it. "This is the way to fight the boredom: to see something new in the regular surroundings."
True. Insisting that pre-pubescent girls cover their nipples when they are at that point identical to little boys or else they will be considered obscene or sexualized. Refusing to allow women to breastfeed in public when THIS is exactly the purpose of enlarged breasts in women but allowing sexy images of women's breasts in advertising.
Irony, humor, sarcasm, randomness, absurdity and easily recognizable style are what make these illustrations so well received. Anton Gudim has already reached over 1.7M followers on two of his Instagram accounts and the number keeps growing!
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.
Short-haired peeps, don´t forget to use sunscreen on the back of your neck and ears when heading into the hellscape that is outside.
I have such good taste in music that I know everyone else wants to hear it!
It's the 4th article featuring "Yes, But" comics on Bored Panda and it seems that it won't be the last. The artist shared that he has a lot of ideas for this format so he's planning to continue creating these contradictory illustrations.
"I don’t come up with something special: the ideas come by themselves, which means that the topic has not exhausted itself and the format itself has a wide interpretation, which almost does not restrain my creative impulses."
We asked Anton whether he has some upcoming projects. The artist replied that he has a lot on his plate at the moment. Besides the "Yes, but" illustrations he is also creating drawings outside this format for himself, publishing books, discussing future exhibitions, etc. All this doesn't allow him to think about other projects. However, the artist shared that everything can change at any moment. "Just like I did not plan to do Yes, BUT as a separate project, but it happened."
The amount of useless bloatware that my phone has is ridiculous. Never getting another Xiaomi ever again!
I always do the pumpy thing; opening and closing an umbrella rapidly to shake off excess water. Doesn´t make it dry, but it´s not as drippy.
Lol yeah, why do the waiting tickets always look like they were printed on the oldest electronic printer ever?
Just because we kill animals for food doesn't mean we should stomp and kill every other animal for no reason...
Lmao this one is funny cause I take in domestic and small wild animals that are hurt or abandoned. I re-homed a hamster. Yet I LOVE meat. It's something I wrestle with but I could never go vegan or even be a vegetarian. There's too much food I love.
I have 5 bunnies at home, and some hens and gauls too. I love my bunnies, and i wouldn't be able to kill them to eat them, but i still eat rabbit's meat sometimes. I just have the affection to my bunnies as i could have to my other pets. Yes, i know what intensive facilities does, but here's the trick for me: i completely avoid buying meat from supermarkets, and go to a Butcher shop instead. There, i personally research where they get their meat from, and it's usually a good kind, and not from intensive facilities. If i'm able to, i also have family friends that have farms and will sell us their meat, with us being 100% it didn't come from horrible places. As for eggs, i said before i have hens, so that's not a problem at all, and i buy honey from on the previously named family friends. I could never go veggie or vegetarian, cause even if i actually wanted to renounce to all the animal products, for health reasons i need to eat these foods if i don't wanna end up in hospital
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There is killing for sport of for being an a*****e, and then killing for purpose. i'd actually love and learn to hunt, but if i for an example shot and killed something, it would either be some kind of plague animal(i love pet rats, but f**k wild rats, they scare me) or something i can eat.
Wild rats are not "plague animals"! They are an important part of the ecosystem!
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I might eat meat, but I'm not going to personally plow through a family of ducks just because of that. I do think if we are going to eat meat we need to do so with more respect. Throwing away meat is the greatest disrespect. But we should also show respect in the act of cooking it. It should be cooked with the most care so that you never feel disappointed. I don't buy much meat anymore but when I do it's Beef Burgundy that took 27.5 hours to properly prepare or Tonkotsu Ramen with Momofuku style pork that took 14 hours to prepare to the best of my skills. If i go to a restaurant and order a steak that's not delicious, I still finish the steak but i just won't go to that restaurant again.
So.. in order to not want to be a sociopathic murderer of animals just walking across the street, you need to be a vegan? ....Just curious if anyone's seen The Vegan Teacher? Literally makes an entire group of people look absolutely horrible? I'm just getting mad Vegan Teacher vibes from this point. Lol
The comments in this post= " I love animals but I still eat meat!!". I understand, hopefully you all are eating sustainable, cruelty free, free range meat....cuz otherwise you probably don't love animals as much as you think. The meat industry is cruel to animals.
For this particular dish the ducks are raised with EXTREME CRUELTY that is the point. Of course you can eat meat and still love animals and not want to kill a family of ducks. But eating chicken fingers is different than eating like veal or Peking duck. Those are just cruel!!
Yeah, did you read the comments? Survivalists are coming out of the woodworks to say something, Vegans are on a self entitled war path, carnivores are being defensive over absolutely nothing, and the trolls are having a field day. I dunno, I think this comic elicited some hilarious chaos.
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In Flordia they( vet/rescues) do not take in injured ducks for a reason I do not know. I found a injured duck with a few inch deep hole in its back I think it was from a lawn mower all it really needed was stitches and maybe antibiotics but me not my family was trained to do that so we called every rescue/vet in our area but no one would take the duck so I sat for 5 hours straight going into the night trying to feed this duck chicken food and leafy greens but sadly it died
You need to be licensed specifically for wildlife,and limited resources mean wildlife rehabbers sometimes have to turn away the "common" species to be able to help endangered ones. A regular vet or shelter would not be able to offer more than euthanasia
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Is this illustration saying he purposely killed this duck and brought it to this place to be cleaned? Cause he is holding something we cannot see. 😅 Otherwise this makes no sense. Not every person who eats meat is a psychopath that goes around mowing down animals for fun. Being a vegan or vegetarian doesn't automatically make you a good person. Hitler was a vegetarian as were many other famous psychopaths.
what duck taste good, and if I kill the babies they can't grow up to be food
That's hypocrisy. If you really respect other animals, don't it them. Just because we treat them cruely before we kill them. They don't deserve this, and all who eat meat, don't care less. It is a zero sum game. Because we are mean and cruel to them.
We have a choice now not to eat animals and still be perfectly healthy. That what it comes down to ultimately. The comparison to homophobia is overwhelming insulting.
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No, you’re thinking Bombay duck. Peking duck is most definitely duck.
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Hmm...boating and rowing are two different things and there's nothing relaxing about rowing but it's a brilliant workout - so I don't think I agree with this one, he's working out in one and relaxing in the other.
This seems like extreme cherrypicking to me. The artist choses to invent situations that only exist in their mind and then to be offended by them.
Maybe it's a location or cultural thing? I realize there's some poetic license as it's a bit of ironic comedy/relatable angst. Regardless, I encounter most of these more often than I think about.
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Does BoredPanda need a primer for satire, irony and absurdism? Because the top comments on half of these posts are by people don’t get that these are meant to be humorous, tongue-in-cheek, and to maaaybe make you think a little bit.
I think most of the world needs a primer for that, but maybe that's just me speaking as a customer service rep...
Load More Replies... Idk but, for some of the pics I get what the author want to say but... That's not reality, like, in French we have a word "cliché" which basically means something that people expect to happen but doesn't really happen 'cause that's not how things works...
Huh, that's actually an interesting take on it. I sure hope you don't delete this comment and then people decide to downvote you because it's a deleted comment!
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This seems like extreme cherrypicking to me. The artist choses to invent situations that only exist in their mind and then to be offended by them.
Maybe it's a location or cultural thing? I realize there's some poetic license as it's a bit of ironic comedy/relatable angst. Regardless, I encounter most of these more often than I think about.
Load More Replies... Does BoredPanda need a primer for satire, irony and absurdism? Because the top comments on half of these posts are by people don’t get that these are meant to be humorous, tongue-in-cheek, and to maaaybe make you think a little bit.
I think most of the world needs a primer for that, but maybe that's just me speaking as a customer service rep...
Load More Replies... Idk but, for some of the pics I get what the author want to say but... That's not reality, like, in French we have a word "cliché" which basically means something that people expect to happen but doesn't really happen 'cause that's not how things works...
Huh, that's actually an interesting take on it. I sure hope you don't delete this comment and then people decide to downvote you because it's a deleted comment!
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