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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?
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.
They queued on the line, but the train didn't line up with the line. Just the annoyance of trying to be in the right spot early and then people getting on before you because the door is in the wrong place.
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He's waiting right up front so he can be first but when the train stops he's staring into a window instead of at a door.
It's supposed to illustrate sod's law... turn up early and wait, but others luckily just turn up and walk straight on because of the door's position. Bit like being at the supermarket like I was tonight... wait for AGES in the checkout queue and just when you get to the front, they open a new checkout just for someone to waltz straight up aaaaaar!
He’s waiting for the logical opening. Like an center door elevator.
I think this is hysterical. He was waiting there before anyone else and when the subway arrived it stopped with him nowhere near the doors and all the people who got there later got on first. Every time 😂
The door is never where you're waiting for it; it's just how subways/trains/trams/buses operate
The only thing I can think of is that he's waiting for the train and when it arrived, neither door was near him and a bunch of others got on the train first and took all the seats.
He expects to board train at where he stands, but nature decides different.
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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