We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Givi Carter. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Givi below.
Hi Givi, thanks for joining us today. Did you always know you wanted to pursue a creative or artistic career? When did you first know?
I feel as if art has always had an unconscious pull on me. Everything fun and good and colorful as a child was that way because of art. Cartoons, comics, toys, video games: even as a kid I wanted to go beyond just consuming these things but making them my own. I’d act out stories with my friends and then draw in comic form. When asked what I wanted to do when I grew up from Kindergarten on I would say “I want to make cartoons,” and I could never imagine myself going into anything else.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
Givi is an Atlanta-based illustrator and designer who loves to make fun art for fun (and profit). She tries to channel her inner child in everything she does to invoke a celebration of shape and color that makes the eyes happy. She graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design and from there has imparted on a mystical creative journey to create fresh and funky art for clients.
What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?
Fund artists! Even when you don’t think you need one, I can guarantee EVERYTHING looks better with a creative touch: Fresh (and working) UI design over templates, a hand-drawn logo for your website or print media rather than default type, a beautiful illustration instead of a stock photo. No one ever complained about something looking aesthetically pleasing rather than dull, I promise.
Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?
My ultimate creative goal is to fund my own personal work and comic projects. Since a large body of my revenue comes from graphic and production design, I miss out on a good deal of creative expression in the form of storytelling. I hold this form of illustration most dear, in almost a sacred sense.
I used to spend most of my free time working towards a perfect project that is never good enough, never expansive enough, and never a genre-defying work of grand proportions. I am working towards cracking through my perfectionist exterior and just creating something that feels worthy of my own judgment. I’ve heard before that one finished work is worth a million ideas, and I really believe that. Unraveling the salad of words and images in my brain into a comprehensible, and maybe even good, tangible visual story is my ultimate goal as an artist.
Contact Info:
- Website: givicarter.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/givicarter
- Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/givicarter
- Other: https://www.etsy.com/shop/GivisGoodies
Image Credits
Copyright 2023 Givi Carter