Meet Christie Shinn of Los Angeles

Today we’d like to introduce you to Christie Shinn

Hi Christie, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
I love drawing. Drawing is a business, but it is best perfected through child’s play. I learned that when I played with drawing like a child, you felt freer to really become the artist you truly should be. I think that’s true of any line of work you do. I’ve often seen people confuse childlike with childish like they do with being intense and instead they act unprincipled and selfish.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Sometimes I have, sometimes I haven’t. I think the biggest struggle is to find your groove and lean into it. Sometimes that’s difficult from you just learning to everyone else making noise. In essence, you do have to learn to shut yourself in your inward chambers, but not bury yourself under a dome of iron.

Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I am the creator of ‘Demon Bitch’. I specialize in anger, sadness, and any other emotion that isn’t pretty. I get to feel betrayal and the path to true healing and I get to show you how to do it. I express the things that people often talk about – but most of them don’t adequately express and/or feel ashamed of it.

Funny enough, I don’t put my life online for all to see – however, I am very open to what I am feeling in the moment in my cartoons when I observe and experience the world around me. People giggle at my cartoons to really ugly crying because it hits a nerve of that they’ve long-buried. That kind of makes me proud, because they get to face their fears and they know it. They always go through with it feeling better and being better and that makes me happy.

People think it’s just a pissed-off mean comic when they read it, then they realize it’s much more than that.

What has been the most important lesson you’ve learned along your journey?
People want to be recognized and noticed. It’s more evident in social media, but it has always been on there. Why do you think pomp and circumstance is a thing? We all want external validation, companionship, love, and all the things – we’re not really taught about to go about it in a healthy fashion. It’s kind of sad. I wouldn’t single out our society, but I think society manifests that in different ways across the world.

Sometimes to solve things you must feel uncomfortable for a while. Now, I am not justifying coercion or abuse in any way. Is it like a muscle ache as you train to be a better athelete? Or is it like someone smashing your skull in with a hammer. There’s a definite difference.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/HoraToraStudios
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/horatorastudios
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HoraToraStudios/
• Twitter: https://x.com/HoraToraStudios
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ChristieShinn
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