We had the good fortune of connecting with Jazmine Harrington and we’ve shared our conversation below.
Hi Jazmine, what was your thought process behind starting your own business?
My thought behind starting my own business was creating the core elements I enjoyed seeing while growing up watching tv, Whether it be cartoons, anime, Disney, or Nickelodeon sitcoms. I enjoyed finding strength through knowledge or relatability in tv shows, even through laughter in a comedic moment. I enjoy telling moving stories to inspire the next in their everyday lives. Inspiration keeps the world moving and evolving. Sparking fire in the next generations to come, even creating role models through characters helps innovate and motivate others. Every day, people do sympathize with things outside themselves to help them in their everyday lives. Sometimes I believe you do need something outside yourself to understand things. I always had a true strong passion for creating. What always makes me different is the power to expand my creative ideas in a well-rounded array of anything I wish to raise it to. I can sculpt with clay, and I can see my creative ideas within my mind and bring them to life by drawing or painting them. Im creative mentally with swift thinking and outside-the-box concepts with the will to always dive deep, which leads me to be a self-sufficient entrepreneur. I did not need others’ help too much because I already knew how to do everything digitally and traditionally. Having enough skills to have multiple streams of income was the biggest thing for me.
Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
I am so excited for when all my stories are finally ready to drop! I am most proud of my story concepts and my character designs! I am proud of the fact that I’ve been writing and creating these characters for these stories for so long because creating a story is not easy at all! I have over twenty stories so far that are Western comic book-based and or anime based. The world needs to know that I, as an African American woman, am coming to crush the scenes of the storytelling industry business!
Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
Hanging out in my head creating is the ideal every day space for me (loll), but a physical space other than the otherworldly room that I love recreating here and there to fit my moods and help me get inspired would be any sunny space with a lot of nature around, and a nice shaded area in the middle of it all with a slight breeze is my go to. I like going to parks in the summertime. It gives me the mental to create for another day again. Connecting within myself and the earth, having a union of connections that are balanced within myself and outside myself is ideal for me to keep going. If I could choose a place that I want to be, it would be somewhere in California! I also love comic cons; they definitely feel like you go into a portal where there are other people into the same things as you.
The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
My father was pretty much always my biggest inspiration and most influential since he helped me out a lot with building my dreams and believing in them. My parents both always wanted to give me something more than what they got in life and what they gave to themselves in life. That led me to where I am today. My father passed down his talent for drawing to me.
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