Meet Kxnto

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Kxnto. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Kxnto, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?

It’s honestly something I’m still working on, but it usually comes from me thinking about the negative side of the future more often than the positive. Although I try to work hard because I want a lot of good things to happen down the line, what tends to keep me going is the thought of bad things happening, and trying to prevent them.

An almost silly example of this is when I first started working a full-time job. That was around the time I really became serious about my art, because I realized that I don’t want to work a job I hate for the rest of my life.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?

The goal I’ve decided on is finding a way to live off of my creations, since that brings me the most contentment compared to anything else. To meet that goal, I’m working on getting published as a Comic Artist/Writer on Webtoon.

I’ve been working on my current project, [Hyper-City Workaholic], for the past two or so years. It’s not quite ready to be launched yet, but I’m excited because I feel that it’s a different take on the shonen genre many people enjoy in comics and manga.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

From what I’ve learned, it’s Knowledge, Optimization, and Sacrifice.

I think gaining Knowledge is the best starting point. If you want to take something seriously, you should become as informed as you possibly can. It will broaden your options, and support your decision making.

In my head, Optimization comes after that. It’s the process of taking your Knowledge and creating the best strategy possible to gain maximum efficiency. That way you won’t end up wasting too much time, or money.

Sacrifice is the final hurdle, and for many people it’s usually the hardest. I think because of the way life is, things can come up, get in the way, spoil your plans, and so on. You have to be able to give things up to make up for this. To do one or two things consistently, most of everything else should become inconsistent.
At least to a degree.

My advice for anyone early in their journey would be to study yourself and understand your weaknesses early on. It’ll help how fast you grow.

Alright, so before we go we want to ask you to take a moment to reflect and share what you think you would do if you somehow knew you only had a decade of life left?

It’s definitely Time Management.

There never seems to be enough time, especially in the comic industry. I’ve heard many times from friends that are already in the industry that the weekly schedule is rigorous and extremely demanding, both physically and mentally. And honestly, I’m hardly able to match a bi-weekly production schedule as we speak.

It’ll be tough when it’s time to start keeping up with the industry standard. But for now, my focus is on improving bit by bit until I get there.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/_kxnto
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_kxnto
• Other: Workaholic! 2022 Pilot Chapter:

  https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/hyper-city-workaholic/list?title_no=791364

Image Credits

kxnto