What makes a multipotentialite?

What makes a graphic designer, an artist, a strategic planner, or an art director? When each of these specific titles felt too heavy to wear on their own, I carried a nuance of them all – a multipotentialite. ‘The makers and doers of many creative things.’

Do I know graphic design? I do, sometimes better than those do it professionally.

Do I draw? Occasionally, too, when the ideas call for it.

Do I edit videos? I know my way around Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition, but does that make me a video editor? No, I believe.

I find it hard to put on any single label since I do so many things. All I could say is I do creative things. And as a so-called ‘multipotentialite,’ I tend to do them with devotion.

I wanted a portfolio website, so I learned Framer.

When ChatGPT became less helpful as I described my aesthetic vision (no offense), I spent days digging through Framer and small creators’ tutorials on YouTube, the Framer Community, and Reddit. Can’t say I'm an expert now, but can say I know all the basics and a bit of the complicated stuff, like responsive cursors and CMS. It’s a simple website design (which is 100% intentional) and perhaps I don’t need to put so much effort into creating something that barely anyone else will care. But I learned it anyway. It interested me. And I wanted to do it right, even when it’s small.

That’s how I’ve learned graphic design, video editing, drawing, website design, and all the big and small things under the enormous umbrella called ‘creative.’

Knowing all these things doesn’t make me a graphic designer, a video editor, or an artist. But I’ve stood in their shoes long enough to understand how they work, how they think, and how to bring a vision to life with them. Things are unsettling and a bit chaotic when you scroll through my history, but that chaos is what makes it mine.