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It's been, like, a week since I did, so late announcement, but I went ahead and deleted my demon comic.
Again, it's a story I've developed a lot and have come to care about a lot, so it isn't exactly dead―but for now should be considered as such. If I do a comic of it in the future, it will have to be when I've learned and mastered a heck of a lot more, because that was some bleak-lookin' sh*t and I would never have been happy doing it at that level.
But again again, I still mean to tell the story another way, but again again, it'll take awhile.
A lot of while.
I'm a slow un full of too many ideas for my own good.
Again, it's a story I've developed a lot and have come to care about a lot, so it isn't exactly dead―but for now should be considered as such. If I do a comic of it in the future, it will have to be when I've learned and mastered a heck of a lot more, because that was some bleak-lookin' sh*t and I would never have been happy doing it at that level.
But again again, I still mean to tell the story another way, but again again, it'll take awhile.
A lot of while.
I'm a slow un full of too many ideas for my own good.
I've been considering something.
2020 was difficult in a lot of ways, not only due to the pandemic. It slowed me down tremendously and I'm still having trouble getting back up to speed. I think I started a comic (Know Your Demons) at one of the worst possible times; at first it was fine and I worked determinedly at it, but obviously that didn't last.
I don't necessarily want to discard the comic. But I'm even more painfully aware now at what a long and time-consuming project I started with it. And what I most want to do is tell a story. Several stories, really. And that isn't something easy to do when you're trying to do it a few images at a time at the speed at which I draw.
This comic was partly started in an attempt to train myself to draw faster and better, but there really is a story in it, and I'm afraid I'll never get that story out or do it justice in this fashion. It's difficult to even pick up my tablet sometimes, and when I do, well, you might have noticed how often I draw a face that looks like a dollar store Halloween mask someone left out in the sun for months. XD
To get to the point, I've been thinking of treating this comic more as a side project―simultaneously without setting the story aside.
Instead of focusing heavily on a comic, I would like to write this story as an illustrated novel, and perhaps come back to drawing comic pages later on, or continue to add them very gradually. With the comic, I may also redraw pages; I can't stand to look at some of them, they're so poorly done. (Don't think I didn't notice this stinks, m8.)
Novelizing it isn't something that will happen right away; I desperately need to upgrade my workspace before getting deep into any writing, and then the process will take time. But I assume no one will mind, since I never got around to the bloody (both literally and figuratively) point of the story, therefore not leaving it on a cliffhanger, right? >:D
So, cheers.
2020 was difficult in a lot of ways, not only due to the pandemic. It slowed me down tremendously and I'm still having trouble getting back up to speed. I think I started a comic (Know Your Demons) at one of the worst possible times; at first it was fine and I worked determinedly at it, but obviously that didn't last.
I don't necessarily want to discard the comic. But I'm even more painfully aware now at what a long and time-consuming project I started with it. And what I most want to do is tell a story. Several stories, really. And that isn't something easy to do when you're trying to do it a few images at a time at the speed at which I draw.
This comic was partly started in an attempt to train myself to draw faster and better, but there really is a story in it, and I'm afraid I'll never get that story out or do it justice in this fashion. It's difficult to even pick up my tablet sometimes, and when I do, well, you might have noticed how often I draw a face that looks like a dollar store Halloween mask someone left out in the sun for months. XD
To get to the point, I've been thinking of treating this comic more as a side project―simultaneously without setting the story aside.
Instead of focusing heavily on a comic, I would like to write this story as an illustrated novel, and perhaps come back to drawing comic pages later on, or continue to add them very gradually. With the comic, I may also redraw pages; I can't stand to look at some of them, they're so poorly done. (Don't think I didn't notice this stinks, m8.)
Novelizing it isn't something that will happen right away; I desperately need to upgrade my workspace before getting deep into any writing, and then the process will take time. But I assume no one will mind, since I never got around to the bloody (both literally and figuratively) point of the story, therefore not leaving it on a cliffhanger, right? >:D
So, cheers.
