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Why the comic has been taking so long
2 years ago
Hey! I’ve wanted to talk about this for a while, since I feel it’s only fair to others who are enjoying the comic. Originally, I had planned on doing a page once every two weeks/one month, but I underestimated how much work a comic page took. This isn’t actually the main reason however, I consider myself a fairly hard-working ‘bold, but what eventually showed itself to be an issue to the comic was the style I had gone with.
With the style I had chosen, it was one I was comfortable with at the time because all of my pieces withing that timeframe coincided with it. But after making the first couple of pages, I started to hate it.
For a little over a year now, I’ve been trying to adapt or my “cartoony” style, using cell-shading and more dynamic/exaggerated expressions. And with me trying to do this with a comic that to me was using a style I was trying to move away from, work on the comic became frustrating because I felt I couldn’t adapt everything I was learning to my ongoing comic. That being said, there is still a very valid question to address;
“Why not just change the style of the comic to how you would like it in the first place?”
With this being my first comic, I was in over my head and I didn’t realize that doing something like that would be considered normal. Most of the comics and other long-form projects I had seen up till then had a consistent style throughout, so I assumed I also had to do that.
I am still not happy that I am changing styles since I feel it will hurt the consistency, but it’s not worth me hating what I had originally had a lot of fun doing. It should also be noted that even after the 6 or so years of me drawing, I still don’t feel comfortable and consistent with my style, I’m not sure if I ever will, but that’s part of the learning process if I intend to continue to improve.
I hope that this post can help shed some light onto my sporadic uploading and work schedule for the comic. There are other things I could go into like how I simply enjoy working on a lot of different projects and how I am a full-time student now, but ultimately it isn’t important. Work on the comic will still continue, if anything at a better pace and schedule now with what I’ve explained in verbatim, and I really appreciate all the support that I’ve been getting for it. <3
If for whatever reason the comic does fall behind again, I try to be fair and give a reason why to my Patrons and I do not charge anyone for that month.
With the style I had chosen, it was one I was comfortable with at the time because all of my pieces withing that timeframe coincided with it. But after making the first couple of pages, I started to hate it.
For a little over a year now, I’ve been trying to adapt or my “cartoony” style, using cell-shading and more dynamic/exaggerated expressions. And with me trying to do this with a comic that to me was using a style I was trying to move away from, work on the comic became frustrating because I felt I couldn’t adapt everything I was learning to my ongoing comic. That being said, there is still a very valid question to address;
“Why not just change the style of the comic to how you would like it in the first place?”
With this being my first comic, I was in over my head and I didn’t realize that doing something like that would be considered normal. Most of the comics and other long-form projects I had seen up till then had a consistent style throughout, so I assumed I also had to do that.
I am still not happy that I am changing styles since I feel it will hurt the consistency, but it’s not worth me hating what I had originally had a lot of fun doing. It should also be noted that even after the 6 or so years of me drawing, I still don’t feel comfortable and consistent with my style, I’m not sure if I ever will, but that’s part of the learning process if I intend to continue to improve.
I hope that this post can help shed some light onto my sporadic uploading and work schedule for the comic. There are other things I could go into like how I simply enjoy working on a lot of different projects and how I am a full-time student now, but ultimately it isn’t important. Work on the comic will still continue, if anything at a better pace and schedule now with what I’ve explained in verbatim, and I really appreciate all the support that I’ve been getting for it. <3
If for whatever reason the comic does fall behind again, I try to be fair and give a reason why to my Patrons and I do not charge anyone for that month.
It is common to like several styles but it's difficult to maintain all of them, I hope that you can now feel satisfied with your current style, your art has always been super recognizable to me and it's a very beautiful and adorable style that demonstrates your ability with perspective, expressions and anatomy, I'm sure many people think the same and I personally wouldn't mind the style change, both styles are very nice and like you said, it's your first comic and it looks amazing ^^ keep going <3
Honestly, people care more about if it eventually gets finished than if page 5 and 10 look a bit off in comparison to 20. So don't stress about the style too much, just focus on doing your best and enjoying the ride :)
Styles in general will change and adjust as you learn new things, or incorporate things you enjoy. It's usually just a sign that you're willing to adapt and try new stuff than a failing of any sort
I hope you find a style that you love and feel comfortable with and hope you learn to worry less about being consistent which is very easy to do but not to pull off.
In my eyes you don't have to keep things consistent, yes I understand why, but for now use it as a learning experience, have fun, enjoy the process. I'm sure your learning a lot while making this comic, and I'm sure the next time you make another one, it'll be even better than last, or as some suggested, you could even revisit what your working on now, using everything you learned the previous time you made a comic.
In short, try not to worry about it to much, just have fun, viewers are enjoying it regardless, and you don't have to feel compelled to do more than necessary. Do what makes you happy, draw whatever puts a smile on your face, enjoy the moment, and enjoy the learning experience.