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Feels like it's all futile here...
4 years ago
I've been working hard, non stop, for many years, (2 on this account, 4 in my alt, adult one), uploading art constantly on both accounts, I've been putting crazy amounts of effort in my comic (I have 3 story arcs planned and written to a degree after the current one), a comic I started working on 2 years ago, took half of a year or so to remake half of the pages to get them to a good quality standard, studied to no end up to this day military info and content on youtube and the web to have a solid, realistic basis for it, all of that effort, and I'm afraid it's for naught...
Don't get me wrong, I love working on all of that, but the thing is, my follower growth is basically dead on both accounts, viewer interaction is low as fuck, virtually no one seems to give a damn about my comic, and I really hoped to (I need to) make money off of my art, but it's not happening. I don't know if my art is not good enough, if I have bad taste and I never noticed, but people overall don't seem to give a damn about my art here.
Here's the thing: I'm working on my very own videogame, a retro shooter with spritework, animations, assets, story, maps and textures made by me (sound, VA and coding made by other team members), and working on it consumes an insane amount of time, BUT it's having a good amount of following, and it's growing fast. I'm constantly struggling balancing game vs. comic/drawing work time, and I'm worried that I'm just wasting time that I could be spending on the game developement here, working on the comic and random drawings.
I can't stress enough how much I love and believe in my comic, and in my characters, the idea of shelving them breaks my heart. I've been struggling with all of this for months and I still can't make de decision to put an end to my comic and put the bulk of my work time on the game, working on random drawings from time to time only.
I'm venting here, sorry for that, we'll see what I do next.
PS: I have nothing but endless appreciation for those of you who enjoy and care for what I do, so thank you.
Don't get me wrong, I love working on all of that, but the thing is, my follower growth is basically dead on both accounts, viewer interaction is low as fuck, virtually no one seems to give a damn about my comic, and I really hoped to (I need to) make money off of my art, but it's not happening. I don't know if my art is not good enough, if I have bad taste and I never noticed, but people overall don't seem to give a damn about my art here.
Here's the thing: I'm working on my very own videogame, a retro shooter with spritework, animations, assets, story, maps and textures made by me (sound, VA and coding made by other team members), and working on it consumes an insane amount of time, BUT it's having a good amount of following, and it's growing fast. I'm constantly struggling balancing game vs. comic/drawing work time, and I'm worried that I'm just wasting time that I could be spending on the game developement here, working on the comic and random drawings.
I can't stress enough how much I love and believe in my comic, and in my characters, the idea of shelving them breaks my heart. I've been struggling with all of this for months and I still can't make de decision to put an end to my comic and put the bulk of my work time on the game, working on random drawings from time to time only.
I'm venting here, sorry for that, we'll see what I do next.
PS: I have nothing but endless appreciation for those of you who enjoy and care for what I do, so thank you.
