I used to think my dream of being a comic artist was just about drawing well.

For years, I had this big goal of making my own webcomic, but I never got past a few sketches. I thought if I just got better at drawing hands or faces, I'd be ready. The thing I see a lot of people get wrong is thinking the art is the only hard part. The real work is the writing and the grind of putting a page out every single week, no matter what. I know because I finally tried it last month, made a schedule, and wrote three whole scripts before I even drew a line. It was a small win, but it showed me what I'd been avoiding. The art is the fun part; the discipline is the dream. Anyone else start a creative project and get stuck on the wrong part of the work?

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murphy.mason13d ago

Exactly, the grind is the real filter. I got stuck for ages on making perfect character designs instead of just writing the damn story.

phoenixw1113d ago

The perfect character design trap is too real.

miller.rowan12d ago

Yeah @murphy.mason, that's the trap for sure. You can spend forever on the small stuff and never get to the actual work.