Are you working by yourself?

[MalonTheArtist]

Yes it is and you know what? There is NOTHING else quite like it! Art is good for the soul! Art is infinite!

[conventurecomics]

I work on my comic by myself. Here is my comic both on tapas and webtoons.

CONventure | Tapas

CONventure

[Lensing]

I´m working alone but not by choice,
I would prefer to focus on just one part of a project.

I would love to find a way how we can regularly create something as a group in the tapas forum.
Something like a weekly on page script and then everyone uploads their page.
It kinda worked with the comic jam which I started a while ago and it was a lot of fun

[Chocolate]

What did you like and dislike with working by yourself vs in a group? Are there any pros and cons? OsO

[SagaHolmgaard]

I work by myself, and I prefer that. I've found out that I'm not very good at staying motivated on collaborations. I don't want to just get a task that I'm told to do. Even if I were interested in the story and think it'd be an amazing comic, I can't keep up with actually drawing it. (and same for other creative projects, like games, animatics and so on...)

But when I work alone, The whole project can be my baby. And I have a bigger reason to complete the project – I wrote the script, so I gotta see this through! For MY OWN sake! Lol.

[Lensing]

A big pro is that everyone can focus on what they can do best and love to do.
I love to pencil, I wake up in the morning and start to draw. I don´t love writing,
I do it because nobody else does it. I would love to work with someone who
is as passionate about writing as I am with drawing.
It also takes a lot of time to get good at something. I´m seriously training drawing since 6,5 years,
I have been drawing all my life and I´m still not good where I want to be.
A writer who has mileage and is passionate about writing is better than a beginner or someone
like who doesn´t enjoy writing and who doesn´t have the time to learn it.

The con is that nobody wants to work on someone else´s dream without getting paid for it
and it´s really hard to find someone who has a similiar plan and is willing to put the same
time into a project. I know this problematic from playing in bands. It always boils down
to one person who does all the work

[faisalhussein394]

I am working on my comic by myself.

Storytelling, Sketching, inking, storyboarding, coloring, texting bubbles are all on me.

It would be nice if I have an assistant which could help me finish the pages quickly but I didn't see anyone who can match my art style and coloring plus I have 8 hours working per day for 5 days a week as a graphic designer and although I have two days off, most of them are spent with my family and less on my comic.

I am still alright doing the comic by myself which gives me the freedom to make the stories the way I want them.

[TheDoublekey]

I'm working on my own, pretty much. As much as I'd love to work in a team for my manga, I don't think I could afford any assistants and I'm still somewhat of a newbie. In a way, though, I prefer the current state I'm in, because I have much more freedom and I'm allowed to do what I want without having to worry for the team.
Having assistants would help me get more pages out, that's for sure, but for now I think I'm fine on my own.

[rumpenstiltzkin]

I am working alone but if I had the money I would pay someone to do the backgrunds because I dont think I will ever ever ever ever in my life enjoy drawing backgrounds

but... I am broke af so gotta struggle it through... I mostly use some quick built 3D to help me get perspective and basic shapes done at least but man backgrounds...

[darthmongoose]

I work on Errant solo. It was something I really wanted to do after having spent years working as an illustrator and games artist where I pretty much had to spend all my time working on things for other people where my input was always limited to "just draw/paint the thing they asked for" and then I never had ownership of what I created. I'd become increasingly aware over time that while I'd never thought of myself as "a Writer", by my thirties I was consistently a more qualified and experienced writer than the majority of people I was working for who gave themselves that title.

My personal creed is "if you want a job done properly, do it yourself, and if you don't know how to do it yourself, go crack open a book and learn it". If I ever took on other people on a comic, it would either be people to do time-consuming but comparatively low-skill work like flatting, or I'd look for somebody who can definitely do the job better than I could alone, either because they're just more skilled through being focused on that exact skill rather than being a generalist like me and to a degree where there's no way I could reasonably just learn to do it in a sensible timeframe, or because they're more suited to the style or tone.
Every person you add to a project increases the chance that the project will fall apart partway through, especially if the pay isn't good and reliable enough that being invested in the project and prioritising it is important (ie. it's paying your rent). More people to have fallouts over creative differences or personality clash, more people who want to have creative control of the project and get frustrated if it's your "baby" and you want complete creative control, more people to get caught up in life events... it's just a big risk, so I'd only add people if I had reason to be very confident they were sticking around and if adding a person would definitely raise the quality and/or output speed, OR if the collaborative component was important. I'd never add somebody to say... draw the backgrounds because it's not as fun as drawing the people. I'm not going to risk a project falling to pieces by relying on somebody else to get the backgrounds in on time every week for a weak reason like "drawing backgrounds is hard and takes time to learn". I'd rather just suck it up, learn to draw them and get my comic done.

[Lensing]

I checked your comic and it works fine with the simplified backgrounds, I don´t feel like I don´t know where the characters are or something like that

[rumpenstiltzkin]

Thanks
So far its mostly out in the desert but I dread when theyre getting to a bigger city and there is a market coming up... I should just let them stay in the desert forever

[Kelheor]

No, we only started doing comics because my writer actually had a story and I am generally bad with ideas and cohesive writing, so we're working duo on all our projects Also he's better with storyboards, so it's usually him who's thinking about them and telling me how they should look. I am just drawing everything, making designs, and all that.
It's nice to have additional input on art from him too (although sometimes I get angry on it, when someone is saying "yeah this looks wrong" and you already spent a few hours on this, but in most cases he's is actually right, I just hate it xD). So the more people creating the comic, the more problematic it could become, if everyone is correcting each other.

I have a few projects of my own that he has nothing to do with, but they are just my brain children, that will probably never see the light of day as actual comics.

[Lensing]

I understand that but you can only draw one establishing shot of the market place and then forget about the background or put small parts of it in the background
and you can do the establishing shot by drawing over a 3d background from i.e. Sketchfab and change it up to your needs. I think that is something a lot of
artists do.
I model all backgrounds and play with the position of the characters, a lot of people use game screenshots, from the Sims for example.
I just looked on Sketchfab and found a marketplace right away

[powerplantanimations]

I'm working with a bunch of people to make my comic lol. I can't do it alone anymore. I THOUGHT I can but College.

[rumpenstiltzkin]

Nah I build the 3D myself, so I get it exactly as I want it
Ive looked at sketchfab and other 3D asset stuff and I just dont find what Im looking for so its easier to just build it myself
Its just a matter of how I dont find any pleasure or joy in drawing background as I do drawing characters really

[Chocolate]

Does Sketchup/other 3D models software offers buildings that are in different region of the world? What about ancient architecture like Greek or Chinese buildings?

[WoollyPAR]

I work alone! I like it because I'm just doing what I want when I want to and I can control the pace of when stuff comes out. Working in a group can be pretty great if you have weaknesses you want to have covered by someone else. Like maybe you're great at writing, but your art isn't that good, or maybe your art IS good, but you just can't draw backgrounds. Working alone doesn't mean you have no weaknesses of course, there are things I'm not too good at, but I'd rather just make mistakes and learn from them if it means I get to improve and make the story I want to make. However, it needs to be said that working with someone else doesn't take away your freedoms as a creator. If you find a person or people you're really compatible with, you could end up making stories that you'll like significantly more than if you worked on them alone.

At the end of the day, it all comes down to preference and priorities. If a team sounds fun to you, I recommend looking for people you like working with, don't worry too much about whether or not they're professionals or whatever. If you want to work alone, that can also be fun and it's absolutely possible to do it by yourself, but know that it's a lot of learning and a lot of work.

Personally, I like the challenge working alone presents, and I like how it feels to finish a complicated drawing or episode that I think comes together really well by myself. I've occasionally thought about getting help with the drawing process since it takes so long, but when I look at what I've been able to do by myself I always find myself deciding against it. But that's my own biased perspective, there's tons of value in starting a team and I think you should do that if that's what you think sounds more fun

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