Do you enjoy the process?

[vapidink]

Yep, I enjoy it. Both writing and drawing have parts that can be tedious or frustrating, but to me that's one of the things that makes creating worth it. There's a sense of accomplishment that comes from working through a plot hole when writing or finishing a drawing in a new style or challenging pose. It's also nice to improve to a point where I can now share my ideas better, both with my writing and drawing.

[dan_thepainter]

It's a bit of a complex feeling for me, I guess. Making art comes with its hurdles, but a part of me likes overcoming the hard stuff when I get to a good end result I really like. I enjoy feeling like all my hard work paid off. When I was younger it was more like you said with it being easier because I was skipping the hard stuff. I notice the more I improve the harder art gets for me lol
I do art casually so maybe my attitude would be different if I were doing it professionally though.

[Lensing]

Thanks for all the replies. I thought about this a lot and it´s good read that some people struggle with
the same things like me, but also people struggling with different things.

I came to the conclusion or the comparison with 2 things that I´m doing regularly.
1) going on walks. I don´t want to do it, I feel better after I done it and I´m happy I did it.
2) playing shows as a musician. It´s 95% struggle. The rest is love, passion fun, success, money etc.
But the 5% is worth the struggle.

Luckily drawing comics is not 95% struggle for me, overall I really love it + I´m aware of the fact that
I coulld make my life a lot easier

[Krysteena]

I like it unless its is where I have to draw the same thing over and over like with my character sheets I am making them so I can go back and have quick easy pieces to play with on the comic but when it comes to going the same thing over and over I find it boring. I try to change it up when I really need to fix the itch and I draw something off the path then come back.

And when I get better with my art change my style or the characters style I really should fix all of them but this is a example.

Like pardon me but Holy crap I hate doing this SOOOO FREAKING MUCH.

-My daughter said I wish I had the dedication to characters sheets like you do....LOL I am nothing more then mindless zombie.

Old to new ---P.S. let me know if you can see the changes or not? (MAYBE I AM JUST CRAZY!)

[MattiesMoments]

OOOOOHHHH
This is SUCH a good topic!

I am an artist, photographer and writer myself and I also teach art and writing on outschool.
It's something that I know I struggle with and I see my students struggle with it sometimes.

It really depends. There are days that I am DRIVING the struggle bus and absolutely hate everything I write or draw. It just happens. I find that the more I force it to happen, the worse it gets. I try to balance it out, but I've been more in the writing mood lately than an art mood. Which, I really need to finish the art for my novel BUT I've been in an art funk lately. So I just keep writing and it'll pop back at some point.
I do continue to doodle, to try to keep some spark of my art alive, but it's been awhile since I finished the project.

I think that it's important for everyone to take a break every now and again that way they don't burn themselves out creatively. I tell my students this as well. There are just some days that it doesn't flow, and that's okay. You can always take a pause and come back to it later when you're in a better headspace.

Overall though, I do enjoy the process of art and writing when I'm in the right headspace.
I hope that kinda answered in a way that makes sense.
Mattie

[RED-VELVET-CUPCAKE]

Yes! I wouldn't draw at all if it wasn't fun. Sometimes I get discouraged when things don't turn out quite the way I hoped, but don't we all?
I suppose my most favorite part of the process is sketching.
I do find that comics are more tedious and require more effort, (not a bad thing, but I need to be in a specific mindset to finish them) which is why I mostly do single illustrations and doodles. And some days it depends on my mood. Sometimes I don't feel like coloring, so I'll make a bunch of sketches. Or I'll do lots of lineart one day, and add colors another time.
I only draw as a hobby too. I think if I did it as a job, I would start to hate it because of deadlines and being required to draw certain things.
I try to draw every day. Sometimes it doesn't work out because life gets in the way. Stresses can really ruin my desire to draw, but I have to accept that it's okay to take a break. I usually end up reading someone else's stories and looking at their art, and that inspires me.

[ori-taggart]

I remember going to a conference presented by a great haïtian writer, Dany Laferrière. Essentially, one of the biggest points he brought concerning this topic was that after about four hours of writing on the same day, the quality of his writing would decline. In retrospect, I think it's a matter of brain fatigue. When I spend so much of my time on one singular project, I can't help but feel that more and more slop is getting in the process.

But other then that, I enjoy the process at around the 60-80% range. It varries because for the story I'm currently writing, I already know everything. I know point A to Z. B to Y might change, but the major events have already been established. Sometimes I'm just so hyped about one event that I can loose myself in the writing process because my brain's like "YOU'RE FINALLY GONNA SHOW THAT SCENE TO THE WORLD! LET'S GOOOO!!!" only to end up in the aftermath where I'm like "aaaah now I gotta build up the next phase" and that can be draining.

[mayfieldmichael]

I absolutely enjoy the process. I get so excited while I’m writing or drawing something I created but I can also get extremely frustrated at myself when it doesn’t turn out the way I imagined.

I also am sometimes impatient with the process, wanting to skip ahead to the good parts which can cause poor performance lol

[Krysteena]

This subject gives me the courage to preserver and keep optimistic not to sound bad but seeing the struggle is real! keep following your dreams y'all.

[MelancholicOtaku]

Do I enjoy the process yes and no.

I love brainstorming and figuring out where the plot should go next, I love figuring out the world building and characters and their goals and interactions with each other and the world around them. However I also dislike this part too. What if one plot point I put in the story downplays everything else I written, what if I forget or repeat a world building aspect.

So do I enjoy the process I love it but also hate it too , it’s weird so whenever I get overwhelmed I take a break from writing.