Hi!
It's my first post here but I've been lurking for a little bit. I'm Cheeroo, nice to met ya.
I'm a little curious if anyone has been/is in a similar position to me. Does anyone else ever get a sense of "stage fright" about their comics or art? To be a little bit more specific, does anyone else feel completely unable to finish things?
It's a little bizarre to describe, but it's been something that's been hampering me for literally years now (ages 17-24, to be exact).
I can start anything, plan it out, sketch it, draw it, ink it, even get to colouring or be about to post it and I just almost freeze or feel unable to complete it, no rhyme or reason. That's not to say I haven't done anything over the past few years, but one thing every four or six months? Compared to my output as a teenager, where I was putting out weekly comics for myself and my five mutual followers on DeviantArt, that's nothing (haha).
The closest thing I can think to describe it as is a form of artist's block, but I feel that may be putting it too simplisticly.
Has any one else ever felt like this?
How does one get back in the game after years of being nothing but a semi-idle observer?
And more importantly, what drives you to finish something?
The only way to make something is to make it, but my god, how do we make these things?
This isn't coming from a dark place, by the way. In a vibrant community of creators of so many different things I can't even begin to imagine the variety, so I'm curious. I'm excited about the prospect of being able to take part in the conversation once more!
TL;DR: Drawing and then finishing. Scary? Can't do. How do? How do you do?