Emotionally invested in your comic/drawings?

[alakotila]

Definitely. Hinting at some of the torture my main character went through was one of the hardest things I had to draw. It was not much (in terms of panels devoted to it), but it was necessary to show why he acts the way he does, and how he deals with it. It wasn't one of those casual 'dark past' things thrown in. This has an impact on him in the story and it has to be dealt with and acknowledged. I had to draw it. As hard as it was to do.... Whenever I get to the end of my script though in edits I'm so happy I almost cry. Maybe because I'm proud of it. These are my darlings!

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I'm pretty sure if someone sat there watching any comic artist script or draw they would see our faces cover every single emotion within the hour. I dunno about you, but I tend to match expressions with my characters as I draw them ^^;

[Mharz]

I think artists should be emotionally invested in their art. There are a lot of artists out there that has really good technique but their art doesn't really seem like there's feelings in them. It just feels so empty. Like they're just drawing robots or something.

As for my webcomic, I put bits of my personality, past, and emotions onto my characters. Every single night I imagine how my characters feel on the things that I made/will make them go through and I really feel them.

[alakotila]

I wondered if anyone else went to sleep mulling over character thoughts and story paths ^^

High fives!

[mariusthered]

Every dam night for the last three years ( The Mayor of swipe city always has his citizens in mind lol)

[zoonland]

I am not emotionally invested in Zoonland, even if sometimes I feel sorry for one of my characters because he is so unlucky! But I really hated one of the bad guys I created for one of my stories. He was so awful that I was disgusted myself!

[toonsfera]

I'm somewhat emotionally invested in anything that I draw, mainly in mangas like Scarlet Black and Rearth that have some tense moments, but It's just me that yawns drawing things like this?

[shazzbaa]

There's a great song called Breath (2AM) that sums up my feelings really well in the last verse:

If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer
Inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to

For me, when I draw something that's extremely cathartic, it's calling up those feelings that makes me emotional moreso than the piece itself. Once the thing is drawn, it's out. Putting my feelings into art or a story is kind of a way of getting them into a form I have more control over.
There's a lot I can't say for SURE about stories since nothing emotionally horrible has happened in RW, but putting feelings into a story tends to add a layer of abstraction, for me; while I want to channel as much of my feelings as I can, I'm also looking at it through the filter of another character's emotions and hopes and dreams and fears. It's not really my emotion, not fully; but it's not fully someone else's, either, and that means I don't feel it the same way I would if it were entirely mine or entirely someone else's.

[ErithEl]

I'm way too emotionally invested in my comic/characters. Especially when I have to draw pages like this one. It actually makes me worried for scenes I will have to draw in the future. It's one thing to write it and have a picture in your head, but when you actually see the characters going through something awful...

This is actually why I can't work on the comic as quickly as I would like because it's hard for me to do anything before work on days where I close because sometimes I will become emotionally compromised (so lame, I know!) and it's really hard to get through an entire day of work like that!

[KSlinger]

Totes. This scene with Glista after she's pulled out the building was especially emotional for me. Glista is someone's sister and, being a sister, it kind of hurt to have to put myself in her shoes. I wouldn't want any of my family to be in her position, and I'm dreading the scene where Jed finally finds her's and has to tell them what happened. Like full on don't even want to draw it.

[mg78]

if i create the story of a comic, i have to listen the right music, ready to translate what i feel (not easy) and stay @ my pc, alone, without none near me, in a quiet room. time pass without indication, im in another world, "in that world". i feel the pressure to end it when im near the end itself, i feel the sadness when something inthe story got sad moments and so on.

if i draw then it's another story. while i write its like to surf in rapids'river, and all its so full intense, when i move to draw all change. im damn slow to draw, so i have to make emotion be clear somewhere in me. and they stay so for loooong time. i keep that idea for all the time needed. so much that it happen to forget the feeling and i just move with instict. there re also "moments". periods where i move in a draw what my emotion "feel" like a cold detached emotion or an evil dark situation or a nightmare or love or whatever...

when i create something, yes im imvested all the way by emotions and feelings. better to say: they move me. so, back in the first question "Are you emotionally invested in your comic/drawings?" the answer it's YES, beacuse without it i would not draw or create anything.

[kambreapratt]

Yes.
I think no matter how much you try, if you create something, you are putting yourself in it. I do the writing for our comic and I have found myself crying over an event or laughing at something my characters said. My friend Robin from Leylines Comic has often said about her characters having their own "voice" and hearing them say what they would say and tell you that they wouldn't say or do something. I think that is true and I find myself hearing them often. So they are part me and part their own entity. But I am in every character (except for the couple Thom created and he writes their dialogue)