Ta-Dah!

There's really nothing here but shameless self promotion, but I thought I'd do something rare for me and pat myself on back for once. There's millions of threads on this forum of people promoting their comics, but the reason I'm posting this is because this is actually a big step fro me. Look through the titles on some of my forum topics and you will see a long stretch of mope and dread. I began to ask myself why I wasn't having fun anymore so I thought back on when I did have fun. This lead me to deciding to get as back to basics as I could which for me was pencil and paper.

I sketched and "inked" all the original lines for this on paper with mechanical pencils, and only switched back to digital for colors. Sitting with a sketchbook on my knees and drawing had pretty much been how I learned to draw, and getting back to that reminded me of why I started in the first place. Figuring out how to do more complex things with computers will be my next task, I suppose. But I can say that this is he first time I felt frustrated at a project not because I hated my art or myself, but because I was so eager to see it to completion! This is definitely a step up from my last project.


It's not like there aren't any problems. I still punked out of having to draw backgrounds by setting everything in an open field, and I'm not sure if jpegs were the best file format (the pngs wouldn't fit on file size). And the fact that this is one of my first comics in two years really show how badly I've let perfectionism and anxiety beat me down. Its like I've in inadvertently stunted myself with all that worrying. Perfectionists really don't get anything done.

Either way I can only hope that I can use this small boost to push me to the next project, because for once in a long time I actually feel enthusiastic about creating!