What do you do for a living again?
It's totally doable but this has to be the way you want to spend your free personal time. I work full time, make sure to exercise 3 times a week, have a 45 minute commute to and from work and have a baby on the way and I'm managing my main webcomic and I've been doing the Webtoon Short Story contest too. And I'm not including just general house chores like cleaning shopping and cooking. Basically right now I don't have any time for video games or other leisure activities. Art is my leisure activity. It's how I spend nearly every second of my time that I'm not doing something that takes more of a priority. Honestly, I can't wait to finish this webtoon contest (almost done!) because that will allow me to put that time to other non-comic-related stuff and not feel like I'm pursuing a deadline as much. I love doing this though. and I don't mind getting home and going straight to work at improving my artwork and making a comic. But that's what you have to want if you want to do it. And if you don't then no pressure and put a comic out as you feel like. You're doing it for free, you don't owe anyone anything. The point is though that the time exists in the day. But you have to want it badly enough to find it.
Wow that's lucky! I can't leave my desk for five minutes without ending up with 15 emails and 3 urgent requests OTL
As silly as it seems, I had never considered splitting my comic making into separate tasks... I'm the type of person who over fixates on a task and would't stop until the thing is fully rendered or I'm forced to stop by exhaustion. I think splitting my pages into more manageable tasks might be a good first step U..U
(Good thing I don't have any non-work deadlines or else I would have never rested)
I usually devote the weekends and certain weeknights to drawing. I don't force myself to because sometimes I'm really tired and can't stand sitting in front of a computer beyond my full time job. Of course, if I do draw I usually don't have time for other activities that are also important to me. It's a weird balance I'm still trying to work out.
Unfortunately, I found that I had a lot more time and motivation to draw when I was in between full time jobs. 
I work in a janitorial position. I mostly use my lunch break to get all my extra writing and drawing practice in.
I work full time and manage to do most of my chores and update once a week. Managing your time is key if you have a non related full time job. Ironically the pandemic has been great for this as my social obligations disappeared and I was able to spend all my non working time on creating.
For me personally, I found that scheduling tasks in advance helped a lot. It gave me a structure and I could sit down and focus on what needed to be done because I'd decided on it beforehand.
I just feel that "Try harder" as a piece of advice needs a bit more unpacking. Certainly everyone should try their best. If they really want something, then they must exert their utmost to have it. At the same time, not everyone is lucky enough to be a high-energy person and to have a job that tires the body but leaves the mind free to dream. As long as you're not standing on a ladder, anyway.
It's a hard one to balance, definitely. I did writing as my Thing to Unwind for a while just so I'd get it done but sometimes I'd find it a bit too much like work to get started 
Perhaps the best advice is to just to a bit here and there and not push yourself too much to get stuff done. You're not a robot after all.
hmm. I worked from 7-3:30 at my last job before I entered university and I occasionally did overtime on Saturday from 7-12. I lived with my parents at the time so housework did not take up much of my free time, really I just drew and write during that off time to relive stress until 11:00 in the night. It may be different once I find a job after graduation, but who knows really
I've been in that place of being so overworked that I couldn't follow my dream of comic making. But...I got out of it, and made sure that I'd never be in that situation again.
I used to work 70 hours a week, two jobs, one part time, one full time, at the same hospital. 16 hour days were pretty common for me. I was depressed 24\7, at some point I just said 'screw it, can't live like this', and went to another job, that paid less, but I was able to start pursuing my dream. Luck has nothing to do with my situation, I took charge of it and steered in a different way.
The reason I tout the 'Try harder' line is because there's no other way it could work for me. Not everyone is the same as me, I understand that. But what if someone who is like me read that and that was the push they needed?
Am I successful by any mainstream standard? Heck no. I'm a nobody, but it won't stop me from giving advice that helped me, because maybe it will help someone else.
Oof working in retails sucks hard.
I'm glad you managed to get out of that and find something better!
I think the thing with that is that I love my job and it's something that I worked hard to get, it just sucks that I also love drawing but one brings in money and the other one doesn't lol.
I just saw the word 'Lucky'. Nope. I'm not lucky in the slightest xD everything I've accomplished so far was hard won, I scratched, bit, screamed to the sky and fought my way out of that place.
My wife is really awesome in her support of my art, so I've got her in my corner, so that helped kindle that drive. But in the end, I'm still responsible for keeping that fire going.
Nevertheless you could not bite if you had no teeth. We are all born with advantages and disadvantages and we never quite deserve the advantages until we make something of them.
Sure.
Life is brutal and unfair. That's the reality of things. I know some people are in places that they can't even use those advantages. Some people even have everything taken away from them.
That's why I see it as vital to use my strengths while I have them.
Got no guarantees that I'll have them forever either, one cruel twist from life will be all it takes to lose them. I have to do something with them.
Further statements I have are religion based. I won't answer back anything about it in here. I'm not intending to preach, but this is integral to who I am
Not trying to start a religious debate or proselytize, but I 100% believe that I have my strengths because of God. For me, wasting them would be a slap in his face.
I started to make comic in october i guess and published it on new years eve - I am making one update per month mostly.and earlier months had some buffer.
I work fulltime from 10 to 19, 5 days a week, I get up at 9:30 ( I mooved closer to the office) . On business days days I start drawing around 20 up to 23 and than I go to play multiplayer games with my friends until 3 am, or if my friend don't come - I draw until 3 am.( I sleep about 6 hours a day).
I can't cook anything except pasta with cheese which takes about 15 mins to finish dinner. so on business days a eat at work and on weekends I order food delivery mostly. On weekends I draw for about 10-12 hours or spend all time playing games. I start with lineart and leave coloring for the last part each day cause my hand gets tired.
I don't have kids or pest so noone is distracting me.
A lot of it is time management and the willingness to do it. I do art every day all day long. I'm an artist professionally, then I come home and do more art, which can seriously burn me out. There are definitely days where I'm too tired, or not into it, and that's ok. Sometimes I'd rather play a game or just watch tv or something, so I do it. What's the point if you're not having fun with it? My art is on my time, lol.
TLDR; Work all day, work on personal art late at night. Chores on weekends
Before Quarantine -
* 9am-7pm - Work full time during the day
* I get fed breakfast and lunch at work, so I don't need to prep food
* draw on the train on to and from work
* 8pm - come home and feed humans and animals, watch a a show or play a game while I eat
* 9pm-2am - do art work until very late at night
* most of the chores were done during the weekend, since I would get home too late to start machines, since I live in an apartment. I also have a husband that also does chores.
Present day under quarantine -
* 10am-6pm - Work during the day
* sometimes I'll do chores while waiting on something at work
* lunch break - order food and play a game for a bit
* dishes usually need to be done before I can do dinner, now that we use all dishes in a day it seems
* 6pm - make dinner, feed everyone
* eat dinner - play a game or watch something
* 8pm - 12am - do art until very late at night
* chores are still usually saved for weekends, but if they can't wait or it's something like dishes or laundry, you can just get that stuff going and forget about it.
I personally couldn't keep up with a regularly-updating comic while I was working a full-time corporate job. I had to be on the train for an hour and a half to and from work, at work for 8-9 hours a day, then come home and take care of the dog and cook dinner and do dishes and go to the laundromat... Honestly, I couldn't do it. I was just too tired all the time, and mentally and creatively drained. I even tried using the time spent on the train to draw comics, but I just didn't have the mental energy to be creative and artistic after all that.
I don't think there's any shame in not being able to draw for a while. After a certain point, though, I think priorities need to be evaluated. Is it more important to make more money and be financially stable? Or is it more important for you to have the free time to creatively express yourself? For me, my time was worth more than the money I was earning, so I wound up moving into a much smaller and cheaper apartment and transferring to a different job that was closer and worked fewer hours, so I spent less time on the train and at work. I made a lot less money, and there were a few times where I had to borrow money to get my car fixed or take my dog to the emergency vet, but my mental and creative health was significantly improved.