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So the recent year has been an experimental one for me. I essentially put my comic stuff on indefinite hiatus and decided to put my time in a different project. All the while I told myself "so what was it that made me quit?"

Turns out that the answer was a visible end for the project. Essentially it was going to go on for as long as I could think of and the thought of that burned me out.

But now that I finished my other project on IG, I came to think "well what if I just do relatively shorter projects and instead of seeing it like a huge challenge, just chop it up in small doable tasks?"

This leads me to now working on a sort of reboot of my comic. It'll be much shorter for the time being, with a clear cut objective for my characters. Don't wanna make it too complicated in terms of lore or oversaturated with characters, so I'm gonna try my best and see if my brain can keep up.

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Good luck!!! Excited to see what the new reboot will be like, hope you find this next go around just as if not more enjoyable than the first time!

I'm in a pretty similar situation, and seeing your post just confirmed that I am on the right track.
I drew my comics since my teenage years (I'm 33 now), and working on the same thing for such a long time can easily burn you out. I could only accept my fail this year, and now I'm working on a new project, which made me get back my motivaton. Well, the only difference, that this is also a long project :sweat_smile:, but currently I love to do it, so I'm okay with it, even if it would be smarter to work on something shorter.

I actually experienced this exact thing myself. My first comic had an end, but it was so astronomically far away that when I started my other comic as a side project it soon became my main focus because it had an achievable end.

That’s a super good idea! I myself have employed similar tactics and they really do work imo. All the best of luck in your writing and drawing journeys! And, don’t forget to draw things for yourself, not just for projects. Sometimes, I at least find myself so consumed with drawing for my actual job that I forget to let loose and just draw something silly and non-professional, maybe fan art, maybe just a doodle page. Don’t forget to draw for yourself, as imo that’s the most important part of art! Good luck in defeating burnout!