I bookmarked this earlier so I would remember to respond to it. And then I got swept into a sea of conversation with a friend who might've fallen asleep seeing as it's the proper time to do that and I'm just weird and staying awake.
Okay!
Hi, hello. I'm Bones, it's nice to meet you. I'm the resident skeleton tis a pleasure. Now let me take a second to do some real talk with you.
You think your idea is a good idea right? Then it is!
But then you start to wonder if it's a good idea, everyone else's comics and novels look a hell of a lot better to you. Will you match up to them? Can you even compete? Wow, this is getting hard, let me try to rework this again.
And then the cycle repeats.
Listen, my friend. You don't need confidence to start drawing your work to publish it. You don't need the will of a thousand men to carry you there. All you need is the knowledge that you enjoy your work and that come hell or high water, you're proud of yourself for getting it out there.
Does it matter if other people like your work or not? That's something for you to decide.
Could your work be better if you take a little longer to get it out? Maybe.
But who will be the person that will regret not even putting it up at all? If we're betting, I'd say that's you.
I have many regrets in the short time I've been on this Earth and 90% of them are things that I wish I did but I didn't do. Now, I'm living my life trying to do whatever the hell I want under the sun within reason and come hell or highwater, I'm gonna be happy that I did it even if I messed up.
I haven't read DRGN or seen it yet but I'm pretty sure it's already great. You drawing it, posting it up, getting it out there, you're not failing. You're not messing up. You're not lesser. You're doing what you like and you're doing what you love and you're only going to get better as you nurture it. Don't destroy it and tear it down and try to rebuild it, just change it, mold it into what you're seeing in your mind and everything will come together.
I'm not a very confident person. I honestly put myself down a lot but I have only one life to live and I'd be damned if I'm gonna live it with regrets.
What about you?