How will you feel when the time to let go of your characters comes?

fighterxaos 2016-06-30 23:38:54 UTC #21

Actually I totally subscribe to Osamu Tezuka's Star system. So I do re-use characters like they were actors. But I guess there will come a time when you'll have to retire them eventually. I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

SpavVy 2016-07-01 00:09:14 UTC #22

Honestly, I don't think I'll mind much. I already have two other stories in mind and it doesn't mean I can't sit down and enjoy making illustrations of my characters even after the story ends.

demthorshie 2016-07-01 01:45:01 UTC #23

My comic is still relatively new so I haven't quite thought of how i'm going to feel when the story ends. The story won't be over for quite some time and even after it's over, there's still so much more after! I think i'll be pretty happy to finish the entire comic since the story won't be open ended or anything like that. Of course, probably in a year from now, i'll be itching to end the comic as well as relieved once it does end xD!

Starfestival 2016-07-01 07:10:07 UTC #24

I'm 50% done with my series. I'll probably feel weird honestly. I've been drawing the same characters for years now even when I wasn't working on the series itself directly. I learned to draw how I can now with these characters. It'll be hard but alas that's how it goes.

Shanny8 2016-07-01 15:35:35 UTC #25

Right now I got a ways to go before I even have to think about that. I'm not as invested in these characters(yet) as I am in my print series. Havent thought up the ending yet, as how there's constant flux in how I want the main storyline to climax- but I'm sure I'll have figured out soon. I'm sure when the time comes for me to end this series, I will be able to do it.

CalimonGraal 2016-07-02 03:35:52 UTC #26

Letting go of characters? What's that? 8V
I'm super terrible at letting characters go, being another one of those artists that sees them as my babies loool.
I'm still at the beginning for mine (100+ pages into chapter 2 of Psychteria, and Chapter 1 of Chronicles of Fenaur), so I don't have to worry about it yet.
But I've had ideas for other villains threatening the planet even after the big bad is defeated, so there'll be more adventures for them yet 8U

//probably will be long like them popular shonen animes loool

kazukitakamura126 2016-07-03 00:10:49 UTC #27

I am not sure how I would feel after I finish a comic and have let my character go and live their life after the main plot. Although my comic Seishin Patona is 1/3 the way complete. (It going to have 16 chapters and I am wrapping up chapter 4) My other comic In The Midst is only on Chapter 2 out of 15 so its still in its infancy. (To be fair Chapter 2 is almost 30 pages long.)

I don't plan to reuse these character after their initial run, I had bad experience with that. I kept reusing one of my favorite OCs Eota and I ended up burning her out. On the bright side I learned how to write better characters for it.

The characters from Seishin Patona and In The Midst may make a cameo appearance in my future work but that will be it.