If you could restart your life over again

[N1ghtm4r3]

if i could and know what i know now would have started earlier, probably id be in the 4th volume by now

[JFeverFells]

It's astounding how much of your not art skills you can use to storytell.

[JFeverFells]

"When asked the same question, in their next life as a successful programmer, they responded, 'I wish I had been an artist, maybe then I would still have the ability to Dream."

[Chocolate]

Yeah. You could use coding to programmed your comic to anime. You could play instruments as background music. You could use AI to construct a basic storyline. Technology is so useful when it comes to comic-making. ️

[JFeverFells]

And we now have a story of a coder who makes his own anime only for it to be taken over by the ai he developed.

[NickRowler]

I don't really want to reset life (if we are talking about just art). I think the mistakes and development I have made have helped form me into what I am today.

I think if I could undo something, I wish I didn't accidentally delete my files back in 2019. I lost everything I drew in 2018 and I scrabbled to download every post I made. I think it mentally put me in a rough place and I didn't want to draw anything for months because I was so upset. The 2020 pandemic sort of helped me refocus, ironically. Even tho I saved a lot of the images, I wish I had my raw files.

[Fuzzyman818]

Augh. Where do I begin? Well first of all, I would have conducted myself a little bit better in school, especially when it came down to bullying. I would have socialized a little bit more with various people and maybe even gained a few friends along the way. Secondly, I would have loved to be able to study more and become a successful business executive. I heard the pay is really good. But then again, after all that I have been through in my life, I'm actually pretty glad I came out the way I did.

[TroyVSTheWorld]

I feel like it needs to be clarified that playing a musical instrument is definitely an art skill

[sable40k]

I would have ditched a lot of the mistaken beliefs around art that I entertained for too long. Things like inborn talent determining whether you should/shouldn't try something, or that artists must always starve, or that work ethic doesn't apply to creative pursuits

Kids have dumb beliefs and make dumb decisions based on those beliefs... or at least I did!

[ccmatta]

So many things, my kid. I'm a ball of regret.
First, I wouldn't let my parents dictate my future. I'd step up and do whataver the hell I wanted (art, in this case). I should have followed my heart.
Second, I wouldn't have stoped drawing for almost 5~6 years. Depression hit me hard, and I hardly sketched on the notebook at college. Stopping to draw almost killed me.
Third, I'd study more. Anatomy, perspective, I'd study everything cuz I had time and money for that. I'd do courses, I'd do anything possible and impossible to improve my art. Use my time in more productive way. And restart to write fiction (I stopped at my teenage years), as I missed it but never retried it.
As to my comic... I'd study more. Practice more. Mainly backgrounds (hehe). Maybe write and rewrite my comic for a while before posting it but I'm too anxious and wanted to do it already xD Maybe get some friends to review it frist before posting it would be nice too (but i'm too shy to show my work to friends). But I'm fine with how I went through working on it, it was chaotic for inumeral reasons, but what I'd change is basicaly my abilities that are lacking most of the time and practice could change a bit.

[Enthriex]

I would have stopped myself from being inspired by an artist that drew anatomically incorrect characters lol you see, for beginners that's a huge set back xD Since it's important to learn from the basics!

I like what I'm doing and I think I've used my time favorably as I've been practicing writing even though it was fanfiction. I always saw it as practice for something original I felt like writing in a near future hmmm

But yeah, I would have liked being inspired by more artists. I think I took too long to get some stuff right because of that XD now that I look back on the drawings that inspired me I'm like why did I not see this

Hmm, my first fanfiction was a mess though, I added too many elements XD but well, getting it wrong is always part of getting it right! I would have liked not writing it in english though, I wanted to practice then but the dialogues and narration were so poor it's cringy when I try to reread it ahahahah XD

Still I'm very optimistic about it, if anything, more than restarting this life, I wish I could take my memory and present skill to a new life so I could keep improving loool XD

[XiuLyn_12]

I would've never taken a hiatus from doing art. At the time, my progress was so slow it frustrated me. But if I never stop, who knows, maybe my art will be much better now.

[TheLemmaLlama]

Honestly, nothing. My art journey has actually gone ridiculously well. A few years ago I felt pretty envious of younger and more successful creators, so I might've said I wished I started so-and-so earlier or kept up with something-or-other so that I might be where they are by now, but these days I'm actually glad I didn't :'D

I'm no prodigy; at that age I was literally incapable of writing a story of the same depth I'm capable of today (just due to sheer life experience), and I'm glad none of my less-thought-out ideas from back then gained and traction because then I might've gotten addicted to the attention and felt compelled to keep milking the idea to keep the attention flowing, when my work would've been forgotten after a few years because it wasn't substantial enough to be worth discussing years down the line.

And the non-art related stuff I've being in the meantime is what lets me bring something to the table that not a lot of other artists have :]

Anyways, that's just to say I have no art/comic-related regrets :'D There are definitely some things in my life I'd do differently if given a second chance; I just hope the butterfly effect wouldn't make those changes screw up my art journey as well XD

[Lensing]

I turned 40 and I was sleeping on the ground in the apartment of a punk guy.
Next to me were some skinheads who were by bandmates. They didn´t know it was my birthday
because I didn´t celebrate or told anyone. We were recording an album and I was unhappy with
everything. I was poor, divorced, couldn´t sleep, unhappy with the band, didn´t have much contact
with my family and the list goes on. I felt regret.
I also couldn´t sleep that night and I was drunk, at midnight I turned 40 and I decided to
start drawing again, something I gave up when I was a teenager.
My life got better from that moment on

[EncryptedWriting]

Art wise, I would just tell myself to keep going. Don't listen, look and observe. Take all the art classes offered and look at studies to help understand stuff. Develop a style, understand anatomy and lightning.

[Learasc]

I would've published my comic on the internet sooner! Even when my art wasn't good back then, I think I would have more experience now if I published sooner.

[Christy_Oshima]

Writing wise, i'd pick up my confidence earlier and instead of throwing away precious stories and notebooks, i'd try harder to finish writing them and upload them.

Then again...If i started over nothing guarantees that i'd take different routes in life, plus, im pretty satisfied with the me now and here (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

[TroyVSTheWorld]

Yeah I would have not taken like an 8-year drawing hiatus, but it's because I met my gf around then and I was happy and didn't have a reason to draw, I guess. So, do I really want to change that? Yeah, not really.

I don't wanna change what I've done much at all. Yeah, I'm not perfect, but my imperfections are what make me ME. Like, the "best" version of me is some asshole in a suit killing it in the capitalism game. The worst version of me is already dead. Nah, life is like...Uh...Sonic The Hedgehog. You gotta keep moving forward.

[JFeverFells]

My statement was meant to lean towards his coding skill, but I understand the response.

[korivernon]

In terms of being a writer, I would have definitely posted my stuff online much sooner and for that matter I would have started writing much sooner, too (I've always had a thing for storytelling).

In just life in general I would have got into more sports (I realised I could have been quite the athlete), I would have taken better care of my health and I would have been more careful with those I can really trust (I've had my heart broken too many times .)

In addtion to that I would have bought a ton of bitcoins and picked the winning lottery numbers