I'm 25! I'm currently underemployed as a grocery cashier when I'm not drawing. I write and illustrate Alli Ascending and I just started a personal project here too I'm calling my sketchbook.
Alli Ascending is a horror(ish) comic about a girl who gets more than she bargained for in an effort to keep her youtube audience captivated. If you like cults, hate onions, or if you're lgbtq, this comic is for you. I'm on chapter 3 out of 11, its been a year. I'm in this one for the long haul, though hopefully at a brisker pace.
My "sketchbook" isn't really a sketchbook right now, as its just a couple of finished personal comic pieces. In the future it might not be so polished, but for now it's a place to share my work that isn't Alli related.
I'm over 25 and have been writing/creating stuff for a super long time. I feel like you can tell some of my oldest writing is different from my newer stuff, even though both Nice To Meet You and Nearly There Nicely were both started during a writer's block hahahaha
I balance work with my creative endeavors. Work actually takes more energy out of me so I do less drawing while working consistently. It can also effect my writing habits, but I try to keep a steady pace of at least doing something every few weeks, if not several times a month. The trick is that even if I'm not able to produce something, I can think on it - my commute to work and appointments is 15min to 1hr long, usually 1 hr. And during breaks at work, I'll text a passage of writing to my email (a special one just to receive these messages), and then later I can stitch them back together. It's a lot easier to write at work than it is to draw. Haha!
Here's one of my stories done between the two above. It's one of the few completed works I have, and I actually really enjoy the pacing and insanity that goes through it. Kind of around this time, or just after, I started to realize that I enjoyed working with smaller cast sizes and started to downsize.
25 years old and still 6 years old at heart :3
<imgI won't link my comic since it's on hiatus and will be revamped soon. But, here's a link to my YouTube Channel!
26 here, and this is my comic!
With great pride and joy, I can show you the first volume of Burn My Shadow for FREE!
The first episode - Face in the Sand - had been released in both English and Italian on Patreon, Tapas, and Webtoons!
We'll deliver a new chapter every 6 weeks.
Burn My Shadow is a dystopian comic book created and written by Lanza Sebastiano, pencilled by Conti Fabio, inked by Pasquali Andrea and LortiaMJB.
The year is 2113. Global political and economic stability has been upset by extreme weather conditions, as well as an ever-growing population. Tharmas is an outcast in search of his long-lost sister. In spite of his objections, he begrudgingly accept K's company, a child journeying alongside him.
The search leads Tharmas and K through the megalopolis speckling a predominantly arid wasteland. Cauldrons to diverse cultures, the urban complexes, shielded from extreme weather events by gargantuan domes, house the better portion of the world population. Food and water reserves are scant; electronic masks, serving as IDs and credit chips, are provided amongst the wealthy.
The journey will bring Tharmas face to face with the new world's leading figures; he will avail himself of violence as he investigates his sister's whereabouts, whilst his relationship with K will delve deeper into his individuality.
I'm 27 but I've been told I look younger. I'm really bad at balancing my writing with the rest of my life, as proven by the fact that despite starting The Black Robin in 2011, I haven't been working on it that whole time. There were whole months or years where I had set it aside because I couldn't mange my time well enough to work on it. I think I'm doing better, but that's what growing older is all about; trying new things and improving.
I'm 33 and I don't think anybody should follow my example when it comes to balancing life and work... Basically every time I've worked, I've worked myself to the bone, to complete exhaustion, until I broke down.
Right now I'm trying to get back up after what seemed like a great work opportunity didn't pan out at all... and meanwhile I'm publishing a stick figure comic strip I've been meaning to publish since 2012 but hadn't in over 7 years...
Hi @paperwren and everyone,
Thank you for creating this thread. I'm 25 years old, and I have just begun my writing career. Here is my first novel. Finishing it was an unforgettable journey, and I made some lifelong friends along the way "And Even If Love Was Lost" is a Vietnamese song, from which I based the novel's title on. It has that pining, painful, heartbroken feeling of unrequited love, which inspires me to write the not-so-much-of-a-love-story between Nha, a criminal, and Hai, a prostitute. I hope you all can find it interesting!