Is it normal to lose interest in your own comic?

[Olivia]

I've slowly lost interest in the comic I'm writing, I'm not stopping it though...I just have so many other ideas I want to bring to life and it's like I want my first comic to go faster but I don't want to rush it...is this normal?

[J.Lovelace]

It is normal to me.
I tend to start new things way too often, putting previous things on hiatus. My mind is just faster in creating stories than I am able to catch up with my art ;v;

But I eventually get back to my old projects, refresh them a bit and then switch between old and new.
I'm very chaotic in what I do :'D

[Sanz]

I dont know about normal. What is normal lol but i think maybe if youre loosing interest maybe you should do another at least get the juices flowing. But never take on too much at one time. Work on one one day and another the next day so they both remain fresh and intersting. It helps for me. My first comic is posted here on tap but sometimes i get bored with it so im work on the writing of another it works out for me because they are two completely different genres.

[demthorshie]

Yes, it can be normal, especially if you've worked on the comic for many years. I am currently on hiatus with another comic i've been working on for nearly 8 years, not sure when i'll bring it back but i'm currently super interested in what i'm doing here at Tap. Feelings and interests can change with age is all. :]

[Masich]

Pretty normal, some people often see it as being a Writers block. But, losing interest in your own comic, because you have ideas to make a other comic, is very common in the comic world. I even stopped my first comic (for a while) in order to follow my ideas of a second.

[niinasalmelin]

I have seen it happen to some creators, professional and amateur so I guess it's in normal.

I can't say I've ever lost interest on my comic, BUT there has been some lukewarm times with it. However, right now we're on our new honeymoon <3___<3

[kazukitakamura126]

Losing interest in your own work can be quite a nasty road block and can compromise the quality of your work. I am all to familiar with this feeling, before Seishin Patona I would start new stories scrap them and make a new one then the cycle continues. I think for me it doesn't matter if the story is run-of-the-mill or a masterpiece as long as I have people supporting my work it makes it feel worth it. My current comic Seishin Patona has been running for 1 year and 3 months. However, during its run I made In The Midst, this was one of my comic's low points.

For that I decided I wouldn't make a genre I normally work with so it doesn't feel the same as Seishin Patona. Well, its worked and it is moving right along.

[R.n.P]

For me its not normal since its something I bring up more ideas for overtime
Maybe you planned every step of your comic already so juz try making more ideas to add to it, overtime you'll notice you'll start gaining interest in it again
THE LAST SAMURAI

[novasiri]

I've heard it happening to others with long running comics, something akin to story "burnout". Usually taking a brief hiatus and doing another project can help get the spark going again, so I hear.

[dratinigirl]

I think yes, we can get bored or see a newer, more appealing idea and be tempted to drop everything for the pursuit of something different. It's important to stick to things once you start them though- if you truly believe in them. Sometimes we just get burnt out on things!

[Ayomekum]

I'd say the challenge is not losing interest in your own comic. extended creation takes some real dedication; even just completing Chapter 1 can be a big milestone

[HNLEE]

For me it isn't and shouldn't be normal. Probably probably thinking about the work of executing and the length you still need to go through can be discouraging. It's normal to feel uninterested to draw but making the story should always be exciting. I once caught myself feeling not so eager to update and I thought it was normal cause it was a filler but then I thought if I didn't even feel interested to read my comic then how can I expect others to like it.
I also have 5 other stories I want to draw now but the one I'm working on right now should be just as quality as my other works. Try reassessing your work. Is the art in your comic something you enjoy drawing? Is the story something you yourself would read? I hope you find that interest to create again.

[joannekwan]

If you lose complete interest in the story, then you probably weren't 100% behind it in the first place. But if you do love your story and have been working on it for a period of time, I think it's normal to have a lull in your passion for drawing it, especially if it's a slow part or a scene that is exhausting to draw.

This is why I have multiple series, I can bounce back and forth between them.

[iddqd]

I hear you. I've been working on a very regular basis on my comic for about a year now (amid part-time work, studying, and a committed relationship). The first page I started something like two years ago. I've written and re-written the story many times, and kept steadily chipping away at the pages... but sometimes found my interest dwindle to the point where I find myself in a rut. There's other ideas I have, and I want to work in other media, but I have no time to draw a page-per-week and do other stuff in life I have to do. I even started feeling resentment towards the comic at some point, because page-per-week schedule left me no time for much else.

Something I've noticed though is that taking breaks and doing something else really helped me rejuvenate. Sometimes it's not even art-related, but varying what I do helps me get the juice back. Currently I've taken on a request from my friends to draw a series of pen-and-ink illustrations meant for print. It's daunting but also refreshing, since I can do things that I won't normally do for the story I am working on. That should take me into June. Then, if I feel froggy, I am thinking of doing a 3-page horror story, before going back to the Big Project. But chances are by then I will have an itch to go back anyway, since that's how it seems to work most of the time.

[MylCreates]

Yeah, I've had the issue aswell sometimes. Mostly just because it's hard to produce content as fast as I'd like to.
If you don't have many followers you can let it go on semi hiatus with ease if you're trying to work things out, that or work with one-shot short stories as well and see which one people find most interesting to turn into a longer series?

[carloswebcomic]

Heh. I'm mentioned in TVTropes.org as an example of Attention Deficit Creator Disorder.

I get so many ideas I can't fit into the comic I'm making that I very quickly lose interes in the project.
So what I've done is to use a format that gives me enough room to do whatever pops into my head.

[Doubtcent]

Quite normal.

I can't count how many projects, from writing to drawing, that I have given up because I lost interest or just didn't have the time or that I just wanted to do other things with my life.

To me, that's just how life is. But don't let it become your habit.

For instance, I have been working on my comic for over a year, and it's fastly approaching its second. I have found passion in what I create, but other times I just want to work on something else for a change. So what do I do? I keep on a schedule and pace out different activities throughout the week. That way when I get back to the thing that might have bored me, I might have more interest in it since there was some distance.

I make at least 2 comic series a week, and write when I have the thoughts of doing so. I do livestreaming on the weekends, and I'm trying to work in some reading as well.

So while I do in fact lose interest in creating sometimes, pushing through and persevering until the project is done can help character development. If I am someday to do this as a job, (with luck and time, maybe.) I'll need to be in this kind of mindset just to get stuff done, even if I'm not all that interested in doing it that day.

But once I get in a zone, I never want to stop!

[SamNoir]

To be Frank, if you are not interested in your own comic, then there is no compelling reason for others to have interest as well.

Better to scuttle it and do something you are much more interested in and passionate about. Life is too short to go through the motions.

The audience can smell disinterest/indifference.