'older' creators (25+) let's support each other!

beta1042 2021-07-06 04:43:32 UTC #21

Hey nice to meet you! I'm in my 30s! I've always enjoyed art and drew a lot in high school, but nothing serious. Then after college I took a long break from art to focus on my job(teaching math). But later I had kids and quit work to take care of them. I've always been into writing stories and loved reading comics and one day about 4 yrs ago realized I missed art and wanted to get back into it. So I bought a surface and got started rather impulsively making a comic. I actually just recently finished drawing that comic and it's last episode will publish in a couple months!

Now I'm working on a new comic. It's a bit of a campy horror comedy, I wanted a change of pace from my previous comic which was HS drama-romance

Mallory 2021-07-06 04:44:20 UTC #22

I'm turning 30 this year! I've been drawing and telling stories since I was a toddler but... Never made it public until the last few years (I shared a manuscript with some friends, and now am publishing my comic). My degree is in Biology and Physiology (which has mostly gotten used to navigate my inherited medical conditions) and I currently work at a library.

I have a lot of health issues, that I found out TODAY were due to an inherited metabolic problem. I have nerve pain and muscle weakness from this, and though I'm recovering and doing much better, I'm still limited with how much creative stuff I can do in a single day. I'm currently trying to figure out how to voice type, and then maybe I can get a bit more creative mileage. No drawing, but I could potentially write.

I have a huge interest in sci-fi and animation and character design, so a lot of my effort in my comic goes into that.

deftcoyote 2021-07-06 05:09:54 UTC #23

It's funny to see "old" and 25 together. I just turned 40 and thought I'd start making a comic strip a month because it's a pretty small commitment. Also a way to share a bunch of game of thrones inside jokes with others. Anyway, I'm excited to check out all these other comics from people who are just doing it for fun on the side. Cheers!

likhoradka 2021-07-06 05:35:03 UTC #24

Late thirties, here. My day job is store manager for a mom-n-pop retail shop. I went to school for 2D animation, but never got the chance to use it thanks to a lot of life issues going on at the time. So now I'm attempting to make comics and write a couple books in what spare time I have in order to relax after working all day and dealing with humans. Because three or more projects going on at once is relaxing, apparently... I wish I had taken the opportunity during lockdown to start my comic (or be productive in any way, shape, or form), but I ended up spending that playing Mass Effect and Animal Crossing to detox from retail work.

summermcallen 2021-07-06 06:37:58 UTC #25

I think no one in this thread is really "old" by now We are all bloody young

I'm 27 and draw since I was a kid, no clue when I really begin. A few years back I started drawing webtoons. Before that I draw a few mangas and even wrote fanfics ( XD ) but was never really active online.
My boyfriend gave me the strength to upload my work and draw more. Since then I got more and more confident.
In my daily live I'm a programmer for online shops and have a dog <3 I try to draw as much as possible beneath the work, but it's sometimes really hard to manage. Also bc I want to visit friends and family, have time with my boyfriend and dog and just want to do some other hobbies, like gaming, sometimes.

My comic is "Grim Reaper in training". It had a good start with nearly 200 subs at the first day (2 years ago), but after that I just grow really slowly. Till last month I had 800 subs. I was really proud of me to get this much, but then webtoon set my comic on the start page and I just grew up to 3K subs. Thats overwhelming. On tapas I don't have that much audience. The start was hard and I barely get new followers here. But I try hard on both platforms

Lirina 2021-07-06 09:46:32 UTC #26

I'm 32 I've always made up fictional stories or planned out novels when I was younger but now is my first time actually writing one. I also started writing fanfictions, mainly for improving my English when I moved to the UK for university.

When I was in uni studying biology, I realised how much I loved writing and thus became a medical writer, because I found it to be the best-paid writing job available to me. And now I'm here

Hambonous 2021-07-06 09:54:42 UTC #27

Good thing I recently just turned 25. Glad to see so many older creator still aspiring to tell great stories!

Kirieslawa 2021-07-06 10:44:24 UTC #28

Hi! I'm 26. I'm office worker but after hours I'm comic artist. I also love to do illustrations. I hope one day I'll become full-time artist
And here's my comic:

doublemelon 2021-07-06 10:46:10 UTC #29

Your comic is so colorful and amazinggg

naheravieri 2021-07-06 11:05:26 UTC #30

Hii! I'm all for the whole older creator thing
I'm 31 and I've started drawing my comic series this year in march. I created stories basically my whole life, but it took me a long time to realize, that I could actually do something with them. I worked on my drawing skills for many years to be more or less good enough to draw a comic and here it is!

It's called 'A Tale of Two Shadows', it's a slow burning LGBTQ+ crime thriller. Mature content warning, through!

rumpenstiltzkin 2021-07-06 11:59:51 UTC #31

Hey,

Im 37 and always been drawing and always been a bit to chicken to start my own comic. Ive been doing comic pages here and there throughout the years but rarely shown them publicly.

Always felt like there was more to learn before I could make my own comic - esp backgrounds but last year I just said fuck it and went with it haha

I also have an education in animation and been working mostly as game animator but also on 2D feature films but nowadays Im going back to an old interest of mine - horses - and is working in a stable!

I have way to many characters and stories but I got the idea for my ongoing comic somewhere back in 2014-ish? and only recently managed to really start the comic and Im really enjoying it a lot!

Hambonous 2021-07-06 12:08:24 UTC #32

Thank you so much! ^^

Llyrel 2021-07-06 12:15:19 UTC #33

Oh hai, nice to see some fellow millennials!

I'm going to be 32 by the end of the month and I've been drawing and writing since I was a wee little kid :'D I have a Master's degree in Graphic Design and I work as an Art History and technical drawing teacher by day. I've been involved in the world of traditional publishing for over a decade now, both as a writer and as an illustrator. The Emergency Coven is my first "official" big comic project.

I've always wanted to be a comic artist, but the traditional comic scene in my country is tiny, overly focused on already existing IPs and quite hard to get in. Plus, I much prefer to work on my own comics, rather than stuff written by someone else, so when I realized that webcomics were a thing, I was super happy! I don't necessarily plan to turn comic-making into a full time job and I'm more than happy keeping it as a side-job of sorts... but I'd definitely love to see my audience grow ^___^

About the comic: The Emergency Coven is a supernatural mystery that's been in the works since 2015 (though I only started to publish it as an actual comic starting from last year). It follows a bunch of disaster mages joining forces against a bunch of disaster cultists. Includes found family/fire-forged friends, cool motorcycles, lots of long haired dudes and LGBT+ characters. Rated T+ for language, violence and sensitive themes (e.g. mental health, bullying and abuse).

rambog 2021-07-06 12:18:31 UTC #34

I'm 16 and have never worked with anything. At the beginning, I considered to write as a hobby, but as I wrote my story I decided to take it serious. I really love the story I'm writing and everything that is gonna happen. I hope you all enjoy it! My novel is a fantasy which happens in an unequal world, where there is a people who is hunted under some empire's justification. "Everybody is victim of an unequal sun."
Take a look:
https://tapas.io/series/Seen-from-Shadow

Ninjaniksel 2021-07-06 12:24:14 UTC #35

Oh, this is nice! I'm 28, turning 29 soon and about to get married. I actually met my fiance on a forum/website where I was writing a lot and RP'ing with others and a friend I met there is also gonna be at my wedding, I've known her for over 10 years now.

I've been writing for as long as I remember, I started writing in notebooks, typed out stories on my mom's old typewriter and later had a computer in my room with Windows 95 and no internet where I wrote stories in notepad haha. A few years ago I wrote my first novel and I'm working on translating it to English (the Mule). I wrote it for a competition for that website I started on but decided not to post it in the end. I haven't posted it anywhere before I decided to come to Tapas and post it here.

The other one (Summer's out of reach) is a totally different genre than I usually write and is more of a fun project to branch out. I'm not very good at writing romance because I somehow always end up writing angst and its happening again lol.

Genre: Sci-fi
When police officer Shane Hall literally tumbles into a different reality one day, everything changes for him. The young woman he holds responsible for this doesn't want anything more than to bring him home and get rid of this unwanted visitor, but that turns out to be a lot harder than expected.

Genre: BL
Anthony J. Crowley, a trust fund kid and the son of a well-known politician, meets the very religious Aziraphale Fell every year for two weeks in France on their summer holiday. During these seven years they develop a friendship, until something happens and Anthony doesn't come back. It takes them twelve years to reunite, but no one told them how badly it can hurt.

WARNING: Some episodes will be rated as "mature" for sexual content and implied abuse.

eyewhiskers 2021-07-06 12:34:16 UTC #36

Just turned 29 but happy to have finally started on my comic! Here’s mine.

Gangsters, corruption & animal people!

ricardoaltuna 2021-07-06 13:08:29 UTC #37

Alright! is nice to see that I'm not the only one over 30 in here

I'm a 32-year-old graphic designer that has been trying to do webcomics ever since my high school days when the site to publish comics where Smackjeeves, Drunkdunk, and Comicfury. I didn't get much posted in those times but I've been working and re-working and re-re-working the plot of my comic and finally started posting in here and on webtoon around May.

My comic, Auster, is an Action / Horror / Urban fantasy comic about a teen with social anxiety and amnesia who fears he's gonna be completely alone after his only two friends move away for college next year. But then he gets a mysterious letter from someone that says she can bring back his memories and help him reconnect with his childhood friends. He goes to meet with that person not knowing he'll end up caught in the middle of a war between secret organizations in a world in which people develop super powers based on the traumatic experiences they have lived.

If that sounds interesting to you feel free to check it out =)

aadi-m 2021-07-06 13:20:34 UTC #38

Yay! Glad to see a fellow older creator here! I subbed to your comic, its frickin adorable, my friend!
Here's mine:

It is a story that I put off for almost 12 years due to self-doubt and pessimism, and at the age of 27, I finally decided to push myself and make it. Balancing a family, job and studies (masters degree), its a lot of work and yet I strive to draw every single day and tell my story.
Thanks for the thread!

aadi-m 2021-07-06 13:22:45 UTC #39

What a lovely story (of yourself and your works), thanks for sharing! Also hearty congratulations on the next big step in your life! <3

renaissancebadger 2021-07-06 13:28:25 UTC #40

Hello fellow millennials. I, too, am depressed lol

I’m 32 and have been doodling since I figured out how to hold a pencil and have been writing for nearly as long (although, I wouldn’t say I’m particularly adept at either, but it fills the void just a smidge, which is lovely) I have a novel that I just started writing with no plan whatsoever (do not do this, I have no idea what to write for it next and I’m closing in on what I had written previously) and a comic I’ve been writing for nearly a decade (however, I am colorblind and terrible at perspective/backgrounds, so idk man I guess I’m just a mess)

They’re both passion projects that I’ve put a lot of myself into, and to see any amount of people enjoy them has been such an incredible experience.

For Julian Rhydderch; I’ve got some mental health issues of my own and am autistic so this was more an exercise in learning emotions and trying to find ways to understand them and maybe the reactions of people around me/how to deal with them. It was never meant to be shared with people, but I allowed friends to read it and they told me to share it.

As for The Tower, I wanted to make a superhero comic with one linear plot. While there are side stories, there’s also a definite end planned. The whole plot is planned, actually, now I just need to get better at art!