Tips about how to "fight" monotony?

@joannekwan Joanne Kwan
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 18:04:19 +0000

@joannekwan wrote:

Give yourself a break from comics. Treat it like work where you have a weekend off from them. I work on my comics 4 days out of the week and I use the other days to do other projects and have down-time.

Go to some place new! Or at least to a place you don't go everyday. Go to the zoo, a museum, a local tourist attraction, the beach, hike in the woods, something to shake things up. And if your friends aren't into it, go by yourself or with a parent/guardian.

Watch something out of your comfort zone (something you can handle at least. like if you can't stand blood, don't watch a slasher). I suggest movies, since they're usually one-off stories and only take a couple of hours out of your time. I also see it as research for my comics, in cinematography, framework, mood-setting, etc. And if you don't even have time for that, I've found great pleasure in watching movie reviews on youtube. I get recommendations from them too. One series of reviews I just put on in the background as I draw, since it's just people in a car talking (my favorite non-podcast podcast haha).