haha all artists seem to put themselves out for their craft ^^;
Our hearts are burning with stories to tell and by god we will tell them.
Alot of my personal drives comes from when i see people react to my stories and characters like i do. "UWAH! I LOVE THEM!" "OOOO THEYRE GONNA KISS!" it chuffs me in a way thats similar to a hard drug feeling (I would assume as i have never done them XD)
I'm in love with giving people parts of myself that they can adore. Something they can use to feel better even if its just alil.
Its a way for someone like me who rarely leaves the house to connect with people all over the world of many colors and cultures whom I would never connect with otherwise and when i think about that it feels special to me.
and yes of course I want to make it my job, but the real thing i love is to bring these people to life, and give them to others, and maybe inspire or motivate...their own worlds <3 that would be dope.
I love creating ideas in my mind, and I love channeling them into my writing--the only way I could do. I feel like that's the only thing I could do. There's nothing more to my life that feels fulfilling, and there's only a small number of things that I wholeheartedly enjoy--writing being one of them. So, I decided to write. Just, write. Because I enjoy it, and I find it fulfilling to have people read my story--even if it's only one person or two people. At least, I don't feel lonely when I'm writing, or when I'm publishing my crappy writing and have someone liking or commenting. That's--kind of the only thing that keeps me going.
I dunno, it's sort of complicated stuff, self-achievement, and acknowledgment.
It's like, Ah, it's the dude that creates that comic!
or R.I.P the dude that creates that comic.
Things have changed as I've gotten older and gone through personal issues. I don't have the same energy or drive I had as a kid but I understand why I did what I've done with art
- What makes artists create
Have you ever seen interviews with well known artists? Lot of them will say something like "I didn't choose music, music chose me," or the like. Lot of people are imaginative and put in the work so they can accurately express it. For some creatives, they feel as though they have to create. There's this thing going on in our heads and we just have to express it. You look at the sky, the trees, people on the streets and just see something. Something you have to express.
Personally, I've never seen it as "masochistic" or something ridiculously difficult. Yeah it's difficult but I wanted it. I wanted to draw, I wanted to make stories and do it well. I've gone as long as 3 days without sleep to complete something (don't do that btw), I've done numerous all nighters working on drawings or learning something because I just get lost in the subject, I don't realize the time or that I'm hungry or sleepy. I got a massive migraine once as a result.
- dont do this btw lul, it's unhealthy
When I had mental health issues or what I called "down periods" I would have long periods of time where I wasn't drawing, because I found it laborious and I didn't have the motivation. I'd never force myself to draw when I didn't want to because my work would come out bad. I had it in middle school, and the last few years I was in a down period. I had lost my drive.
Whilst I don't have that same energy nowadays, I have more discipline to keep to some schedule and a little more energy. I wouldn't say my drive has returned though.
Getting back to the main question, my original drive was because my mind was ahead of my age when I was a child. Art was the only way I could express what was going on. Then I became motivated to improve with the end goal of writing good stories I'm proud of. Maybe someday I can achieve that.
I love creating but I do the same thing and torture my physical health sometimes xD What drives me is that even in the most tedious processes or even the latest of hours is seeing something that I created to completion. I don't finish some art works, which always bothers me and they become something always in the back of my mind. To prevent that, I try to make sure as much of an episode done and then complete it even if it's late.
I've had a similar experience. I have neuropathy in my hands and feet, which means they are numb and tingly all the time because my nerves have been badly damaged. They're getting better slowly. Last year, my hands and feet were much worse, they were painful too, but what really made me depressed were having my hands pretty much useless because I couldn't do simple tasks like button my buttons by myself AND I couldn't do anything creative like draw or write. Creating is something that helps me so much in my healing process from all that I have been through. Before, I couldn't imagine my life without it, but I got a terrible taste of what that would be like and I felt miserable. I am sure I'd probably get used to different methods of creating, like with my mouth holding a stylus or pencil, but it'd be a long journey.
I love creating. It means the world to me and I believe it is worth it despite it's challenges because the challenges make me feel like I've made tiny accomplishments, even if didn't climb mt everest. I have made small accomplishments that make me feel happy. It's akin to the physical therapy I've gone through. The little accomplishments make you overjoyed. Watching my art grow makes me overjoyed, creating an idea for an episode, making a dialogue for that episode, completing a panel, completing an episode, getting that much closer to completing an entire comic to it's full completion is my personal Mt. Everest and I feel good about each step I make. I really love creating, even the pain and anguish makes me feel alive because nothing will be as bad as what I went through last year. I am well enough to create and that makes me feel like life is worth living that much more for me ^^
I've always loved creating stories, and before I could write myself I remember I forced my mom to write them down for me (it wasn't very popular). But I think it's difficult to answer why you love something, it feels like something innate to humans maybe?
It feels very special to draw something that only exists in your head. It would be my dream to be able to draw anything I think of, I'm not anywhere close to that though 
So that's one thing that motivated me!
This is a good question! My drive to create comes from my love of making stories. I've always been super into world-building (sci-fi worlds) and I just... wanted to be able to create cool things like the media I admired as a kid. (And still do!) It's also neat to be able to tell parts of my own life story but abstracted through science fiction characters/worlds. So, I've worked really hard to develop both my art and writing skills to tell all my different stories. My art has started to gain a wee bit of traction these past few years (I had several art pieces hit over 1K on Instagram recently) so that is a nice bonus. I personally don't create with the sole intention of making money. Do I monetize what I'm allowed too? Of course! Who wouldn't? But it's not the sole intention.
@Macarenaoftime you 
I like you.
I'm someone who has a lot of opinions and ideas about things - if neither you nor I stop me from doing otherwise, I can corner someone and talk for hours on end about those thoughts. I'm self-aware enough to know that, no matter how good your idea is, it's never going to sound engaging when condensed into a disorganized hours long rant. So instead, I'll write those ideas down or draw them out, so if I ever need to reference those thoughts to people, I can say "please refer to my writings on the matter" and show them my work. Of course, people don't really approach me for my thoughts on these things, so I just spam the internet with links to my comics.
