What are your creative goals for next year? :)

[Shanny8]

I’d like to get my Patreon back up to at least 500 subscribers

Shit...just let me get 10 good subscribers on my Patreon and I'll be happy.

Go to the gym or do a new activity

Started walking on the treadmill a few weeks ago and I feel like I'm feeling a lot better...I also feel like I'm starting to lose a few pounds(on the treadmill for an hour and burn about 300 calories, plus get my cardio and legs back in shape). It's a bit of a drag to get started, but once I'm going I feel good. Right now I'm doing it twice a week, but I may try to get to 3 days per week.

motivate people to support me on Ko-Fi

That's the one I'm trying to get accomplished. Had my Ko-fi since 2017, but I've just been really bad about drumming up interest or attention for it.

[Lensing]

Update, I just reached one of my 2024 goals and started uploading a webcomic

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[xstarx07]

Since it all depends on even reaching those goals, for me, I usually try to set myself the smallest ones possible that I'm certain of reaching.
Things like:

• Finish chapter 6 & 7 and maybe even get to chapter 8 as well
• Expand my creative horizons and definitely get better at drawing backgrounds
• Find even better ways to improve my writing

But I do have one big thing that I wanna put a lot of effort into, which I happened to start a few months ago and hope to finish by February - which looks quite unrealistic in the broader perspective, but who knows, and I feel like it could actually work out with my current pace, if things stay this way for a while longer:

• An anime-style opening and/or ending animation for my comic

[miyaskya]

Creative Goals for 2024
- Finish Grand Epic Elemental by the end of next year (there are 100+ episodes already planned out)
- Reach at least 100 subscribers
- Start working on Grand Epic Elemental's sequels and other stories
- Start a webnovel
- Experiment with animation

[Emalie]

My only creative goal for next year at the moment is to publish the first part of my comic. It's been two years since I drew one and I haven't had much practice, but I'm having fun with this. ️

Fortunately I have a buffer, drawing takes time, I go at a slow pace but it has made my imagination explode.

[ScarBooks]

Getting our patreon going and not having to stop the series due to our fulltime jobs.

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[Caro]

Shit...just let me get 10 good subscribers on my Patreon and I'll be happy.

To be fair, I’ve been doing comics professionally for a long time and have built up a pretty good audience after a solid decade of consistency and even still it took a few years of rebuilding my Patreon completely over and over before I figured out what people actually wanted to give me money for.

Its all a long process that kinda never ends.

[jmhenry]

-Finish Chapter 4 of LOSTLAND
-Make a bunch of art related to the comic
-Make Holiday Art for every major holiday(I have a habit of missing a few)
-Get LOSTLAND to 700 readers on Tapas
-Get LOSTLAND to 1000 readers on Webtoon

[Shanny8]

Sounds good...I just feel a lot of my issues are that I'm not a "I want to be on streaming/crowdfunding platforms everyday" person; I'm that hermit gremlin type that disappears for weeks on end and comes back with a few new pieces of art...also, I have a FT real life job coz making money off my art at this point is a huge obstacle.

[stiatent]

1) Finish a good chunk of Sick Boy season 1 episodes,
Dying to introduce the rest of the cast , surprizes and fun battles!
2) Would be thankful for new readers too
3) Finish 3d models for other necessary characters and creatures in season 1 and 2
4) I've also been writing a short comic on the side (spin off of main comic) so would be cool to start episodes for that also (gauging myself based on my consistency with Sick Boy episodes)
5)Starting a patreon
6) Improved balancing and consistency around RL life/job etc

[GodbreakerComic]

• Increase the frequency and quality of uploads (already started this one)
• Get to "the part" in the story
• Grow my audience

the big one

• Get this fuckin' thing published.

[moefay]

1. Increase the length and quality of comic episodes
2. Reach 25 subscribers and 1000 views

[quintellit]

1.Hope to challenge myself in my artwork.
2. Learn to improve my writing even more!!
3. Maybe finish Season 1 by 2024? (shooting for the stars with this one )

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[sketchyjessie]

• Update consistently every week
• Post on socials consistently/daily if possible
• Reach at least 25 subscribers on Mourn the Stars
• Start a YouTube/TikTok channel (leaning YouTube just bc I like the format better)
• In general figure out self-promo/marketing better
• In general work on sustainable organization/productivity

I'm kind of considering 2024 my "audience building" year, or at least that's what I want my focus to be. I'd also like to work towards more collaboration moving forward.

[JoshRaed]

Finish the second draft of my novel and comic scripts.

Finish the outlines of Penelope dreadful.

Make a first draft for nanowrimo.

Finish my catching fire mini-comic.

Start drawing the short standalone comic i’m planning.

Get a full first draft finished for another novel.

[Darkshines]

I'm hoping to have the first 8 episodes of my comic done by July! And hope to start the second part of the series in October!

And hopefully get at least 10 subs by then

[Kuma]

Publish more stuff, keep publishing my current stuff, do more comics, I love writing comics, maybe get into writing for live-action shorts. Try to learn new skills and keep up writing comedy monologues for stand-up

[king-goldfish]

I would like to:

• Finish publishing BDE Part 1
• Finish editing BDE Part 2 to get it ready to publish
• Finish the novel I'm currently drafting and start querying agents for traditional publishing
• Start posting another completed novel I have been waffling on
• If I'm going to self-publish things, I guess I had better figure out marketing at some point, even if self-promotion makes me feel like death, and the only place I feel comfortable doing it is on these forums, which seems to be nigh on useless.
• Make an author website
• Prepare for the sweet embrace of death

[simplykit]

this is such an insightful and beautiful question, kudos to the original poster @kalmia

next year, 2024, my creative goals are...

• to help my fellow tapas artists/ novelists by subscribing to their fantastic comics/novels
• give a like each of their submissions, previous and upcoming uploads
• share a sincere comment on their uploads, express my thoughts about their magnificent work
• be more patient, kind and respectful to my fellow tapasians

more power to you all, you creative geniuses you!

[infjdany]

my goals!! ah!! well start up season 2 of 3820, write more chapters of in(tan)gible (sin)s (whcih i'm hoping the outcome of the contest will provide me with the means to), and bring love maybee back !! i want to draw a lot but with new job changes on the rise it's a matter of finding the ample time !!

as far as stats go, i hope any of my series reach 250 subs by june and/or 500 by the end of the year!!