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Apr 2020

My weakness is I really struggle with endings. I've got an ending for exactly one story I've ever written...And then my art is a huge weakness too, which is pretty bad, considering I'm drawing a comic :sweat_02:

Cover art, or covers in general. I'm so used to drawing small and tiny boxes that if I need to draw something big I can't get it up to a standard.

That and my own general laziness.

Let's see...

-I'm dyslexic. I have a very hard time with the rules of grammar even tho I try my hardest.
-I don't have the patience to draw backgrounds with complex perspective so I usually just wing it.
-I am sort of obsessed with characters and I tend keep adding more and more. I've been trying to dial it back.

From a personal stand point
-I'm super shy and it's hard for me to ask people IRL to look at my work. I tend to feel embarrassed even tho my stuff is not really that offensive. I guess I am just worried that someone would nitpick it and use that as means to unfriend me. I find showing my stuff to strangers much easier.

As a author, there's just too much I want to tell. It makes my sentences hella long haha.

this!!! I did a one-shot way back when. It looks terrible but I love it because I finished it and the times it represents. Thinking about it now, I can't wait to create again

Welcome, hope everything with you in this community.

My weakness is clear to me, even though some would find my background is great, my thoughts is always "I could've done better".
Those are my thoughts every time I make a background.

And what is frustrating is how coloring each panel takes long when you're being careful, especially the big ones.

Despite all this, I'm getting the hang of it and someday, approach some more improvement for my content.

Backgrounds. Undeniably backgrounds (especially interiors). Even more so, I bite off more than I can chew. It also doesn't help that I get burnout really easily. I try to push through it by drawing a few more hours, then I start to hate my own hobby!

Where to start...

Backgrounds. A drag and a real pain in the ass. I suck hard with that. But, as a consumer, I love to see a nice background. It gives context and creates atmosphere. I consider it to be really important for the story, so I force myself to not put just a god damn white background as bad as I may be.

Writting. Ignoring the spelling errors that escape me in some publications, I always feel that my dialogues are little more than basic. I can only hope that I am being too critical of myself here.

Perspective. No need to develop this.

Time. Just not enough.

Glad that you’re trying to be more active on Tapas!

It’s nice to meet you too!

I’ve done both writing and arting, and I definitely recognise some major flaws as an author. Mainly, I have a horrible habit of not introducing the main characters when they first appear and then only mentioning their names like...3 chapters in.

As an artist, I’m not detail-oriented so things might look weird and rough sometimes. Also the fact that I draw my characters really inconsistently and I can forget little details of their design (hair bits, accessories, etc.)

I have one friend who is also into BL, though she doesn't write or draw. But that's it. She's the only one. Seven billion people in the world and I got the people who are obsessed into Fifty Shades of Grey wtf

Yes, procrastination :new_moon_with_face:
If I don't go and schedule an empty chapter and update a notice for my readers, I would use the excuse that I haven't promised anyone that i'll update yet and binge on my favorite webtoons and random interests that actually has no productive impact on my life like watching kpop idols... yes.

Messing with characters is oddly enjoyable, like playing a Barbie as an adult lol
And I checked Kao, and I find him cute... I don't know if you'll use him as one of the devices, but he still cute

OOF this one is a big problem for me too :sweat_02: I have so much stuff I'm juggling that I end up burning out and making no progress anywhere :sweat_01:

I know I usually just find myself think up what would be an interesting story and just end up torturing my character's XD, even fought for 2 weeks with my sister about it until I finally changed a part of my story =/

Right now I have no plans to continue Kao but I am working on another story and premise, and let's just say I really y needed a tight leash for some parts of it and even then my beta readers told me that the ending is a bit too much XP

I'm the same ! I thought very poorly of theses short stories back in the time (like when you're proud of your work for like one week and after you hate it for absolutely no reason and want to redone everything O_o) but now, I'm fond of them as they are.
And I would like to do more short stories. Often I'm a bit embarrassed to have begun a long project that prevents me from doing anything else (well i'm a hobbyist so with work my pace is already so slow). Also this year there are so many interesting contests !! (I don't really care for the competition, but it gives a goal and a deadline)

Oh thank you for having taken the time to see it, that's just sooo nice of you ! (I won't be too humble as this prologue is the result of fifteen years of eternal reboot xD - yeah, not so proud of that haha)

May I ask a question ? --> just how did you manage to see my comic from the forum ? I often want to see what other members do, but when I click on their pseudo, I can see their profile and their activity on the forum.. and that's pretty much all.
I even tried to tap the pseudo on the research bar of the website, but to no avail O_o. Is there some kind of secret I totally missed ?

What you said hits so hard. It's totally so relatable. Being the critic of your own work is like a fire extinguisher. When I just started out, I was really excited, I kept on writing and writing, and stacks more of writing. I placed out all what my mind told me to write. And then there's a sudden blow from the breeze, and suddenly, you start questioning what you're working on, and suddenly, that story you were so excited of turns out to be utter nonsense and you start chasing another level. And you're back to phase one. That happened four times for me. But I don't regret it. I became better because of it. And I guess I still got that fire in me.