What motivates you to keep creating?

[awesomefeelsman]

Because there's a summit I want to reach. So I keep going back, keep enjoying what I'm making so I could reach that summit.

What motivates me is the that I still have so many things to achieve. And I want to earn those achievements.

[spadesart]

[gh0stcr33p]

I mean I don't really have anything else to do.. it just keeps me busy and makes me less aware of the fact that I don't have a social life. it kinda seems like a job to me even though I don't get payed to do it, but it's my responsibility.. (plus my mom likes my comic....)

[Will]

""Write(or draw) stories that you yourself would want to read." This is what ultimately allows me to keep on creating - I don't create things for others to read, but for myself to enjoy. Others enjoying my works is just a byproduct."

This 10000000 times.

[joshuaal]

Jealousy, to be honest. Definitely not the best type of creative fuel, but seeing how other people's series skyrocket in popularity and how they get to earn money off their hard work making comics/ manga just makes me want to get to that point as well - a huge part of me is telling me to quit altogether, but then this other very, very small part of me tells me to keep going. I know it's very unhealthy to envy other people, and there are other more positive things that keep me going, but jealousy is probably the key factor - I just want to make a living off of creating comics/ manga, just like the people I look up to and envy.

[Kimmicomics]

Instead of calling it jealous. call it inspiring.
I also want to be at a point to what others are, But I also grant them the same succes. I suppose you dont want to deny them their own succes? You just want to get on the same level?

[joshuaal]

I'd never deny anyone their success if they worked hard for it. Anybody who works hard for what they want deserves respect and success, unless their methods for achieving said success are questionable and undermine other people.

When I see artists and authors being successful with their series, it most definitely is inspiring but I'd be lying if I said it didn't spark an ounce of jealousy within me, so I use that jealousy as fuel and say, "If they can do it, then everyone - even I - can do it, too!" In the end, yes, it's all about getting on their level and having all that hard work pay off someday and turn this whole comic/ manga-making thing into a full-time job. I don't need to earn five figures - as long as I can pay the bills and put food on the table doing what I love, I can live as a happy man.

[Jenny-Toons]

I have a little story for this:

The other month, I was looking through my room and saw an old notebook that had a whole story written in it. So I sat down and read through it. About a girl who fell in love with a soldier who lived on the opposing side. I laughed a bit because my 12 year old self was so serious about this story.

But I was fond of it because my 12 year old self was so serious about this story.

I saw all the little notes and pictures and character sheets I drew for the story. I saw all the eraser marks and pen scratches to get it just perfect. I could see myself again, sitting in my room, excited and needing to write that story because it was something I knew I wanted to read.

I keep that book close to me, on my shelf. I do that with a lot of my old art and stories.

At the end of the day, I've always wrote for myself. I always wrote stories because they were the kind I wanted to read and maybe share with others. I wanna keep going through with those stories and make 12 year old me proud.

That's what motivates me

[DV_san]

I'm not fully sure why I keep drawing. There are probably multiple reasons, but the biggest reason is that I like the enjoyment I get when I create.

[feardeer]

A blend of guilt, unshakable inspiration, and lack of self worth.
Maybe if I create something I'm proud of someday, and can provide for my loved ones in doing so, I won't feel like such a waste of space. Maybe.

[A-weird-girler]

Pure spite and hatred for the people who said my drawing/writing sucked as well

[VibrantFox]

It probably sounds a bit silly but for me it's to bring all those characters and their worlds that I've dreamed up to life and to have the opportunity to share them with other people.

[SSONANA]

As for me, it is the story of my characters that makes me keep going. I already have a grasp of how their story will turn out but I'm not happy to have it just in my head. I need to draw and see it for myself first

[radradtke]

A desire to improve. I've always liked drawing, but then I see other people's work that looks better than anything I could do and I get depressed. Then I figure that the only way to get better is to keep doing it. I've also always been kind of a social shut-in, so putting something out there that I made all by myself is my attempt to be more open and social, even if I get nervous about what other people will think of it.