What prevents you from making your comic?

[sarahrebecca58]

Mainly the internet distraction. I might get a timer against to turn it off.

[Quinn_Li]

To be honest, yes, I have an immense fear of having the background look 'sloppy', which is why I'm still practicing drawing backgrounds (i don't post them). I'm very flattered, like extremely flattered! you think my comic style is good! I'm using that comic to work on facial expression and somewhat body poses as well, because my non-chibi drawing look very robotic. The thing, I believe is what is the root for my anxiety of creating a serious comic is because I am not good at designing. Yes, I can draw but I can't really design, like designing background, clothing, etc. But I am trying and I am going to try out a short serious comic for the first time this summer and I'm excited to see how it turns out, good or bad! And I will keep you in mind for cheering and thank you and @vincentprendick for giving me motivation!

[raymundnell]

My mom... T.T Lol. Just last night, she told my that staying up late for something that doesn't give me money is useless. But I'm not really a economically unfornate artist though, it's just that I gained money once through Deviantart commissions and seeing me working hard that time, maybe she was not impressed seeing me making comics for enjoyment. XD

[raymundnell]

I'm really envious of creator's who can multitask while drawing., XD As for me, I can't., I'm just using a netbook in creating my comics. The screeeenn is soooo small! Hahah

[goenn]

my attention span is the worst and i procrastinate a lot. Currently, what's preventing me is reruns of Kekkai Sensen. I can't stop rewatching...!!!

[Jelw]

Right now a combination of not having a lot of time where Ican be on my computer, along with having a 4"x5" screened computer with very low ability is holding me back. I've worked on a lot of thumbnailing during school(the closest thing I have to free time whoops) in a notebook but until I can get a computer that can handle large canvases on SAI without lagging, it's hard for me to work up the motivation to start. Another related wait factor is waiting to get manga studio until I have a new computer... sigh.

[noctuidae]

School things, social things, I was working on art stuff for another project for a while, and lately I've been focusing more on prose/poetry, both reading and writing it.

I'm very much the kind of person who'd rather set aside 5-6 hours so i can straight-up work on polished art or comic pages in a single day; lately i've been trying to get into a habit of spaced-out shorter sittings so i'm not just waiting for an unlikely stretch of free time.

[kitsuneonwheelz]

lack of $...lol. That's it.

[ashriott]

Other than the usual procrastination or writer's/artist's block, definitely work prevents me from drawing atm. Even if I make a promise to myself that I'd come back home and do some drawing, I'd be so tired to even sit upright. If I do, I draw for 1-2 hours at most, which isn't a lot of time to get stuff done...
When it was uni, bloody assignments get in the way and I mainly binge draw during sem breaks xD

[getsuart]

Laziness.
And demotivation.
Aaaand comics of people, spending more time to read them than drawing mine.

Otherwise, I'm doing a lot more sketches than I'm actually drawing my comic, mostly are headshots of characters or finished sketches so much spoilery that I can't show it, but it's relaxing and they will go in a sketchbook eventually, so it's not totally worthless.

[jaljanaesarang]

Work, motivation, lack of writing ability and low imagination.

[Ayumi]

Most of the time work, or being tired of work. Everyday things like cleaning and cooking, and sometimes when I can't decide which comic to draw (I draw 2 and a mini series, and now I gonna work on a oneshot with a reader of mine ^^;) Sometimes it's so hard to chose, that I end up doing nothing ^^;

[Doubtcent]

It seems like the biggest contender that keeps us away is work, overall laziness and the biggest of them all: the Internet. After reading everyone's posts I'm considering the abandonment of YouTube and most of my time playing video games. I think that from now on, if I have free time, I'll use it on art and writing and seclude YouTube and gaming to the weekends, but only after I've done something creative.

Best to put my priorities in line for the things I love to do, rather than force myself to squeeze in comic making to late at night or something.

[zod]

Doing commissions for others prevents me to do my personal projects so I spend only the weekend working on the comic, problem is, 2 days is not enough, well I spend about 4-5 hours per day

[purrlpankras]

I have a list...

• Staring at walls for far too long
• Tea
• People

[Doubtcent]

Staring at walls too long is the death to us artists.

They speak to us during our darkest times, giving us encouragement or playing with our emotions. Walls, they are the death of art, but also life.

[purrlpankras]

Indeed.

Walls can be our friends, and foes at the same time. Those walls are cunning, you must watch out for them... But not too much...

[Kura]

Oh god... a big one for this for me as well... those commissions man... but bills must be paid x.x

[Starfestival]

Procrastination/ Laziness.

[SpavVy]

Speedpaints, checking to make sure my art isn't being copied by other people (unfortunately it is) finding what websites others are hosting my artwork on, work, practicing perspective has been a huge one for me, writing the scripts which takes a while for me, distractions, commissions on occasion and life stress.