What were your hobbies (art related or otherwise) before doing comics? Do you still partake in them?

[Hecarim]

And what drives you to continue making your comic?

I performed during half time shows for football games in highschool (dancer) and posted fanart on tumblr for Black Butler (still a huge fan of the manga)

Drawing the first few panels of my comic felt like I was unlocking a door to a world where I could do anything. And that feeling is addicting to me (intimidating sometimes, but that's okay). Making something tangible to myself and others from ideas in my head makes me overwhelmingly happy. It also helps that my best friend is genuinely excited about my comic and showers me with support. How lucky can I be?!

[Penni]

That's really awesome that you have a support system! It is so motivating and it feels wonderful! I'm glad you have something that helps motivate you to do what you love.

Novelist here but some of my hobbies are anime, psychology, reading (shocking), baking, and I attempt to draw from time to time (I like to think I have some skill sometimes )

What drives me to continue writing is the fact that I've always wanted to become a published writer but growing up my mother discouraged me saying it wasn't a viable way to make a living. As the years when by the desire to write stayed with me so I decided that since I'm an adult and I can do what I want, I'm going to write

The community here has actually been a huge motivator for me, after I stopped relying on the daily stats to motivate me. Now, nothing makes me happier than being able to engage with people about my work and see other people's work! The support and love around here is so great. Now, I care about providing my readers the best writing I can give them and provide support around the community.

[Nullyish]

I have always loved making comic but because art is not something to be proud of in where I live and so I need to focus on my study which quite tiring. There I took on photography. However it's not in my self to explore places so I mostly take urban, lifestyle, or street photography. When I finally can support myself, I draw my first comic. And since then I kinda forget my photography hobby. I even sold my DSLR XD (I still have a compact system camera)

[dawgofdawgness]

I've always been a huge fan of modular origami, it's a really calming thing to do in your free time or while watching a movie. And the results are always really neat ^_^ I especially like making mini versions with small origami paper since they're adorable.
currently I'm making a Waltz Sonobe:

and a Clover Kusudama:

This site has all the instructions if any of you want to make one too

[Penni]

Cheese on a cracker that looks amazing! (and intense)

[dawgofdawgness]

Yeah O_O I don't know how those people did it so perfectly! I'm hoping that I can at least make something that'll stand upright

[Hecarim]

That looks so neat! I've never even heard about these. Just ordered some origami paper...
Question: what do you do with the ones you make? do you display them, put them in a jar or something (like those 3d paper stars)?

[dawgofdawgness]

All of the above

they kind of just sit on my shelf.

by the way... Those are tiny boxes (made by my dad's friend)

cool, maybe you could try some of the modular stuff out with your new origami paper!

[DiegoPalacios]

I love to invent games. Since i was a kid i was always fascinated by videogames and boardgames, so i drew a lot of game ideas. And played some of these games with my brothers, friends and cousins for hours. When i was 15-16, i knew enough about game-maker to make some videogames and had lots of fun seing people enjoy my games.

Right now i am lucky enough to have a part time project where i do some game-design and to be able to do a comic here.

[Harmony-S-S]

Uh-oh, @Peni giving advice. Make way for the wise author, when she gives advice you'll want to take it cause you know she's right.

[feardeer]

I have a lot of creative hobbies, most of which I haven't had the chance to partake in lately, but I go through phases where I work extensively on each.

Game dev
Pixel art
3D Modeling
Animation
Sculpting (clay)
Sewing (plush toys)
And a few things I'd like to make hobbies out of if only I had the time...

I've also studied programming here and there, mostly as a means to an end as a solo indie game dev. But no matter how much I try, it just doesn't click. Lately I've begun accepting that I can't do everything myself, and programming really isn't for me. I'm happy with the amount of knowledge I have acquired in the field though, and will continue putting it to use when I can.

What drives me to continue working on my comic? Love for the world and characters, hope that I can make comics/art my career someday soon, encouragement from my partner, but most importantly the evolution I've seen in my art as I've been working on it. Comics have been so immensely helpful in my artistic development that I can't imagine putting them down.

[fuyudust]

I liked to play with 2d animation

And also learned a bit 3d too

[jpnakashima]

Man, those are some awesome hobbies!

Besides the basic watching movies and tv, reading comics and novels, playing video games...
I don't do it often, but I love to watch basketball. I used to play it when I was in elementary school and it's the sport I really love. Also, I sucked at it, but it was a lot of fun. I love to swim as well. And run, sometimes. It's truly relaxing when I'm in the mood.
I've been really into fighting games as well, watching and playing it. Also suck at it, but love it a lot.

On the creative side, though, I've been playing guitar for a little over 10 years now. I've been in some bands since 2009 (god it's been TOO LONG!) and I ALSO SUCK AT IT but this I can at least fake it better. Pro tips: Jump and shake a lot on stage, so no one can see you play moderately well through your wall of style!!
So yeah, I play and write songs. I also sing, though it's all self-learned stuff. I have recorded some stuff too, like one record and two EPs with my bands and doooozens of demos so yeeeah, it's been kind of fun.

[Shanny8]

I've always been a comics/comic book junkie...I played video games and watch TV shows/cartoons/anime that I liked in my past time, but everything comes back to comics & drawing. I also used to write stories, but when I decided to get back into comics I decided to put down the story writing.

[KSlinger]

I play a lot of games, used to play the violin, write, walk, mountain climb. I used to be paid to manage animals and farmland up in the mountains, part time. I suppose that was a bit of a hobby. Into travelling at the mo so that's slowing the comic down a fair bit. Go watch hockey every week in the winter. That's it really!

[GesuGesu]

cosplay! Do covers of japanese (mostly vocaloid) songs on youtube! Just plain draw! Play video games! Read manga and watch anime! I still do all of these things!

[kuromonoart]

I used to paint and create gallery type of "high art" but hated it, so I followed my own passion of anime/manga style, I did a lot of fan arts, illustrations and irezumi concepts before committing to comic. Then I experimented with darker, more obscure lowbrow art and it became part of my practice too. I draw way too many different things it seems as if they're not from the same person, hence my Instagram looks like a mess ~ I'll still draw them often because it'd be too boring sticking with only one thing

The mess example ~

[Wumbl]

I liked (and still like) playing YuGiOh, and tabletop roleplay games. I also do a lot of fanart and fanfic as well.

Oh, and I collect some print comics, mainly Deadpool and Spider-man... I am currently collecting Preacher as well.

[Heliox14]

Um. Gaming…mostly whatever I could get my grubby, cheapskate hands on. I'm still playing Borderlands 2, and holy heck, it looks great for a game on Mac.

Nowadays, I don't have time for gaming anymore...partly because of academics, and partly because I'm really trying to hone my craft.

[Jabbage]

I used to run an Etsy shop! It was called Teeny Alchemy, and themed around little bottles full of weird and wonderful things.

I made a bit of money doing it too - perhaps £100 a month. At first I really enjoyed it. The only problem was, I ended up having to make the some things over... and over... and over. It was like having a really poorly paid second job in terms of the number of hours it took up.

Unfortunately webcomics don't make me any money, in fact they probably cost me money (COUGH FIND ME ON PATREON COUGH ;D) but I'm much happier doing them, because I enjoy creating pages and there is always something new to do/learn.