my latest frustrations have been my own attention span! I feel that i haven't been focusing like I use to, in college I was making artwork like a factory. Once I graduated it was a totally different sorry, I went back home and been struggling to find a dependable job ever since.
Now in days I'm trying to figure something out, plus other personal things always seems like they get in the way.... but that s life i just want to work, work, work but that unrealistic.
If you are still in school, you could go talk to your school councellor. They usually are trained to deal with this mindset (atleast, they are in my country, since it's very common with students) and they can really help out with this sorta thinking...And it's free, or atleast a lot cheaper than psychologist 
I'm currently looking back at my series and thinking about how unoriginal it is in terms of artstyle knowing it's similar to the simplified drawing style like theodd1sout. Eventhough the character design is totally different I still feel like a copy of him. I enjoy the characters so much but at the back of my mind I'm worried about being called a "fake" and a "copycat"
I guess it's an overwhelming fear that I just wanted to share. If you're having similar problems, know that you're not alone in this battle.
Thanks for making this, I really needed to vent out some of my thoughts, it was poisoning my mind for a while.
I can't draw free hand. I spend hours looking at poses and sketches on Pinterest and Google Images for me to incorporate. Something to trace here or something to trace there. I spend more time looking for art than actually spending time on Photoshop sometimes.
Oh, this one's a gnarly one and I experience it as well. Sometimes doubly frustrating when you start seeing influences in your work you didn't anticipate (from circles of art friends' styles or themes). A lot of it's psychological, I think. Just... an awful anxiety that stems from you being there through the whole process. Of course we'll be able to make strong comparisons and trope-y slants easy, just gotta try to be a tad forgiving of ourselves.
As long as you push against insecurity, no one else will make those comparisons. Voice your strengths (even though it's soooo hard!) and others will see them clearly.
scripting
Scripting
SCRIPTING
I might be having problems scripting =/
For me it's the aches and pains that come with it especially my drawing hand and my shoulder, not to mention I've been under the weather lately so that doesn't help either.
Three things have been frustrating me lately (and historically, and probably always will):
1) Technology (crashes, malfunctions, etc) - My lovely darling computer has been acting up a storm lately. I'm trying to deal with it, but I also still need to use it for work.
2) Lack of motivation - I try to compensate with discipline, but forcing myself tends to exacerbate my anxiety and has caused me months upon months of creative block before. Lengthy periods of creative block are the absolute worst and are usually coupled with lengthy periods of terrible depression. :U
3) Other projects and obligations - I have a lot of hobbies and things I want to learn and things I need to be doing. There is just not enough time. Right now my motivation for game dev has been making my comic suffer a bit. I wonder if I'll ever get the balance right?
I've been dealing with the fear that my comic is trash. I replay the whole story endlessly in my head day in and day out, improving scenes and adjusting dialogue to better fit my characters, but I still feel as though it's unoriginal. I mean, people that turn into wolves, how more cliche can one get?
I justify to myself that the story makes up for the overused trope, but in the end I can't always convince myself that's true.
When those negative thoughts get me down, I have to really work hard to remind myself that even if my comic's plot has been done a million times, I continue on because I love my characters.
Brainstorming.
Sometime it take just a little time to got an idea, sometime it's forever.
Sometime you just have to do with what you have right now, even though it's not good at all due to deadline.
What kind of brainstorming works varies a lot from person to person.
Here are some examples.
1-Some prefer to write as many ideas in a piece of paper during a few minutes.
2-Others prefer to suggest ideas to each other as a team
3-Or maybe starting with a question?
4-Setting cards with words and draw one randomly and think what ideas come with that word
Curiously the one that worked for me is asking myself a question about the plot of my comic or a joke, then i roll a dice, if i roll an even number is a "yes" and odd numbers are a "no". Then i ask myself why the "yes" or "no" is an apropiare answer for my story.
You must see what works for you.
I think you missed the point of this topic.
I know what brainstorm is, I know how it work. I just hate it sometime because it take time to do.
Thanks for your comment though. That are some good advices.
Either feeling like there isn't enough time in the day or finding the motivation to keep working. I just got over a terrible funk where I didn't feel like doing anything for a while. Things are back on track but those little spells really suck.
I hate backgrounds. I suck at them so hard, but I’m trying to get better with them and don’t shy away from them with my comic. Thing is they take FOREVER and I feel like I’m swimming in quicksand trying to make a composition work. This doesn’t help that I’m a perfectionist.
When I know the deadline is near but I am tired af eventho I sleep all day. XD
On a serious note, one of the parts I hate most is when trolls come to comment on my works. I will share my experience in a different comment because right now I need to take a shower. OTL
Cheers!
(Okay so I took my shower and here is the promised rant XD)
Starting the comic
The part that takes the most time. Drafting the whole story. Arranging dialogues. Arranging panels. Designing characters and objects and buildings! I always get questioned when the first chapter is coming out. The answer is always, I'm still working on the character designs because everything starts here and they need to have a strong foundation! I once (actually a few times) made a side character in a rush, and then a few chapters later I decided that the side character is gonna become more important, and that's where I regret not designing him properly to the point that his costume changes every frigging chapter. OTL Lesson learned; always design properly no matter how trivial that character/item/building is.
Art block
Oh, yes. Do I even need to elaborate on this?
Difficult poses/scenes
I can point out the very pages of my manga where I spent hours to draw one simple panel and still it doesn't look okay. T_T The only way to overcome this is to make it and let it go. Don't dwell too much on it. I regret not being able to do better though. T_T
Trolls
My works are mostly available online for free, so it becomes really annoying when the leechers try to downgrade my works. Like, dude you're reading my stuff for free; if you don't like it get out of my site! But no, some of them just have to say something mean about my work in a place where everybody can see it. I believe that if you're not paying for it, you don't get to criticize it.
Loneliness
Sometimes, I go live on instagram so that people will talk to me while I draw. There are days when everyone is busy and nobody would talk to me. And that makes me feel very unmotivated to draw. Hence the late updates. slapped XD
Ok that's it.
Bye!
Cheers
-The program sumopaint. Imagine having a chromebook, a program that needs internet and sometimes glitches out, and no way of making this better. There's a reason i don't add color to my comics. I don't want my f***ing art to turn to dust.
-Collaborators who don't have the guts to tell me they're abandoning the project. You can leave if you want but i'm still wonder whether or not you're here.
-Severe anxiety. Add a pinch of disappearing art work, and silence from people who were supposed to help, and you get an inch closer to (real) madness.
