11-28-2013, 07:31 AM
Well, I think Bobby Chiu has a nice answer for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJtVlMmxD2Y
Doing comics doesn't mean you should stop your "foundation" learning. Just learn new things and try to use them in the pieces that you feel like doing in the way you like.
About the market... who knows, maybe doing comics is even better idea if you will have something unique to your work.
About the enjoyment, doubts and so on... I read somewhere, don't remember where that a person had a lot of doubts, asked others for help in making decisions. Everybody gave resonable opinion, but still, the person didn't know what to do. Until someday he/she stumbled upon a guy who said: "You actually know what to do, you just add "but I don't know" at the end of each sentence. Try following your guts a bit. I know it's easier to say than actually do, but I'm on the same path. I've been into webdesign/ui design for few years and this is maybe crazy, but I want to be a digital artist/painter, not a designer. It is just how I feel and that feeling I try to follow. Even though it's kind of naive and maybe even stupid coz I'm now really shity painter compared to ui skills :)
Doing comics doesn't mean you should stop your "foundation" learning. Just learn new things and try to use them in the pieces that you feel like doing in the way you like.
About the market... who knows, maybe doing comics is even better idea if you will have something unique to your work.
About the enjoyment, doubts and so on... I read somewhere, don't remember where that a person had a lot of doubts, asked others for help in making decisions. Everybody gave resonable opinion, but still, the person didn't know what to do. Until someday he/she stumbled upon a guy who said: "You actually know what to do, you just add "but I don't know" at the end of each sentence. Try following your guts a bit. I know it's easier to say than actually do, but I'm on the same path. I've been into webdesign/ui design for few years and this is maybe crazy, but I want to be a digital artist/painter, not a designer. It is just how I feel and that feeling I try to follow. Even though it's kind of naive and maybe even stupid coz I'm now really shity painter compared to ui skills :)
It's a somewhat solitary existence, a bit like a lighthouse keeper throwing a beam out into the darkness, in faith that this action might help someone unseen.
My Sketchbook (critique welcome)
My Sketchbook (critique welcome)