12-15-2024, 11:49 PM
I would say "life happened" to explain disappearing but it's one of those moments where life hits pretty hard and an already complicated plan (doing a first comic project on the side of a full time job - while not being the "well organized" type) got halted or slowed in the process. I don't want to go into detail because I'm not looking for sympathy - I'm ok and have the support I need. It's more about "how to keep doing this thing I care about, and not miss that special opportunity to present my work like I did in the past" while also needing rest and dealing with big changes in life.
Art definitely suffered from the situation - I haven't practiced regularly (which isn't my priority - I'd rather learn on the job, that need to happen now) and I struggle to actually "start" the project and produce results I can measure and show. I'm stuck with loosely writing the scenario and struggling with some specific points; I feel now I have to start drawing more of the setting and characters to grasp it from another angle - and I will directly confront the abilities I lack and the visual reference I need to find.
My intuition is that I need to give up on those steps (writing the whole story, doing the storyboard, starting the pages) because I tend to want to get a full picture of something that's too big for me to grasp, and I have a deadline for producing a few pages. While I need to set a reasonable scale and a few points on the way, somehow what I'm doing still feels like a form of procrastination.
I'll post a few things I did for training but in short, I mostly worked on the scenario when I could find time and energy lately.
Art definitely suffered from the situation - I haven't practiced regularly (which isn't my priority - I'd rather learn on the job, that need to happen now) and I struggle to actually "start" the project and produce results I can measure and show. I'm stuck with loosely writing the scenario and struggling with some specific points; I feel now I have to start drawing more of the setting and characters to grasp it from another angle - and I will directly confront the abilities I lack and the visual reference I need to find.
My intuition is that I need to give up on those steps (writing the whole story, doing the storyboard, starting the pages) because I tend to want to get a full picture of something that's too big for me to grasp, and I have a deadline for producing a few pages. While I need to set a reasonable scale and a few points on the way, somehow what I'm doing still feels like a form of procrastination.
I'll post a few things I did for training but in short, I mostly worked on the scenario when I could find time and energy lately.