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[Apr. 11th, 2008|11:48 am] |
Don't forget, tomorrow is 12 hour comic day!
You can learn a lot about yourself by doing challenge comics. Some people travel to find themselves. I travel to learn about other places. If I want to learn about myself, I do challenge comics.
For the last month or so, I've been feeling the effects of burnout. Sitting down and making comics went from being a joy, to being a chore. It gave me headaches, wore me out.
But as I started planning 12 hour comic day, as a way to get my mojo back, I realized something. This whole year in Mexico has been one big challenge comic. I set out to spend a year turning myself into a full-time artist. A lot of finding out where to get money, how much to charge, what the right balance of personal and professional projects was, but mostly, just a lot of being chained at a desk drawing.
It's been like one, long 24 hour comic. And for the last month, I've been at the "Why the hell did I start this stupid thing? I need to go to bed" stage. That's a groggy stage that comes immediately before the "holy crap, I'm gonna do this!" stage. Which comes immediately before the "Holy crap, i actually did this!" stage, which, at that moment, is the best feeling in the world.
Well, just realizing this was enough to get me feeling good about comics again. I'm gonna crank out this 12 hour comic, make something of my own for the first time in a long time, then I'm gonna finish my slate of projects. I'm gonna reward myself with a trip to Vegas, a walking-road trip around Mexico, a trip to Kenya, a trek up kilimanjaro, and a journey to Korea. And then, the next challenge begins. |
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Snap, that came up on me quick. I better get a lot done today.
Trip to Korea, eh?
Is this another attempt to reunite the North and South?
Inspiring post. Challenges are important. NaNoWriMo made me go insane for a month, but I learned a lot about how I write, um, erotic SF. | |
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