Creator PSA

Roughly 3 years ago, I began dreaming up concepts for Pink Sugar. I would spend hours laying awake at night while staring at the ceiling and thinking of all kinds of adventures for Blake and Satya to go on. However, I kept putting off ACTUALLY making it, because I was worried. I wanted to wait until my art was "good enough" to justify making a comic. So I waited. And waited. And waited.

And nothing got done. All my cool ideas stayed up in my head, locked away. Because I was worried that my art wouldn't live up to the grand ideas stored in my brain.

Eventually, I said one too many "WHEN I make this comic-" and my girlfriend one night finally snapped and said "Just make it! Alex, just make it!"

And she was right. If you have an idea for something you want to create, but you keep putting it off until you're "better" at your craft, that cool idea of yours is never going to exist. It's never going to happen, because that invisible goal post you've made for yourself will keep moving farther and farther back. That's not fair to you.

This is what my comic pages first look like when I'm brainstorming, and thumbnailing them out. They look really silly, don't they ? All scribbly and vague, you can barely tell what's what. But it's SOMETHING. I have started putting that page out there. I've gotten the ball rolling, and I have given myself permission to let this grow and exist. In a few days, it will be sketched, lined, and colored, and it will be a beautiful comic page for an idea of mine that I have finally decided is worth creating. It's going to be a kick-ass queer comic full of pretty art and amazing characters that I have finally allowed to exist because I chose to stop waiting.

But that could only happen because I started making the thing! So you, if you're reading this and you have a cool idea for something you want to make, I have a message for you: MAKE THE DAMN THING!