Hello everyone! This has been a hard decision long mulled over on, but I've decided to put my current comic, "Moon's Other Side", on hiatus for the time being.
Not only due to the way things are IRL I'm really struggling to get out 2 pages each week, but I've been feeling...sick everytime I get to work on the comic pages lately. I always feel like I'm inadequate at telling the story I have, from the subpar drawings to the storytelling itself. Everything from anatomy to background to ambient effects feel like something I struggle doing, all that struggle and effort only goes into an half-assed result. I know I can do better, this is not what I wanted for my story, and not what I wanted as your reader's experience.
So I'm taking a break. Not sure how long, but until I can look at my storyboards and think I can do this, I want to do this. For that, I need to practice more on personal pieces to improve my art the way I want, research wolf (and human) anatomy and background techniques, etc.
To do that I need time and motivation, which I don't have currently, but that I hope to get once most of my to-do list is caught up with.
I'm really sorry if anyone was following the comic and is disappointed by this, but creating your own story should not feel such a burden like this...I can't do it. And it's even delaying my commission work 'cause I'm like "I haven't finished the weekly MOS pages yet aaaaahh, need to focus on those first" which is something I absolutely DON'T want.
MOS is definitely the simplest/shortest story I have, and yet it already clocks at 12 chapters and several extra mini chapters, so idk...maybe I need to practice with smaller projects.
So in the end, I think I'm going to try and improve my writing first; it'd also be a nice break from commissions, when I have the spare hour but not the motivation to draw more, even if for personal stuff. My goal is now to write a oneshot or chapter every month, be it personal or fanfiction, and maybe turn one of said oneshots into a comic as storytelling practice. I'm always nervous when it comes to my writing, but we'll see how it goes...
So that's it! Hopefully I'll be able to keep up at least with the writing, and it won't be too long until I can feel motivated again to work on MOS.
Thanks a lot to everyone who has read it so far, it means the world to me ♥ See you soon, hopefully better than ever! ♥♥♥
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