My Comics Failure
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In this special episode, I talk about a time I failed to make a comic and how it all fell apart. I explain the mistakes that were made and what I believe it takes for people to be successful in any creative endeavor. 
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What comic fan hasn't tried his hand at putting out his own comic. You took it further than most of us. Thanks for sharing the lessons!
Which comic fan? Those of us with zero artistic drive.
I love music but except singing in the car I have no music output
I’m actually working on a WEBTOON, I’m not too good at Art, but I’ve gotten better, I’m gonna post it on WEBTOON and the stories based on InFamous and superhero comics, I posted it before but it was super crappy but I’m making a better one
I have a project that for over 25 years has been a hobby. Its a series of novels that are unpublished, but I loved the universe and characters I created and its just something I have continuously worked on since high school, but felt too afraid to let out into the world. This was great to listen to Chris.
If you haven't already, I seriously hope you at least consider posting your content online someday.
Post it bruh
Oh! So I'm not the only one!
Only been working on it about a year now but it's a comic that's basically my little sandbox. Play in it, write some stories, create see new characters in the universe, basically a living town and world I just sorta draw out. No intentions to publish though, it's just fun! Glad to see I could continue to do this for long long time!
can we read it?
#ReleasetheSergioruizCut
I feel you in this one. I had dreams of working in the film industry but had a hard time going. So I knuckled down and made some changes. I joined a local amateur filmmaker group and that helped a lot. It went from just me to having an entire production staff and talent. I put a story, script, and storyboard together and put out a call for real estate agencies that would help me with locations. Lo and behold, I lucked out and got permission to shoot at some excellent spots. Then I put out a call for a cop car and I actually got one. A production house in NYC saw my call and they gave me a cop car AND an observer. I got a call from a famous actor who told me this was my shot.
The whole thing went well and the observer liked what he saw in me. My film went on to compete in a little short film competition.
I didn't win anything, but that wasn't my downfall.
I had things happen in life that pulled me away from my dream, personal stuff that couldn't be ignored. By the time I got back on track my chance was gone.
At least I made that movie though. It was a haunted house story and my "giant floating eyeball that chases the tortured soul through the house" effects went over well with the judges. They also didn't realize I had used 3 buildings for the haunted house. I cut it all together so well it looked like one place.
Your emphasis on reliability hits the nail in the head. If you aren't able to fully devote yourself to your professionalism and your art, you'll always be a hobbyist. There's nothing wrong with being a hobbyist, just don't expect to make it big.
Why is your chance gone?
Reliability only works if you get somewhere. Writers can draft up and write consistent pieces of work but along comes one social media drainage pipe of a human being with assets in all the right places and suddenly all that apparent hard work you need to show to even be looked at is gone in an instant. And don't even think about taking matters into your own hands which is a time consuming, expensive and frustrating process all on it's own. "Oh you self published? Were we not good enough for that one? Wait, you self published what? Why would you do that when we told you it wasn't good enough? Why should we work with you again? Why should anyone? Are you serious about this? Do you even care?" As if I am somehow not trying when some stinker written in two weeks or over someone's holidays is better because of assets.
What actor?
sounds like an awesome horror short, do you still have the footage?
damn...this hit a nigga hard
It isn't really a failure, if you recognize your mistake, now it's just a lesson, great video, Great channel, and I'd imagine that you'd be a delight to work with, look forward to next week's installment
My goal is to push out a comic before I get my bachelor's degree. I've always wanted to since I was reading Captain Underpants in elementary.
I think the biggest failure is never trying in the first place.
I love Captain underpants too. Flip-o-Rama was awesome
"You can't fail if you never try" is an adage I've lived with, with great regret. Trying is the first step, and sometimes the biggest.
@@RickReasonnz I'm going to try to make my own comic, after writing a 3 episode drama series and 2 hour feature film that has gone nowhere (yet). I'm currently reading Robert Kirkman's Outcast after picking up the complete compendium and I'm loving it!
Loved this video, I know it's not always easy to talk about missed opportunities, but it is so valuable.
One big failure I had in comics was attempting to change genres. I started out doing a semi popular video game fan comic in high school that I started to become ashamed of in my last years of college. I want to make that breakout story that would rebrand me as a serious comic artist. I decided to make a supernatural action comic with demons, mythology and teen angst. There were fight scenes, weird inter dimensional travel, mixed media between ink and painted pages… and when I tried to self publish it, it was dead in the water. It was criticized for poor pacing, rushed artwork and haphazard world building. People didn’t gravitate to it and I basically had to beg them to buy it at conventions. It was a painful hit to my confidence but it taught me something very important.
Action comics are my weakest genre. And my writing skills were lacking.
I enjoy videos like this because it helps me relate to others in the field. Comics are essentially a string of trail and error and more often than not, we like to hear the success stories over the hard lessons. But the hard lessons are where most of us grow. Thanks for this insightful video!
It’s always interesting to hear when somebody gets thier foot in the door, I feel most people have the dream but it’s intimidating after you need to get the dream out to a big company. Thank you for showing everyone how they can do it, I would love to hear more stories like this, I would also love to hear the further adventures of this intergalactic bounty hunter :)
Your story is very similar to mine. In the late 90's I was part of a 'comic book studio' (I use that term loosely) out of Toronto, with a bunch of young, hungry to get into the business, talented guys. Many of them have gone on to be very successful in the comic book industry, people like writer Jay Torres, artist J Bone, Francis Manapul, and several others. We would hit the comic conventions with our portfolios to try to get work. There were lots of failures, but persistence, determination, a positive attitude, and doing the hard work paid off for some of us. My brother and I, who were both at that studio, ended up getting into the animation industry, which was our goal all along. Hard to believe we made careers that have lasted more than 23 years, and going strong.
I wouldn't consider your comic attempt to be a failure. It's just part of the learning process. Just like when a first time writer 'trunks' his first work. Whenever a person that wants to be a writer finishes his first piece of work, a completed 115 page screenplay, or a 500 page novel, or a graphic novel, or whatever, he should 'trunk' it. Open up a proverbial trunk, toss the completed work in there, and close the trunk for all eternity, because it's the first thing you wrote. It won't be as good as your next thing. It was just part of the learning process.
"I wouldn't consider your comic attempt to be a failure."
I would call it a failure, but put emphasis on how the majority of western culture has a horrible understanding/perception of the concept of failing. The problem isn't the failing. The problem is the foolish stigma attached to it.
As humans, we learn most efficiently by making mistakes. The brain creates the strongest pillars of insight/awareness when we do wrong and comprehend the reason. Making mistakes is one of the most important aspects of learning. We should learn to honor that, rather than to associate shame with it.
It's the shame that's causing the damage, a lot of the times.
@@Kijinn You often get fucked over hard for mistakes. The risk ends up not being worth it for most.
@@Kijinn We're saying the same thing, learn from your mistakes, making mistakes is just a part of learning, and there is no shame in failure, only shame in not trying at all. The only place we differ is whether to call it failure or not. If you have a positive perception of failure, then by all means call it failure. If you have a negative connotation of failure, then don' call it that, call it a learning experience.
You got way, WAY farther than most of us have ever gotten to getting printed. Just finishing writing an issue is an accomplishment in and of itself.
I am 60 years old and have been either an art student or a graphic design professor/teacher most of my life. I have seen quite a few very talented artists fail over the years because they did not have the discipline to further their artistic education and sell their talents. They ended up either employed at low level jobs or street artists. I always say I "am in the habit of making things, not money" although I have achieved a fantastic career.
Thank you so much Chris! This type of open, raw, and honest reflection on personal "failures" is exactly what artists of all walks need to hear. It's not all roses and it's not all wins. Picking yourself back up and working on the areas that you identify as what went wrong can only lead to growth.
Thanks for all your great content over the years, it's not only rekindled my passion for comics, but made me want to create my own content.
Learning is a process, failure is a part of it, speaks about one's character in whether or not they take ownership of those failures. Keep making videos and never give up...much respect
Well said.
I've self-published a comic series that was five issues at a few hundred pages total, but despite my best efforts to make it successful, such as securing a shoutout from a known comic author, getting a front page article in the county newspaper, and promoting it where I could like online and at conventions, I just couldn't garner any interest in it and barely sold any copies. It was a failure, just like most of my other projects. Even my RUclips videos (over 100 videos from over 10 years) haven't earned me any money and hardly any views recently, and still less than 1000 subscribers. I've met some friendly people from it, which is great, but the comparative shortcoming of it all is still disheartening.
As a self-published author still trying to break out, this is honestly resonant and motivational. Looking forward to seeing one of your books on my shelf one day!
Don't self pub too much, or you'll never be looked at professionally. Not my experience explicitly but that's what the ear to the ground says. Me? Seems I blew it by self publishing at all.
I am working on various projects, been doing it since 2018, failing over and over learning a lot about myself and the way I can work. I just submitted a 19 page work to a small editorial in my country, meeting a deadline and working faster than ever, if that doesn't go well, I'm 100% sure that the next one will.
Good luck budy
Hey Chris, I have been a long time viewer and patreon subscriber. I'm currently trying to write my own comics (just put my first one on Tapas) and I watch a lot of your videos to learn the history of the art form. This video helped me a lot in what I should not do with my collaborators. Thanks a ton, Chris.
Good Luck with the comic series :)
"LiL'JpD."
What is the name of your webtoon? I'd like to check it out and support. How long do the process take to get it completed?
“Lean into what makes you unique.” Love it. Couldn’t agree more.
You got us excited it's not too late to finish and publish it ✨
Pros and Cons laid bare that you're no slouch at artwork, but an Eisner nomination?? You're quite a renaissance man, Chris.
Totally. As an entertainer, I've seen it happen time and time again: very talented people can be prima donnas, and work horses who are easy to work with tend to get more gigs. I used to complain about it, and then I became easier to work with.
Important lessons to learn. Thanks for sharing!
This is such an inspiration honestly. As an artist currently at art school, listening to your story and advice is really nice. One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned in my art so far is to finish things. I used to have sketchbooks full of half finished art that I stopped working on because I didn’t like it. But when I kept at the things I didn’t like, sometimes I’d find that I liked a different aspect of what I made. For example, if I’m drawing a person and I don’t like the face or body, maybe I’ll like the way I did the hands or feet. Or maybe I’ll like the amount of detail I was able to put into the clothing. Or if I’m not satisfied with any of it, at least I can say it’s a completed work and I can learn from it going forward. I’ve found with anything, whether that be art, playing guitar and bass, or even video games, a lot of the time it takes being bad at something for a really long time to get remotely good. I’m 20, ive been drawing for as long as I can remember so over 10 years at least, and I’m still not what I’d consider a great artist. But it is satisfying to look back and see how much ive improved. Even from the time I was in highschool till now ive made some major improvements. I’m coming to terms with being ok with failure, because I know that if I keep failing for long enough eventually I’m not gonna fail. All it takes is one amazing painting or illustration to become what could be considered a successful artist, and from there I can keep improving. Thanks for the inspiration Chris :) hope all is well!!
This was a great video. I can relate to the story of having a comic/graphic novel idea and building some momentum to self publish. It was all very much a one man show as hiring assistants in an ongoing capacity was unapproachable and I didn’t know how to get in touch with comic stores or how to copyright it. I was doing it alongside art school and a part time job which became my full time job until I left that to learn a trade. And that’s when I lost momentum. I’ve been working on the story, developing ideas and evolving what I already had. But it’s been so long now that sometimes I wonder how much holds up now compared to what I thought might work twenty years ago
But still there is a part of me that would like to release L Badass no Densetsu into the world
That was very valuable to hear Chris, thank you. That was also clearly a bit painful, which made it all the more meaningful. You are a talented man and very good host. Thanks for the insights. I definitely took some things to heart here
Hey dude. I'm working on a comic myself (well, more a webcomic for now), and seeing this video has helped me motivate myself to focus on it more. It's been difficult since I'm much more of a writing and concept guy, but I'm too nervous about asking for anyone to collaborate on drawing, so I've taken up both writing and drawing myself, and I've got a hell of a long way to go before I could ever do them professionally.
Again, thank you so much for sharing your story, it's inspiring to me.
Thank you for sharing your personal experience. I can imagine that it's not easy to revisit some of these memories. To openly share your failures and mistakes shows a great deal of character and backbone.
I always appreciate a creative's personal journey story--even if the term is a bit cringe. It's always worthwhile hearing from other people even if it is to only learn from their mistakes. In fact, it's probably more valuable than hearing a success story because those stories can be vague, cherry-picked, and difficult if not impossible to recreate. Kudos on the video.
Failure is something everyone experiences. Few however are willing to want to discuss it so openly. Thank you for sharing this.
Hey Chris, I just wanted to reiterate how much I love when you do this style of video about your history. You have such introspection and honesty, it really feels more like having a conversation with a friend than watching a video. Thanks for sharing this with us all.
I dug listening to your story. It's interesting to hear about other people's failures, successes and how they learned from it. I just completed a children's book with my friend from high school and it is the best feeling in the world to see it done and out there for the world to discover. The first book is part of a trilogy and I am working on the second part now, which will be out in a couple of months. It is never too late!
Owning up to your mistakes and being willing to share your failures like this, makes this probably one of the most important videos you've done!!
I drew a single issue of a six-issue miniseries, took me two months instead of the requested one month. Wasn't paid, wasn't asked to do any more. This was before most people had internet for reference images - mid 90s.
Also best video by far.
I worked with Paul Maybury back when we were high schoolers (I was really into the X-titles and Blaylock's GI Joe Run at the time while he was more into Green Lantern). Really nice guy.
While I've had alot of big ideas and Patreon runs, buy the closest that I came to pro work was in college. I had a weekly b&w weekly comic in an associated SUNY school's newspaper for 3 years, I was brought into illustrate for some university zines, and my university's official school newspaper (the Daily Orange offered to reprint my series in color).
So at the height of things, I was taking on my coursework, creating weekly installments for the first newspaper (with a grayscale approach similar to Viz Media's manga), and reformatting the older work for in-color syndication in the DO. My senior year, I got dropped from the DO. They got a new art editor who personally wanted to create every comic and illustration used for the paper. The next semester, he was in one of my studio courses, and was such a narcissistic douche. I continued with that first paper through the rest of of my college career. And have worked some non-art jobs while licensing designs for printed commodities. It was an uphill climb getting out of retail since the company was privileges some people with necessary experience opportunities for sign art while telling me that corporate doesn't allow. I was like "These two part time positions are literally available because my competition for another position won out, and now you're telling me that the opportunity that gave her the differential that won the promotion IS NOT ALLOWED by the company?". I was already also trying to get administrative jobs because gym discounts and employee discounts can't directly be converted to rent money, or be deposited into a savings account. I ended up leaving the company and got administrative training at a nonprofit group, and now work at hospital whilebpeople ask why I'm behind a desk and not a professional artist.
I do wonder if in college, I (an undiagnosed Aspie with gender dysphoria) could've more quickly found my voice and ability to find like minded friends in art school.... if then, I could've had the connections to get agency representation as I was getting out of school. Because when potential employers saw the "BFA" on my resume, they always said that I was either underqualified or overqualified.
Yeah, I totally can relate to this. Unfornately my health had always made it difficult to be "fast" and "good enough" by the same time- even when I had some great oppotunities in my life (and as you did *some* stuff) I messed a lot through perfectionism and stuff.
Still loving comics after all these years :) Still kinda doing some stuff.
Love hearing about this kind of thing! I can totally relate to how hard it is to follow through a creative project to completion.
This is a fantastic video, I'm in the midst of a comic project myself so hearing a story like this is very helpful. Thanks Chris!
I really, really enjoyed this one, Chris. Takes big person to admit mistakes and an ever bigger and better one to learn, move on, and share the lessons. thank you for that.
I really love videos like these. It's definitely a lesson learned and a great motivator towards my own work. Thanks for sharing, Chris!
Very cool vid. Loved the unedited presentation. Thanks for sharing your experiences and advice, Chris!
So appreciate you sharing such a personal story. Thank you not only for your candor, but for educating and entertaining us through your channel!
This was an especially interesting episode as I can appreciate how much work goes into making comics. I myself have found it difficult to balance my everyday work life and trying to get my own idea off the ground. I've also been working on pages for the Top Cow talent hunt this year and, being more used to doing paintings these days, have been having trouble getting through those pages in a timely fashion. It's admirable that you can recognize where you went wrong in your experience and have learned from it.
I understand, me boyo. I had a whole novel, 3 treatments adapting that novel into a cartoon, ready to go and friends in Nickelodeon, AND had the art in different styles: 2d and 3d.....Then the 2nd writers strike happened (2007-ish) and people from studios and positions got shuffled. Some of my friends/contacts didn't even work for the same studios and my project was forgotten as a "greenlit project" within weeks. I dropped the ball in not having more of a digital portfolio ready and waiting after that, so that a year or so later, some of my hollywood contacts wanted me to get involved in some projects and yeah.....I lost more projects I had lined up.
Still working on it. I've developed a lot since then and have better products since then. I'm actually glad I didn't move forward previously. Tis Ne'er too late! :D Will keep you all up to date on my movement as I anticipate your movement forward and observing with a smile. :D
Good luck in your endeavors!
Can't wait to see it!
I recently finished my first self published comic and its on kickstarter now while i work on a new comic! Haha i have to say you learn so much everytime you create a new comic, always more to learn!
Thank you Chris, this is so valuable to me and anyone trying to develope a comic. I will take your advice and really try to cement them in my brain !
I love this video, so honest and sincere, I’m having trobule as well finishing a story idea I have for a graphic novel. It’s been a long process, so many people throughout these last seven years of developing it have told me they’d love to read it. And still here I am on chapter 1, though it’s never too late, I can’t help but feel I’m failing myself a little too in a sense. But hopefully I still believe one day I will complete this epic of mine and release it to the world for everyone to see. Thank you so much for releasing a video like this though; it really helps a lot to not only motivate me, but to also teach me on how to not to make the same mistakes with my material as well. Keep up the great work comic tropes I love your channel, hopefully you’ll have the pleasure as well of reading my comic when it’s finished.
Great lessons learned here. These are so applicable to any type of startup effort. I think particularly understanding that trying not to spit the finished product out right away is important. It would probably have experienced editorial changes if picked up that would have nullified those initial effort to get things finished.
Thanks for this Chris! I'm 25 and I used to make short films with friends all the way from middle school to community college. In college I had a lot of projects fall through or turn out poorly (but not in like a "so-bad-it's-good" kinda way). The last couple years or so I had just been so focused on the failure that I couldn't seem to move past it.
Your channel has been a great place for me to, in a weird way, recover? Like, watching your videos I can appreciate writing and storytelling from the audience's standpoint. Your enthusiasm for each of your topics has been a nice change of pace for RUclips media criticism. Through you and other channels I've discovered writers and creators I might not have otherwise, most notably Darwyn Cooke, whose work I fell in love with.
Hearing you share your story of a project that fell through reminded me of a few of my own. It seems like it took time, but you've been able to move past, while still acknowledging that it happened. I look forward to seeing the work that you will create and I look forward to creating work of my own.
Great video, better mustache! I actually bought a sketchbook last month and I’ve been drawing quite a bit. It’s been really fun and I’m really enjoying it! Your livestreams have helped me in understanding the process of creating more complex illustrations👍🏻👍🏻
I've always been very interested in your comics background, thank you for sharing with us. I certainly appreciate it.
6:10 Love the Spartacus Theme! Never gets Old! Rollerball style!
9:03 Taking to long. Got that. Charlie Adlard got that right - not the prettiest, but he got the Job done.
11:55 What you need:
1.) Have the Talent - The Chops, the Needed Skills or at least entry skills
2.) Be Reliable - Sustainable - The ability to do this over a long period of time
3.) Friendly or Fun to work with...
Without Failure there is no learning.
I completed a few comics, But I got back to fundamentals and kinda Restarting.
Finishing Stuff and coming out with new stuff.
Thank you for your honesty, you have no idea how inspiring this is to hear. I am going look to talk to an artist tomorrow about my script and push to get this thing done. Thank you.
Gotta say Chris your videos pretty much inspired me to create my own comic, and I even released the first volume of it not too long ago, thank you for being a inspiration for those of us wanting to create and to share our ideas and concepts and to give them proper life.
Love this. Great top 3 recommendations. Thank you Chris.
Thanks for sharing Chris. Great episode, I'm having to think about a lot of these things as I begin my self publishing journey.
What a great motivating episode this was. This channel is as good if not better in teaching than some of the classes I took in college.
I love ALL your vídeos, Chris. They help me, they inform me, entertain me, and I have fun with them. But this help me just when I needed it most. I'm a cómic book artist. Thank you very much. Muchas gracias.
I've been thinking about how important failure is in our lives. It teaches us what can work, what doesn't and helps us find our way forward. Thank you so much for being vulnerable by sharing your "failure" and thank you so much for what you do. My Sunday mornings are always brighter when I can I watch a new Comic Tropes episode.
Thanks so much for opening up it is truly inspiring. Still working on my own comic all my own it moves slow but it’s moving.
I love the honesty of videos like this one (I enjoy all of these videos). It's great to share this insight and to also be honest about our strengths and weaknesses. I like hearing about other people's ventures and reflections :3 It helps inspire, and I think it's great to learn from one another.
Love the open, honest conversation about something that can be really heartbreaking. I've had so many ups and downs in my "career" it makes my head spin. The best part about this is that you can self-reflect and realize what you did right and what went wrong. That's not easy for some people! Thanks for sharing, Chris!
Thank you for sharing all of this! It’s synced with something similar for me, and I really appreciate your experiences and advice here.
I hope you can try again! You have a lot to share with the world ✊👍👍
Fun video and it brings back memories of myself trying to create a comic page I still have some where. Nothing professional at all, but brings a smile to my face whenever I look at it. Just like you said now it’s easier to create on your own because you have more resources. I say keep going, if you still have the passion to write a comic, go all out this life with a bang .
Really cool video! I'd love to hear more about your history in comics. Huge inspiration
Great video, and thank you for talking about it. It reminds me how some writers will write 5 pages of a book (literary) and then send it to agents and then the agents want to see a partial or full manuscript and then the writer has to write the rest of the book. By the time they are done, the moment has passed. When really it has to be completed and then shopped out. Although I have written several books completely, shopped them out and they never got picked up. A part of mess wishes I didn't spend so much time on writing those books. However, I've learned something after each one. talented/reliable/personality ---absolutely true in all of the entertainment industry
A great soul cleaning episode. You finally got something off of your chest and now you feel a whole lot better. Different from your regular episodes but still a masterpiece
I love how open and honest you are, Chris. Thank you for sharing this. When I was younger, I loved to draw and got pretty good at it. I dreamed about creating my own comics, but I finally realized that I just didn’t have the talent to get to that next level and do it professionally. I hope that others who face hardships and frustrations don’t give up and keep creating.
Wow, hard lessons. Thanks and major respect for sharing that life story. I love Comic Troupes, keep up the great work Chris. Good luck and good fortune for round 2...😁
Nice off the cuff video, and also an inspiring story. I like this format as well as your more produced videos. Keep writing comics!
Great video, thanks for sharing this story. I'm about to have finished working on my first graphic novel and I've been working superhard for the past 5 years to break into the industry and I can say with certainty that every year has brought me slightly closer to achieving my goal.
Thanks for your humbleness and honesty. This was truly a teaching moment that will help many of us when we are eady to take the plunge. Good stuff.
Thanks for doing this video. I’m sure it resonates with more viewers than you may realize. Important message to hear about failures which are important lessons to learn and grow from in life. Look forward to more of these type of videos.
I have a failed comic book stories myself. Would love another try before I am retired and regrets. Love art and drawing and love failure. Success always leads with failures first!
thank you so much for sharing your own adventure through the industry. it's great to hear about legends and how they came into their name, but theres something intimate about hearing a regular guy's story
Great episode! Very inspiring. Thanks for making this. It really helps motivate those trying to publish their own works.
I have no words to thank you many lessons you have given to us.
Because in my case, I learn about making complimentary characters that relied each other in the One Piece episode, also the Ed Piskor interview for keeping a passion and commitment in making comics, so much.
Among other chapters.
Thanks for this video, i kinda of needed it right now.
Def easily one of my most fav channels. Thank you for everything! And great work! Damn.. lol my sad attempt at my own comics in middle school didn't even come close to what you did. An Eisner?!?! That's awesome!
I really appreciate the honesty and openness with this video! Thanks for sharing!
As an artist, I've had a lot of failures. Trying to find my way back in, but not having a lot success. I listened to a photographer who said exactly what my failure was: not sorting out the business end. Not of afraid of trying again, just more at stake now (family, kids) than ever.
This video really was a wakeup call for me. I've been working on my own project that required me to have artists working with me even though I have no way of paying them and it's going better than it realistically should be, but there's definitely been a big lack of responsibility on my part and I feel that has caused a huge lack of momentum. I was hoping that watching other artists work would motivate me when in reality I should be the one motivating them. As you said, I tried to force a style onto myself in order to achieve a certain effect, but all it has resulted in is a project that I barely have any motivation to work on. I've recently started a small side project that I'll be working on by myself and it's going a lot smoother than anything else I've done just because I've stayed shamelessly true to myself throughout. So thank you for this video, it's really helped me catch a lot of the mistakes that I've been making myself. Hopefully one day we can finally see all of our artistic endeavors through to the end.
Thanks Chris. I'm working to get a manga project off and been at it for some years, though i struggle with motivation and confidence. This was a nice eye opener and boost.
Thank you for taking the time to film this video and provide your insight into the industry, it was obviously a very personal one to make!
I like videos like this that give the feel of hanging out with a buddy talking about shared interests like comic books. The best channels IMO center on a likeable creator with a passion for something. Those are the channels I watch faithfully, even if I'm not particularly interested in the topic, because I like just "hanging out" with that creator. I do have family and many friends, but they don't share all my interests, so it's so nice to have RUclips "friends" that provide at least a little of that vibe.
I really appreciate this. As someone who has tried to get a comic off the ground and had it fall apart due to outside factors, it was really important to reflect on where I need to improve and where I've been doing things right. Thank you for this.
A very candid episode. Thanks for sharing. Lesson learned.
Wow - really appreciate your candor and walking the viewer through your personal story. There's a lot of nuggets of wisdom you have given us. Thank you.
Enjoyed hearing your story. It's going into my well of inspirational thoughts. I have successfully crowdfunded my comic, but I always feel like I could do more.
I really can appreciate the message in this video. As an active musician of 30 years, it's easy now to look back and see the missed opportunities. The places in my life where I had an actual shot at "making it," but due to missteps of my own or those I kept around me it just didn't happen. Luckily, it seems like missing that shot hasn't made you bitter. I have had ups and downs when I consider too much the chances at being something greater that I've missed. Pretty brave to expose this part of your life and I thank you for sharing.
Wow! You're absolutely right, as an artist putting in a ton of hours, I needed the writer to communicate with me, but he had just had his world shook by his fiance to the point where he could not stay focused or in touch. I had other projects that wooed me away, some that paid. So it's like you really have to have your act together when you're collaborating with someone, don't expect someone to take your dream and make it happen without you helping it grow! I am proud of you for standing in your shit without placing blame on others.
These vids are always great, but it was really interesting just hearing Chris talk about something without a script. Hope you get more work out there man!
Thank you for sharing. I recently got hacked on instagram and I had lost my following I had been building up since 2014. I have self published the first 3 issues of my series, but the hardest part is growing a following. That and my art is very detailed and takes forver for me to draw. This video couldn't have come out at a better time cuz I've just really been feeling like I haven't gotten any breaks. Thanks for keeping your chanel alive and sharing your experience!
Very informative. Thanks for sharing. Communication is the key to it and making sure that you keep everyone in the loop. Keeping that connection helps you to stay motivated and to keep things moving along.
Thank you very much for sharing your experiences, Chris! I can relate a lot, without going into details here. I wouldn’t necessarily call what happened a personal failure though. We learn and we grow, we get better in what we do. Some „get it“ early on in their careers, some take a little longer. And for one door that shuts, others open. Never stop learning and never stop being creative.
I really appreciate you sharing this failure that clearly looms large in your adult life. I can very much relate in my own life with some of my own recurring personal and professional failures, which I still carry a deep regret about to this day. I love my life, but I always think about where I could have done better, and how I could have sidestepped some of my biggest failures. It is really cathartic to come to terms with these and to share them publicly is very brave, and I hope it was somewhat healing to share this with your fans.
My favorite RUclipsr. Awesome life lessons Chris. Thanks for being you.
One can really feel how serious a topic this is to you and how it still hurts and moves you. Thanks a lot for sharing this interesting insight into an aspiring comic writer. I really hope that your dream will come true one day!
Thank you for your words of encouragement, especially your last statement! After working on 5 self-published issues of a superhero series and longing to finally finish it, it's easy to let time get away. It's good to know that no matter what, there's always someone out there who wants to read your story. Keep making comics!
love your personal story videos
This is easily the best comicbook content on youtube. I'm so happy to see your channel growing, man.
Love these types of videos. Thanks for this man. Great artwork too.