Surviving Your Webcomic
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- Опубликовано: 19 апр 2017
- It's been a while since I rambled about comics. Please allow me to tell you some vague advice on how to slog through a long project...though maybe slog is the wrong word?
Now, all I need to figure out is how to get my characters to survive my webcomics....
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Comics - tapas.io/darkenedavo
Patreon - / mckayandgray
Twitter - / bonesmfleming
Tumblr - / ursulaoctopus
Been working on my webcomic for 5 years straight now. Still learning. I get that feeling of being tired, I work a full time job and come home and immediately work on my comic. In my case I've trained myself to be addicted to my comic. Hitting certain points of the storyline give me a high like nothing else. Thats what keeps me going, is the love for this story and telling it.
im just stuck with only being able to get addicted to certain parts of my story and not being able to work on the rest and therefore not being able to tell it properly.
any tips?
arswiss Admirable actually
I'm in the same boat right now. I have a full time job and It's been difficult to make my comic but I'm making it a habit to draw everyday. I try to document it on instagram and youtube. No matter how much I get done I will at least attempt to draw!
Dude I'm starting to make my own web comic. And you inspired me to keep going (i get writers and artist block easy). If I'm gunna fail it's gunna be the best failure I've ever failed because i finished something.
Even though this thought will inevitably be in the back of my mind this really has given me more of a reason to start my webcomic!
Thanks! I'm trying to create my first full webcomic, and this was awesome advice, I feel like I'm heading into it with a better understanding of the struggle, but with that emphasis on learning how to do endings as well I've got way more chance of seeing it through to the end.
No problem :) best of luck with your project.
OMG !!!! You're the Pretty Mouth guyyy :D
I've loved your comic for years :D *crushes the subscribe button*
I'm also working on a webcomic right now . . . not really .. . . its a print comic that I'm also posting online. There is actually a difference in how this stuff transpires.
Buttttt I still feel you ( =_=)9
I am planning to do something that is ACTUALLY a webcomic so this vid was a great find. Especially, considering how Pretty Mouth greatly affected my life. It lead me to get into Lovecraft ~ which led me to cosmic horror ~ which led me to my current comic ~ which sort of let most stories I do to have a cosmic horror twist ( or at least a sprinkle of it)
You were a catalyst to a great chain of events that lead me into my current writing style.
I actually have a comic that is pretty popular (at least in the standard of one that is indie and print only) that someone else did the art for. I couldn't have written this story without coming upon your work sometime in the past. :D
If you'd allow me :D I'd really want to show it to you. I really shouldn't post it online because I'm 1/2 of a creative team tho
Thanks for all the kind words
Haha, I feel you on the print comic thing. :) We're working working on a project like that now. I think it's a lot easier now though because of the confidence I've built up about my writing over time.
Feel free to link it or send it to me. Most of my contact info is available over here: bonesmckay.tumblr.com/about
I'm sorry this took me so long -_-
But, I've e-mailed you. I think. -_-
been a fan for a long time on YT, haven't commented much- but I'm seriously so grateful for all the amazing information over the years. y'all are seriously so inspiring!!!
The part about endings really hit me. I've started COUNTLESS fan fictions, drawings, original writings, I have up to 5 different original stories that I've started, I have an entire folder of over 30 PSD or MDP files, but the folder of actually finished drawings? 6 in the last 3 years. Over the last 7 years I've never finished a written story, and I barely ever get past sketching or flat colours. This is why I feel so unproductive, because technically I work creatively a lot, but I don't ever finish anything, I'm forever in that initial brainstorming, coming up with stuff phase. Sitting down and planning something out isn't my forte, and actually sitting down and practicing things I'm bad at or don't know how to do is the most boring slog that I can never make myself push through. Not to mention, I never have any idea how to finish things, or write endings, because goddamnit I hate endings. I hate getting to know and love characters, reading their adventures, and then having it end.
Man, okay, existential life crises over..
Oh this is wild. I followed Pretty Mouth while it was still in production and totally loved it - now I'm embarking on my own webcomics adventure, and youtube recommends me your video - its serendipitous.
Haha, :) I'm glad people are finding their way back to me. I've got plenty on the go now-a-days.
Bones McKay oh it's great that you're keeping busy! I just went to find you on tapas, but it turns out I was already following you anyway - it'll be exciting for me to catch up on sovereign and get started on the magpie!! Its really good to find you on RUclips too so congrats on the great progress and good luck for the future 😄😄😄
Thanks for sharing this. I really appreciate hearing these things, it gets me pumped up to try harder and move more wisely hearing from your experience.
"On getting excited on the wrong project: Get excited about that project, too... You can try doing two comics at once." Really needed to hear that. I get so caught up on whether I'm doing the correct project or not or whether I'm doing the one that would work best. I've heard the advice "just do it and finish a project" before, but I feel like putting it like that helps outline it more. Just made me feel better, I guess.
Thank you both for all your videos! I've just started working on my webcomic and all of your videos are so helpful! It's really inspiring and I'm very happy to be finally working within this community! Keeo up the awesome work!
Pretty good advice. I find the advice helpful even as I go about a decade further then you in working. I like your advice really about scheduling relaxing time and telling people to admit to being open in disappointment in their work. To celebrate the success... Great advice and your art has a lovely look. Keep it up!
I really enjoyed this video! You address all the points I've been going through, even if I'm only a couple years into comics. I've still been doing art in freelance and I get similar vibes of exhaustion and motivation-issues, so hearing your side of it was really refreshing and encouraging. Great art too!! (kitty, yay)
Speaking as a Mangaka myself, I understand what you mean when you said, you spend so many hours on something and then you attend a lot of conventions to sell it. But, it's not building an audience and then you decide to give up on it and you end up doing something else or forgetting about it :(
Nice video! Very relatable. I've only been at my webcomic for about a month (more like two, since I spent a month creating a buffer which has since dwindled to basically nothing) and I've already felt all of these things. Trying to stay excited, though!
OMG!!^________< Ursula ! I love your art and sketches!!^____^ Keep it up❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Lots of great points.
Thank you to RUclips recommendations, (and also thank you to you!) I needed a bit of an oomph to get onto my character Sheets.
🎉True to a T🎉 Thanks Bones x Ursula😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you. ♥
I'm gonna make a short comic, learn to write, take part in rp, and get better at drawing cars. At least I want to believe that I can do that.
Trippumi I believe you can do it ^^
@@turnip332 omg thank you /////
I believe in you too then, go for animations and whatever else you want to do
I see furry.. I click.. nice
I see link .. I click... twitter.. what is this random daily life? No drawing?
I click comic... I don't know which is the furry comic
I love furry comic.. so I come to see it but kinda bummer... just started drawing this year... and really2 need some reference..
sorry if been rude.. just my opinions as a new guys on this area.. :(
Hey sorry about that. We're in production on our furry comic so you won't be able to find it anywhere online until this fall/winter.
We do have some tutorials and such in the works, we're just swamped with work right now. You can check out the link below where we'll be posting most up to date information on the project.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mckayandgray/the-scourge-of-ninepoint-a-comic-about-cat-knights
Hello fake bones, im the real bones, from 4chan. lol