| GUILTY! |
[Oct. 1st, 2009|10:37 am]
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A note on creativity, productivity, weather, and guilt:
A few months ago, when I really got into the swing of working on RELISH, I put the kibosh on posting color comics. They took too big a bite into my time that I should have spent working, and I compromised by allowing myself to be distracted enough to make a black-and-white "for fun" comic from time to time (usually drawn very gradually while I'm taking breaks from the script/pencil/scan/color work for the book). This week, the winter weather swept in and halted my will to work with a cold and malaise. Sometimes I need to follow my whims in making comics in order to get back on track, so I wanted to make a little color comic instead of doing the book pencils I had scheduled for this week, so I did.
But I felt plenty guilty about it!
The comics class I teach at a local elementary school starts up again, today. It'll be great to get to hang out with people of my emotional maturity level, again (3rd, 4th and 5th graders). We're gonna make so many comics! |
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OUCH! Must say, this one hit me right in the solar plexus of guilt, what with me being an middle class, relatively healthy, white person who also happens to be an artist but who is currently not (and hasn't been for awhile) working hard at it. :} I live in guilt and sloth.
That all said, we your avid readers are very excited about getting a little color comic from you and by doing so you are building up a following (I for one am quite new to your site, thanks to a forwarded copy of your chai comic) which will in turn increase the sales of your books. So in truth, you can be GUILT FREE! because you just did some marketing which is going to pay off as I'm about to post your cartoon in my LJ cause that third to last panel of you and the TV? That's ME! (Oh dear, I shouldn't be enthusiastic about that, should I?)
You are creating and no matter if you're making what you want or what you feel you 'should' be creating, you are creating. That puts you miles ahead of the rest of us schlubs. ;) | |
lucylou
