Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

Anonymous asked: Hey mod, I really want to start making comics... Until I actually start making a comic and then want nothing more than it to be done already. Which usually leads to a lot of cut corners and poorer quality art. I've never gotten this feeling while doing lengthy lone illustrations, just comic pages. You've always been an inspiration of mine so I thought you might have some sort of advice maybe? Should I just stick with it and keep trying?

Sorry to hear that man, and yeah ngl comics can be draining! Especially the first few times of making them, but really it’s a wonderful medium to tell stories and is so, so worth sticking with; and that’s the best way to learn. Make! Read a lot of comics too, see if you find any in particular compelling- why? Do they experiment with panelling? Is it the dialogue? How do they use colour and backgrounds? Pose the characters? Use dramatic angles? Lighting? Is there something in the work of those you love that you can extract and inject into your own? Find something that excites you about comics, and hold that excitement, try to get it into your own work- be enthused by the potential of your own ideas! Sadly the finished image is almost never going to be as good as the picture in your head, hard fact but true of every artist’s relationship with their art- someone once told me that your head is three years ahead of your hands, and it rings true. What you can do is try your best, take satisfaction in that, and get as close as you can. Make a game of what you have to do- can you make a page with panels all the same? A whole page which is only one panel? A set of panels that make a picture? Another thing is to do something completely different- make a short comic of a totally different story. The reason I do derail into fancomics is not just because I get stories that I want to do for them, but because I know that every time I have I’ve come back to my own with new insight and excitement for what I can do with it. Sometimes a change really is as good as a rest! Anyway, hope some of that helps, but yeah pal if comics is what you want to do you just have to keep keep keep making them happen.