christwriter wrote:I have discovered the cure for the slump.
Take care of something that is not yourself. It is better if it cannot take care of itself, and it's even better if it is utterly dependant on you for everything.
CW
Well, this is also a good way to cure depression... doing good for others. Really breaks one out of the old tunnel vision.
Well...I think depression was (and will be) a lot of my problem. Man, when life decides to unload on you...
So I decided to stop being so anal about my comic stats, stop looking at my logs for a week and find something else to do for a few days.
After three days of bottle feeding a kitten I feel much better now.
CW
"Remember that the definition of an adventure is someone else having a hell of a hard time a thousand miles away."
--Abbykat, NaNoWriMo participant '04
Coloring tutorial It's a little like coloring boot camp. Without the boots.
I am just now getting over a serious slump in the drawing and working on Red Lexi. I was so slumpy that I even had comics drawn and just did not bother to scan them in. I quite posting on the forum. I quite responding to comic emails. Just abandon the whole thing for about 3 months.
Interestingly, it was at about the 3 year point and right after the long drop in service from Keenspace too. I wonder if that is the typical point for burn on projects like this?
Then in the course of a few days last , I got my pencils out and just started drawing again. I don't know why the slump hit and I don't know exactly why I got over it. I wish I did.
At least half of my readership vanished on me and I surely can't blame them for that. However there was a small group of about 8 people that just kept chatting away on my forum and I know that they helped me get rolling, if only because I felt guilty because they hung around for months on the hopes I would do something.
There are a lot of good articles on hollylisle.com. Although they're about writing novels, I think some of them apply to comics as well. The one I want to point out in particular is 'Burn it, bury it, let it live." It's an evaluation of your work... and whether it's worth working on.
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