Perfectionism

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:27 am

Not a perfectionist. If I make a mistake, it gets corrected via Photoshop, but if I was a perfectionist the comic would never get done on time. There's just too much to do.

Shishio · Post by **Shishio** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:12 am

I'm a total perfectionist as well. It's rather maddening. But, as other people have said, there comes a time where you have to make the choice between settling for your best, (Which you despise.) or not working towards your goals.

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:24 am

Just like everyone else, I'm prone to perfectionism too. But, I think I'm more prone to it in my writings than in my comic. My comic, I usually just concentrate on getting done. I have yet to finish a writing longer than 20 pages, because I never think it's good enough.

Evil Jamie! · Post by **Evil Jamie!** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:00 am

I am when I can be botherd to be.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:05 am

I spend too much time drawing this crap. If I'm not reasonably satisfied, then I lose sleep. My current page is passable, but I don't like it much.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:09 am

I spend an insane amount of time getting things right with my comic, and I keep taking more and more time to crank out a page with each new update. I'm a perfectionist with just about everything else, too (except maybe housekeeping).

BKR · Post by **BKR** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:26 am

I tend to redraw my line art a fair bit, and ctrl+z is a good friend of mine, but once I get to the shading I'm not so picky since it usually comes out the same anyway. I may notice something wrong after the shading is done, but I rarely edit the outlines after that point, and even if I do it's only very minor edits.

In comparison, I don't spend as much time pondering over the text for the comic, as long as it works. However, if I do see a spelling or grammar error after the comic's done or even uploaded, then I will go back and fix it.

So I guess I'm a perfectionist until it becomes too much work to fix.

Mo · Post by Mo » Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:55 am

Joel Fagin wrote:
Cookie wrote:Sometimes I really think I'm not cut out for comicmaking...
*knocks some sense into Cookie with a pillow*

Nooo, not the pillow! My only weakness!

Lars · Post by **Lars** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:16 am

In the beginning of my first comic [url]http:/ricksaturo.comicgenesis.com[/url] it took me about 2 hours to draw a single strip. I managed to upload three per week. In the end I couldn't live up to my own standards and it took me about 9 hours/strip. Needless to say, that I quit drawing RS eventually.
I desperately try NOT to be that perfectionistic (?) again with my new comic. It's really hard to keep me from drawing backgrounds and detailed scenes, but I have to. This comic is intended to be light-hearted and funny and my perfectionism would only make it stale and hollow.

Oh, and: Color kills you webcomic!^^

Deaths Head II · Post by **Deaths Head II** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:33 am

I'm a perfectionist, but in the way that I whine and complain how much my art sucks and not in the way that I would actually spend hours working to make it better.

Biev · Post by **Biev** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 9:42 am

I spent 7 hours trying to draw a piece of fanart yesterday, kept starting over, and ended up with nothing satisfying... and I had already spent a lot of time on it the day before. So yeah, pretty perfectionist. Or obsessive, anyway.

Rcmonroe · Post by **Rcmonroe** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 9:47 am

I'm more of a perfectionist in writing than in drawing. I often find myself tweaking text after the strip is "done". Usually it's just rewriting something to make the meaning clearer. A couple of times I've changed punchlines because I've come up with something I think is funnier or more original.

I'm only willing to spend so much time on the art. I purposely chose a style that was simple enough to allow me to keep to a six-days-a-week update schedule. But ocassionally I do redraw or otherwise fix a panel I'm not happy with.

As for which draws more readers (good art vs. frequent updates), I think they're both important.

SergeXIII · Post by **SergeXIII** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:32 am

I hold a philosophy that deems that there are things beyond my control.
Time. Others. Power. Desire for these will only lead towards sadness, so they should be dealt with apathy.

So is the way of the stoics.

Human beings, as far as I am concerned are flawed, not perfect. Perfection actualy as I see it is the creation of the mind when it observes progress and contemplates the phenominon. Perfection does not exist in experience in my opinion, it is the like of unicorns, griffons, and double hawks.

Anyway, I try to avoid perfection. It may sound like a cop out, but Its true. I will pretend to not know things that I do. I will never give my all in a competition. And I take comfort in not being the best artist out there.

This may sound sad folks, but all in all thats it. It <b>sounds</b> bad.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:23 am

Well for one I like a leisure, sloppy art style, so I generally try to achieve it. This means that an amount of quick action and carelessness is bound to happen in some part of process. Plus I don't really believe that perfectionism is where real quality lies. Perfectionism is like a polish to a piece of furniture, but this piece could look ugly and no amount of polish could help it. Then again, if it is a fine piece of furniture, as long as it's not smeared in mud, well, it doesn't really have to be polished like mirror.

I'm not a perfectionist. Well, I do spend a lot of time looking for references, working out layout and poses, and in some cases I even discard a finished page - but that happens only if a page is really crappy. But I also can't wait to finish, so this rush bears some consequences. Plus, my decision is that, after I claim a page done, I don't return to it, don't look and spot mistakes, don't fix it, once it's officially done, it's as if someone else drew it.
That's mostly for saving my time. I don't have enough time or energy to work on everything I'd want to, so I really think that it's better to work on a new comic than to spend equal amount of time fixing the old one. Either way I learn and improve, the second way I make more comics.

Guildmaster Van · Post by **Guildmaster Van** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:37 am

I'm so batshit insane about perfectionism I quit my comic before to restart it... but I make note of that too often.

Perfectionism is part of my personality, probably stemming from my parents; my mother being a neat freak and my father being overly-ambitious. I'm a perfectionist about pretty much everything in my life as well, so it's no surprise I spend so much time analyzing my own art and the art of others, examining ways to improve my product so it can become better than any other.

I'm just extremely competitive. And jealous. And petty. And please don't hate me.

Bekka · Post by **Bekka** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:03 pm

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 2:00 pm

Heh, welllll...depends how close I am to a deadline.

If I'm almost late with a comic and need to get something finished then I'm fine with things not being so perfect. If I have time to spare though I'll tinker and fiddle forever until I'm happy.

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 2:41 pm

There's a saying: "Do something right or don't do it at all." this is generally ment to be a retorhical statement to get people to do things properly. I've always lived by this, but I tend to sink towards the other end more often then not. (Meaning the 'Or don't do it at all.') part. This was really bad when I was back in school. I got horrible grades in school becasue even if I finished all but 2 questsions on a 10 question assignment, I wouldn't turn it in because it wasn't finished. I know it doesn't make much sense, and I agree it was proably stupid on my part, but that's why I have such a hard time keeping updates on anything. There's so many things I want to do, but when I sit down to actually do them, I can't do them the way I want and because of that I tend to not do them at all.

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:17 pm

I'm not much of a perfectionist with art. However I keep to my update schedule because that's the only way I'm going to get better and I have a lot of getting better to do.

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:24 pm

I'm a perfectionist, but I'm also something of a workaholic when I have something to get done. I work well under pressure, and I've never really had an assignment for school not be done satisfactorially.

I have one more year of university left, so we'll see if this holds up.