What's your drive?

Rcmonroe · Post by **Rcmonroe** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:09 am

There is something inside me that makes me want to create. If I'm not involved with some sort of creative project I feel depressed and out of sorts.

I drew comics when I was a kid, and in fact all I wanted to be when I grew up was a cartoonist. Ironically, by the time I grew up I was pretty much burned out on drawing and for many years I didn't draw at all. But I was always invloved in some creative and/or artistic pursuit.

The bug to draw comics again hit me rather suddenly and unexpectedly; basically I discovered webcomics. The idea of being able to draw comics again and publish them without any outside interference was a powerful one.

Yeah, I'd much rather be making a living drawing comics than by what I'm doing, but for now, just the idea that I'm being creative and productive is enough.

Besides, I think it's only a matter of time… heh heh.

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:29 am

I gotta finish the story.

That's about it. I think in the past nearly two years, it's taught me all the story-telling tools I can learn from it, and hopefully they'll serve me well. But what's important now is finishing the story.

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:38 pm

A) I just like to draw...I'd be drawing anyways, may as well put it to a constructive purpose instead of filling sketchbooks full of cartoon characters that only I see.

B) I have a very active imagination. That sounds kind of funny coming from an adult...but it's true. I spend a lot of time in my own head thinking of characters and stories and all sorts of stuff. Again, I'd be doing this anyways, so why not get it down on paper and get some of the clutter in head out?

C) Obviously I'd like to become a rich and famous cartoonist.

D) My family and some of my friends discovered it a while back and they're all pretty enthusiastic about it, so there's that pressure from the people I know to keep at it.

Biev · Post by **Biev** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:58 pm

Hm, well, once I get an idea, I become obsessed with it. The quicker I can get it out of my head the quicker I can be sane again, I guess.

Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 5:47 pm

If I wasn't drawing, I'd be writing. Writing is like therapy for me, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, newspaper articles or forum posts, coherent or not so much. Putting pen to paper, or typing on a keyboard, I know I'm doing something I'm actually good at. Doing a webcomic lets me fulfill my storytelling urges in a visual form, which is what I respond to most. (Unfortunately, these urges aren't always strong enough to keep me updating more than once a month, but I'm working on that.)

Catlegend · Post by **Catlegend** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:32 pm

Someday's I don't know. I feel I have to. Even when people call it convoluted, even when people say it's great. It's the same, I feel obligated to me. I have to keep at it and get better so I can make it what I see in my head. It's really quite something there ^^.

TRI · Post by **TRI** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:00 pm

RemusShepherd wrote:
mcDuffies wrote:
i have a passion for the stories i can't get out of my head

If I don't draw I will explode.
Those two sum it up nicely for me.
I'm in this group. Stories and characters are pounding at the inside of my skull, trying to break free. People don't believe me when I say that, but I can show you the cracks!

I really wasn't sure how to answer the question of this topic, but those three sum it up nicely.

Actually I've already amassed quite a pile of characters begging to be used. I keep telling them they have to wait until I finish with the ones I'm using now but they just so impatient... and lately Akasha's been menacing me with her scythe....

Prettydragoon · Post by **Prettydragoon** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 3:01 am

rkolter wrote:
Cookie wrote:Robin will kill a puppy for every Doppies strip I don't draw.
Tell her that if she kills it, she has to eat it. That was the golden rule at the summer camp I used to go to - it kept us from targetting the bunnies on the archery and shooting ranges.

Did you have mosquitoes at the camp?

What is my drive? I want to impress hot chicks. Of course, my gf will kill me if she finds out... hmm, maybe that has something to do with my lack of updateyness...

VinnieD · Post by **VinnieD** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 3:09 am

I agree with what most people have said. It's an inspiration that builds up in my head and demands to be let out. If I didn't draw it I think there would eventually be pices of Vinnie head splattered all over the wall.

Steve Hogan · Post by **Steve Hogan** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:19 am

A) I like experimenting with art and narrative approaches.

B) My webcomic gives allows me to publicly express myself in a more personal manner than commercial illustration work for hire.

C) It helps get me more of those impersonal commercial illustration for hire gigs so I can afford to pay my hosting bills.

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 1:32 pm

personally its something to give my brain something to do. It was exciting to come up with the stuff, and I like to draw (well yeah) but mainly it gives me something to do thats easy where I have this autopilot of what to think about for several hours.

which is why I prescript so I can sit down and not worry about thinking about the story so much and just draw.

right now I'm just trying to finish up my plots and get the comic done.

LAGtheNoggin · Post by **LAGtheNoggin** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 3:25 pm

Peer pressure. All my friends run one, have run one, or want to. Evidently it doesn't work very well - they're on the internet 300 days a year and I'm stuck in real life.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:33 pm

Overcome that weakness, Lag!

LAGtheNoggin · Post by **LAGtheNoggin** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 6:07 pm

mcDuffies wrote:Overcome that weakness, Lag!

I can't do it. O' sunlight and food! Such temptations, cruel cruel temptations, they draw me outside! ;o;

EvilChihuahua · Post by **EvilChihuahua** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:58 am

To have people I've never met worship the ground I walk on. 'Cause when people I know do that, it's kinda' embarassing

Shishio · Post by **Shishio** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:59 am

Oddly enough, I absolutely despise writing and creating comics, but I love to have written or created a comic.

To put it more clearly, I hate the process, but love the result.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:00 pm

LAGtheNoggin wrote:
mcDuffies wrote:Overcome that weakness, Lag!
I can't do it. O' sunlight and food! Such temptations, cruel cruel temptations, they draw me outside! ;o;

But they aren't good for you!

Jeffy · Post by **Jeffy** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:46 pm

I like seeing the finished product. I've also noticed that after seeing some sort of violence I find myself wanting to work on the comic.

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:10 pm

I want to be a cartoonist professionally, and everything here spreads the word and lets me hone my skills. I don't know...doing comics is a craving and a passion. Does that count as motivation?

LAGtheNoggin · Post by **LAGtheNoggin** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:53 pm

mcDuffies wrote:
LAGtheNoggin wrote:
mcDuffies wrote:Overcome that weakness, Lag!
I can't do it. O' sunlight and food! Such temptations, cruel cruel temptations, they draw me outside! ;o;
But they aren't good for you!

*gets sunburn* ,_,