Avery: For the last few months I’ve been trying to keep up with a weekly schedule of releasing content every Friday. This means releasing a video for YouTube and a corresponding blog alongside it. Doing this has been, I would say, both rewarding and tiring…
Being disciplined and consistent is good. Especially as an artist. But don’t allow a consistent practice take away joy in life, because if we don’t make it easy or fun, we will grow to resent the practice and may even become anxious or troubled by it.
Last week I failed to find time to release a video, or actually, I wrote a script and recorded audio for it, then decided I didn’t like the content enough to release it. That’s the thing about being an artist, you still want quality control, and hate releasing content that feels bad to you.
But you also shouldn’t be a perfectionist, otherwise you’d never get anything done! So it really is a balancing act when being an artist…
One of the things I’ve also been working on is my Webcomic, two weeks ago I finally finished the first chapter, over 30 pages of work, I’m extremely proud of completing this project. Yet, I feel ever so slightly empty inside…
It took me 5 months to create this webcomic, and now I must begin work on the next chapter and then the next… It is scary sometimes to realize how much work every page can cost in time and energy. But it is a story I want to tell and because of that I know I will do what I must to finish it. This is a project worth the discipline.
You can read the latest pages of my Webcomic “Gingerberry” on ComicFury. (New pages release every Friday!) I will probably even release it on Webtoon Canvas soon, a much more popular comic platform.
What about you? Do you try to keep consistent? Do you try to stay disciplined? What is your secret? I’d love to hear your thoughts down below!
And maybe see you next week?
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