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The most important thing when doing your comic is to maintain your enthusiasm- THIS is what helps you keep working, not feedback, not praise, not fans, but your own internal passion. Feedback is great, but you can become addicted to it and when it's not there or there's not enough of it your work can die. In order to be able to keep creating your passion for your work should be internal, not external, you need to be self sustaining:
A readership is nice and feedback is great, but you really have to do your comic for yourself, not for other people.
But there's more to it than that.
Bored by doing your webcomic? Why is that? What do you need to change to make it interesting to do once more? What is holding you back? Those are some of the things we talk about in this Quackcast!
The music for this week by Gunwallace is for the previously featured comic Numb. This is the sound of a long road trip under the burning sun in the hot, dry, dusty, desert air, and on into a cold night through a desolate city lit by retreating streetlights. Progression, but where to?
Topics and shownotes
Featured comic:
Ying and Yan - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/apr/04/featured-comic-ying-and-yan/
LINKS:
Thread - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/177657/
Mark Crilley - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb1eMQ4K17YM
Draw with Jazza - https://www.youtube.com/user/DrawWithJazza
Peter Draws - https://www.youtube.com/user/Palivizumab
Special thanks to:
Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com
Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/
Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/
Pitface - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/
Featured music:
Numb - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Numb/, by NiinaEveliina, rated T.
Quackcast 318 - Maintaining the enthusiasm!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 11, 2017
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Ozoneocean at 2:09AM, April 12, 2017
Good questions to ask yourself about your work.
Avart at 10:58PM, April 11, 2017
What I did when started my manga "The Gloom" was try to sell it to myself. Why should I read it? Why am I going to like it? Do I have characters that will make me fall in love? Or just have empty characters that nobody will like? And so on... I try to keep the motivation at the maximum, because if it turn off, the comic turns off too. Your mood is reflected in your pages.
Ozoneocean at 8:25PM, April 11, 2017
That's exactly right Skyangel: draw the comic that you want to be reading! Very succinct!
skyangel at 4:29PM, April 11, 2017
Very interesting topic and thoughtfully discussed. I agree with everything you guys say about the motivation coming from within as too many people it seems do see popularity or financial reward as more important. Art is about expressing yourself and your fantasies etc so the old adage about writing what you want to read yourself is so very true, because when you write a story that stimulates your own emotions the enthusiasm to continue is always there.
NiinaEveliina at 12:31PM, April 11, 2017
Beautiful music! *u*
Ozoneocean at 2:49AM, April 11, 2017
It is now! :)
Gunwallace at 1:48AM, April 11, 2017
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