I hardcore believe in cranking out stuff like it's sausage and just letting the crap fall away by the wayside
YES YES YES GOOD YES!
I purchased a little self-pubb'd book last winter with the title "shit art is better than no art" and it's meant as a manifesto to get excited and make things and I love it dearly. Perfectionism is a horrible disease!
Back in my pre-career adult days1, I used to draw a series called "Let's Make Art in our Artbooks". Each was made from one sheet of 8.5"x11" paper, cut and folded to be eight pages (or six and a front and back cover). They were not zines in the classic sense, in that I never made copies or tried to distribute them, they were mostly just chances for me to draw around a theme.
I should make more of them, because they were a really wonderful use of an hour or two. And they make a nice form of journaling, something that's probably a little incomprehensible to other people, but I can look back on and remember what's what in my life.
Anyways, I really like the idea of you doing small zines as well as bigger comics. Creating is good!
~Sor
1: When I became a full time classroom teacher, I stopped writing fiction and I stopped drawing as much, I think because suddenly the creative energy parts of my brain were directed towards lesson plans and classroom activities, and also because teaching is Fucking Exhausting. I have accepted that this is the cost to have a career I genuinely love, but I do miss sometimes how I would create things more back in college and when I was a substitute teacher.
Postscript: I've got three of the artbooks here on Flickr (CW: emo about not drawing enough), and I did two more nsfw ones for Sexy Self-Comics Day, a comics jam my friend used to run: 2013 and 2015 (CW: nudity, sex acts, masturbation, kink references)
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Date: 2023-07-21 04:43 am (UTC)YES YES YES GOOD YES!
I purchased a little self-pubb'd book last winter with the title "shit art is better than no art" and it's meant as a manifesto to get excited and make things and I love it dearly. Perfectionism is a horrible disease!
Back in my pre-career adult days1, I used to draw a series called "Let's Make Art in our Artbooks". Each was made from one sheet of 8.5"x11" paper, cut and folded to be eight pages (or six and a front and back cover). They were not zines in the classic sense, in that I never made copies or tried to distribute them, they were mostly just chances for me to draw around a theme.
I should make more of them, because they were a really wonderful use of an hour or two. And they make a nice form of journaling, something that's probably a little incomprehensible to other people, but I can look back on and remember what's what in my life.
Anyways, I really like the idea of you doing small zines as well as bigger comics. Creating is good!
~Sor
1: When I became a full time classroom teacher, I stopped writing fiction and I stopped drawing as much, I think because suddenly the creative energy parts of my brain were directed towards lesson plans and classroom activities, and also because teaching is Fucking Exhausting. I have accepted that this is the cost to have a career I genuinely love, but I do miss sometimes how I would create things more back in college and when I was a substitute teacher.
Postscript: I've got three of the artbooks here on Flickr (CW: emo about not drawing enough), and I did two more nsfw ones for Sexy Self-Comics Day, a comics jam my friend used to run: 2013 and 2015 (CW: nudity, sex acts, masturbation, kink references)