I've waited this long to start posting because I wanted to have six months' worth of comic done and in the can before I started updating. And while I'm not quiiiiite there yet, I do have the art and basic scripts done- it's pretty much tweaks and image cleaning at this point- and I have August pretty much wrapped up shiny and uploaded already. I'm on schedule! For an artist.*
Which is great, and I'm proud and all, but...well,drawing a comic is a massive learning experience. If I were a better artist heading into the thing, it might not be such a pronounced curve; but I'm not, and it is.
So already, half the stuff I have to post is Old Shame. I look at it and think "Argh, I could do so much better than that!" and I could. And the urge is to just redraw those first-done pages...
Except at the end of that I'll be way better again. And want to redraw the work I'm doing now. And it would be soooo easy to get into an endless cycle of improvements and tweaks. It's a way of ducking the scary part, really- if I don't show anything until it's !perfect!, then I never show anything at all, and I can skip the whole Artistic Performance Freakout. Hurrah!
But then I go back in the Valley of Despairing Laziness, where the crushing weight of guilt at having not accomplished anything prevents me from trying to accomplish anything, and the only thing to eat is Envy Weed Salad, seasoned with bitter spite at all the damn producing artists out there who put their work on display and get audiences and have accomplishments and stuff. And I have to wear the Shirt of Self Loathing, which has a big ramen sauce stain on the front. And I don't even eat ramen.
So I will be posting as planned, and grinding my teeth as the older pages go up- and probably be grinding them into dust when no one even notices that they're less adept than the newer stuff...
*I'd have more loaded, but there's some weird fuzzy artifacting thing going on with my posted images, and until I can sort that out I really don't want to load all those comics.
