This is what I do.

 

The next comic will probably be about being sick. 

I finished a comic this week! Yay! It's best viewed as one page (no scrolling), but I didn't want to reduce the image size too much. 

I'm not really sure. I think part of it is the pressure of having completed a project rather than having one in progress. Most of the problem is that I lost my confidence. Drawing people (besides my pignosed self) became impossible. Pencil sketch after pencil sketch, endless erasing, more pencil sketches, finding reference photos, finding different reference photos...I started to hate drawing because I am not good enough at it, just like I started to hate so many other things because I am not good enough at them. Practicing is not rewarding to me when I do not feel like I am getting the expected results (or, more often, that I can never get the results I want). 

But the reason I started drawing comics was because I felt no pressure to be good at them at all. I have never been considered good at drawing. I like to doodle, and I like to tell stories. So I guess when I say I lost my confidence, what I mean is that I started to pressure myself to be better. I want each comic to be my best work, which is unrealistic. I have to accept that I cannot fully capture the moments I want to capture. I'm lucky if I come close at all to what I'd like to do. I am getting better at drawing, but I will never be as good as I want to be. I have to stay relaxed about the comics; I have to see drawing as fun again. I'm going to try. 

 

 

I finally updated the site. You may want to check the September Comics page for all of the new comics. I only listed my favorite 4 in the navigation bar above. My goal this week is to finish the last 3 September comics. Next week I'll start my new comics goal of 1-3 comics per week. I'll probably continue with a shorter format and try to spend more time on drawing.