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My biggest problem with my web comic

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Happy belated 2019 everyone. It has been too long since I’ve sat down and actually had time to write a blog with some significance or what I felt was on my mind to share. I have been working on my web comics for 8 years and I can say that it has been a great time for me. I love learning new ideas about making them, from the technology to the style that I use in my art. It also is a great way for me to relax and cope with stress before I start my morning. I normally do some type of art work before heading in to work, and it helps me to focus. With that being said, there are some downsides to making my web comics, and my biggest one comes up more times than I feel that it should..Time.

I talked about this before on my podcast The Learning Curve that time is truly not on my side when creating my web comics. I’ve focused on carving out pockets of time (in the mornings), and although I feel that I’ve been better at balancing my time with my life and web comics, I want more time to actually work to be better. I’m not saying that I’m stopping with making web comics. I’m saying the opposite, I’m hoping in 2019 that I can make MORE time. All I want is to make the type of web comics that people can read ad enjoy, like I do when I read so many great stories.

Let me know what types of problems you face making your web comics.

Be blessed.

Cincinnati Comic Expo 2018 has begun!

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I’ve have been waiting for this all year, and it seems to have come along at a faster rate than last year.  Time to let myself geek out and travel to the expo.  I won’t give anymore just yet but day one was spectacular in my opinion.  Stay tuned on Monday for a breakdown of the Expo, plus the Expo edition of the Learning curve podcast on Tuesday.

Be blessed.

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Pisces Concepts restarting next month

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It has been a long haul so far for me these last two months. I moved to a new home, and I started back in online school again, so you can see how I had gotten behind on my web comic.  Things seem to have leveled out again so next month, I’ll be back up to speed with The Learning Curve podcast (second Tuesday of the month), Capes and Cowl blog and posting Shield of Justice on its normal schedule (second Sunday of the month). It’s been difficult, but thanks to you all for hanging with me on this journey and hopefully for new and current followers, I won’t disappoint.

Be blessed.

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What inspires you to create?

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Normally when I write a blog, I sit and think of an idea that I find interesting, write some notes and start typing.  This one, however just came to me today.  I was working on the pencils for Shield of Justice and I started to wonder about why I’m doing it in the first place.  I don’t get paid for making the web comic, and it takes quite a bit of time to finish.  I do some “product placement” where I live (I leave cards and ask to put a flyer for the web comic in comic book and book stores). I use social media, but it’s been a struggle to gain more followers (not that I’m complaining about the ones that follow now, thanks!).  I asked myself the simple question: Why do I do it?

There are a lot of reasons why after I thought about it awhile, so I’ll just discuss my main reason: It’s fun.  My time that I cut out of the day in order to work on my ideas mean a lot to me.  Many other things happen during the day which I place a higher priority on, so I feel it means that much more when I can just sit down and CREATE.  I enjoy how my ideas move from that to writing, drawing, inking, coloring and lettering because it came from me.  I don’t know if anyone else feels even a little of this when they create what they love, but that is what inspires me to do more and more.  I remember Stan Lee has said in a meet and greet I went to a few years ago that even if what you create doesn’t make sense to someone, do it anyway and see where it goes.  I take those words to heart whenever I start to think about stopping.

Let me know what inspires you.

Be blessed.