Squalor and Dice

And that’s healthy. As a creative I ask a lot of myself, regardless of the factors outside of my creative life and sometimes everything combined is too much. That happened in October, where I got 2/3 the way through my comic  #GHOSTNETWORK before fizzling out because I was overburdened. Like I said at the beginning though, failure is good, because it’s an opportunity to learn from your mistakes and to revise for next time. I’m going to quickly go over some failures I’ve faced on this blog and some little lessons I’ve learned from them. 1. Ghost Network As said above, I tried to make the pilot issue of a comic series last month for Inktober or Drawloween, or some other drawing challenge done during spooky month. I was working in batches, which was good, but was saving most of my work time for my days off, which was bad. Consistency and rhythm are important parts of any creative process, and not keeping mine led to strenuous working conditions, which made the project more stressful ...