Setting goals and moving forward.

Its obvious by now that I set the bar too high for this Inktober. I wanted to produce quality and entertaining comics, and I found myself rushing and taking shortcuts just to finish anything at all. This isn't helping me create art every day, and its starting to make me dread working on art at all. Completely opposite of the intentions I had originally set.

I want to want to work on art every day. I want to come home excited to make progress, or start a new piece. I know that at a certain point discipline will have to take over and I'll just have to keep going - but I don't want to feel compelled to make shitty art in order to meet some arbitrary deadline. If it takes me two days to make a comic, then so be it. I'll still have fun making the comic, because I'm not desperate to get something out the door.

I have a few other projects in mind to keep me going, however. I want to start up a doodle diary, where I do a quick sketch or inked drawing every day about something relevant or interesting. I want to try another 30 day challenge, albeit something more simple:

I also want to make a "photo album" of places I've been, with small watercolor/acrylic paintings of key locations from those places. That, I expect to be a longer project, and don't feel the need to prioritize it at this time.

And finally, I have to finish the paintings I'm making as gifts this year for friends.

So I still have plenty of art on my plate :) I just need to hurry up and make it.
Or rather.... slow down and make it.

As long as I keep going.