hating your own comic!

Jeffy · Post by **Jeffy** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:05 pm

What do you dislike most about your comic? Or, if you could magicicically change one thing about your comic right now forevermore, what would it be.

For me it's how long it takes to make, from start to end, I estimate a good 15+ hours per comic. (Assuming I could sit down and sketch everything out at once, instead of doing it in 5-10 minute intervals)

Kilre · Post by **Kilre** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:16 pm

the thing i'd like to change most is the story in the early bit. i didn't know what i was doing when i started, and i think it shows glaringly

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:17 pm

Honestly if I would change one thing, I would change the archives. I know my current quality isn't as great as I'd like it to be but it's something I can look at and not cringe. The archives are a horrible horrible thing to me and I want them changed.

Starline · Post by **Starline** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:24 pm

I would change the rate that I can update it. I wish I could make it daily. BUT THERE IS NO TIME.

Evil Jamie! · Post by **Evil Jamie!** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:34 pm

I'd make my early stuff not suck.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:01 pm

Evil Jamie! wrote:I'd make my early stuff not suck.

Guildmaster Van · Post by **Guildmaster Van** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:02 pm

I'd have the capability to do more than one comic so I'd be able to do all the things I want to do (I also want to do a samurai comic, but I would never have the time to do that too)

Gengar003 · Post by **Gengar003** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:10 pm

I would master drawing straight, or at least even lines.

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:37 pm

I'd learn how to shade, and do better angles.

BOMC · Post by **BOMC** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:48 pm

I'd be able to draw much better, and also faster so it wouldn't take me so frickin' long to do each comic

CJBurgandy · Post by **CJBurgandy** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:59 pm

I normally don't put hats on my characters.

Garneta · Post by **Garneta** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:21 pm

I'd like to be able to ink better than I can at this point, but mostly I'd like to be better at writing comedic material so that I could write more of the strips than I do.

Mvmarcz · Post by **Mvmarcz** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:37 pm

I would have fully "painted" backgrounds

:is waiting for a tablet: I may have that soon though

I'd probably change my update schedual and the length of the comic but I like the length as it is I think...no I'd say backgrounds is my only real issue

Dburkhead · Post by **Dburkhead** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:00 pm

I wish I could draw about 32 times better than I can., and at least 3 times as fast.

Mo · Post by Mo » Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:04 pm

Specifically IMO: I wish I would take the time to draw backgrounds on all panels, but sometimes I get lazy. I also wish I'd get the pages done faster. Right now every IMO comic takes me about 7-8 hours (sometimes more, sometimes less).

Specifically Cookie's World: I wish writing the funny would come easier to me.

Both: I still have much to improve when it comes to proportions, poses, forshortening, perspective etc. It's not that I don't know how to do it, it's just that it takes extra effort that I'm not always willing to make. I'm also generally unhappy with the way I ink, I need either better equipment, or more practice, or should try and find a way to retrace with some program or something.

Most of all though, my writing needs work (in both comics); especially since English isn't my native language, yet I want to make the comics in English.

*sigh*

Oh, and I should, like, update regularly or something.

Xavier · Post by **Xavier** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:21 pm

i wish i could make backgrounds that actively captured the scene.

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:39 pm

The thing I wish I could magically change: Making it right to left.

I mean, ARGH, what in the nine hells was I thinking?! That single mistake has nearly completely turned me off to my comic, and every time Neko goes into one of his rants in Chat, it just gets worse. And I can't change it now; my characters are not symmetrical.

Bustertheclown · Post by **Bustertheclown** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:42 pm

I just want to get my storytelling ADD under control, and be able to focus on one damned project at a time.

Dark Spider · Post by **Dark Spider** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:52 pm

-I want to definitely redo the first story arc so it can be more coherent. This includes both writing and art.

-I want to redo all the comics with typed speech, ESPECIALLY the ones with bad handwriting.

-I wish I could update more than twice a week, but I barely have time to do even the two time a week update.

-I would say that I want to churn out comics faster and easily, but I already solved that problem. For the time being, I stopped doing full page color comics, and now I do comics roughly half that size. I also stopped doing shading (although I may return to it in a limited capacity). Before these measures, it used to take me 6-8 hours to do an average comic. Now it only takes me 4 hours (give or take a half hour) to do the current color comics....2 hours to pencil and ink and 2 to color. These time reducing measures were a necessary evil, because college is really breaking me down right now.

-I want to redo the website design, and it will eventually happen in the upcoming months.

-I want to work on promoting the comic some, but again, no time.

Yeahduff · Post by **Yeahduff** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:25 pm

Wish I weren't so lazy.