Yesterday I spent all day storyboarding the first issue of SPITE (Amarulence) because I was curious to see actually how many pages it was going to be after splitting up previous pages for better flow. It's 43 pages now, baring any major changes, or twice as long as it was going to be originally. Somehow, though, having it storyboarded seems to make the inking/linework process a little faster. I was able to do two pages today and I feel a sense of relief having a better idea of page length.
Lately, I just felt like I haven't been doing enough creative work, but I think it's mostly because I'm doing a lot of backlog work for the comic and other projects in general instead of posting everything as I make it. I guess that's because I just want to make sure everything is finished? I'm not really sure of the exact reason to be honest. But it makes me feel like I'm working slow, even though I'm not. Maybe I need to be looking at this whole thing a different way. I may need to change the Project List post to reflect what's being actively worked on and what's waiting in the wings. Or maybe the order of things I'm currently working on.
Something I'd like to do is open a Kofi account to let people donate if I ever make something they really enjoy. But I've had a kofi before when I wrote fanfiction and was under the impression that since I had a lot of readers, I would have a lot of requests for 3 dollar micro stories. I only got one the entire time it was opened and I was constantly checking my email to see if I had gotten any requests. It became pretty stressful for me and I'm afraid of that repeating, even if this time around it'd be like a "hey if you liked the thing a lot, consider donating." I feel like I'd end up back in that place, waiting for an alert email about donations, wondering why all those likes and comments didn't translate into people wanting to pay me for what I love to do, not really realizing that there's a lot of reasons people won't or can't buy something from you, but I think the whole experience left a bigger impact on me than I realized. I'm not sure if just making one is enough to deal with the trauma ("just bite the bullet and do it" mentality) or just... I don't know, maybe it's something I shouldn't worry about now? We're not hard up for money, but I would like to start working on making some pocket change for myself at least.
Sometimes I think it'd be nice to make money for drawing comics and my Crazy Wish/Dream is being able to work on official Sonic stuff one day, but I still feel like I'm a long way off from that skill level. I just feel like I have such a long way to go with everything.