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7/4/2025, 1:51:52 AM
>>7631269
>I'm beginning to think one of the hard requirements of learning to draw is to love drawing
It's that, or learn to tolerate doing something you hate to achieve what you want. It's question of either how much you like the process or how much you want the end result.
I don't enjoy drawing at all, and never had. For me it has always been a chore, but something that's necessary to tell the stories I want to tell. But I've managed to put up with that chore for thousands upon thousands of hours. I've busted my ass on-and-off (had periods of burnout where I drew next to nothing and periods of productivity where I drew a lot) and I've managed to come pretty damn far. You can count on two hands people who have managed to become regularly published in a manga magazine without knowing japanese. I'm not saying this to brag, but to tell you that you can go pretty far despite not enjoying drawing.
That said, I wouldn't recommend it to anybody. It's a lot of doing something you don't like. A whole lot of it. You can always just stick to storyboarding. That still allows you to focus on writing while making something visual. The only downside is that you're only making one step in the process and will need others to finish the work. But then again, that's the standard process for how comics in the european/american approach are made.
>>7631286
I can tell you that the first step you should do to get anywhere is to ditch these pointless exercises and just jump straight into making the stuff you want to make. No, you won't be any good at it at first. But that's true no matter how much you prep beforehand. Your first few hundred pages will suck ass no matter what, so get them out of the way ASAP. If you can't get yourself to do that then I'm afraid you have no future in comics.
>I'm beginning to think one of the hard requirements of learning to draw is to love drawing
It's that, or learn to tolerate doing something you hate to achieve what you want. It's question of either how much you like the process or how much you want the end result.
I don't enjoy drawing at all, and never had. For me it has always been a chore, but something that's necessary to tell the stories I want to tell. But I've managed to put up with that chore for thousands upon thousands of hours. I've busted my ass on-and-off (had periods of burnout where I drew next to nothing and periods of productivity where I drew a lot) and I've managed to come pretty damn far. You can count on two hands people who have managed to become regularly published in a manga magazine without knowing japanese. I'm not saying this to brag, but to tell you that you can go pretty far despite not enjoying drawing.
That said, I wouldn't recommend it to anybody. It's a lot of doing something you don't like. A whole lot of it. You can always just stick to storyboarding. That still allows you to focus on writing while making something visual. The only downside is that you're only making one step in the process and will need others to finish the work. But then again, that's the standard process for how comics in the european/american approach are made.
>>7631286
I can tell you that the first step you should do to get anywhere is to ditch these pointless exercises and just jump straight into making the stuff you want to make. No, you won't be any good at it at first. But that's true no matter how much you prep beforehand. Your first few hundred pages will suck ass no matter what, so get them out of the way ASAP. If you can't get yourself to do that then I'm afraid you have no future in comics.
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