The Daily Odyssey

I learned a valuable lesson tonight: opening up my strip to scrutiny can hurt, for the first time I had to rewrite the strip more than twice, perhaps because the first two times, I was worried about how my strip would be percieved by people. The first by the person I wrote the original comic about, and the second by the friend who gave me a critique.

Now Im now railing against people critiquing the odyssey, infact, I enjoy it. But sometimes I just take information the wrong way.

This goes back to my comic a few days ago, one little sentence or word can tip me over the edge into a sea of doubt. Why am I doing this comic? What am I hoping to achieve? Will strangers like this comic? Who does it appeal to? Am I drawing it right? Is it wacky enough? Is it mundane enough? Is it charming? Is funny? Is it good? Is this what I want?

But in the long run I eventually came up with a better idea, so whatevers I guess. But I think I’ll keep my comic ideas to myself from now on.

On a more uplifting note, I moved my art table into my room, since the “work room” in the house barely gets used anyway(its right under the upstair’s neighbors TV room anyway, so its always loud and bothersome anyhow). Its also a matter of being close to my computer, which has tons of my music and movies on it, so I have some easy background noise to put on and relax.

And for the first time in weeks I spent like a good hour just doodling whatever, no restrictions, just kind of chilling and enjoying it. I hope I can enjoy more moments like that in the future with my wonderful little art table.