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So, guys, I've been thinking. I do that a lot.Especially now that with CBM I'm in the coloring and shading phase. And with the end of this update coming, I'm anxious.Because I've said that I would have gone on with Skyhorn, the comic set on a magic island, which has been stalled for almost two years now.The problem is that Skyhorn has a plot. A big friggin' quest fantasy plot with multiple PoVs and a multi-choice gimmick. Every time I try to start mapping out the story, I just start panicking.And I'm sure it's because this story has been brewing in my mind for two years, and it looks more difficult than it would be if I started to work on that.On the other hand, there's another comic I've dropped, for different reasons. It was XII, the sexy comedy spin on the Heracles myth. Another victim of my experimental phase, it ended up very confused in terms of tone and look. I had to drop it out of frustration but since I'm such a Greek mythology nerd, I've always regretted it.Lately, I've been playing a game themed around Greek mythology, Apotheon, and that reignited my interest in rebooting XII, not with this title, with a more epic but still comedic tone and with… a sci-fi spin. More space fantasy than sci-fi, with stupid corky stuff like the Netherworld being on Pluto and Heracles wearing a harness that turns into a super-tight spacesuit with the press of a button.Because… I don't know. Likely because I watched Saint Seiya as a child and I dig its dreamy space atmospheres and gay innuendos.But it wouldn't be a comic, oh god no, it would be the many times mentioned visual novel. Since it's a medium much hotter than comics and lets you put a lot of written narrative per single image.But yeah so many irons in the fire and this CBM update has quite lowered my confidence in making art quickly. And I know that it's not representative because I had the worst pipeline ever, switching from app to app over and over and losing already made work along the way.I'm now completing it on the friggin' Steam Deck, plugged into the graphic tablet via some dark Linux magic, just because the work file has become such a titanic Frankenstein of different content sources that my desktop PC can't handle it anymore and I have to rely on an unexpectedly powerful mini-computer that Valve is apparently selling at a loss.My emotional brain needs tangible proof that I can work more efficiently than this, and… I seriously don't know. I guess I will break my work into smaller chunks from now on, that's for sure. And do more standalone art concepts. Just to get the gist of the new art program.And take an hour every day just for writing comic scripts and ideas and see what seems more solid.Ugh, the anxiety.

Riccardo Leone PATREON 182 favs
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POSTEDApr 17, 2023
ARCHIVEDApr 17, 2023