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Sequential art featuring talking animals.

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I finally made my first comic :) [all pages at link] [CW suicidal ideation] (itaku.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's about a suicidal deer who lets a tiger eat him.

This was hard, took very long, and i'm not proud of the result; but it exists and is finished, and that alone makes it better than a perfect work that doesn't exist. The image wouldn't upload, i guess click the link? Sorry about that

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nothing ever has been or ever will be perfect. Maybe it seems odd to feel pride for ya, I dunno, but feeling some accomplishment for creating a short story and sharing it with the world is a good thing! I enjoyed my time with your comic, it's a great parallel to hopelessness in the face of all those who wish to oppress us, and inaction only benifiting the oppressors. Change feels so slow when you're living in it, compared to the sanitized footnotes of history. Perhaps it's easy to feel like it's the worst its ever been, irredeemable, or insurmountable, but that stems from only knowing our own prespective. If we do what we can, when we can, where we can control, things do improve. Maybe not as fast as we'd like, but we can't let perfect be the enemy of good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah i'm that kind of guy, i have grandiose ideas that are way beyond my means so i end up never making anything. Making this comic was an exercise in modesty, where i took a simple concept (still ended up being 10 pages which is not nothing) and, for the first time, brought it into reality. And that's the thing, it can be the greatest story idea ever, but it has no merit as long as it's a dream, bringing it into reality is what makes it matter - and, not coincidentally, it's also the hard part.

Going forward i have to 1. lower my standards and 2. increase my capabilities, and if they meet in the middle then something can happen.

Also i didn't even mention that making this comic is how i found out i have aphantasia. I figured it wasn't normal to find sketching this hard so i looked into it, and i found out that being unable at all to picture images in my head is not normal. For my next project i'm using Blender as a crutch. I've already finished a page, it looks a heckuva lot better than the above, it was a lot easier, a lot more pleasant, and it took not even a quarter as much time.