My plans for Crescent Blue going forward...
I didnt wanna make this today...its Crescent Blue's 10th anniversery of my working on it but I feel like I have to be open and honest about you guys about whats going on with Crescent Blue, and whats going to happen to it from this point on.
You already know that SVA has been taking up a lot of my time and engery for most of the year, so I cant really work on my comic as much during those times like I used to when I was going to community college in the early 2020s. But I would be lying if I said it was just that. There's a problem with the way Ive been handling the series and I believe there needs to be a change now, even if it means I loose half of my audience. But then again, Im pretty Ive already lost a good chunk of my audience after going 2 years with only one or two updates, so it probably wont matter what I do at this point.
To keep it simple, I dont like drawings comic anymore, and if Im being honest, I dont think I ever did. There are aspects of comic making that I do enjoy but its not enough to outweigh the negatives. Most of time when I was drawing the series, it felt more out of obligation than something I wanted to do that day, and in the last year or so, Im now at a point where I dont give a crap anymore, and Ive become more comfortable with uploading borderline to literal rough sketches to tapas and call it a day. Which is great for me but might also be frustrating to some and seen as a downgrade from what I was doing before.
Ive always had a toxic relationship with comics but it wasnt until I started attending the BFA Animation program at SVA it changed forever. Animation and Animatics require the same amount of effort needed for a 20 page comic episode, if not more so, but it didnt feel as draining as comics felt for me and were a lot more creatively rewarding when the project was finished. The entire journey going through an animated project was fun and intuitive, something I cant say the same about comics. Like look at this animatic I made last year, a scene in what will be chapter 3....or I should say was going to be but I'll get to that in a bit
After my first year at animation school, I became a lot more comfortable admitting that drawing comics werent my thing, which led to overall motvation and drive for my comic drying up. In years past, I was able to motivate myself enough to get 10 pages done in a month. Now, I dont think I can pull that feat off anymore and Im at the point of no return. I dont think I have it in me to continue drawing comics going forward...
So what do I do now? Am I going to stop Crescent Blue as a comic, or am I going to continue despite my dislike of the comic medium? I honestly dont know at this point. I want to give comics one last chance to see if I can salvage it, because I do think the way Ive been going about adapting Crescent Blue into comic form has not helped with my enjoyment. But I think it might be best for me to continue the series in animatic/video form. Ive felt more at home with animation than I have with comics and I think Crescent Blue fits the video medium better. If I do post to tapas, it'll only be the boards stacked ontop of each other. Unless you'd actually be okay with following Scamp and his adventures over to youtube going forward. And I'd like you guys to leave your replies here or on tapas or wherever I share this blog to
