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I get frustrated sometimes because I struggle with getting my comic book done and being there for my family and others who rely strongly on me.  It's like I have this dream to accomplish something, but I have to balance it out with work, bills, grandparents, friends, church, and the other ministry I'm called to do. I am not where I want to be in life. And I feel like things keep coming up to get in the way of me working on the comic. I really struggle with regret and sadness and I think it hinders me from having a better outlook on life. Does anyone have some good advice that can help me to be okay with what's going on?

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Permalink Reply by Melchizedek Todd on March 7, 2011 at 11:04am

Hey Christopher,

One idea to master time, if you haven't already done so is drawing on smaller pages. This has cut my time considerably! I use to draw my pages on the comic standard 10X15 and so on, until I read something about the Comic artist Alan Davis. He didn't know that comic book pages were shrunk to 6x9, so he just penciled his pages that size. And you've seen his work, if not go to his website he's a legend in the field, his stuff is great. But the point is I began to do that and you don't give up any detail or anything. What you get is less time drawing and inking your pages and less money spent on ink pens and paper. I buy a 14x17 bristol board pack with 20 pages, but now I just split one page into two, less money spent!

Hope that helps you and anyone else here.

Permalink Reply by Ralph Ellis Miley on March 7, 2011 at 5:54pm
I definitely agree with Melchizedek that time management is important.  Just as you schedule time for prayer, family, church,etc. schedule time for comicbook work.  Put it on the calendar on the frig so everyone will know this is time slated for comicbooks. 

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