Thinking out loud about being my own creative enemy

Thinking out loud about being my own creative enemy - Tom Ray's Art Podcast

I try to talk myself out of a creative rut. One of the things that motivated me? A podcast interview I did recently.

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I've felt very hesitant to try new things artistically this past month.

I turn on the mic to try to give myself a little pep talk and look at some of the things I'm doing and some of the things I realize I should be doing. I wanted a way to get out of the rut in my head.

It's been bumming me out.

I was listening to this episode of the podcast I did with Tiffany Babb and realized I needed to try more things.

I feel better after talking about it on this episode of the podcast so I thought I would share 😊

Uninspired.

I don't know. Maybe it's silly. I haven't edited it yet.

Exhaust.

When I got back in my car later it still smelled.

Just a glitch.

I guess I'm happy it's going to be fine. Then This Happened... A diary about breast cancer A comic diary about our lives after my wife found out she had breast cancer. Read it on Amazon Get the ebook

Creating a cover for my webcomic books

Creating my webcomic book cover for print on Amazon KDP I have all the pages set up for the book and ready to go and then at the end it's like "oh right I still need to create the cover for the book!" I don't know why but this part always makes me the most anxious. Maybe it's because it's the way the book is going to be represented? It's so weird, in my books I'm telling very personal things in my webcomics themselves but the cover is the thing that is making me anxious. I mean this is gonna be what I show when I say to people, hey I created this book you should check it out! Maybe I'm being silly I don't know? ( Related post: Using Google Photos and Google Docs To Make My Webcomic Book ) Using other books as references for the cover What I did to kind of help me with this is I would reference these old comic strip books that I have. I like the styles of these books and I collect them. Collection of old comic strip paperback pocket books I h...

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