Piss cannons rule. Congrats on 200 pages

Hey also wondering if there’ll ever be a physical deck of your tarot cards?

hey, have a question about your own personal creative process: do you think it’s ok to have days where you just don’t do anything? sometimes there’ll be days when i don’t really write anything because i don’t feel it and then feel really bad about it afterwards.

I think it’s healthy to set aside time to do other things, but in an intentional way. I try to treat writing/drawing like a job, where I do it during regular consistent hours. During those hours, if I’m not feeling it, yes I force myself to do it anyway. It’s like exercise. Then, when those hours are over I allow myself to go do whatever: play video games or go out with friends etc… Of course there are days when I crash and accomplish nothing and yeah I feel bad about it. Usually though, if I’m not “feeling it” that day, if I force myself to try, I can usually break through and get something.

Thanks man I’m working on it much harder than I used to.

yeah i’ve been trying to cultivate that sort of routine but i guess i’m just really lazy or something

yeah, that could be it. maybe i just need a more clear divide between those two modes.

thanks for the response

hey man, I have a question. First, a mind blowing fact, I’m from Chile, and I have bought your books (Forming I and II) for my lady partner, and we love them. Printed out are even better. There is any chance that you could sign them for us? that would be the greatest thing in the universe for us, that and the birth of my son, whatever… if there is, well, we could send them to you and pay for the return of them as well, anyways, if you want, and can.

peace out

done, thanks!

Yeah that was the design of the first print run. The second print run was designed to match the changes we made for the second volume. Because Nobrow ran into problems with the books getting damaged with the cloth spine, so we changed the format/design slightly.

Me personally, I disagree with that advice. I think you know yourself well enough to know when you’re being lazy and are avoiding something and when you should ease up off of something. We all do. This is something I’ve struggled with as well and the point I’ve come to is that one should do what works best for them. Your guilt may come from going against advice you’ve put too much stock in and that you may be a failure if you don’t follow that path, which simply is not true. As a counterpoint to the advice most writers have given, Charles Bukowski has said, “a good writer knows when to stop writing.” I believe that to be true. As long as the work gets done who cares about the process? I’ve tried working every day at set times (War of Art by Pressfield) and that doesn’t work for me, especially due to all the mediums I create in (music/songwriting, traditional illustration); rather I ended up doing loads for months bouncing between mediums when things begin to get cold in one and then doing nothing for a week, two weeks. Also, you get better at writing by reading (which I’m sure you know already), so if that’s part of your routine don’t discredit that.

At the end of the day, one size doesn’t fit all, and as long as you’re comfortable doing what you’re doing and getting the results you want, then that’s what matters.

Sweet

Agreed. For me, creating is something I do everyday and is the best use of my time which you mentioned earlier, so I find myself always inspired to work on something. Majority of my battle has been with being in flow of just letting things happen and learning when to put something down. I think it also has to do with who you’re creating for and why. When you’re creating something for yourself, there’s more leisure with the process as it’s less about when it gets done and more about creating something that makes you happy. Something I find common amongst creatives when they enter an industry is that a lot of people experience burnout and are unbalanced, which doesn’t seem like the healthiest way to live, but some people seem more built for that life than others.

I agree the most important perspective you can develop is the love of the process over a projected idea about the fruits of your labor.

Man this is hilarious. GJ Jmoyns

Yeh. Seriously. Love how the brightness changes in the last panel. Really powerful effect there. Not just a formal effect, it creates exactly the right FEELING, the psychological effect is spot on.