barretxiii

Delays

Added 2017-11-21 06:48:44 +0000 UTC

Hey everyone.

Sorry for the delays on the next CYOA page. As I said before in earlier posts, I've really been feeling it less and less these days for comics. Every time it comes that I have to start a new page, I just get either overwhelmed with art block, or I lose the drive altogether.

I thought doing a comic format would make it easier to do the CYOA entries, seeing as I'd have more room to work with to tell the story; but trying to fit the equivalent of several pages worth of dialogue and visuals into one page only served to make things harder. It seems that I would've had a much easier time sticking with single images.

Now, I still have every intention of continuing this current series to completion, and in the comic format. I will endure it! But this will surely be the last series done as a comic; possibly the last CYOA altogether, since I found I enjoy doing pinups and random pieces more. I may scrap the CYOA stories completely in favor of a second Barr's Mares entry, or something else that is patron-voted; possibly a "bad ending" kind of thing involving existing characters, to add some variety to just having pinups all the time.

I like telling stories, and I still want to do comics in some form or another, but I definitely feel like I need to have complete control of the narrative and pacing. I honestly feel somewhat trapped by the nature of the CYOA concept. It feels like I am forced to stay with strict confines, and have to tell a certain story all within one page. It's very restricting and exhausting.

If I do comics in the future, they'll definitely feel more like traditional comics; none of this awkward pacing and trying to fit a lot of story into a small space. Rather than trying to tell a large story in one page, I'd follow a more traditional format and make each page feel like a simple smaller piece of the bigger whole.

Again, sorry it's taken me so long to get you guys anything for this current page. I have the sketch started, so there's at least that; I've got a starting point that I can work from. But, once this series is finished, it'll be the last.

Thank you all for understanding.

-Barr