Just wanting to vent a little. Recently I've been so busy to make my own comic works and being present in social media, that I've been seriously considering quitting altogether with both comic posting and artistic social media.
I'm getting busier and more tired as I age. Because yeah, I also realize I'm way older than most people in social media for obvious reasons as, of course, younger people have more time to be online. And me being busy has become a permanent thing, so no wonder there are almost no adults my age online. There won't be a day I'm not busy, everything I have to do takes me a whole day to work on, from both work, domestic life, family life, friends, which is not bad, I love my people, (can't say the same about my job, haha), but in none of this moments of my life there's time for doing art, my comics or my characters.
Makes me feel that as time passes by, the more of a privilege becomes to make art. Despite that I quit years ago the idea of making art a professional career, I'm disappointed that I can't make it a hobby either. I fear that I'll be doing what most adults who are not professional artists around me do and quit doing art. I really try to sit and draw something for my comics or myself, but when I have time to do so, I feel so tired that I can hardly focus. I also get my hand in pain if a I draw or paint for to long, since autumn is starting over here and that means my hands will hurt due to the cold.
Just venting a little, as I'm not looking for solutions, there's is none for my situation. I just wanted to let it out of my chest.
Lord, I feel you: my cartooning output declined sharply around 2015 due to various factors, and it's never really recovered even after several of the worst stressors were removed. Part of it's due to being pulled in a dozen directions by other projects, part of it's a niggling self-doubt that's ironically worsened the better I've actually gotten, but most of it's just finding the wherewithal to put pencil to paper—once I'm actually drawing it's pretty easy to lock into 'the zone', and my biggest mistake is not riding that momentum through to the Next Page.