Struggles as an aspiring webcomic artist: 16 December 2009
from City Eyes
I have yet to explain my disappearance for almost 2 weeks from the beginning of December before my previous post, and I thought I should be giving some insight of my personal struggles as an aspiring webcomic or manga artist.
I realized that I have not been giving personal details of myself concerning my manga journey, and it’s about time to let you know what are they, so that you can identify with me.
Struggles as an aspiring webcomic artist: 16 December 2009
My university exams were on the 6th and the 9th of December respectively, but that was no reason for me not to update Manga Journey.
This is because, if you noticed BoyfriendGiftIdeas.org, you will find that I have been updating that blog in the midst of my exams.
Why is that so?
Before my exams, I had major assignments due, such as a group assignment on programming a Real Time Strategy (RTS) game on tanks, and doing other individual assignments such as video and sound engineering.
It had been a really difficult period, and I have constantly stayed up all night at my friend’s place for consecutive days to finish our assignments.
And so I have not been meeting my manga teacher for lessons either, as I also do not have the time to finish my manga art homework.
Therefore in mid-November, I was a little out of practice with drawing manga, and hence lost some of my drive to update Manga Journey.
Not to mention I was also out of ideas to know what I should be updating Manga Journey about.
Disappointments led to more disappointments
This blog has been a little difficult to maintain.
I have been looking for a free Wordpress theme blog that allows readers to read easily, while allowing me to input some of my mini webcomics up.
However due to my lack of knowledge and experience on Wordpress themes, I have been moving this blog from theme to theme, and I ended up frustrated for my lack of options available.
And I have resorted to ComicPress, but it didn’t really satisfy my needs, and soon I reverted back to the original theme where I first begun.
Afterwards, my RSS feeds wouldn’t work well, and I ended up having more disappointments on trying to fix this Wordpress theme instead. (And it’s still not fixed, I will still have to get a better blog theme.)
If you get the drift, I was just so disappointed with my manga journey, that I didn’t even dare to look at my visitors statistics of my blog for weeks.
Light at the other side of the tunnel
During that time, Artpatient took hold of one of my blog posts, “How to start a webcomic: Top 10 mistakes to avoid“, and post it up in his blog.
Immediately that day I had 200 visitors!
I knew in my heart that these 200 visitors are just going to be temporal, so although I was pleasantly surprised, I wasn’t confident about the consistency with the number of visitors.
However, there are some comments that start to spring up in my blog in a language that I do not understand.
In my ignorance, I thought it was spam, and I deleted it. (I am really sorry if I deleted your comments if you wrote here in a foreign language, as I only know English and Chinese as my primary languages.)
It turned out that the language was in Hebrew, and immediately another surprise sprung up.
And I ranked for Israel, which means visitors from Israel kept coming to my blog. I really am encouraged about it.
My alexa ranking isn’t at all fantastic, but I also got page rank 1 for my blog. And I thought it was an encouragement for the effort that I put it.
So for the disapperance of my 2 weeks, and for those readers who faithfully came for updates, I really am sorry.
Final words for this post
To sum it all, this manga journey blog literally kept me going, and I am resuming my manga lessons with my teacher very soon.
I was a little rusty in drawing after being out of practice for weeks, but it will soon pass.
If you have any discouragement about starting your own manga journey, don’t worry, you are not alone.
That’s all for this post. Stay tuned for more updates on manga journey!
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