animus-wild-essence: Compound interests and your projectNo, I’m not here to talk about investm

animus-wild-essence: Compound interests and your projectNo, I’m not here to talk about investments and stock actions or how to turn your project into money. In fact, if you know how to do all of that, please do tell me! What I actually want to talk about it the power of waiting and persevering, specially at those times where nobody is watching, the things you simply need to solve, even though they won’t actually appear at the final stage of your project. As usual, I’m going to talk about my own experience so far with my comic Animus. But I truly hope these thoughts can help you in your own projects and art goals!I’ve had a period of about one year writing down ideas and crafting those characters’ personalities and traits, as well as researching, building and rebuilding the script, gathering references and eliminating what was not truly working there. It was a lonely road at that point, but it fueled my creativity and inspired me a lot. I had so many sketches and notes, and I’d daily take a look at them and expand or try out some new ideas, even the silly ones. Researching, sketching and eliminating: it was a very creative phase!  After that, it came a not so thrilling phase of elimination and reorganization. Things had to take a more precise shape before I could use those characters, make them move and talk into this story. So I started gathering all of the material and notes on the comic and I realized for the first time how big this project would be. It was incredibly overwhelming to realize the number of pages and the work it would take. Even after the first draft and tightening things up, it was still a very intimidating situation. As I talked to some friends I ended up by describing the feeling as if it’s taken me so long and so much effort to climb a first step and now for the first time I had a glance of the entire staircase.So naturally I panicked and felt like crying for a little while, which is totally acceptable. Just for a little while, and than snap out of it! You’ve got a project to tackle! I believe this is a very crucial point because honestly if you let yourself down for too long, it’s probably when you’re gonna give up because it’s just too much, too overwhelming. But seriously, you need to move on and I wanna tell you why.Once I moved on from the initial panic and started actually facing this next phase, I realized the incredible power of compound interest! Again, this is not an economics class. What I mean by this is that all of my previous efforts and the time I’ve spent organizing, planning and sketching was like a deposit on my project’s account. And little by little during last year I had made a significant deposit and left it there to grow interest in my folders and inside my mind. Each one of those days where I had “accomplished nothing” (no new character design, just studies, no new dialogues, just script revisions…) was like a penny I had put into this bank account. By the time I’ve actually started drawing the pages, I had previously diligently invested daily pennies and let it become a huge savings. I felt prepared, and my work would flow naturally as I could simply pick the results of my previous accumulated efforts as fuel to my current phase. As it would be expected, it is still very overwhelming until today, but one thing I can say is that if you strongly believe in your project, be your own support and number one fan! Develop the ability to back up your own decisions as you keep going along this path. I know it will feel incredibly daunting at some points but if you persevere and keep in mind the deep love and connection you have with your project, each one of those little things will come back to you with high compound interests!I want to inspire and connect with more people, so if you enjoy this blog post, pleas share, reblog and tell your friends! (: -- source link

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