Hissed Connections Page 30 (Patreon)
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As some of you are aware, it is often true that my ideas and work are as sudden and entrancing as they can be corrosive to myself on an artistic and emotional level. I've received many questions and concerns with Hissed Connections, if I would be abandoning the project or so forth. The truth is that many times my idea's and comics come from moments and elements based around my life and thoughts at the time. One might say I am often bound to the moment and when it is lost, the flavor so too can be.
It can lead to things as less emotionally meaningful work for me. It can disrupt my passion for the world or characters. The message can grow muddled and ultimately it can doom hope for the work as a whole. Hissed Connections was actually a work that was inspired by my worries toward traveling and becoming homeless. About finding comfort in company and just feeling normal again, not inhuman and alone. As you can imagine as life went on I grew far less drawn into this element as my travels and problems came and went.
The production speed has certainly hit a wall, but it's not just schedules or time constraints I face. It's my actual interest and passion that has also been drawn out from working on this comic series. There are many days where I will sketch out dialogue on paper or design something and feel utterly defeated and exhausted just by thinking about it. That...is my new challenge, because contrary to what I would have done ( which would have meant sending the project into a waiting period. ) I am doing my best to still work with it.
For those of you patient enough to bare with me, if you understand the artistic struggle then you can certainly imagine that abstract hardship of continuing work you do not feel as you once did. Does that mean I hate working on this project still? Of course not. It just doesn't feel the same as it once did, and to me, it can be a sad feeling trying to recollect the drive and overarching emotions each page did for me previously.