What Happened to SnoogleZoo?
I’ve started doing this exercise that sits me down in front of pen and paper every single night. I’m making more drawings than I’m posting on the blog here, and I’m okay with that. I’m making doodles that I can see developing into stuff and that’s good, too. Then I did this last night:
I haven’t forgotten about SnoogleZoo, I just needed to take a break. I don’t think doing a serial webcomic is for me- it’s not exactly the time commitment, like I thought it was, because doing all this constraint-free drawing is taking up the same kind of time that working on SnoogleZoo was. I think it’s more like feeling trapped within a certain framework. It felt like homework and I think it was stifiling the art. Not to mention all my other art that I wasn’t doing.
I’ve been kicking around a couple of ideas of what to do- I miss the characters more than I thought I would, so I’d rather not abandon them to the realm of silent, one-off illustrations. But I don’t want to get trapped slogging through an un-interesting story arc just to meet a deadline. I’m thinking I should just do stories on a whenever-I-feel-like-it basis, which I think will serve my desire to do something of quality, and also prevent me from growing a readership of any respectable size.
But you know what? I don’t really care about that right now. I really need to be making art before I can concern myself with things like making art on a schedule.
So don’t worry, Pan. We’ll be back soon enough, and you can pick on Efram and get extra whipped cream from the Kitties’ cafe and have all kinds of fun and silly adventures with the rest of the gang real soon. But sometimes I will have to give my attention to killer robots and pin-up girls, too. It’s better for everyone this way 
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Yai Pan! and Yai Art!
Go Ronnie!
Motivation is often the hardest part of creation.
I hear ya. I liked what you wrote about doing the work a lot until it gets good- getting in the habit of making art, whatever medium it is, seems to be really key to achieving that Big Quality Thing we’re all striving for
One thing I’ve learned about creativity is that it can’t be force. When I started my site about poetry, there came a point where I couldn’t write anymore, and I almost left blogging. Then I accepted the fact that creativity happens when it happens, and I went with the things that my mind was actively interested in writing about, which is why I’m all techie right now. But the way I see it is I’m still writing, and when the time comes, I’ll still have my platform to be artistic in writing again.
Looking forward to new drawings, no matter what they are about!
~ Kristi