Where to take the time to your favorite hobby and how to turn it into a profession

How to fall in love with the work of the project?

"People specialties related to drawing, do not like the word" inspiration "", - said Uryuryuk, creator of the comic book "Sea Wave" and "Dryazgotnya and squabbles."

But this chapter just for inspiration. A more about the systematization of work and the ability to complete the job.

Every beginning is easy,... full of plans and enthusiasm, the horizon is deceptively close. But to do a comic book day after day, sometimes through laziness and "do not want" and adapt, while not losing interest and focus - is not easy.

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I wonder what the writers are more likely than the artists meet, they believe in inspiration. But the authors and texts and graphics believe that not only will work to build on it.

Yevgeny Matskevich works pikcherom in pablike "Obrazovach" and popularizing science with the help of funny memes. Creating thousands of images with colleagues and comics, he came to the conclusion that the inspiration - a kind of myth, and creativity - a skill that can be improved by constant training: "Expect inspiration meaningless. When before you a creative task and the daily need to generate interesting ideas, the only thing that is required - start painting. "

According to writer and editor Michael Zaslavsky, talk about inspiration it makes sense primarily in the context of the author's comics - individual projects, which are written and drawn, because it fascinated idea.

"It comes up with a lot of to do during comic-club" Kom ", - he says. - Since 1992, I work in periodicals, printing, and this - the production chain, obligations, deadlines that can not be broken. They are the main motivation for working. "

Motivation does not exist. There are ill-defined ideas that it is not clear how to implement. more creative zappingWhich for some reason called "lack of motivation".

Tanya Papushevo, artist and co-author of the web comic "Scrolls Erundzy"

Other cartoonists can still say that helps them not to leave.

Screenwriter Kyrylo Kovalchuk (comics "gray days Magi") oversees the writers, artists, musicians in Instagram and Facebook: "I understand that I want to be better than... Inspired people. Those who earn and lives that truly love. "

If there is a good script and a story that you believe is most likely you will not be torn away from the painting process. It remains only to make a good script.

Wind uncle, the artist

The reason to create a comic book can be a part in the thematic competition, festival, Challenge. Look for the ones where you might be interested in the job, or the level of awards of the jury and the participants.

Tatiana Lepikhina (Sideburn004) won prizes in three international competitions manga. The main thing that makes the victory, she said, - confidence in their abilities and the possibility of further growth.

In Moscow in 2002 was held International festival of cartoon stories "KomMissia". He encouraged Eugene to begin to create Bornyakova Ivan Shavrina and others.

In St. Petersburg, a similar catalyst was "Bumfest". Thanks to him, the comics do Lavrenteva Olga and Julia Tar.

Often a comic pushes view other people's work. Here's how it describes the cartoonist and the author strips Nick Aragua, "Look, - tells a story - I could come up with you, if it were not messing around. Go out and try to do something better. "

North Carolina gives forces an opportunity to be printed: "Happiness start overwhelms me, even when I first wrote of the publishing house:" Come, we'll publish you. " On the happy feeling I lived and drew comics for six months, pored over it at night. "

One way to mobilize themselves - to appoint a clear time frame.

Sergey Redisoj Kluchnikov recalls that the comic "Shura and Moon Flower" prepared especially for the festival "BigFest". It was necessary to have time to paint, show a publisher and print: "I am ashamed to have to sit in a comic-zone, in the Alley of the authors, with stickers, postcards, badges and artbook. There is a problem, deadline. So I try to stay within it, doing everything possible and impossible. "

Bulat Gazizov, comic book artist "Draft: fourth door", says that if you have nothing comes out or "just do not feel" - you need to act strictly to themselves, to make paint, even if the result does not like: "After a while you will not even notice that it did not work. But that performance is not lost, it is necessary to take breaks, for example play your favorite game, take a walk or go to the movies, but it is best to exercise and keep fit. "

And the most powerful motivation - the response of the readers.

It helps inner obstinacy, faith in the industry and love for his work. Sometimes spurs competition, sometimes - the lack of work that you would like to see on the shelves. But most of all inspiring giving and readers response, the realization that you're inspired by someone or just made someone's day better ...

Julia Varasabi

Where can I find the time?

Until the comic is still a hobby rather than a source of income, you have to figure out how to carve out time on him.

The hardest part in the creation of comic books, according to Anton Savinov, - combine it with "making money, family, and going to bed."

Oleg Tishchenko, author of "Cat", "Fairy Tales robots" and others, says that when the drawing is not a profession, the hardest not come up with a character or a scene ( "this can be done while walking the dog or the lectures"), and then, why should you spend on it a few weeks labor.

"Time is never enough", - said Varvara Tomato. Requirement prioritization and planning. Varvara divided exercise, which learned by participating in the international project "24 hours comics": "The idea is, that they give you a topic and a day, and can be faster, you have to come up and draw a complete story of the 24 pages. it was difficult for me, but I had a wonderful experience fast work, decision-making, finding new, not peculiar to me moves. "

Ask yourself deadlines to paint every day and work. It helps that I learned to think, to think, to reflect, to present options for thumbnails in mind when you do something completely different, for example, you go to the store, cook, wash the floor.

Varvara Tomato

Planning example leads Elizabeth vitaRäven Voronin, comic book author, teacher and theorist komiksologii. Detailed sketches she draws "fits and starts" in the week, and the finishing of the page - at the weekend. On average, it turns out the two pages a week, and you can calculate how long it will take to create the final comic strip: "We have to work everywhere. Thumbnails with storyboards are made to stop in turn to the doctor, at the bank, post office... When I used to give myself a couple of months off, but it still fits and starts writing pieces of scripting and drawing concepts. "

Dmitry Osipenko, in the number of published works whose "The Bronze Horseman", a comic adaptation of the poem, also prepares a daily plan to catch the deadline. But the plan does not work, "Half the time sticks to Pinterest, and the remaining... trying to catch everything."

Lena Murzina writes comics on the way home from work, "On the bus coming up with cool subjects, probably because the windows are similar to the panel pages."

Rating Affairs offers important to make Dmitry Nikls Nikulushkin. All that in a rating below comics can "sentence." If the last proved himself a comic - it is an occasion to consider whether to take him.

In the view of Andrew Carpenter, draw "Borgoth-Ravager" and "maniacs Island", "if you can pay your hobby even an hour a day - you already have sufficient time to create comics... Some one hour time to page do. It depends on what style you use. "

In the creation of a comic book on which there is no time to act the basic rule: "No day without a line." Main - regularity. For example, I'm working on a comic book "Expedition" for 2-4 hours a day. Specially I get up at six in the morning. Of course, it goes slowly progressed percent for the year to 30, but still goes.

Vladislav Serov

Oleg Green, comic book artist "Pasha technician", created it in parallel with the work of the designer: "There are no tricks there. If you want to - draw - if not, do not draw. At six in the evening working day comes to an end, and I will proceed to the comics, draw up to three hours of the night, with a heavy load - up to five or until you start to make mistakes from fatigue. "

The Bubble I work at night, since my main occupation - concept artist in the gaming industry. To keep pace with everything, you have to sacrifice a lot, sometimes the weekend, but when you love your job, it's a joy.

Erik Erik-diziron Bragalyan

Ivan Khoroshev proposes to work with writers, editors, and other artists' Optional to play the hero and do everything alone. " He adds that the ability to work in a team handy, and those who choose not to associate life with comics.

When you divide the work of a writer or colorist, you can motivate each other and responsibility for the terms you not only to themselves... Time Management - your weaknesses? Locate command.

Julia Varasabi

To save time, many authors choose short comic - strips. They can "light up the idea or the best graphics solution and do everything quickly, without having to cool off," - says Ilya Lizard Yudovsky cartoonists.

Dmitry Narozhnyi, author of the book "Vitaly. Unfashionable Illustrator ", says:" I've been "saved his skill." Common problem: "I'm still not good enough." And then, at 40 I have decided that you can not wait, and began to draw strips. I thought: what a writer writes on dozens of pages, I will draw faster and more beautiful, and without any skills in the book. Not really. But I began to comfort - black-and-white stripe. "

Anastasia Kiseleva, creator of public «Cathvader illustrations. The same illustrator, "publishes strips for three-four frames:" Sometimes it manages to draw comics for 20 minutes, if the idea is like and want it to bring to life. "

However, one more piece of advice: do not hurry.

I do not think that comics - large and labor-intensive business. With that mindset will not work. You just need to do a little bit every day. And it will be a success. Do not hesitate to break into other stories, as from a long work on the same comic book can be tiring.

Ilya Obukhov

Anna Lumbricus Suchkov said that 10 years could not finish the big comics have always been the case. In her experience, "no time" - this is an illusion, self-deception: "I examined the priorities, I realized that it was time to close the debt, and in a short period of 50 time-consuming and painted scenic sheets. I have a small child, household chores and work on freelance... I was able to finish the comic, because there was a desire. For the money with glowing terms and waiting for customers is easy to work quickly. When the client does not seem that the project can wait. And if you want - there is time. "

Dmitry Lyashenko - the chief editor of "Sitiselebriti", Russia's largest crowdsourcing platform. It helps people to believe in themselves and discover their talents and employers - to find the best people and creative solutions to their problems.

For the book "How to survive in the comic book industry. Tips from the professionals "Dmitry talked with hundreds of cartoonists. He collected their experience in the guide for all who dream of a career in this industry. You will learn the answers to the most important questions, learn how to create characters and write scripts, as well as understand what to do when a comic is ready.

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