I just started wondering, do you realize or see how friggin good your work is? Or are you more "oh it's alriight, i suppooooose" or whatever?
First off, thank you :P I’m glad you think my work is good!!! <33 & thanks for the question, its very interesting
but a…complex question, in a way…
It’s difficult to answer without a gazillion justifiers and quantifiers and explanations but, hm.
It’s clear to me that there is a distinction between how I perceive my work and how you perceive my work, when measuring how “good” it is. Probably because of a little bit of “inside looking out” type of effect - it’s common in storytellers in general, I think, to feel like your work is not that great or that its predictable/dull/etc simply because you know the ins and outs of it so well and everything seems predictable because…you know everything? You aren’t the audience, and you don’t know how they’ll feel, but YOU feel like the work is kinda meh because you’ve been so close to it and looking at it for so long
I think Streetcrows is cool. I like it. I don’t think it’s ‘meh’, but as an insider looking out, I have trouble perceiving it as “amazing” or “great”, even though I know it’s not bad. The part I would call amazing is the reader input, your interactions with me and the comic, and all the things I gained from the work - but it’s really difficult to pinpoint my own view of the comic itself
It’s super hard to explain and this porbably doesn’t make much sense to you but….yknow. I love streetcrows. I think its super cool (not to mention fun to make!). But I don’t see the same wonder and amazement some of you guys see, because it’s all very familiar from my end and it’s jsut “yeah this is what i do i guess”
While you are looking at my work with joy, I am only amazed by the stars in your eyes. :’‘)