Thanks for starting Journuary, Hallie! It made me tap into a renewed zest for my comics! I felt the same temptation you felt and seriously considered doing this for the whole year... I settled on continuing on at least in February. Februdiary.
“So you’ve discovered imagination!” I love that, I’m discovering it as well in January and what a powerful thing it is. Thanks for the reminder about 24 hour comics day too! I’ve been wanting to participate in real time for 20 years! But I only ever hear about it the day after!
Thanks for this feedback. I completely recall myself in « jumping in the flow of a new project » rather than finishing a previous one. I also decided to stop at the end of the month but was glad I followed you on this one. It’s a good challenge to reconnect with diary comics. Also I realized that it was also good for my mental health, to pause and look back, pick a moment carefully. Looking forward to discovering your new projects.
It's so fascinating to hear what this experience is like because I can't relate at all! Last summer, I realized through a series of funny events/miscommunications that my voluntary mental imagery falls between hypophantasia and aphantasia. Since then, I've wondered what this means for my creativity—especially because I really want to write fiction stories or learn to draw from my imagination! But it's just... blank? (I go off how things "feel" rather than what I can "see" if that makes sense.)
That's fascinating! I had to look up those words. I honestly love the idea of going off of feeling. I wonder if explorations on the page would be freeing since you're not beginning with an image in mind, but constructing it as you go.
Thanks for starting Journuary, Hallie! It made me tap into a renewed zest for my comics! I felt the same temptation you felt and seriously considered doing this for the whole year... I settled on continuing on at least in February. Februdiary.
So inspiring!!
“So you’ve discovered imagination!” I love that, I’m discovering it as well in January and what a powerful thing it is. Thanks for the reminder about 24 hour comics day too! I’ve been wanting to participate in real time for 20 years! But I only ever hear about it the day after!
Thanks for this feedback. I completely recall myself in « jumping in the flow of a new project » rather than finishing a previous one. I also decided to stop at the end of the month but was glad I followed you on this one. It’s a good challenge to reconnect with diary comics. Also I realized that it was also good for my mental health, to pause and look back, pick a moment carefully. Looking forward to discovering your new projects.
It's so fascinating to hear what this experience is like because I can't relate at all! Last summer, I realized through a series of funny events/miscommunications that my voluntary mental imagery falls between hypophantasia and aphantasia. Since then, I've wondered what this means for my creativity—especially because I really want to write fiction stories or learn to draw from my imagination! But it's just... blank? (I go off how things "feel" rather than what I can "see" if that makes sense.)
That's fascinating! I had to look up those words. I honestly love the idea of going off of feeling. I wonder if explorations on the page would be freeing since you're not beginning with an image in mind, but constructing it as you go.
I wonder if this is why I find blind contour drawings sooo fun to do?!
Also I would love to hear the series of events that led to this discovery!
I actually wrote about it here if you're curious! erikatovi.substack.com/p/cant-easily-picture-things