Why is there no reason for it to appeal to others? And why is that so important, besides? You enjoy working on it. Continue to do so.
If it's the fact that making into an actual RPG isn't working out, trying shifting media. I worked for years to make Schism into a fully-realized Chrono Trigger style RPG before giving up on that. But I'd put so much work into the story, the characters, the setting. So it became a comic. Then a novel. Now it's going to be an illustrated prose webserial.
Heroes of Saiga is awesome, from what I've seen of it. I thoroughly enjoy all of your random artwork for it--the character portraits, the creature designs, and so on. Even though I don't usually comment on them, I do look at every one (usually in considerable detail!) and think they're awesome.
Don't give up, kiddo. You've come a damn long way--you've got a long way yet to go, sure, but that's no reason to stop going. :]
I enjoyed working on it, but it ate up so much of my time, and for what purpose? To have fun? It's doing nothing for anybody but myself, and... it's a weak project.
Maybe it's a weak project. Maybe it's a waste of your time. I'm not going to be the one to tell you otherwise, if that's really what you think.
But you did put all that time into it. Don't make all that effort have been in vain. Make SOMETHING productive out of it!
At the very least look on this bright side: think how much working on it has improved your craft! I'm sure doing all that plotting, designing all those characters, coming up with all those setting details? All of that has improved your art and writing leaps and bounds. There's nothing like practice on something you care about to really improve you!
... can you tell I'm an eternal optimist who went through something exactly like this a few years ago? : 3
If you had fun and learned from it, it's not a waste.
I think you need to ask yourself honestly why you got into art and writing in the first place, and think about this situation in the context of your answer.
If your goal with what you do is to appeal to the most people that you can, you may as well start writing ANGELINA JOLIE IN HUGE EXPLOSIONS AND ALSO FUCKING SOME GUY. Like, if that's the kind of artist you want to be, fine and good luck to you, but you're going to have to sell off a lot of your integrity. I'd like to think you're better than that.
Did I? It was all so fleeting that I really wonder the value.
My art is the only thing I've got going for me. If it only ever pleases me, if there's no audience, it's something that... urgh.
I don't want to be a lonely NEET. If my art can't connect me to an audience, that's all I can aspire to. No career prospects, nothing interesting or appealing.
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If it's the fact that making into an actual RPG isn't working out, trying shifting media. I worked for years to make Schism into a fully-realized Chrono Trigger style RPG before giving up on that. But I'd put so much work into the story, the characters, the setting. So it became a comic. Then a novel. Now it's going to be an illustrated prose webserial.
Heroes of Saiga is awesome, from what I've seen of it. I thoroughly enjoy all of your random artwork for it--the character portraits, the creature designs, and so on. Even though I don't usually comment on them, I do look at every one (usually in considerable detail!) and think they're awesome.
Don't give up, kiddo. You've come a damn long way--you've got a long way yet to go, sure, but that's no reason to stop going. :]
~Duk
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I'm doing myself a favor by doing this.
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But you did put all that time into it. Don't make all that effort have been in vain. Make SOMETHING productive out of it!
At the very least look on this bright side: think how much working on it has improved your craft! I'm sure doing all that plotting, designing all those characters, coming up with all those setting details? All of that has improved your art and writing leaps and bounds. There's nothing like practice on something you care about to really improve you!
... can you tell I'm an eternal optimist who went through something exactly like this a few years ago? : 3
~Duk
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I think you need to ask yourself honestly why you got into art and writing in the first place, and think about this situation in the context of your answer.
If your goal with what you do is to appeal to the most people that you can, you may as well start writing ANGELINA JOLIE IN HUGE EXPLOSIONS AND ALSO FUCKING SOME GUY. Like, if that's the kind of artist you want to be, fine and good luck to you, but you're going to have to sell off a lot of your integrity. I'd like to think you're better than that.
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My art is the only thing I've got going for me. If it only ever pleases me, if there's no audience, it's something that... urgh.
I don't want to be a lonely NEET. If my art can't connect me to an audience, that's all I can aspire to. No career prospects, nothing interesting or appealing.
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/hug
Good luck.
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/hug
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