My Personal Life Dreams: Making Comics

Hi everyone! Lola here!

I hope I haven't been boring you with these recent posts, haha. Here's another dream I recently had..

Before I get into it, though, I'd like to remind you that you can talk about your own life dreams in this post. I'll be featuring some comments in a later post. :)

Today's story: My dream of drawing out stories... (past)

We're starting to enter older dreams of mine now. But this one isn't so old...

The Birth Of My Dream

It all started when I was 12 and living in Italy. There was a girl in my class who loved to draw and she showed me a few tips to do so myself. I didn't draw all the time, but the few times I did, I really enjoyed it.

I then moved to France. I made friends and entered the world of Ratchet and Clank (yes, it's relevant). That's where I came up with a story and drew the characters for it. I also joined DeviantART (click for account -> no longer active) and was very inspired by various artist. I made plenty of friends and some even helped me draw better. I got personal lessons from a dear friend of mine whose account can be found here (her art is amazing). Seeing some of those artists improve through time also motivated me to do the same.

After that, I drew non-stop. I'd start drawing in the evening until midnight or 1am. That's when I had the most inspiration... wow, talking about this is tempting me to join DeviantART again!
Anyway. I drew my characters and different situations with each of them.

The main character was called... Lola Ferricks (left: she usually has clothes, but this one is to show off, hehe). That's where my nickname comes from. She was inspired from a Ratchet and Clank character called Sasha Phyronix (right). Lola also has a brother, a boyfriend and is captain of a spaceship.
I should really make that comic one day...



So, for years, I spent my time on DeviantART, admiring art, making art, inventing characters...
And then, I had exams to pass. I stopped drawing thoroughly three years ago when I entered what is known in France as "lycée". Google it, I can't explain, haha.
So yeah, I did still draw, but my imagination was becoming blocked by stress... the real world was slowly starting to munch on my creativity (yeah, I'm aware that sound a bit weird).

My Dream's Impact On Me Today

I've now decided, as you all know, to get my diploma before deciding on anything, but I doubt I'll try and make comic-writing a career). I can't even draw that well, when I think about it. And I've found that I'm more for moving about than sitting down. Comic-writing takes a lot of sitting down and not much movement which I couldn't take for very long.
On the other hand, I love story-writing and still enjoy settling down a bit and relaxing while drawing one of my characters or a scenario. Maybe one day I'll give it a try if I have the time and publish a small story. But I'm not too hopeful.

Any artists out there? I love browsing art and would love to take a look at what you do!
Share your art in the comments!

Thanks for reading; keep on dreaming!
~ Lola out!