Published: September 9th 2022, 11:40:29 pm
So the title for this one is pretty self-explanatory. I wanted to wait until after I'd wrapped up my current long project to make a post about this, just to make sure I was certain this is what I wanted to do.
While it's been really hard to admit this to myself, having a webcomic that would span years to make isn't sustainable for me. I felt so much dread going back to work on pages that I had sketched months earlier, and written months before that, already conscious of things I wanted to change. I also just don't have the time! I wasn't even able to get three pages inked a week on top of everything else. I wasn't enjoying it. That's what upsets me the most, that this is a story my husband and I loved making, with characters that are still incredibly dear to us both, and working on it made me unhappy.
The good news that goes along with this is....I'm very busy with other comic work. I have really exciting news that I have to keep close to my chest, but I'm working on something fun as both a writer and artist. I also had a lot of fun this year working on I Am of Two Hearts, and a project of that scale (94 pgs, ~7 months) felt good for me. I'd love to do something like that again next year.
This also doesn't mean Map of the Heart is like, dead forever. I need to take some time away from it. I might come back to it in a few years, rework the story, and go from there. I might not. It might become something else. I don't know!
I've grown a lot as a writer and an artist since writing Map of the Heart, but I still have so much fondness for this story. It's really special to me. I'm happy it exists.
All of the concept art and WIP pages for Map of the Heart will stay up (you may have noticed I removed some old sketchbooks a while ago that had outdated concept art, or just art I really did not like. The rest of it will stay LOL). If that's all you were here for, I completely understand if you'd like to unsub.
Thank you for reading, as always <3