Across my entire career, I have never drawn a single comics page in which I couldn't see a dozen possible "fixes" to make, but at the end of the day, it's more important to me that my work exists than be perfect.
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Jesse Hamm 2015:
"The biggest enemy of meeting deadlines isn't laziness. It's the false belief that badly drawn bits aren't allowed.
Wanna draw everything perfectly? Then be a cover artist. Spend days on one image. Wanna tell a story? Then make friends with ERROR." 1/ 2
"The biggest enemy of meeting deadlines isn't laziness. It's the false belief that badly drawn bits aren't allowed.
Wanna draw everything perfectly? Then be a cover artist. Spend days on one image. Wanna tell a story? Then make friends with ERROR." 1/ 2
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I then go manic with with trying to make everything as perfect as possible during the month that I'm crowdfunding.
It takes about six months after before i stop caring about all the mistakes.
See also Voltaire's "Perfect is the enemy of Good" and Steinbeck's "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”