Webcomic

So, I've been researching how to do a webcomic, and how much work it takes, etc. And the biggest piece of advice given to newbies was: know how many comics you can put out in a week, and minus one, so that you're always creating a buffer. And draw all those comics consistantly for a month before you start posting.

The problem is that my comic is more of a gag comic surrounding a cast of characters. I don't really have a storyline. Okay, not a big deal. That's how some of my favorite comics started out. (Something Positive, Questionable Content, Home on the Strange, are the first ones to come to mind. And they all appear to have followed a storyline when you reread.) The other problem, which is a much, MUCH bigger problem is that I don't have the motivation. It takes me maybe an hour, MAYBE an hour, to draw the comic. Mostly because I am just that bad at art, and I decided to draw simply enough that I won't go all OCD on it like I'm prone to do, so it really can realistically only take me an hour. (Seriously, if I was going to try to make it as good artistically as I could get it, I'd have even slower updates than Megatokyo. To be satisfied with my art, it would take me a month to work on a single strip. I am that OCD.)

So if it takes me an hour, than you'd think I'd be able to update every day, and have a whole lot, a WHOLE LOT of buffer comics by the end of the month.

I'm just not motivated to draw without anyone seeing it for that long. I'm not. I do something, I want people to see it RIGHT THEN. RIGHT THEN.

So. Any advice on how to curb this? Because I really would like to do this comic. I'm setting up some basic story lines, but for the most part, I just have a whole lot of gags that are wanting to be done. There will be a story line, I promise.

Tears

I'd managed to do really well with the whole not crying thing. Then I got a message from the wife of the couple, and she wants some foundation and eye shadow.

Which I just happen to have on hand- all the colors.

So I'm going to stick them in the mail today and send them. Free of charge. Because it's the least I can do.

So why am I crying? Because this is the only thing I CAN do- and I damn well am going to do it.

And it sucks that something this simple is what I can do. I want to do more. I want to take their hurt away.

I want them to have their son back.

Webcomic Update

So, lost the sketchbook, found the sketchbook. Yay. I have some story arcs planned, but mostly it's a "Questionable Content" type comic- ie, a gag comic centering a set cast of characters.

I went to work on said comic, and worked on it for half an hour, and only got two panels done. (I'll do the other half hour before I go to bed. We got interrupted for dinner.) Why did it take me so long? Because it took me twenty minutes to get the lines of the comic drawn. The lines dividing a page into four panels. I am that level of OCD. I finally handed the ruler, sketchbook and pencil to Squirreltail, because if he draws the lines, I won't bitch at him, while if I draw the lines, they'll never be perfect.

So, question: I know that the proportions aren't right on my characters, but that's kind of the joke. Is that okay, or should I work on making my characters more actual human looking and less caricatured?