What are you the most proud of?
In the comments on my very first Foolish Lego blogpost Pi3rk asked me one of the more difficult questions… “What are you the most proud of; the comic, the first 365 or the second 365?”
Now, that’s really a difficult question. All these projects have brought me different things. The first 365 I started was purely because I wanted to practice my photography and get my imagination flowing through the use of Lego. It was a challenging year, especially during vacations, taking along my minifigures and trying to get pictures in Nepal or Turkye or Miami… etc… Sometimes it was frustrating because I had no ideas (and the uninspired photo’s are easy to spot.) In the end I was relieved I was done, and happy with the achievement. On the other hand, I couldn’t stop yet because there was still inspiration and though I did see an improvement in my photography skills, it was not enough. So I went on into the next 365. A year later again I was happy to achieved the 720 daily photo’s but this time real life caught up with me. Work was too busy to keep on going in a daily routine. And so it stopped. But I kept learning and I believe the photo’s did get better (overall). And without the daily deadline I noticed a dwindling amount of inspiration (probably also caused by real life stress).
The first one
On the other hand there are the comics. Yes there were a few stories in the 720’s and some characters got a little development but I wanted to do a real story, so I started the comic. 248 episodes later it’s moving towards the end and I learned a lot about storytelling too, so much in fact that I’ not too thrilled about the dragon story. So after this one I’m starting on the next one and hopefully the story itself will be better.
What I like most is that most of the cast are slowly growing personalities.
Now… I was told I have to choose… looking back I choose the first 365, the one that started everything and the one that gave me a new hobby and the opportunity to make new friends.
So there you have it, what are you the most proud off concerning your hobbies?
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This blog stuff is IMO a great addition to your website. I hope we’ll get to read about you 2 or 3 times a month. If you have the time to, I think it could be really entertaining.
I’m not surprised you choose your 1st work over others. Personal choice obviously, and I’m glad that you like what you did enough to keep doing this.
And that leads to what I’m myself proud of… I won’t be original here, as I’m also running a LEGO based comic, but people like you inspired me so much that years ago I felt I could create one myself. And after some training , here I’m, building a story for the past 2 years… From scratches.
I learned that creating a story and giving “life” to characters represented by LEGO minifigs is a great adventure. I hope you’ll have the time, the inspiration, the strength to do that for years!
P.S. : Last year I run a half marathon without a pit stop. I was kinda proud of that to!
Half a marathon! Very good, sounds like something to be proud of! I’m not much of a sportsman myself, I actually started running a little today for the first time in ages again. My wife is a very good runner though.
As I wrote in my mail, if you need any help getting your work online, let me know! You’re doing a great job giving life to your characters, slowly building the story and suspense and lastly… your preview of what’s to come intrigued me immensely.
Sure I’ll need your help at some point. But I first need to 1/ Finish the last pisode I’m working on and 2/ Think about how, why, when, what put online…
I know you’ve been pretty busy these days, but is there any chances you could find some time to tell us more on your routine when it comes to Foolish Lego the Comic.
Like is there a specific time of the day or a specific day of the week you like to work on your comic, do you take ideas from your wife or your daughter, do you prefer spending countless hours in a row to get something done or many little session of work. Were all your sets ready before you started your comic?… anything to feed our curiosity!! LOL 😉
I will be out of the country for some time… I will (also) try and use that time to do just this!