Well, you asked for it...
Black and white comics are my jam. Akira Toriyama and Jaime Hernandez loom large in my background.
I do colour but I feel the pull between wanting to represent the mostly monochrome colour choices of real people and wanting to keep things visually clear. That pull frustrates me because only one side can win.
I am self taught. I do use my own reference photos when I want to take some of the real of the world. Street photography turned into illustration.
For an illustration I want to tell a story of the world. Or the hope is that you see it and can tell ME the story.
For comics themselves I lean into my "mistakes". I want to produce something uniquely mine. Not something that looks like I followed the same Tumblr tutorials as everyone else.
I'm self taught, but I'm also self aware and I know when something is not working. I don't have any comics online because none of them have measured up to my vaguely defined criteria of being both "good" and "not the same as the rest".
But this doesn't mean I stop trying. It means I start again. And again. Until I get it right.
Right for me. Not right for you. The simple fact is that even if you like what I do, you're not going to pay my rent. Comics are a lot of work and there will never be any sort of reward for anything I produce. Thus I must produce for me and me alone. And that means making something I can look back on with a smile.
I'll tell everyone when I do that.