@goodbye

Imposter syndrome makes me beating the bush over being not good enough [which is a horribly vague statement]. I think I'm pretty lucky to be in touch with some knowledgeable people who would give me proper pointer of what exactly are those not enoughs and how I can improve that. I also try to study the techniques I want to hone from how-to books and by scrutinizing the works from my favorite authors. If you know which part you exactly suck at, it's possible to at least make attempt to improve that specific aspect.

So yeah, either I actually study to help that whatever-that-thing-I-wasn't-good-enough-about, or I simply look away until that thought is no longer too intense.

While waiting for this one good release date of the year, I... don't have buffer right now. I studied the community tips you posted a year ago and honestly I started think if I could stockpile a year worth of buffers that'd be nice...

Seeing the actual number of pages sounded hell though, so I might start making attempt to stock as fast as I could, as much as I can while not looking at the exact number hahaha, still trying to figure out the workflow that actually works

Is this supposed to be read in scrolling format? You have a good sense for camera angle and tension build up (that chapter 5...), but the margin and panel spacings are uneven that it gets distracting whether I read in vertical or page format, so I wasn't sure. Really big panel spacings made it feel like there's a notable long pause before the next panel happens, but I'm pretty sure it usually wasn't the intended effect here.

This other point is more of a personal input, but you might want to try experimenting with smaller panel size for scenes that happen more briefly and larger ones for scenes with longer duration or important scenes.

Thanks!

At this point you might as well just ask the cap to be 6 month or something, no

Doesn't feel like it could work unless it's a series that have really large amount of buffers? But even if you do have a lot of EA content, that would make a huge gap of knowledge between EA readers and regular readers as well.

For techniques I just learn from reading fuckton of mangas from authors whose art I find interesting (got a hobby to check debut chapters and guess which one gonna be a bigger boom), but Japanese superhero shows are my main inspo for tropes and general vibe of my work.
Series written for kids felt like it requires its own technique to pull something that could be enjoyable for audiences of any age without downplaying any of the age group. Not too much edge, not excessively lighthearted, it's just balance. Those shows are doing exactly that.

As for video games, I've been enjoying Monster Hunter since Rise and just started World, so might stare at it longer and study their armor designs. I've also been a long fan of Hollow Knight though I don't think I'll ever know how to cook as hard as Team Cherry LOL.

I understand where you come from. Your worries aren't baseless at all, self-published route has higher likeliness to be suck and starting with a large project immediately could be overwhelming. You can take as much time as you want until you feel good enough to execute your dear idea, but you might end up never making it at all because the bar you set for yourself is, perhaps, way too up there hidden by the clouds.

If you don't feel confident in starting the series immediately, as you've heard a lot before, you can try making short or oneshot comics first. To step this up, my suggestion would be making a single pilot episode of your idea. This way you'll end up actually working on a comic with the idea you like, and at the same time you can see where to take the next step with the bigger draft and what could be improved whether immediately or in the long run. Or, you know, you can always remake your comic later, maybe like 8 years later when your newest art no longer resemble how you started off. A lot of options. We don't actually improve by just imagining something.

I had a really neat concept I've been going on and off for five years or so, and every year I tried to draft the first chapter only to either end up scrapping it—because I don't like how it turned out and can't pick up the direction from there—or lose it due to technical troubles (which is unfortunate). Anyway, just got this 'snap' in my brain gears really recently and thought to myself, "Ah, time to try it again this year."

If you're not having your comic under contract or a publisher, don't put yourself on a pedestal and being too hard on yourself. It's your dream, and you're the only one who can chase after your dream.

Don't think there's anything I'd specifically like to see, other than the specific niches I like getting some more people passionated about these niches making comics about it. :P

I feel like we're in the era where the hypersaturation of the market also means there's always something for everyone most of the time, except that you might won't have an easy time finding it if it were to be something that's inbetween top spec and meh spec, or if it's a self-published (marketing is an entire separate workload™). Seconding HCE's post above.

(A little digging and it seems it has been suggested here and doesn't seem to be addressed. I don't want to necropost so here's a new thread)

Is it possible to implement option to not show you and your studio's country of origin, just like how real names can be hidden from profile despite being mandatory information?

This is personal privacy issue, but I feel somewhat uncomfortable showing my country in public profiles, and there might be some other people who feel the same way.