Ending a hiatus

I sat down to draw a week ago and was hunting through my old comic, and I wish that I had a comic I could just ink and not have to think out or pencil. Thankfully, I had left a page half-finished 2 and a half years ago, when I burned out. So I finished it and updated my webcomic.

Prior to that I was trying to recall what the chapter I was drawing was actually about. I laughed a little at my own dialog and writing, I recognized sequences that I liked. I saw pages where I was rushing things. Then I got to the final page which was blank except for the words "I quit" which I hastily uploaded when I was drawing the last page and then gave up. It felt to log back into my website via WinSCP and replace that last page with the real one. 

In reading my last chapter I think I want to change 2 things: I want to spend more time on each page so that it doesn't look rushed. I also want to write an actual script and have an actual arc instead of this vauge action sequences that I end up making. I'd also like to slightly redesign the characters so that they're easier to tell apart. 

I found I'm still a little burned out. I started penciling a new page and I don't have a script, and I've struggled on what to even draw on the second panel. And even though I have the time and energy to draw there isn't inspiration. I have drawn this desert convertable so much that I'm tired of it, a problem Akira Toriyama ran into drawing the tank for Sand Land.  

I am facing the reality of replacing the Surface Pro 3. It's over 10 years old. The battery lasts 3 hours. The charger's cable is frayed enough that I have it ziptied in place so that it works. The keyboard cover's mouse click no longer works. Unfortunatley the only replacement is going to be an Ipad with a Pencil Pro, because I want something I can take to a coffee shop and draw on. I've tried separate wacom tablets on my laptop and the experience is not the same. 

Webcomics are a very strange hobby in that you spend a lot of time on something nobody really reads and I kept at it because having characters come to live and "live" through something was a reward in and of itself. Or rather it has to be, because nobody reads a webcomic - usually.