Anyone feel embarrassed reading their older comics?

[Pompmaker1]

My first attempt at a serious comic was this manga I made for a school project. Looking back at it, it's sooo bad...
https://tapastic.com/episode/342115
Anyone have the same feeling when you see your early work?

[CireWire]

I have a few that I refuse to let out of my pile of works, even some that I drew myself when I was 14 (ewwww). No ones seen them, not even my family! The ones I solely written are still saved in my hard drive. The artists were fantastic, but my writing was so bad that I just couldn't bring myself to publish them.

So yes, I feel like I'll be punishing people if I have them read my old work. You're welcome world!

[VermillionWorks]

Yes. Especially my super early work....and yet, they're still a fun trip down memory lane, too. XP

[Michelle]

Oh gods yes. I still keep my old comic attempt on my Deviantart because nostalgia, but it's pretty rough stuff. However, going back and seeing all the nice comments people left is really heartwarming. I'm amazed and flattered that people got so involved in the story despite the work not being up to par.

[Vikiro_Hop]

Eh at the moment I am more encouraged by the progress I've made.

[AnnaLandin]

Yeah, well, my first venture into webcomics is pretty dang terrible - I can forgive the less than stellar art (it's ten years old; it's to be expected), but it's also a complete mess in terms of plot and character, mostly because I went in without planning things properly first, so I was literally just making stuff up as I went along.

I'd written myself into a corner by chapter 3, and ran out of enthusiasm at about the same time, and abandoned the project.

I'm more fond of my slightly newer projects! I did a graphic novel a couple of years back - started in 2010, and then it took me a couple of years of on-and-off work to finish it - and while there are definite flaws in it, I'm still kind of proud of it! I mean, I finished a whole graphic novel! 168 pages! I managed to tell a pretty coherent story from start to finish! I proved to myself that I could finish a project I'd started, which is an important accomplishment in itself.

Mostly, when I look back at really old work, I try to see them as steps on the way to progress. I'm a lot better at what I do now, only because I've drawn and written all of this stuff that isn't very good.

[littleelliebot]

My early stuff consisted of like, really bad fancomics of jokes between me and friends at most... none the less

I am completely embarassed by them :'D COMPLETELY.

[UrMom]

Ffff you kidding, I love my old stuff, it's simultaneously entertaining in how bad it is and it's fun to see how much my stuff has changes. I've pretty much had the same characters since I started taking visual art seriously, and it's interesting to go though the timeline of how they've changed physically and personality wise.

My old practice pages, and attempts at comics? They're gold, the lack of understanding for anything is very clear, and the art is nearly terribad; but I still remember how much I enjoyed working on them. I can't be embarrassed because there's nothing to be embarrassed about, we all start somewhere, and it's nice to do some comparisons when you're feeling down.

Actually, since I'm so shameless about my old abominations, here's a link to a blog my friend runs if you like looking at people's old stuff, since I can't bring myself to throw away drawings I give her a pile to do whatever with every so often; and she decided to make a blog out of it. Lawl. It's not all comics, and there's some gory stuff and gay and some nudity... pretty much anything most people would find NSFW, but there's some page attempts on there. Don't mind the comments below some of the posts, she's very eccentric.
Maybe someday I'll even post my first real attempt at a comic, 'We All Must be Daft', somewhere for the world to see again. Just for the entertainment of how old it is.

[joannekwan]

I love to read through the comic series I drew in high school (really basic stuff written and drawn in spiral bounds, still have all of them too!)

But yeah sometimes I go through them and think "I really thought that way?!"
Overall I'm still proud of them, I had some great jokes in them. sighs fondly

[Sanz]

I have TONS of old comics in sketch books and loose paper in two boxes in the corner....Los Esmeraldas is actually a "reboot" of a story was trying to make about 10 years ago, I didn't have the skills but I tried anyway....oh man is it pure garbage, unorganized and a mess, but we all have to start somewhere. I wish I could show my past doubtful and miserable self, how awesome I grew up to be. lol

[Vanzish]

I don't! When i look at the comics i used to draw as a kiddo, it hits me with nostalgia and as bad as the art was, i love looking at them again. Got about 2 notebooks full of comics i used to do with my back then best friend ^^

[niinasalmelin]

I mostly don't but dear god there was this edgy angsty teen pace.... I'm so thankful that I didn't upload them anywhere in the internet :'DDD But I love the stuff I came up with when I was a kid. No cringe at all just love.

[purrlpankras]

Never mind embarrassed, more like ashamed

[carloswebcomic]

I literally cringe so hard that my teeth fuse together.

[BraveHeartTatsumaki]

I laugh then cry whenever I read the Final Light prototype, cause whooo I was so proud of my art until few months ago in which I changed my style, learned some techniques and also learned better narrative, I just- screaming internally

[stephensharpe707]

My first few chapters on my current series are just down right embarrassing, art-wise and just some key moments where I perhaps had a lapse of judgement. I've gone back and edited a few glaringly obvious mistakes, but if I get into the mindset, I'd be forever redoing bits.

Funnily enough, I'm not too harsh on older fan comics (as bad as they are), the art was somewhat consistent throughout because I didn't deviate too much from the source material I guess.

[Kura]

Mostly it's the art that makes me cringe. Heck even for older chapters of my stuff that's currently active. I'm surprised that I still get subscribers to Raven Wolf the first chapter is just... not very well done art and layout wise.

[kkitty]

I get embarassed reading my older chapters.

[demthorshie]

All the time! I haven't felt embarrassed to read any of my older pages from Cosmos Song because that stuff is still relatively new. But anything older than maybe 5 years, I shutter when I look back on them! And when it comes to my earliest work, I flat out can't look at them with a straight face. I end up laughing at my own old, horrible attempts of my first comic xD!

[Ringarune]

yeah XD I never got past the paneling stages, but I did get pretty far into developing a story 5 years ago... so bad.. SO SO BAD... the plot, art, and characters were just really flawed, and honestly, I don't think I was ready to start a comic at that point.