Anyone feel embarrassed reading their older comics?

[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.

[R.n.P]

I never uploaded any of my older works but any time I see my old comics I always realize I've come a long way from how I was to how I am now.

[shaylafarley5]

I have tons of old comics that I just stopped working on, most of them with more than 100 pages.
But I love going back and rereading them, if the story was good enough I would go back and rewrite it/draw it.
And comparing my art to what it was is HORRIBLE! A few old pieces can be found on my DA account.

[rairy]

my 1st official webomic I made was 10+ years ago, host in keenspace/comicgenesis. It got around 100+ pages before I discontinue them due to various of reasons. The current webcomic I had in tapastic was a prequel from the one which I made 10 years ago. The quality obviously very different and plot are very childish yet bold + interesting.

YES, I FEEL VERY EMBARRASSED READING THEM!!! YOU R NOT ALONE >////< But thanks to it, it motivate me to do the current webomic and the old one is going to be my precious treasure. I do had plan to remake but maybe its better to complete the current one 1st.

[niczchan]

Not embarrassed... But I just find my drawings inconsistent from the older comics that I did from the current ones~

[mckarenart]

Haha yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!! I usually have 2 reactions to my OOOLDER comics:
1-"Lol, I suppose it is really funny if I laugh so much time after writing/drawing it... THIS IS GOLD"
2-"WTF how I was supposed to think that this was so great, killmenowplz"

From all I save something, indeed, and dependid how good/bad it is, I always have the possibility of remake.

[sunnyray]

Yes, every time I finished a comic and look over it I hate to see all this mistake I made. But even more I hate the thought that everyone else see this mistakes and fails, too. -___- ;

[dragonfly_kites]

Omg yes! The very first serious comic I ever did was so cringe worthy. Almost everything was spelt wrong and I was so impatient to get to the good stuff that I literally skipped huge sections in story. It basically was horribly written. I still have it though in all its terrible glory.

[Mharz]

Not exactly embarrassed but more like I'm laughing at how bad I was at drawing. I dig up my old comics from time to time and it helps me see how far I've improved. Sometimes it gives me some ideas too. There's nothing I can do to change the past anyway, and redoing stuffs will be just a waste of time (Tho I was guilty of doing that back then. LOL.)

[Stickers]

Oh gosh totally.....I made my first comic in Sophomore year, it was a fan comic of a video game (Digital Devil Saga) aaaaaugh I gag every time I look back it lmfao. I also made a yaoi comic at one point....I cant bring myself to even look at that one.........

[TheVoidchildProject]

Not at all actually, I don't know if this is rare. To be fair, I've not been drawing for too long and Voidchild is my first comic, but I feel like I've come along way with my art. Mostly I feel content to see my own development.

[jordanthelass]

I think we all have something we're embarrassed about. But, if you look from back then to where you are in the present .. I don't think you'll feel that with how much you've progressed. :3c

[MylCreates]

All the time XD but... it's always nice to look back and say "wow, look how far I've come"

[yvettegustafsson]

Only when it's clear that I've been trying too hard. In comics school we had a strip comic assignment and we had to make like 20 strips or so with a clear storyline and everything. It turned out absolut SHIT and I hated it. And when I say SHIT I mean SHIT. A year later when the class in the year under us had the same assignment and one of them had real trouble with the assignment, I took her to my studio, closed the door and showed her my stuff from the previous year. She left feeling better, at least.

I told my teacher that I would never ever make strip comics ever again, but then one night I was bored with all the stuff I had to do and out on my paper came a blue monster with big fangs who didn't try to be funny at all, he was just a little bit awkward. And so Kalle Hizz was born

[kazukitakamura126]

I don't like looking at my older comics because it just looks so unpolished and the narrative execution was cringe worthy. I made my first attempt at comics in 2004 with my comic "Darkness Within". Looking back it was a cliche and poorly written comic. Sure you can use the demon power storyline, like Blue Exorcist who did it to great effect but Darkness Within followed every cliche imaginable. Even my newer comic like "The Osana Empire: The Rebellion" that I made in 2011 makes me feel a little embarrassed when I look at it but, I feel proud of it as well because its the first comic I had self published.

[ashriott]

Ummmm absolutely yes! I have already gone back to redraw chapters! And I'm looking to redraw more! Yeah, they're super badly written and cringe worthy its embarrassing lol.

That being said, it's nice to look back at old work mainly to see how much you've improved. I may feel disheartened with my earlier chapters being so poorly done, but when I see how far I've comes it encourages me to improve further : ) I'm glad I made the mistakes I did in earlier chapters, cause a great learning process(though a time consuming one).