Art/character evolution thread

[spadesart]

hmm
heres some spire characters

SPIRE | Tapas

[rd_inks]

I posted this thread just before hitting bed and it's been awesome to wake up to these replies - keep up all the good work guys! Everyone's art is getting so much better I can see how you've all improved in terms of giving your characters more form/depth/expressiveness as well as trying new poses etc.

I found one more art evolution from my instagram for another main character:

2015 on the top left, 2016 on the bottom left and a 2017 promotional image on the right

Oh and here's a link to my series while we're at it!

Vitreous | Tapas

[akemikae]

ALRIGHT, SO FIRST OF ALL. The first picture was drawn a little over a year ago, then the pictures proceed with age from there at varying degrees. (I tried to choose sections that changed a lot, but were similar enough to compare to.) His hair never stops getting longer, and no, it's not the pass of time. xD It was just his character design changing.
This is page 1 and then page 19. LOOK AT THE HAIR GOOOOOOO.

These are all from various cover arts (and a speed coloring, which is the furthest right)

Same outfit, but I never intended on doing this as a comparison, I just noticed it after the fact. These 2 pics have about 6 months in between them.

And the bottom right is from my most recent page.

I'm pretty satisfied with his design now, so hopefully he stays the same for a while. But wow, what a journey it's been!!

Long Shot | Tapas

[punkarsenic]

for cath, and then a more recent pic since i made that graphic:

cath hasnt really changed a lot, but balor...

i also wanna make her like, less human too. widen the nose bridge and accentuate the teeth.

There Was a War | Tapas

[Damatris]

I loooove threads like this! It's so cool seeing everyone's progress.

Nidi, my protagonist shows the change best. I love how his hair suddenly switched from black to brown. It suits him better. And while it doesn't show here, he also got a lot shorter. :'D

Fallacy | Tapas

[Emevsa]

This is the same character one year apart. The eyes have become narrower and the face longer. I don't like the hair in 2017 but that's because I wasn't married to her hairstyle. I think the only thing that's really stayed the same is the eyebrows.

The Constellation Chronicle | Tapas

[SteamTK]

Let's see. I first started Symphony Knights in 2015, though I'd done a bunch of sketches before starting.

Two years later, you can imagine I've gone through a little growth.

[Wumbl]

OKAY so in terms of pages for Flirting With Death here's page 16

vs. page 48

My style of inking has changed, and I've gotten much more consistent and thoughtful with my shading.

In terms of characters, Neptune has changed the most. Here's an old pic of her and then a new one...

[ashriott]

I've just re-uploaded a redrawn version Malleus Maleficarum Chapter 2, so this thread is good timing! I can't remember the year I drew the initial version, but I'm glad there's a noticeable improvement in the art.

Since I drew volume 1 in the span of a couple years, my characters literally have more than five variations haha..... It doesn't help that I've gone back to redraw pages in no particular order.... Orz

Malleus Maleficarum | Tapas

[Chopythes]

Well... I gotta say. On of the main characters for Heritage has gone through some pretty severe changes xD
Some images hasn't been released to the internet yet, hence the small~ish screenshots xD

From 2008 to just last month:

My style has changed too, one part of me thinks it's a good thing, another thinks it's a bad one xD I kind of enjoyed my old style?

(And also: This is the comic I've been re-booting 3-4 times but I'm FINALLY satisfied with everything <3 And I've already made 100 pages!!)

[crumbsicle]

I've only been posting my comic Acquainted with Strangers for a few months so there's not much drastic improvement within the comic itself yet. But one of the story's main protagonists, Keenan, was developed from a REALLY old character design of mine.

This . . . became this. It's kinda funny to see the difference. Appearance aside, he's developed an entirely new personality, too. Sometimes I think he became self-aware and rewrote himself.

[VibrantFox]

Sometimes I think he became self-aware and rewrote himself.

i love it when characters kind of grow on their own like this

[rd_inks]

Damn that's one hell of a change! Looks awesome!

[eleviken]

I think I've improved a bit, though it's barely been a year since my comic started!!
these screenshots are from the start of Chapter 1:

and these are from the start of Chapter 2, which is where I am right now :>

To be fair, my pages still turn out worse than I want them to be sometimes, but I still think there's been an overall improvement!

[barbsart]

I'm still in the writing process of my comic but here's how my characters Finn and Jonathan have changed over the past year!

[joannekwan]

The first time I ever drew Beau and Andreas together

to a fairly recent page

[agentfink]

Because the story had mature themes, I started getting away from the cartoony look, to something less exaggerated.
here is Fink's first design, to something recent

2013

2017

[rd_inks]

Loving seeing these guys - keep 'em coming! Here's another before and after from me of my main trio (the third of which won't make an appearance in my comic for a long while!)

And as a bonus - my first ever drawing/concept of my MC in 2015 vs May 2017:

[beta1042]

I just started this whole digital art drawing thing like 2.5 months ago, So here's one of my characters from the first time I drew him to a more recent time. I was surprised how much change there is in just about 2 months. Although I was figuring out my way around CSP

[PaulDevers]

I started Low-Tier Jane a little over a year ago, and it's always fun to see how the art as evolved/improved over time! Jane herself slowly got shorter, her head bigger, and her eyes bigger.
Also, technically strip #96 hasn't actually uploaded yet, but whatever. Not a spoiler.