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Now that's a glow up! 
My comic hasn't been going for long yet, but some characters did change since I've first designed them and did my first try-out comics with them.
Namely, Ezra:
She changed both in design and in personality, although some key beats I kept the same. Like the name, the color scheme, the blind eye...
And also, and this is gonna be a teaser for the upcoming March episodes, but there's Dawn:
She went from a calm optimistic flower to a sarcastic perpetually exhausted 'medic' (aka the one with brief survival knowledge) and honestly I'm quite happy with her place in the story now. And her design. One of my favorite types to draw.
All my characters had a glow up just by my drawing skills getting better 
especially guys. And all characters now look few years older than when I started drawing.
...but as for design changes, the only one I can think of is my main character, Kestrel. She actually has a both glowup and glow down hahah cx she gets a new design after few chapters (one with 'chapter 17') and it could be considered a glow-up. Still, it's not used all the time and usually she's in her old clothes. And here we have a glow-down, because now they have way less details than before I've been removing them slowly throughout the story and only now realised the difference! but to be honest I like the one with less details more. Also, she still has the mask, just not in this panel.
His design changed a lot just after the first episode, mostly his head. I didn't notice how much different he looked until I re-watched the first chapter. That's one of the reasons I redrew it completely, the other being that I wanted to make it look better in general.
Here's a comparison between the original chapter 1 and the one re-drawn after finishing chapter 4.
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Another comparison, without colors or shadows:
And finally his 'SuperHero look' the first time I design him and how he looks in the comic. In this case his design was simplified, but I like it better that way:
It's time for.... you all know it... you all love it... "Oh my god, Kate you've been drawing the same OCs for twenty years!?"
Here we go... with the most vintage of all the Rekki arts (with bonus spiky Subo):
Then something a little later, once I'd decided she was getting her own comic... (Side note, I do like that several things 19 year old me wrote about Rekki here are still true now. She's still 5'3", her personality is still pretty much that, her birthday is still in autumn... though I think she's a Scorpio now hahaha!). Also the fact that Rekki always has a spikey fringe and two long bits of hair at the front and then the back can be worn in any style, loose or up did continue basically forever.
A later Rekki with a very recognisable design. The sword has a point though! Unacceptable! 
(it is the correct colour at least, bright red with brass fittings). This was the "Rekki has freckles" era. I'm kinda "meh" about freckly Rekki (Frekki?) but it was a whole thing I was doing when I was around 20. She'd become left-handed at this point. Her sword always goes on the right, and she always has that really exaggerated stance when drawing it. Ahh this one one of the first art prints I ever sold! Nostalgia~! 
This one has Sarin on too because it's a chapter cover from the old version of Fan Dan Go (it got rebooted twice, then rebooted again 9 years later as Errant). Apparently 20 year old me had NO IDEA how tall 6 foot is compared to 5'3" because this Sarin is a goddamn giant. These outfits are absolutely horrible. I'm judging you, past me. The drawing isn't too bad though at least. Also this is where the little crease under Rekki's eyes just started to creep in to hint at the fact that she's an insomniac. It got more pronounced over time and subsequent reboots.
Now this is a more recognisable Rekki from when I was about 24. I barely changed this design when I rebooted the comic as Errant...
As you can see! Basically just some tweaks to the colours to pull things together a bit better and look less garish. Subo is here looking a whole lot less spiky. The pose on this cover is a callback to the one on the previous cover, because yay! First print book of the reboot evokes the print book of the original! One consistent change is that Rekki's fringe tends to have fewer spikes now, and they're a bit softer.
Bonus chapter cover of Rekki's latest outfit with her hair down and a more rebellious, casual look to perhaps reflect how she's feeling about her position as a knight right now. AND she's back-to-back with Sarin again! (this was kind of a deliberate callback....for...um....basically just me, because who even remembers the old-old version of Fan Dan Go ). Sarin has a way cooler sword now, and much better clothes.
I feel like I could make another entire one of these posts just about Jules... but I'm gonna stop here for now.
It would be fun to see the oldest versions of Rekki and Subo as background characters in one of the panels
Hm... I don't really change my ocs designs... the only exception being Vampire Prince, which had it's first version I was drawing in middle school to high school and then I rebooted it here on tapas 3 and half years ago, with some concepts removed, some characters replaced with completely different ones, different plot... pretty much just some main characters and general setting have stayed the same over the years 'xD but some characters (that hadn't really made an appearance in the first version but I had them planned) came back to the new version but after a drastic makeover 
I mean like there's pretty much nothing left of initial design drastic 'xD
Hm, now I feel like I should check at which point Tirau's eyes during day started being dark blue... xD
A lot of my characters outside of h+h are still cooking so I know there's likely more changes to come however my absolute favorite character glow-up are Sophie and especially Ava from Welcome to Harewood
like this was first instance of drawing them out back in 2019
then came back to em with an update around 2021
then their final designs here that i drew just last year
Like i definitely fought with Ava the most coz after a while I was like "I'm not doing a white girl with locs" plus it felt like my brain was still really stuck on Robin and Dai from JtN hence the fixation on the hairstyle back then so after I let em cook and tried again it felt like striking gold and I've loved how he looks ever since then. Ironically Sophie probably changed the least just better looking skin tone and hair that imo better reflected the whole werewolf gimmick she's got goin on. But yeah these two r my fave oc glow up~ 
the only thing now is figuring out how to draw his wings...
I like how the sword pretty much stayed the same. Characters always go through massive changes, but somehow weapons can be spot on from the start.
Im very sad cause after 10ish years and 5ish computers it looks like ive deleted or lost most of my "firts drafts" of oasis and even deleted the old one that used to exsist on another website. XD so i cant share the old pages of my highschool years or the crappy character sheet refs of my collage years but ive been working on it for about 5 years now so figure thats good enough to show off dimitris "glow up" as his hair style changes
Yall can judge if hes looking more or less scraggly XD
So these are my three main characters. I think they glowed up pretty good, lol. I started Nocturne 21 almost 20 years ago. I have NO idea why I decided to keep going with it, instead of just throwing it in the trash where it belonged. I was just having a lot of fun with it. I’d make new pages and pass it to my friends and they’d read it, leave fun comments and pass it a long and I just kept making more. At some point I was in college and I’d spent so much time on this story I was like “let’s try and make it actually good”. I’m really glad I stuck with it. I love being able to look back at my old shitty comics and see real progress, even if the originals are god awful, lol.
I'll be lazy and quote a previous post
Though I forgot to mention a 5th character, sort of; the girl in the top middle of the 'Silly Research Society' sketchdump with the green pants was called Myrrh, which is the same name as the purple-haired person in bitwam. They're basically completely different characters though apart from the name, so it doesn't count (Unlike Alana, Emma, Dolly and Seth who actually did evolve from their SRS counterparts :P)
Love how much depth this glow up added 
Thank you! 
It's always funny to think that some of OC could literally be your children in terms of age 
Vie over the years has had a few looks! Lemme grab a few of them.
Here's her first appearance.
I was still trying to figure her out.
My art was going through it's ugly highschool phase
Here's where I started to really find my footing with Vie.
And this is where she is now! She's come along way since she first showed up.
The project changed drastically over the years but Evan was present in all versions
either as protagonist or deuteragonist
It started as a game idea but switched to making a comic series abt 2 years ago.
His abilities evolved too
Version 1 - late 90' -early 2000's he was a boy who turned people he touched into zombies
Then some time after he had superhuman saliva
Current version:
the main cast represent states of matter and Evan represents Solids (via calcifying his saliva into melee weapons)
His zombie touch got replaced, instead the main cast are carriers of a virus that instantly turns others into monsters .
drew this about 12-15 years ago- The big Guy (Mr. Patchez) was the MC and Evan was more of a mischievous sidekick.
The story here was much different
Mr. Patchez was the devil's son and immune to Evan's unusual 'zombie touch' ability. The genre was more Gay Dark Fantasy. Mr. Patchez was hunting a fellow demon and part of his mission required him to monitor the mischievous Evan.
This above was done about 6-8 years ago, originally the comic was going to look like this too. Evan became the MC instead and Mr. Patchez took a more legendary character role.
Current . Decided to go 3d for the game and horror aesthetic. Evan now has a little brother Owen and both are the MCs.
Thanks friend, and glad you love it, Also that's awesome getting inspo from your grandparents 
The 3d model for Owen (Evan's brother) got subtle edits last month: skin blemishes and unevenness to his teeth
Seems the glow ups are never ending XD
@CloudyMagpie that's so awesome to see the drastic difference in Sonny's evolution instant fan of his character while reading your pilot. The orange and yellow are an awesome choice. Sonny looks Sunny 
I found time to dig the old artwork I did of my OC Anna and... The cringe
Through the year what I kept from her design is:
- the heterochromia in her eyes because I when I created her it was a cliché but I gave then a reason for this (also, I see less from my left eye).
- the hairstyle. I think I finally nailed what I wanted to draw.
- the main color being violet/liliac. I changed her style, when I created her she was more goth and dark, now she loves pastel colors.
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