Did your comic start with really crappy art?

[Rabbit]

There's nothing abnormal about it, in fact it would be weird if you DIDN'T improve XD Scary, too.
I also worry sometimes that new readers might just click away after seeing my mediocre art at the beginning, but since most people catch a glimpse of your newest update first before clicking to the first chapter, then can normally see that you'll improve.
And I, personally, really like seeing an artist improve as the story goes along, so I agree with everyone else that really, re-drawing isn't the way to go.
For fun, I threw this picture together, of my 2 main characters, chapter 1 versus chapter 5, which I just started (I didn't have any decent new drawings of Gabe, though ;_; just crappy 'head-half-turned-away shots). And this is just how I improved in 2016! (I started drawing chapter 1 in January... so yeah :D)
I would love to see you guys do comparison pictures like this too

[El_Psy_Congroo]

I actually went in knowing full well that my first chapters would suck. This comic was partially a way for me to have a project where I'd improve aspects of my art I wouldn't have otherwise. I'm glad I did, I feel like my art literally improves within chapters haha.

Being on the forums helps too.

[marygold]

@heterodont thanks for the tip! Yeah, I've thought about that vicious cycle. Better to let some things go I guess.
@phenomenom9 I'm glad that you're improving!
@Rabbit so cute! Honestly your art was great from the beginning it only got better
@El_Psy_Congroo I'm glad to hear that! This is my first time doing a comic, so I know how you feel. Currently, my planning is all over the place. And yes, chatting with awesome people does help

[shaneoid77]

This was the first page of my cyber comic I did in 2005. I'd like to think I've improved but that's up to the audience to decide

[eleoza]

The more you draw the more you will improve, like said heterodont said, it's natural. The same goes for everything in life I guess. The more practice, the better it goes.
Looking back at your older art and noticing improvement is awesome, no? ^^ Instead of worrying about it try to feel happy about the ways you improved. And know there's always room for more, we keep learning ^_^
Personally I think I improved my art during the last months too.

[antibenz]

I started my first comic with very little artistic experience, and by the end it looked pretty decent. I told myself I wouldn't redo the first sections because to me, that transformation is part of the comic. It speaks to where I was at the time and how comics are transformative. So keep your old stuff, it's fun to look back on humble beginnings

[phen]

Yes, seeing your characters slowly change with your art style's totally natural and definitely nothing to worry negatively over! It's exciting to see improvement but yeah, at the same time, you worry it could turn off readers who decide to go back and read your comic from the beginning. I don't think that it does!

There's about a year of work in my comic and wow. The first page to the most recent page has virtually everything changed in it. I moved from 100% traditional to half and half (introducing digital inking) but the characters, the backgrounds, the panel layout, all so different! I'm still doing a bit of wrestling with my technical skills so I'm sure this time next year, it'll be another huge shift but that's COOL.

And it's always really fun to look at how an artist's hand advances -- the comic format is SUCH a rad way of presenting a body of work! You're building something awesome as a timeline, yo.

[Shanny8]

My material (at least in my eyes)sucked because I was forcing myself to get started, when I wasnt in the zone. The result was that some pages looked okay, but there were some pages I struggled with. Going from the last few pages(that I worked on which havent been published yet) to now, I like the work I'm doing and I'm in the zone.

[VermillionWorks]

Well, my art now is certainly better than it was in the early chapters....I hope. XD

[PurpleGround]

Yes indeed. Sometimes, they just changed to make the workflow smoother or simply "practice makes perfect" =)

I thought about redraw the old page but the work is too great. I would suggest going back to redraw only some of the art that's too crappy for first impression. So that people won't go "Erk, what's that?" and left disgusted.

[Aspie_Gamer]

My art is still crappy what are you talking about? lol

Seriously thought, my art has improved a good bit between the start of Chapter 1 and near the end of Chapter 2 of my comic Life of an Aspie though that could be because of the comic slipping in and out of hiatus several times throughout its first year.

[J.Z.Castillo]

OMG YES!!! I hate going over to the first installments of my comic BioHazard because it's SOO BAD! in the beginning. It makes me laugh though! When I first started I was a bit worried of my style changing drastically from update to update but that's natural, it happens to everyone. I want to eventually go back and redraw the first pages to my current style but if I did that I would never move forward with the story, so I just let them be, as a testament of how far I've come as an artist!

[maxzaguishi]

I accept that I made a remake of my comic, two years apart. But if would not have perfected my own style had never done

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[BraveHeartTatsumaki]

Psh, I didn't even know how to make a proper dialogue globe xD
But now I changed everything in Final Light after I got my own style, but took A LOT, now it just hurts my eyes seeing my old art xD.

[trivialtales]

Not really at the start, but towards the middle I started rushing and failing at experimental stuff. So I'm in the process of redrawing.

[jerreaudriessen]

My art was pretty crappy in the beginning if i say so myself. The second version is kinda better but the colored one is definitely the best

[marygold]

@mrjonzap just keep swimming! It's been tempting a couple of times, but my comic doesn't even have buffer pages so I have to force myself to look away 😅
@maxzaguishi I don't understand a bit of Spanish but even I smiled at that page's humor. Good job using images!
@BraveHeartTatsumaki your building and people skills really improved!
@trivialtales I experiment as I go but sometimes I have to push foreword even if I fail.
@jerreaudriessen I like both the third one and the second one

[Dingbat1991]

This is in a span of a year. A couple of months ago my old tablet stopped working. I had to get a new one and it might've been a blessing in disguise because the pressure points are so much better than the old one. The character model for Lento back in 2015 is pretty much outdated.

[deceriacomics]

My comic is pretty new, but I still think the art in all my earlier episodes sucked. Such is the life of an artist – perpetually cringing at your older stuff haha. It's totally normal though, everybody has to start somewhere and it's impossible not to improve along the way. Don't worry about it!

I pretty much agree with what everyone else has already said here. I wouldn't bother redrawing your older stuff right now. You're better off focusing your time on improving your skills and moving forward with new episodes. As others have said, sometimes it's actually pretty cool to see the evolution of the characters as the comic style continues to develop.

[wandmagic27]

The art on my comic Illusions and Rabbits sucked at the beginning. For some reason I gave them ridicuously long ears at first and I had a hard time keeping their look consistent. It looks a lot better now after getting advice on how to improve their look. Like what a lot of people on the forum say, it's all a journey.