Has the same object in your comic changed shape five times in one sitting?

[marygold]

My main point is inconsistency, unconscious inconsistency. I've had the collar of a woman in my comic's dress go up and down, change from v-neck to u-neck, all because I would continue drawing without looking back at previous pages. You'd notice the same thing for the collar of my MC's shirt, as well as his cloak.

I guess it's collars for me that can't stay put. What about you guys?

[Sketchu]

The stripes on one of my characters keep swapping colours, woops.

[marygold]

@Sketchu I changed the color of a house once

[60Six]

Once in the old version of my comic, a character completely changed outfits. I forgot she was in PJs and drew her normal clothes when just the page before, she was in a night gown. I found I'm really prone to these sort of mistakes the longer I go in between pages. At that time, it had been like a month since I worked on the last page.
Other times, I miss little things like forgetting to put a bandage on a characters hand all the time until someone points it out.

[Michelle]

Sometimes I change how many eyelets are on my characters' shoes >u>; but if anyone ever noticed I'd be incredibly surprised/weirded out. Aside from characters, sometimes I fudge the placement of objects in a room for composition's sake...

I obsessively reference the previous page of my comic while drawing to ensure I don't goof up a wardrobe change or something though. D:

[phen]

It is totally collars for me, too, that's hilarious! One of my main characters' shirt collar has a mind of its own sometimes. It's really embarrassing to point out but I've noticed it happen across the span of a handful of pages, heh. Up, down, flattened, crooked, argh~

Also, I know there are trees I'm missing when I get at different angles (or perhaps ones that magically appear!). It's all over the place with background objects, ugh.

[WakaXO]

I think in my comic I never mean to be inconsistent, but I tend to forget to draw in things altogether. Like important objects in the background and/or parts of my characters outfits. In the latest page I updated I completely forgot to have one of my characters holding a phone, even though it was a plot device and in the page before she was holding one. Luckily I caught it before I posted the page. That sort of thing happens a lot so now I have a rule, 'I can't post a page until I have waited a few days and then looked over it again.' (I have worked ahead a bit so this rule doesn't cripple my update schedule 😅 )
I also work out character and BG reference sheets before every chapter, this helps a lot... becuase I am that forgetful 😂

[shazzbaa]

I think a lot of cartoonists do things like this! xD

One time a whole group of us cosplayed the entire cast of a friend's comic for her birthday, and as we were building the costumes, everyone started noticing how often props disappeared, or buttons switched sides, or shirts changed to a different cut, or the number of straps on the jacket changed. The interesting thing to me isn't that the little inconsistent details existed, but that none of us had noticed any of those inconsistencies until we were literally studying and comparing them to build the costumes from scratch. So to some extent... I don't think those little changes are a big deal. xD

Anyway, for me it's the background! Outfits don't usually change accidentally, but the environments around my characters tend to morph a lot -- as long as it's roughly a similar shape and more-or-less the same colours then it can change size, texture, and orientation all day long from page to page.

[Shanny8]

It's happened to me. I drew diff hallways to the entrance of a mall, coz I didnt look back at the only previous page that I drew. I also drew the lightning designs on Susanoo's mask going in the wrong direction(for the most part, I had been looking at the final draft design sheet that I did, but I must've shut it down prior to finishing the mask). I usually try to keep those kind of gaffes down to a minimum, but it happens.

Just gotta be more mindful of it in on future pages.

[alaingrey]

Once within one single page I drew a character of mine holding three different cups. That's something I caught, so I'm sure there's disasters one every other page I haven't even seen.

[mariusthered]

nope, this is the good things about using poser instead of sketching, all my clothes and characters stay as they should be for when i ink over them. the flip side is i have a limit of the clothes styles i can use on each character , while there are bucket loads of clothes i can get for my poser models these cost money i dont have and they fill up space on my HD so i limiet to what i need.

edited additional : i cannot say too much for now because of spoilers but in upcoming pages i did make a mistake with one character who has an injury, in one section it's the wrong arm i never noticed this however till after i had drawn most of the artwork so annoying, but i decided to leave it.

[joannekwan]

Once I got which way a door swung completely switched around. I went back and fixed it without anyone noticing I think.

[heterodont]

Since I have plenty of characters that wear dual toned pants, I've always, always, flip the colors. I usually catch it before hand but I wouldn't be surprised if one slipped by my radar..

And my backgrounds morph constantly bUT I usually try being a little bit consistent with them just by referencing the last page.

[marygold]

Thanks for the insight guys! Only, I have about 60 something pages with the woman on it... Should I go back and fix every one?

[Kayke]

For me it's definitely locations. There are two locations I use most frequently, a cafe and then one of the main characters' rooms, and while they're always recognizable at the same place... I do draw them slightly differently.

It's not necessarily on accident, so much as I've been doing this comic for years and thought of more interesting or better ways to draw things.

issue 1 :

current:

It's usually minor stuff like the window getting an extra panel or how the couch has changed a little.

[Shanny8]

@marygold you could...or you play it off like you meant to do it, to see how sharp your readers are; if they are paying attention to the details or not. If they point it out, then that is a dedicated reader..!

[feuersichel]

I think I'm pretty consistent with how the things look like. I even draw the books in background libraries the same color and place they should. But I have some problems with perspective. Sometimes a room looks larger than before :/

[marygold]

@feuersichel My rooms change shape and location 😂

[NickRowler]

Freakin' windows and doorknobs.

I have one webcomic where the window looks completely different and I am too lazy to change it. In my other one, a window completely disappears. The doorknobs also change but I could get around this by saying "the knobs in the flashback are different because they were the original knobs for the door but over time they were replaced"

[feuersichel]

Jay, so I'm not the only one whit that problem xD