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Rhonder
Oct '21

If I spot a glaring mistake in a recent episode, I'll often go back and make quick touch ups in an editing pass- comic pages/episodes take so long that sometimes you just miss small stuff after staring at it for so long :sweat_smile:

But as far as going back and reworking or redoing older episodes after some time has passed? Nahhh. I've fallen down the slippery slope that is the redo loop when I was younger. I found that typically it takes way more time and effort to go back and do that kind of rework relative to the value that you get out of it.

Also like, where do you stop? If you touch up chapter 1 out of 10, for example, chapter 2 might look a little meh/off by comparison since it's also older. If you do chapters 1 and 2, then 3 has the same issue... and so on. So do you do the whole thing? Do you just accept that there will be a random drop in quality and bank on the early stuff being good enough to retain readers through that? idk.

That said, I'm also a big fan of seeing improvement over time! I think there's something endearing about that and it's always a little sad when that is lost by overwritten edits :')

DiegoPalacios
Oct '21

Mostly for little changes like fixing grammar mistakes or important visual details

Rhonder
Oct '21
BLTX

Contrary to my main topic reply above, I absolutely do think that there is value is making improvements to readability. It's of course up to you, but I think that improving hard to read sections is almost always a worthy editing time investment :slight_smile:

shooshell
Oct '21
Lilmonstart

I've reworked old episodes from a formatting perspective - I used to stack two standard comic pages on top of each other to create more of a scrolling effect, but I didn't clearly delineate between the two pages within the canvas and there were serious cropping issues when I compiled it into a pdf. It took ages to do, but it was worth it :weary: i learned my lesson, no more long canvases lol.

But redrawing? Nope, not worth it. People DO like to see a progression in the art, even if they don't seem to notice or comment on it. Its part of your comic's visual history, even if you cringe at the older art. (Lately I've been thinking of old art like they're my characters baby pictures...like, aww, they were so cute and dorky, haha). I promise, your readers don't cringe nearly as much as you do! They like it for what it is!

IndigoShirtProd
Oct '21

I've already bit the bullet and gone back and redrawn my whole first chapter and a few panels of my second chapter. Was it worth it? Yes. Would I recommend it? Not particularly, unless there are other extenuating circumstances like you're printing in the future and if you're rewriting whatever you're redrawing. If you make clear boundaries on what needs to be changed and what you want to change but can live with, then it's easier to go about readdressing previous episodes.

Yea, focus on new content and all that jazz. It's always better to be ahead than pathetically behind.

danitasibert
Oct '21

oh yes, I'm currently gonna be re-working on my prologue for my main series, and I'm really excited for it, I'm still in the planning stages so it'll be a while until its created.

to answer your question i wanna show people who my art has got to where it is now, i feel its your decision and if yuou want to fix older pages down the road go for it!

qniki
Oct '21

Oof I just launched my comic and I have like around a 3 episode buffer and when I was launching I had the biggest urge to just delay it and redo the first 3.But you know at some point the results youre getting dont justify the amount of effort you put in. I prioritize finishing my comic so I try to turn a blind eye to things I'm not happy with and work on them in the next episode ^^

Lilmonstart
Oct '21
K.aixin

Samee I´ve been thinking on also that just give new readers a good impression of my comic because well there´s too many inconsistance and I´m afraid that might bother, but yeah also making the story progress is the main point of all of us comic creators :sweat_smile:

Lilmonstart
Oct '21
BLTX

Oh yeah the text and grammar its also important althought in my case I´m not good with text bubbles ._.
and well I´m not good at editing but the text is also an important element, idk if this helps but I´ve heard a tip when sketching the comic you must focus on the location of the text bubbles first and that also helps you save space with backgrounds and such-
but I agree the text is a very important thing, like without we can´t tell the story

oooof when I have the episode scheduled and notice one grammar mistake I wanna idk destroy everything around me xDx

Lilmonstart
Oct '21
nathanKmcwilliams

okay that´s a real big change
and when it comes to printing the comic it get shivers down my spine, I mean If I ever get to print my comic, I´d have to rework some stuff since it got to look professional and presentable for those who gonna read it
we have to compromise with the comic way more?

but I wish you good luck and hope you get to print your comic and satisfied with it :slight_smile:

nathanKmcwilliamsIn the making of Bunneh The Rabbit
Oct '21

Thanks. I'm not in a rush to get it to that point yet. Printing is several years away, need a little more experience under my belt first.

Kura
Oct '21

I'm generally too busy making new content to worry about going back and fixing old content, this is a comic that free to read that I get paid pennies for making after all, and new episodes are what current readers want, as well bring in new readers via the sites algorithm. Updating old episodes does not do this.

Now if given the situation where I would be paid to rework old episodes and clean them up then I would have no problem doing it. Cause then I have the financial justification and a reason to need older pages to look better at that point to do it, same idea with printing.

Lilmonstart
Oct '21
TheDoublekey

Well yeah I kinda wanna work on few more episodes before my LITTLE Hiatus lmao cuz I wanna give people a little more and complete and leave a decent introduction of the story hehe...

and well the thing is that welll this is thing that does not just happen to me but also many artists, like becoming more judgmental with our own art, like not liking it and like end demanding more from our self and well eventually with practice we improve but like sometimes it keeps coming back
who said being an artist was easy

but yeah as I also like creating new things must share them

That´s really beautiful :´) when they do that

Lilmonstart
Oct '21
qniki

Yeaah finishing everything and then handling the details could work and be less tiring
that´s a good idea!

Lilmonstart
Oct '21
nathanKmcwilliams

Oh yeah that´s trues, I myself as many others also learning while working on my current comic and then maybe have a better experience with another future comic I could do

But yeah everything takes time, good luck with your comic!

TheDoublekey
Oct '21
Lilmonstart

Same for me: I'd like to make a better and more interesting introduction to my story. If you really feel like it, then you can go and record on the past episodes

Reveal
Oct '21

Yes, in specific chapter 1. My art has changed I feel and developed to the point where I would want to change little things as well as adding a little bit to the introduction of chapter 1.

But also in the back of my mind I like to keep it the same to show my growth as a artist during the comics run. Still up in the air as of right now

feuersichel
Oct '21

I just restarted my story. But I waited long to finally do it. (Ca. 4) My tip: don't redraw if it's purely for art reasons. As others have pointed out, you will get stuck in a redraw-loop.

In my case I had major problems with pacing, plotpoints and the art of course in the first chapters as I was just starting out with drawing. If you are going to redraw, be sure, what you want to change and until where. Having a buffer of those pages helps alot aswell. I prepared 50 finished pages, bevor I launched the redrawn version.

moystupido
Oct '21

I've only really went back to redraw something if I either wanted to see how it would look now with how I draw or if I wanted to digitally recreate an old pencil drawing from long before I had a drawing tablet. Otherwise, I try not to go back on old episodes because I already have so many ideas to turn into comics and I don't get much time to do so.

However, I do like a lot of other people's tips about going back and fixing the text! I think that's important and I think I should consider that 'cause my handwriting is small and butts.

Lilmonstart
Oct '21
Reveal

Oh yeah it is also a very dificult decision for me to make since in my art there´s alot of inconsistance and the text bubbles just don´t look good in my opinion xd

and about the art the good side of it is that we can compare our current progress with old drawings of ours and feel better about our art and well in my case I kind of feel that I can do it better and dare to redo it
it´s really hard to decide xd