Here's a question about evolving art styles

[SethJH]

I'm only redrawing the first 3 episodes of my comic because they were done in a completely different style (fast, cheap, rough) than the rest of the comic (painted, colored, detailed), and I feel they stick out like a sore thumb.

Otherwise the only reason I would go back to redo something is if I made a huge mistake on the drawing, or if a minor detail needed touched up to fit with the plot.

As for my style evolution over the episodes, I'd say I had a "devolution" towards the middle of the comic. I was getting burned out and was too lazy to try and meet the standards I set in earlier episodes. Giving myself more time to complete updates allowed me to put more love into the drawings again.

[Mharz]

I have to admit that before I posted The Angel with Black with Black Wings that you see online, I did redraw them. I made 27 pages before deciding to redoing them. I was extremely dissatisfied with my drawing and my the pacing of the story. It was way too fast. I thought to myself that I can do better than this crap.

compared to my current page in Chapter 1.

Honestly, even the first chapter is pretty bad by my current standards but I'm not going to redraw them again. I'm not gonna throw down 2 years of hard work down to drain because I'm not satisfied with my drawing style in the past.
Plus, you're going to keep on getting better at art so by the time you finish redrawing the first pages you'll cringe as to how bad it is and you'll get stuck on an infinite loop. So you know, instead of spending your time redoing the pages, focus on new pages so that you can progress thru your story further.
Of course you can do some little revisions from time to time especially when you're going to print them but don't spend your entire time re-doing the pages.

Well, that's just my opinion anyway.

[kkitty]

Yeah, I learned from my very cross editor that it is NOT GOOD to do that unless you have like spare time or something. It's tempting, but readers very quickly forget that kind of stuff, and they're even more forgiving if they see a recent chapter and think 'hey, i like that, the things in the past weren't as good but i'm gonna read til then because i think it has potential'.

so yeah, don't sweat it.

[nelmathyria]

I think when it comes to webcomics, it's more important to have something finished than to have something perfect. If you go back and completely redo earlier pages, you could get stuck in an endless loop of redrawing and never finish the rest of the comic, or at least take a lot longer to do so. Style change is to be expected when working on a long form comic, and I personally think it's really cool and inspiring to see how other artists' styles have evolved over time!

[MrLewk]

Everyone makes some compelling points and arguments I may just tweak some earlier ones with minor details since they are slightly out of sync with where the story is going. Thanks for all the responses though!