How is your project different now from your original concept?

[ChaoticConstellation]

Sometimes it's good to narrow down your scope because it can make things more clear! It looks good so far!

[Dizwikz]

My original concept was much more grounded and straight forward. It was basically a much more direct action series in its original conception but over time I wanted to add like one comedic unexpected twist and from there it kinda elevated the wackiness and over the top element the story has going. It's evolved much more into a playground to kind of explore different topics while remaining pretty comedic, excluding a few heavy elements here and there.
Also wanted to add more Brazilian cultural stuff that I grew up on as a kid to give it an interesting flair. I'm much happier with how it turned out.
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Tales From New Jump City | Tapas

[DasIstWunderblyat]

Very different.

It used to be a high-fantasy shounen story with redemption as its theme. Basically the main character was an edgy living weapon who discovered friends on his journey to look for a place that accept him because he is an outcast with OP dark power and dangerous, duh!
With the power of friendship and support of allies he gained along the way, he mellowed and decided to save the world from incoming world war.

What about the current story? I toned the stake and the scope down, while add more mystery and psychological elements to the story. It is also ironically kind of a reverse in theme compared to the first one in some aspects.

Karana | Tapas

[DualDragons]

My story? It used to be a "collection" story where the mc had to find seven keys for a lockbox. The lockbox would contain a great weapon to defeat the ancient evil.

After I was stopped by force (laptop lost everything) I kinda hated the idea. So I threw everything overboard and went with a new idea. The original villain is now related to the mc as his father and is the main motivation for him.

[MattRAuthor]

Mine didn't change too much if I really think about it. The overall plot stayed the same (pacifist monk turns out to be some kind of chosen one, must gather his powers so that he can stop a war), the only thing I added was an evil god who wants my MC dead. Although I'm planning to do a rewrite eventually where I don't kill off a certain character. Not sure how that will change the plot but it will be big

A Betrayal Of Faith | Tapas

[joannekwan]

Shortly after I came up with the characters for Secunda, I toyed with the idea of making it an episodic adventure with the protagonist and her monster companion traveling home from the city a la Over the Garden Wall. But the hurdle I was facing was coming up with the different episodes.

Thanks to a big rethink I wove a tighter plot so now it's more like a regular novel with a concrete beginning, middle, and end.

[inubasket]

I actually came up with this idea years ago and it's mostly stayed the same (a girl with anger issues meets a super chill dude and joins his weird club lmao). The big thing that's changed is the personalities of the characters a bit. Before they were all happy-go-lucky and very spirited, even though some of them weren't supposed to be. So I'm working really hard to keep their personalities in check lol

Ugly People's Club | Tapas

[magnavarra]

My original concept was to make Red Black and White 4-panel strip comic back in 2017... Gladly I made it full color eventually, though red is dominant.

[jcmraz]

My art style has been constantly evolving over the past year and a half. I've worked very hard at finding critique and working on improving. I also went through a stint where I was working on the webtoons short story comic alongside my main comic and because of that, I was doing so much artwork each week it really helped me grow much more as an artist.

As far as concept it's been more about refining it down. I reworked the script for chapter 0 three times while I was uploading pages both to try and push myself artistically as well as to fit better in line with world building and plot details I was constructing for the future. It should be settling down and be more consistent and have less need for work like that. I jumped the gun on starting to put out pages because I wanted to get going and didn't want to fall into the trap of continually working on something while never actually making the content. I figured I would learn and grow throughout my first chapter (Chapter 0) enough to be more stable and dig in once I got into the real meat of the comic. Which I believe I have. I still have a long way to go and I'm still always going to be trying to improve. But I think I'm hitting a point of being able to pull everything together more cohesively and I've learned how to research and practice better over the course of the chapter to make everything come out better and with a more whole vision.

Runner | Tapas

[MorganaMevil]

I first came up with this idea when I was like 14, so it’s changed a lot. The original concept was to make a world of magic with werewolves and all that. My MC was this happy-go-lucky Mary Su who just seemed like she was along for the ride. Now I’ve fleshed our the story, dropped the werewolf element and added more culture, history, and even some science to explain the magical realm. I also gave my MC a past and a internal conflict where she struggles to think for herself and has to learn not to rely on others to make decisions for her or act as her sense of judgement. The only thing that’s really stayed the same is the LI. From the beginning he’s been the chaotic boy who loves causing trouble.

If you like matter-of-face humor, fantasy, and occasional absurdity. It’s a fun read:

The Longest Spring Break in NonHuman History | Tapas

[Iris-Grimoire]

Oh, it's come quite a ways.

It started out as a oneshot novel; I wanted to just write one interesting fantasy story that had no sequels or prequels and ended there.
Mortimer was a quite young half-elf, had some really bad edgy dialogue, and rather than being corrupted by black magic, he had a pact with an extradimensional demonic creature called the Jinxer. The whole series would escalate from Mortimer trying to take small jobs to having to stop the creature without breaching the contract.
Veriesin was actually Ceejay, who was called Frieda in that version. She was the human character instead, and had missing teeth entirely instead of a single quartz tooth (she was still cursed to transform into animals). I only got a chapter in until I gave up, but I still drew the characters for years until I finally decided to tackle the story again.

I unfortunately threw away the artwork over time, but I know Mortimer was actually dressed in gray and had white hair, and the Amberhobs were more rabbit-like and walked on all fours. Not only that, the trio that follows Mortimer were once a single character named Claws, but over time split into three with several working names like Ringbite and Swift - I also had some really yikes-level approach to the character species, which are best left to the imagination, because I was a dumb 16 year old. Louize was always in, but as a balloon-like dragon that couldn't speak.

Funnily enough, though I trashed and changed around most of the start of that version, the ending is mostly unchanged from the Chapter 1 scene we're having right now, exluding of course making the dialogue a little more professional.

Splitting Image | Tapas

[Freemints30]

Yes, I had made 3 chapter in 2016 most lost to the sands of time. The concept was our MC moving into a town where all the residents were secretly monsters like phoenixes, windigos, black dogs, ect. And plot was less of a plot and more just a weird chapter by chapter ride where the MC is just experiences surreal monsters.

The second version was closer to the current by that I mean it has a plot and the Mc finds a strange book that is supposed to...I had no clue I though I could figure it out latter. So plot was debatable. Only lasted one chapter

The current version dropped the "every one being monsters thing", Had the MC find the book much later, changed her personality. And the plot is an outright mystery on the strange static of the town.

The thing that remained the same was, certain aspects of the character designs.

Frequency overload | Tapas

[domisotto]

I wanted a treasure-hunting gothic romance sort of a lesbian drama called Les Derelict, about two lesbians caught in a dungeon of a castle, but I was told it was offensive slur, so I ended up with a dark comedy straight mafia romance called Trapped by the Mafia.

[NickRowler]

So Crow's Worth is sort of based off of something I wrote in high school but I had to change a lot of things due to me finding them a bit dumb.

So the only Guardian who appeared in the original concept was Tabu. All the character who were changed to Guardians and Tree-People were originally a group of cultist called Nightcrawler. They worshiped worms and would dress in all black and bang tiny gongs before assassinating people. Miss, someone who was trying to escape the cult, was threatened to be murdered for treason. Yet a group of young adults from the group treated her like a queen due to being the daughter of Tabu. The Nightcrawlers were banned from Omnia (originally called The Town of Everything) due to their violent nature, so Miss had to keep her identity secret. The line in chapter 02 where they mention she was on suicide watch was originally suppose to be about how they were watching her so she wouldn't be assassinated.

Crow's Worth | Tapas

[vblairehawthorne]

I DEFINITELY did not plan it to be this gay, but here we are now HAHAHAHA! Like, readers are prolly super fucking surprised at how gay it became as time went by LOL oops for the homophobes out there, I guess?

Megachurch | Tapas

[foxnflames]

so you’re saying I need to binge this today?

[PaulieBlade]

Not different at all. I follow I vision I've had years ago. If I took a turn I'd be hunted down.

[vblairehawthorne]

HAHAHAHA! The first few parts ain't that gay, but it gets so gay as time goes on and now I have SO MUCH plans on how I could make it waaayyy gayer as chapters progresses! HAHAHAHA! I'd be super glad to have you binge it huhuhu!

[foxnflames]

I’ve dropped some of the more drama filled plot points I had, I was going to have a child death but it would have created some plot holes, I’ve added some better plot points to make the story flow better, gave a character a bigger role than he originally had. I also moved up my ML’s appearance because I can add in some dramatic plots to tighten up the plot more. My characters tell me what to do so a lot of them are doing things differently from what I envisioned.

Rise in the East | Tapas

[foxnflames]

You already had me at cults. You keep piling on better things