How much have your ocs' designs changed?

[smokesalty]

Show me an older design of your OC and a newer one!

Here's mine!:

Old design:

New design:

The Commune | Tapas

[BLTX]

Here you go! I had a lot of reillustrating to do when the first episodes we're made.

Donnie The Fighting Psychopath | Tapas

[MasterValkyrie]

This is my story's MC.

Then (2016)

Now

[ilesarki]

Here's some versions of my main character Sir Kiljaos the lion paladin of wind thorough the years.

2011 (this look wasn't used in any comics, but is partially canon as it depicts him when he was around 17-20 years old):

2012:

2017:

Now, since 2019:

And yes, he really used to look too much like Lion King's Simba before and that's why some people jokingly called him "bootleg Simba" back then.

Karamador | Tapas

[DasIstWunderblyat]

I call this "The Curlification"
2012/2013–2021/2022

[AureliusSnow]

Still love Anopheles even tho I know I shouldn't. He's just.. so fine.
Anyway here's my little improvement!

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This was Kanties in 2019:

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And this is her now:

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She has changed SO MUCH over the years and I've had her since wayyy before 2019. If I had her even older design on my computer, I would post that too.

Also lookie, I figured out how to do character refs lmao
I am honestly really super proud of myself for this one and I am SO excited to get started again!!

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~ Aurelius Snow ~

[BreakingChalk]

2020-2021:

2022:

I'm both Talking and Breaking, if anyone asks

[MrTwennysebben]

I made some of these a while ago to see how I'd progressed.

I just hit episode 150, so these aren't super-duper recent but I honestly haven't changed much about the characters in the last ~25 or so episodes.

[rumpenstiltzkin]

Lydia in my early pages is horrible to look at (from 2016)

And this is from more recent pages

Azzy has certainly changed a bit, here he is in the early pages (drawn 2016)

and more recent

[Aeneas1]

Here is an earlier design of one of Ragnar’s clockwork robots

After tjammy98 compared them to Henry Stickmin, I redesigned them to look more intimidating and detailed.

[VibrantFox]

i haven't redisigned many ocs, mainly coz i keep losing track of older files or files where i'd actually started the redesign process only to abandon it halfway through, BUT one that i'm quite fond of was that of my werewolf and harpy couple, sofie and ava

the first solidified instance of the two which was circa 2019 (feels older tbh)

then there was another from 2019 where i was still kinda tweaking stuff

and then the redesign which this one was done in 2021 and been running w it since

ava's is def the most drastic i think of most of my oc redesigns but i'm way happier with the new look than the old. there's also the benefit of a good chunk of characters not really having had their designs set in stone save for a very small lil handful so their pretty fluid/flexible in my head

[darthmongoose]

Oh boy, the evolution of Rekki has been a very long one...

The very first ever drawing of Rekki and Subo when they were side characters in a different comic idea I never made:

(I think this is from about... 2001?)

Then 2004-2019 we have various versions from a comic called FanDanGo or Fan Dan Go and finally the old Errant thumbnail with a more modern drawing style but the old colours:

And then current Rekki:

[Fedriz_Marini]

I actually forgot how long ago the first official designs for the "Stories from the Golden Garden" Characters were made, but for sure, the Changes were quite DRASTIC over time from the initial ones to the final version currently used.

Here is an example with the Main Protagonists:

Next, we have the two Main Antagonists:

And in the end, the oddest of the cases, caused as I was writing a parallel series, with the same character being Trans, although, I ended up making the female version official because I grew fond of it, while the original... well... Still undecided to put the transition thing in Her backstory:

There are hundreds of cases for all the others character, except the one born during the final version drafting, but still, It would take a while to put all of them here.

[TheLemmaLlama]

Huh ... not a lot, actually. 4 of the characters on my current bitwam cover were recycled from an old visual novel idea called "Silly Research Society". I suspect you'll be able to identify who the carryover characters are from the following:

bitwam cover (2021):

SRS concept art (2016)

[masi]

I’m still finding my lineart style.

[ButterflyEmpress]

I made a lot of magical girls when I was younger. Here's some from 2010
2010

2021

[IzzyBloom91]

According to my computer this was drawn 5 years ago Which was done on Photoshop Element 6

and this is the most current drawn 2 weeks ago on Clipstudio EX

[lizardlullabye]

Kelly > for character design contest 2019

And Kelly > redesign to join ArtFight 2020

[allenT]

2016 Character drawing test.

2019 (Webcomic cover when premiered)
His stripe patterns get a bit more refined in comic than this piece.

Later when character sheet was made (2019)

[MissEljebel]

Ooooh boy... old art time lol

Mikayla from 2012

Mikayla now