Reflecting on 2015 - comic creator edition!

[StevenDacasin]

Im really proud of the fact that i my drawing has gotten better when compared to last year. Im also glad that i have a few more readers when compared to when i started. All i can say is i hope things will continue to get better.

[PotooGryphon]

OuO! Oh gosh, so much, so many, AH! Thanks for the shout outs. <3

For Oops Comic Adventure:

• Pride and Thankfulness go hand in hand for my comic. I'm both Proud and Thankful that we've reached 5 issues in the series. That it's grown so much since our humble beginnings. That Jeramy and I were able to find a system for creating Oops that allows both of us to equally contribute while also improving the art drastically the further we go.
• Super Thankful to the sweet supportive friends and readers on Tapastic that are enjoying the series so far. And I'm blown away when we receive fanart for our comic. I've made SO MANY new comic friends this year. @shazzbaa, @jacintawibowo, Mar Mai, @Riana, so many more! I love all my Tapastic peeps. <3
• I'm thankful to the long time supporters, @mrazrielblack, @gomezalexj, @vincentprendick, @aspiderjonny, @amingv, @Agentzap, so many <3!!!
• I'm very Proud and Thankful for what the 25 of us accomplished with the Tapastic Winter Fest, and Thankful for all of Tapastic's help in supporting us, and Thankful to how the community responded (we had no idea it'd even be noticed while making it) and glad that we were able to open it up for everyone to join in. I'm Proud that we were able to muscle through the crazy unorganized moments in the project. We were all there for each other during the strongest and weakest parts and for that I think we all became stronger friends from it. :group hug everyone:
• Improvements are bound to happen the more we go on. I plan to trail and error a lot in 2016 and keep enjoying it for all it is. The beauty of webcomics is it doesn't need to be perfect. Goodness, I'm thankful for that as well lol

Here's to all of us (comic makers, readers, all) and here's to the webcomic industry growing and becoming stronger in 2016!

[CelestialNavigator]

I really wish to improve in over all drawing and especially anatomy and composition.

I'm really thankful for all my readers, new friends I made and old friends I met here ( shout-out to @Tentakelgottheit, @Elli Puukangas, @Mar Mai, @JOMO, @joannekwan, @insideunder, @Sid Bane, @Zimeta08, @efdvorsky and many others).

I'm also proud that I've learned to cook properly. It helped me to understand bird anatomy better.

[blastryoku]

I'm proud that my writing, world building skills got better while doing curse lineage, it really looks so good compared to when i read older chapters.

I'm eternally thankful for all the fans that stick with me so far(even though I'm in hiatus right now, building a buffer)they are great because they keep reading my little comic especially want to thank to @Volucris @BraveHeartTatsumaki @FixerTheWise @rosette for always leaving some comments and liking my stuff!

Things i want to improve: hmm...well, a lot of things XD
I want to improve in action scenes, perspective, backgrounds, paneling, writing, world-building, on creating better characters, pacing and my update schedule (I really want to be able to post more pages per week)

[aspiderjonny]

Thank you. It's so weird to think it's been a year since I started reading Oops. Good Luck in 2016

[aspiderjonny]

Jonny Web Series & Valve Web Series & Tales from the Other Side:

I'm proud that Jonny Web Series finally hit the triple-digit subscriber count. That I've even managed (with some slight scheduling hiccups) to get almost 6 chapters across 3 series out since August 2016.

I'm especially proud to finally have a website up.

I'm thankful to both @CyndiFoster and @kambreapratt for making me want to do webcomics in the first place. I'm all too thankful for every subscriber and friend I've gotten over the past year. Also to @starlightcityentert, @davidgallaher, @elixiadragmire, @winglesscomic, and @Kamikaze for helping me to continue with comics, either by commenting on my pages or just making really cool stuff to read during my free time.

I also want to thank everyone who participated in my art-trade-event-things during the year: Alternate Universe & Monster Mash. Please click either one to check out what they made and to see their awesome comics!
BTW: I'll be starting a new one for Valentine's Day very soon

And thank you @WintreKitty for the great review, as well as including me in her Tips & Tricks page.

Also, thank all the gods for my Kaspersky and Adware cleanser at the beginning of the year that even made it possible for me to make a website (My computer was cluttered with dang ads for a short time)

Looking back at my pages in January, I'm shocked how much improvement I've had in both drawing and coloring. Here's looking forward to next year!!!

[Tentakelgottheit]

Thanks! I hope we´ll be able to talk more in the new year!

[dracoplato]

I'm touched by your kind words @demthorshie (;∀;)ノ♡ I'm really happy to have met you and I'm super happy you joined Tapastic because I always look forward to updates of Cosmos Song~! You have a lovely and unique art style, a fascinating story, and beautiful characters~! I'm looking forward to what the new year will bring ♡

[AffectedMind]

That's such a cool idea! : D
I'm joining in!

This goes for my series Bite Me:

• I'm proud that I managed to finish more than one chapter of the series. I have a really bad habit of starting things and not finishing them, so it's a huge step for me.
• I'm proud I re-vamped my series. It helped me improve in storytelling and visuals.
• I'm thankful for everyone who supports the series. It's a wonderful feeling seeing how many people enjoy it, to read all the feedback, it really motivates and encourage me to keep going! Special thanks for @FixerTheWise for helping me out with the grammar. He's a creator by himself, it's worth to check his series out. Also big thanks goes to people who hang out on my livestreams, I have tons of fun everytime I go online.
• I'm also thankfull to Tapastic community and Staff, you guys are amazing! I really love to hang out on the forums.
• I hope I can improve my anatomy and perspective as well as storytelling. I'm proud of my work as it is now, but there's still so much room for the improvement.

[kambreapratt]

Thanks so much! I'm glad I was able to help you in some way and I am happy you are doing so well!
You made my day!

[kambreapratt]

This is a great idea!
For Shadowbinders and other things going on...
I'm very proud of things we have learned this year. It has been a great year for growth behind the scenes.
I'm proud that we have held on, even when we have had to pull back on updates for various reasons.
I'm proud that we have a lot of other things started (our podcast and now youtube stuff) and some other possibilities coming. I hope to be able to talk about them at some point.

I'm Thankful for all the people who read and support the comic and us. It means the world to me.
I'm Thankful for how well we have done on here and for the awesome community that is in place on Tapastic. It's nice to know there are people who get your issues and understand where you are coming from. We don't always have such a support system in our daily lives, and it is amazing to have that.
I'm Thankful for the opportunities that have come our way and for all we learned in 2015.

I hope to improve our updates next year. I know they were lacking this year, but between equipment issues and other things going on, we got off track. I hope to be able to do more in 2016.
I also hope to improve on being on here more.

[CelestialNavigator]

Welcome! I hope so too!

[CelestialNavigator]

Thanks a lot! hugs

[Waterdrain]

Oh this is a nice Idea c:

For Hobo story:
- I'm really proud for the fact I've gotten this far into writing the story, it's be so much fun just working on it and get some nice feed back on it.
-I'm also proud that how much I've improved since then. Comparing some of the first few pages I made in high school to the pages I have now have been a huge difference.
-I'm really thankful for all of the support I've gotten this year. Sure I've been through some tough times this year but for all of the people who stuck by me while I was on a long hiatus have been awesome. I wish I could thank them individually but I don't know if that would be creepy or not ^^;
-Also I want to thank everyone who subscribed to my other comic OOTO, because I just hit a 100 followers yesterday, and I haven't had a hundred followers in any thing before(except for tumblr but I don't go on tumblr that much any more :/). But seeing so many people want to read my work and not just fanart just makes really happy.
-Okay, one more thing I'm thankful for is finding Tapastic and finding out about this great community we have here. It has been really incredible experience cx
-for improvement, I definitely want to get better at grammar and panel/word bubble placement. those are the 2 things that I feel I need to work on. I also need to figure out how to plan the story lines in advance, because I think my work would go faster if I knew where I wanted the story to go. Last thing is I'm going to try to get myself stop sulking over how bad I think my work is and just do the best I can do, because that seem like a silly thing to focus my thoughts on.

Happy year everybody!

[colinwmd]

I'm proud of the improvements I've made since starting to post regular updates early this year. And also pleased with the progress of the comic I'm writing/just starting to draw.

I'm thankful for finding cool communities here on Tapastic and the webcomic underdogs in the last year or so. I probably haven't posted a massive amount but there have been a lot of helpful forum posts that have pointed me in the right direction. Maybe when I start posting my story I'll have more to say on here.
I'm also thankful for those that have followed my comic so far, either here or on my site.

For improvement I'd say my drawing ability but I imagine that would be the same for everyone. To make a reasonable buffer before I start posting and don't let it shrink till I get to the end. And to make pages in batches which should hopefully speed up the process.

[legendriders96]

About Legend Riders: Legacy of Leneira:

-We're proud we even started the thing, had the guts to do it, and posted it, despite the insecurities and lack of time. We're also proud of the fact the quality hasn't dropped one bit (It actually got better) and we artistically evolved through it. Also we're really proud of the consistency. XD

-We're thankful for all the fans and fanart we got over the year. And for each other as well.

-We wish to improve our time organisation skills and focus. <_<; Hopefully 2016 will be long enough for that. XDD

[noxfox]

Thank you @keii4ii for the shoutout and for making this awesome thread! * hugs *
As for myself...

I'm proud...

• to have managed to pull through a year of working on my comic, even if I had to go on hiatus sometimes of course.

• to have leveled up a lot in managing several projects at the same time: I'm hopeful that I might be able to start a new narrative series and work on it alongside with Singmire Haze.

I'm thankful...

• for the work everybody did with the Winter Festival collab, and still a bit amazed with how it helped me to get more organized.

• to my one true love for bearing with me despite all my mood shifts, anxiety panics, etc, and for supporting me somehow.

• for all the fanarts I got this year -- there were quite many of them! o0o

For 2016 I want to improve on :

• anatomy and architecture, and in using Sai, for this new series I'm preparing...

• switching more smoothly between styles and between Sai and Ps!

[rosette]

Of Course!!!! We are nakama! FRIENDS! hehe ^_^

[rosette]

I'm Proud of SUBJECT CODE AION. The Longest and only successful comics that I made so far which I twice given up. I really didn't expect people will love and support my manga despite it's quality, now good news HIATUS to Updating ^_^l

I'm thankful that I met my Girlfriend when I drew her while working in customer service and she said that I should draw her everyday and That time I already give up my web comic career. She always motivating me, supporting me, and giving me trust and hope and she believe with my talent. i really thought that comic career is not for me and i have no future with my talent and skills of drawing. But now thanks to her and to tapastic for this second chance of life. I'm grateful that I'm in TAPASTIC I quit my job and pursue this which I really love and dedicated to. Also thanks to my fb friends, fans, and my family who subscribed my comics specially to @blastryoku who is my friend and my fan since in mangamagazine.

In 2016 I hope to improve my skills, my subs, and more profit. I hope that it will take many stories to come *LONG RUNNING COMICS?MANGA) just like naruto, bleach, one piece.

[FixerTheWise]

you got it man ^^ i'll comment more!