Share your lineart! (And promote your comics)

[TheDoublekey]

Hey there! I'd like you to share some of your lineart here on this post and if you feel like it, you can promote your comic.
The rules are pretty simple:

1) Post your old lineart

2) Post your latest lineart

3) Promote your comic

So, from what I can say, I personally had a very rocky relationship with lineart. If you notice, in fact, in my first chapters I would usually try to avoid it. I know, it's not something you do, but what I would do back then is try and polish the sketch and make it result as clean as possibile. I tried to improve though and in the span of eight months, I'm finally starting to get results!

Here's one of my first ever linearts (it's... pretty bad):

And here's my latest one:

Here's my manga, if you're curious and want to check it out

Age I- Age of Darkness | Tapas

Now it's your turn! Feel free to share your personal experience, as well as your comic!

[byelacey]

I love lineart a whole bunch!! It's my favourite part of making comics:

[Lunar-Turtle]

I'll use the old version of the comic for the first part, and wow the cringe is real, lol

Old

New

lol

SYNASTRY | Tapas

[DasIstWunderblyat]

2018

2019

2020

Also I don't make comic but here is my novel:

Karana | Tapas

[Kelheor]

@byelacey whispers I am a faaan~

@uselessgoddess just... Damn you are so good.

Hopefully it's understandable which one's new

Hexameron | Tapas

[byelacey]

@byelacey whispers I am a faaan~

aaaa--and your art is lovely! Definitely subscribing to Hexameron to read it later!

[silacinnamon]

I changed my lineart to a looser/less detailed style to draw it faster, I'm glad I decided to do it because enjoying drawing it way more!

Here's my first page and the page I'm currently working on:

Narwhal's Song | Tapas

[jcmraz]

You can actually see the difference in my lineart from the beginning of my comic to the end of it because for a long time I was only doing flat colors so I put all of my effort to learning to do as much with line and blacks as I could. If you want to go back further A long while ago I had a webcomic called 3 Wishes on smackjeeves which was mostly before I had a cintiq and before I could really do some nicer line work. But it was also before I really had the ability to so it really wouldn't matter much. For a long time during that I did this time consuming pen tool fill method in photoshop. It was clean and sort of feigned some amount of line variance but it was mostly vector style line art. It evolved over my time on 3 Wishes but jesus it took forever to do and I really don't care for the way it looks anymore anyway.

3 Wishes in case you're curious about some of my old work and the way that line art looked.

And here is my current work

Runner | Tapas

[Kelheor]

Thank you!

[TheDoublekey]

Yes and I perfectly understand now! It was frustrating for me at first, but once I got into it, it became quite the fun task.
Your lineart looks perfectly smooth and the drawing looks clear and understandable. Hope I'll become this good one day!

[byelacey]

Thank you! It looks like you've gained quite a bit more control over your lines in the recent pic! Looking really good!

[CurryXSake]

Line art always feel satisfying to me because when done right it can really be expressive.

Here is my old line art in my old webcomic When Cats Rule the World. It was...a work in progress .

And here's my line art for my current comic Life's Lemonade. I've been experimenting, so I have some line art options to choose from.

And here's my comic!

Life's Lemonade | Tapas

[TheDoublekey]

The artstyle feels so... different and improved. The first one looks cute but a bit basic, while the second one looks more abstract and charming. Very nice job!

[TheDoublekey]

Well that's some difference right there! You used to only make straight thin lines all the way but I see you're now working with more dynamic lines that get thinner or thicker depending on the spots you're drawing.
I'm curious about one thing though, why did you make newer versions of your comic?

It's interesting to see how different the series are and how much you've improved artistically and story-wise.

[SagaHolmgaard]

Inking is my favorite part!

Reclaim | Tapas

[TheDoublekey]

Well I'm surprised, this is very very precise and detailed! I admire your patience and precision, really!

[Legendofgenii]

Just Amazing!

[MegaRay]

Here's the lineart of our latest webcomic:

Shaman Shepard | Tapas

[kaetana]

I used to hate the inking process, but over time I've started liking my lineart a lot more. ^_^

Old:

New:

The Broken Ones | Tapas

[AmazementComics]

I made the switch to digital art just this year (I plan to make some of my comics have more a cartoonish digital artstyle, but those comic episodes won't be frequent).

Early 2020:

Late 2020: