Should i redraw my first chapters?

[cleafca]

Hello everyone ! Eversince i've started my comic my artstyle keeps evolving, and turns out my first chapters are a bit more odd looking than the last ones. The issue is, i like to see how my art has evolved, but on the other hand i know that it's usually while reading the first chapters that you want to continue the story or not, and sometimes if the art doesn't please you during these early chapters, you don't keep on reading.

So can you please tell me if i should redraw the first chapters or not ?

here's my comic, if you want to compare i drew the prologue not so long ago, and the first chapter 5 months ago

Youthful Mistakes | Tapas

[iHateFridays]

Hmm the art in the first few chapters seems fine to me. :o It's not necessarily always a good idea to redraw your old chapters because your art will evolve and you'll want to redraw them again and again... on the other hand, a lot of comic artists do tend to remake their old eps every so often. So up to you.

[doublemelon]

According to Tapas, it's worth redoing the first few chapters if they will be better. Because readers judge you by the first eps, they dont care if you evolve or not in the latest chapters. If first eps are good, they will subscribe

[darthmongoose]

If the comic had been going a couple of years and the difference between the old and new chapters was huge I'd maybe advise it, but in this case the art is just a little bit more polished, while the style remains consistent and characters are recognisable, so for you I wouldn't recommend it. I think you'll get further by just maintaining solid updates for a while to grow the audience.

[lomcia]

No. Don't do that. Its nice to see progress in comics. People will appreceate it. U can leave like information on the begining of ch1. that your art style evolved and every chapter will be different and better and please to be patient? My season 1 and season 2 is totaly different and through s.1 u can see how my art changed. it is a nice thing to see. so don't do this.

[migxmeg]

I wouldn't recommend it, especially with 16 episodes... If you feel like you want to redraw them now, you probably will again after another 16. So you'll slow down your project for something potentially unsatisfying because you won't even stay happy with your redraws as you continue refining your artwork.

I made a similar topic last year when I had about 10 episodes done and current me is sooo glad I took the advice I got to just keep going .

[lynestjules]

I wouldn't redo your first chapters, because we all progress and evolve with time. It's normal.
There's not much of a difference between the first episode and the latest one. I can see it's a bit more polished, but the style doesn't jump all over the place. If it was drastic, I'd say to redo it.

I tweaked my first chapter when I reprinted a couple of years ago. But, I didn't redo all of it. It would be too much work and I progressed so much in 5 years that it would be too noticeable to go that far back. Tweaking, wasn't so noticeable. As long as you evolve gradually, it's not that noticeable from one chapter to another. It's only really noticeable when you look back many years. Generally, readers like to see how an artist grows as the story moves forward.

Sometimes, not all pages are amazing, but if the overall artwork is consistent, you're good. I know some pages of my first chapter are not great, but the first few pages are strong, so I'm good. We all have our good days and our bad days.

[dewarcomics]

I've read webcomic a long time ago before tapas and webtoon was even a thing. I have a habit of looking at the first chapter and skipping to the latest page to see how and/or if the art changed.

So redoing the first chapter I would not recommend it. Since everytime you do you'll most likely get better at drawing again and you'll be stuck redoing chapter 1 over and over again. no matter if you see mistake or that you've improved just keep moving forward and you'll find yourself with a completed series. At least that's what I think.

Best of luck!

[MK_Wizard]

In my experience, it is ok to remaster and redraw, BUT only if you have the time to. If it is taking time away from your work and interrupting your work schedule, save that as work to do when you get the other stuff done. By all means, do it though when you have time because you'll never know who is reading or potentially scouting

[cleafca]

That's what i'm scared of, it's actually the third time i'm drawing the first chapter, because i use do draw the comic traditionally on paper...
Thank you so much for your comment :')

[cleafca]

yes that's why i was getting concerned, thank you so much for your comment !

[cleafca]

thank you so much for your advice, you're totally right !

[cleafca]

yes i think i won't redraw it i like to see where i come from ! thank you so much

[cleafca]

that's very true, i'm already very slow, i think i'll just end up losing my mind, thank you so much !!

[cleafca]

thank you so much i love constructive comments, your response means a lot to me :')

[cleafca]

thank you so much ><

[cleafca]

yes i'll think about it once i have time maybe, thank you so much !!