Show your improvement!

smokesalty 2023-03-02 14:19:50 UTC #1

I've been having a look through the 47392 changes my art went through in volume one of my comic alone, but I was very happy to see the improvement happening in my work! Got me excited thinking about how good future scenes in the comic will look.

Show your improvement in the replies!

Here's mine (one year difference):

Page 5:

Page 150:

Nugtown 2023-03-02 18:26:51 UTC #2

oh hell yeah, I love these

Chapter 1

Chapter 7

BlairFujin 2023-03-02 18:39:21 UTC #3

I sometimes feel like I'm stuck in the same place, like I'm not making any progress and then I actually look back at my older works and then at the current ones
early season 1

vs early season 2, 4.5 years later

Spectorium_1 2023-03-02 18:46:37 UTC #4

Ohh, okies, I'll chip in too. I've been learning from a few artists on tapas.

Back in november:

Current:

BlairFujin 2023-03-02 18:48:18 UTC #5

That's quite a progress in such a short time

Spectorium_1 2023-03-02 18:50:42 UTC #6

Thanks! I had a really good mentors. I doubt I coulda done it without them.

bulgariansumo 2023-03-02 22:00:57 UTC #7

The first picture I made specifically for a chapter of Galactiquest (2020)

This is around the time I started consistently making images for the story (2021)

And finally, my most recent, from Saturday:

Having an art program with a brush stablizer really changed things.

SoftWonderBun 2023-03-02 22:24:22 UTC #8

Not sure I've improved too much in the last 5 years but I've certainly honed down the look for this comic and reeled in my try-hard energy...

2018

2022

XiuLyn_12 2023-03-03 02:59:12 UTC #9

Here's my first episode and latest ( 9 months difference)!

Do you guys think I improved? haha

TethykaRinehart 2023-03-08 23:24:55 UTC #10

Same image remastered in about 7 months from the original. Totally different techniques too XD
From the illustrated novel "Guardian Kayden" :3

N1ghtm4r3 2023-03-09 01:15:06 UTC #11

from oldest to most recent

TheSingularitySeed 2023-03-09 01:38:59 UTC #12

This post made me realize I accidentally redrew an old panel.

I didn't think I improved my people and effects much until I put them side by side.

But I know I improved my backgrounds. First vs latest bg

It may not seem like much, but these took the same amount of time to draw.
I did NOT know what I was doing the first time lol

BlueDragon 2023-03-10 23:22:32 UTC #13

I've had the chapter I'm working on now planned out for years, and had drawn out the cover I believe back in 2005 or 2007 when I drafted the chapter. I only just got to drawing that chapter out in 2020 for ComicFury, when I decided to undertake a revamp to improve the very, very old pages. Due to a family emergency, I had to put on hold drawing new chapters on ComicFury (readers here on Tapas weren't affected) until I complete the revamp (made that decision in 2021. Thankfully my readers on ComicFury are understanding that this is a labor of love, I'm human, and my family takes precedence over my own passion projects).

I'm finally getting into the early pages of Ceremony this year, which lead to this redraw. I know this is the year I'll finish up the revamp of Time Warp and can start drawing new pages. But having undertaken this project, I'm incredibly proud of the improvements I've made, and being able to reflect and see that progress.

I'm pretty happy with the last time I've drawn this. But then, I just did it this year, so I'm sure I'll be dissatisfied with this cover art in a couple years XD

Lots of babble...but I guess I'm feeling chatty.

Edit: oddly, these are also all done with different mediums. The first I literally used printer paper and a uni-ball pen. The second, ink paper with a sanji style nib and sumi ink. The last bristol board and a brush with sumi ink.

TethykaRinehart 2023-03-11 18:39:03 UTC #14

Old:

New:

river121693 2023-03-11 19:07:38 UTC #15

that cityscape panel is great! looks like it took ton of time.

6 months ago vs present. I mostly figured out the coloring process i think.

TheSingularitySeed 2023-03-13 11:43:55 UTC #16

Thank you!!
And it definitely did lol
I almost didn't do it because of the time but I wanted to try drawing a city at least once!

GumshoeComix 2023-03-13 13:55:42 UTC #17

Chapter 1

Chapter 13

god i wish i could re-do the first 3 chapters

luxiiien 2023-03-20 03:13:17 UTC #18

Here's mine! Ep 1:

Ep 6:

The way I draw my main character has changed a lot in 3 months!

RedLenai 2023-03-20 04:22:44 UTC #19

First time drawing for Scarlet Society (Chapter 4, 2018)

Latest, Chapter 11 of Season 2

OneArtsyBeaver 2023-03-20 04:32:19 UTC #20

I always love these! Seeing peoples improvements always makes me excited to work on my own.

Here's when I started in 2019

And here's a new page from 2023!

I'm really glad to see my progress with backgrounds and line thickness. I never thought I would get to this point, But I'm happy I could prove myself wrong.