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Ah yeah, here you go:

Oh... If you want to follow the progression of a work, I will like to invite you to this:

I love how you shade!! So confidently done and well . I think I am already subbed to you. What is your link to comic?

Oh right sorry. This is an upcoming comic here on tapas. The site is where we collect all the stuff for it.
There is a storyboard to follow also.

But if you want something more precise to read then here is the first part we did as a test under last inkgivings:
https://tapas.io/series/making-of-bunneh/info2

Sorry that it isn’t out yet. I was merely replying to this, because this project is all about trying to improve our craft

I'm all about that constant striving to improve!

Here's page one1 from my first comic, 2017. It was my first time committing to drawing an entire story, so I tried to keep things simple.

Here's page one from my second comic, 2018. I was ready to make something a little more challenging. But I had to learn about paneling, coloring, speech bubbles, telling a longer story, perspective, backgrounds, etc.

And for my next comic, I keep learning new things to make it even better. :slight_smile:

DotPQ saw a pretty big change in art style between seasons...as shown here with the first couple panels of S1 and S2:


It was kind of on purpose, though. S1's art style had already evolved a lot on its own, and when I started to plan the art direction for S2, I decided to lean into what it was becoming instead of fighting it. So now I'm using sharp color contrasts and lots of contours instead of mostly flat colors, and I got rid of the funky line art, which was time-consuming and honestly not that great-looking (as much as I love chisel-tip lines, I have no instinct for them whatsoever ^^; ).

I agree with the "if I wait until I think my art is good enough I'll never post anything" sentiment expressed above. I basically looked at some of my favorite webcomics that have been going for 15+ years and when you go back and look at their early work it's nearly unrecognizable, so I figured "screw it, if they can do it then so can I."

Here's Zonk and Miguel in their first appearance together vs one of the last times they were in an episode together:

And this is Zonk and Nicole during their first meeting vs this week's episode:

So yeah, over the last two and a half years things have improved dramatically IMHO. I'm still complete shite at backgrounds but I choose to believe that nobody reads my comic for the backgrounds anyway... :sweat:

Edit: But to answer the actual question I wouldn't say there's a huge change style-wise, it's mostly just in effort and confidence. My early episodes definitely fell into the "screw it, who cares if it sucks" category so they're all sketchy and messy, and these days I'm actually shading and trying to make things look a little cleaner. You can probably still tell that I'm inking very quickly and haphazardly but it's slightly more pleasant to look at.

Thank you!! Aaaaah, glad it looks more confident than it feels :sweat_02:. And you are - we really appreciate that <3. Edited with link anyway :).

Oh yeah, I've definitely had a lot of evolution in my art style. It's been a mix of getting better in some areas, putting in more effort in others, and finding the right tools and shortcuts to help with my weak areas.

Early on I was doing this kinda half-hearted airbrush shading, because I just don't really enjoy shading, but I ended up committing to spending more time on it to get a better result. I also did some studies to get better ideas of how to draw my characters' hair and clothing, and got better about not having the faces look kinda wonky (I'm faceblind and that's always an area where I end up messing up easily).

So here's some panels from back in 2019:

And here's the same characters in 2021, with all the improvements I was talking about:

But Raul is still the master of harebrained schemes, that aspect stayed consistent. :stuck_out_tongue:

Amazing!!! Your work is inspriting! I see how much love you put into it. The background has so much detail than when you first started!

Thanks for sharing.

Holy moly. Your art changd so much! So much detail in the environment and good color choices! Great job glad your art has evolved with time

I'm already subbed to you. It's interesting how much you've changed from your first photo. Great work

My comic Uber Upgrades has gone through a major improvement in the art and the jump in quality in season 2 will be bigger than the last one.


This image is promo art for season 2.

Yeah, I have located different points on my comic where there was an explosion of improvement xD
I show here an example from the faces of two characters, Cory and Jael, from chapter 1 and 2, compared to chapter 17 (I am currently drawing number 20).
I have also updated the body proportions and linework, but if you read the comic you don't notice nothing of that, because its a gradual increase of the quality. Now, of course this didn't happen just because I drawed a lot. Besides that, I was checking some tutorials and info on body muscles, proportions, faces, etc, so this is not just repeating once and over again the same technique. I have been adding things to my work.
Who knows how will I draw at the end of my series!

been changing in leaps and bounds ,and changing mediums i use,even somethign as small as the paper i use has had massive changes to my art