I'm going to be starting a new comic soon, and I was wondering how you guys have improved from your first comic story to your next ones. So I thought you could post a page from your first comic, and a page from your second, third, or however many others you have. I'll post mine when I start my new comic, but you'll have to bear with me for now, gotta finish the script lol

So if you post like this:

First comic:
(Picture)

Second comic:
(Picture)

(optional)Third comic:
(Picture)

Does that even make sense? lol

Ax: Xapur


(drawn by me when I was 13 or 14 so a rather nonsensical title, haha)


Din Krakatau


(first page so the art's pretty ugly compared to the last pages)


"vampire project"


(yeah, not sure if this counts as it's not finished... I'm stuck as I'm pondering whether I should redo the entirety of chapter 1 now that I switched to digital inking, just continue it that way or perhaps return to the old method for this particular book)


"6-page project"


(unfinished at this point, but I'm currently pencilling 3rd page and should have it done entirely within a week, no lettering/coloring yet)

First Comic:

Second page of my first comic done last October. So much wasted space! And comic sans! And horrible quality!

Second Comic:


Done about a week ago.

I'd say I suck a little less now.

Aurora Borealis
"6-page project"


(unfinished at this point, but I'm currently pencilling 3rd page and should have it done entirely within a week, no lettering/coloring yet)

That looks awesome! Love the inking.

I've never really had -different- comics so much as I've revamped the same comic with a new story but the same characters fifty million thousand times. Lemme see if I can find them...

First comic:

Created December 3rd, 2006. Used a fine tip sharpie and normal printing paper for most of my comics. Notice how everything is angst and vague but quickly reverts to super ultra animes.

Second comic:

Created July 10th, 2007- around the time I first got my wacom tablet. I primarily did black and white comics to save time. Still a little anime-ish, but much less emo.

Third comic:

Created November 10th, 2007. I was beginning to use color, though it was only for the pages at the beginning of the chapter. My story was first starting to develop into what it is now.

Final comic:

My current comic. Created August 8th, 2009. I color all my comics now. There doesn't seem to be much of a happy medium between this one and the one above since I took a break from comicing for about a year and improved a lot on my style.

I love how the first, second, and last comic all feature the same character. I just ooze originality.

Redemption. Early 2007. Grayscale, screentones...


Timeloss, last week's update.



Amazing to see the range in development. I usually expect people's work to improve over time but just become slicker. But from what I've seen so far it looks like everybody's moved in different directions so that the newer pages look markedly different from what's been done previously. i.e. GracehFaceh - seeing the different pages at the same time helps in picking some of the similarities but otherwise it'd be difficult for me to tell they were all created by the same person. Amazing!

Issue 1, page 3.



This was the first page I drew for Bulletproof. Note background inexplicably inked with a brush, lips looking like two wiener sausages taped to the characters' faces (this is worse on other pages), near total absence of use of blacks to structure page layout because I relied way too much on the coloring to save everything.

Looking at this now, I'm amazed by how shitty my coloring was back then, but I guess that has no bearing on this thread, because...

Issue 2, page 1.



This was the first page I did in b/w, and I was terrified I wasn't going to pull it off. Luckily this scared me into REALLY thinking the page layout through before I started, which, with hindsight, kind of saves the awkward anatomy and the I-don't-know-what-I'm-doing hatches.

Issue 3, page 5.



I'd gotten pretty comfortable with the black and white at this point, but still relied on tech pens for the hatching, which... ergh. I just wasn't confident enough to use any real drawing tools for this, hence the scratchy, shaky Rothring lines all over the place.

Issue 4, page 5.



I'd finally learned to design setpieces that would work in black and white - even if in this case it's as simple as "white tentacle monster against black background of dark room", at least it was purposeful. Also, first page lettered in Illustrator. Bye-bye anchored lasso and ellipsis marquee. Too bad I still thought the Rothrings were a good idea.

Issue 5, page 5.



I'm sure I'll hate this phase eventually too, but this page will always have a special place in my heart because I felt like I finally got the feel of Junction City right. Also, no more fuglo-matic Rothring hatches. Still suffers from "I'll fix this in inks, oops, no I won't" syndrome here and there, though, especially panel 3.

Brood Knight


Brood Knight


Brood Knight


MAG-ISA

My first comic isnt completed but its almost :3:

First comic:



Second:

Some of my older comics has disappeared into the abyss... The style written in the brackets are the influences of art style I get from reading manga over the years.

First comic (early 90's style?):


Second comic (mid 90's style):


Third comic (mixture of late 90's to 00's style):


Fourth comic, hidden from public (00's style):


I have a habit of changing my style over the years.

I like your third comic style best!

Well,I'm a translator so it won't be appropiate to do this but I'll still do it.

First comic(Hanged Doll by Team Getname)


Second Comic(Pink Lady by Yeon Woo)


The Normal Quality of Pink Lady(Or maybe little better)


Third Comic(Superior Day By Team Getname)


Fourth Comic(JinJin Evolution.Currently stopped)


fifth Comic(30 Years by Kangfull.Still on progress.It haven't reached this stage yet)


IF I drew it,the change would be really dramatic but I didn't drew any of it.But I do know drawing change pretty much when you draw a comic.