Last minute panel changes

[Game Misconduct]

Raise your hand you made last minute changes. Just when you thought you were finish with the panel of strips, you look at it and go, "This doesn't look/sound right." You go back and draw a new panel on different piece of paper to replace one of the original panels. This happend to me recently. All it took was look at yet to be unfinished sketch (man I'm totally late on strips) and knew I have to replace the last panel.

[TYL]

Heh, with my style the rendered product is almost nothing near what I originally drew, I change it so much.

Of course, I'll cop out and leave blank panels in my sketch saying "Remember that one pose we used back in the day"

[Cope]

I've only done that once. My standards are the lowest EVAR.

[Killbert-Robby]

Only for typos. I tend to spend an hour with my comic once I'v finished just reading it over and over.

[TYL]

OCD much?

[Dutch!]

I've returned to fix a panel up at a later date to repair a typo, but not too often. Very occasionally I've gone back and changed the final dialogue because I think it will bring the joke across better, but other than that...nup.

I'm proud of my strike rate too. In the 250 odd strips that have gone online...I think I've only let two little typos slip through to be found by nosy readers.

I haven't redrawn a panel for the strip since I redrew the very first four strips before the strip went online. There's a few panels I look at and think 'well you buggered that one up a bit, Dan', but life's like that.

[Sortelli]

I used to make last minute edits like this all the time, and many of my scripts went through several re-writes and tweaks. But once something got on the site I tend to leave it there no matter how many glaring errors I find later.

[Malediction]

I make last minute edits, but only if it's really glaring (which happens worryingly often). Like if I forget to draw some guy's goatee or put the wrong text in a word balloon. Happens at least once a month.

[ChibiJess]

My comic tends to change dramatically from the original sketch to what goes into the computer. Dialogue, poses, sometimes even the entire plot, changes because I feel it'll flow better like that. I've scrapped whole panels before and swapped them in for something different.

I've had to re-upload a comic before because the shading layers were completely missing, or the speech bubbles were the wrong size. I tend to be a bit nit picky with regards to positioning, and try my best to get the poses atleast somewhat interesting and believable.

[Cindermain]

Yes, the strip I'm posting Friday! I was finishing up the coloring, and placing the text...I thought of a funnier punchline right on the spot.

I didn't want to waste the OLD joke, so I copied the first strip and redid the ending...both are going to be posted this Friday!

[Escushion]

It happened to me for the very first update.

It's happened subsequently as well; I've also changed a speech bubble at a later date (though usually just to emphasize a pattern of speech.)

[Glarryg]

Like Dutch, I've only gone back and corrected spelling errors. I spend a lot of time agonizing over the layout before I draw, so I'm usually pretty confident with it by the time I actually start making the comic.

Glarryg

[McDuffies]

I tend to chack the finished page before I scan it and letter it, and then I make some fixes or eventually redraw something. After I scan it, sometimes it happens that I missed some small glitch, then I do the correction with tablet.

[Black Sparrow]

I rarely redraw panels entirely if I make a mistake. I figure that, by then, I'd spent enough time on the damn thing. I will go in and manipulate it in Photoshop, however. Photoshop is handy that way: you can move stuff around and play with paintbrushes.

I've yet to go back to earlier pages and redraw those, even though the art is a little nasty. I think that's just laziness on my part.

[McDuffies]

Heheh. When I draw on paper, I like to have a hard copy of the page identical to the one that is published (save for lettering).
Once in a while, I am actually so unhappy with some panel that I go and glue a paper over it and redraw it completely. But for the most, correction fluid is my pal.

[Killbert-Robby]

OCD much?

With comics? Yes.

[Black Sparrow]

OCD much?

With comics? Yes.

OCDing on art is the best way to improve.

[TheSuburbanLetdown]

Heheh. When I draw on paper, I like to have a hard copy of the page identical to the one that is published (save for lettering).
Once in a while, I am actually so unhappy with some panel that I go and glue a paper over it and redraw it completely. But for the most, correction fluid is my pal.

Thank god for white gouache.

[Doll]

I make last minute edits, but only if it's really glaring (which happens worryingly often). Like if I forget to draw some guy's goatee or put the wrong text in a word balloon. Happens at least once a month.

Yup, I'm always doing something stupid like that, and usually notice after the page has been up for, say, a week or so... not enough OCD, methinks.

[Killbert-Robby]

I make last minute edits, but only if it's really glaring (which happens worryingly often). Like if I forget to draw some guy's goatee or put the wrong text in a word balloon. Happens at least once a month.

Yup, I'm always doing something stupid like that, and usually notice after the page has been up for, say, a week or so... not enough OCD, methinks.

I don't think I've met you before. Hi. Your style scares me.


Which is a good thing if you think about it.





As for OCDing, if I didn't OCD about my art, I wouldn't be me. For a single sketch, I'll cover my desk in eraser shavings. Its just the balance of the universe.