Changes

[McDuffies]

Wow. No offtopicness by now! Now I've seen everything.

When I started my comic, I was already drawing fine, but I wasn't accustomed to E-pen. So evolution of drawing in my comic was more of my learning how to use a damn thing.
As for script, It got much much better after the first halfa year, mostly because what was before was still an introductory period, no matter how much I tried to hide it. Pretty clumsy one too, but I'm not sure that I could do better now.
All in all, I don't think there's been any drastic changes, except probably in the number of characters introduced.

[Nishichi27]

HOORAY FOR MUFFINS!

Alas, my effort to shift this topic off-topic has not succeeded. I guess we all just like to talk about our own comics.

Anyway, I haven't been really going long enough to detect many changes except for the whole B&w -> color thing. I do think, however, that my Photoshop coloring skills have improved (mainly because I couldn't really color that well in it when I started).

Also, it takes me longer each time to draw a page, so I guess that means I put in more detail, or something. I can't tell myself.

My style in general hasn't changed, although I hope to change it a bit soon.

<rant>
Actually, if I wasn't in the middle of a storyline in this comic that I really just started, I was thinking about making a new comic after reading through these forums, one that stuck more closely to the codes of cool comic-dom. When I started this comic I didn't know a thing about making comics or how many anime webcomics there were on the web, so I couldn't have imagined that mine would be so surrounded by similars. However, these forums gave me some good insight into this and now I wish I could make another comic too. Except I have no time. So there. </rant>

[Warren]

Well, I learned to draw better, although my skills seem to be stagnating.

I need a new project.

[Superlance]

I can draw wonderful single panel images or poses; and my comic looks like crap.
You can't even tell it's drawn by the same person.
Does this mean anything?

[Brockway]

I can draw wonderful single panel images or poses; and my comic looks like crap.
You can't even tell it's drawn by the same person.
Does this mean anything?

Well, time makes fools of us all! Maybe you are just in a different mindset when you are doing your comic compared to a highy detailed single badass pose. I think I've come quite a ways since I asked for a critique 7 months ago... I can draw more than just poorly rendered anime talking heads!

I went from:
this http://gunsnstuff.keenspace.com/viewima ... 030717.jpg
to
this http://gunsnstuff.keenspace.com/viewima ... 031221.png

Still sucky, but I think I'm making progress, what with all the extra forum drawing (GD battle royal, keencaptors, the Nishichi fight, avatars (I'm proud of my current one by the way, here's the big version: http://gunsnstuff.keenspace.com/viewima ... utobig.png

[DEVO-Bot]

"Why is there yogurt in your cap?"
"I can explain! See, at first I had milk in there, and, well, time makes fools of us all..."

Yeah, I've gotta say, as poor as it looks, I really like my very first strip. The next few I'm not too proud of at all, but there's one really good joke in there somewhere. I'm too lazy to delete them from my archives, though, so there's still a "back" button when you click on the farthest-back link my "Archives" page brings you to. I kind of don't like the idea of turning my back on what seemed like a good idea a year ago...

Art-wise, my stuff is amazing now compared to what I was doing even at the start of my viewable archives (which certainly doesn't make it actually 'amazing'). I'm slowly evolving, and I'd like to think that I've reached the "sufficient" level at least. And the humor has gotten spectacular lately (I think) thanks in large part to my co-author Ben. I'm kind of intrigued by the direction it's been taking lately--so far we've had three strips without a punchline, and instead they're just sort of ethereal and confusing--but it's certainly not how I'd like to see the comic end up. I kind of like the epic sci-fi gag strip feel to it with a touch of horribly confusing dialog thrown in here and there, but I'm really into crap like Twin Peaks and Eva and whatnot, which is full of that. So the moral of the story is, I don't think anybody knows what the future has in store for ORBVS. Maybe some day I might even get off my lazy duff and hand-draw it, but I kind of like the practice with vectors...

[Yeahduff]

Maybe some day I might even get off my lazy duff and hand-draw it, but I kind of like the practice with vectors...

I resent that.

[YarpsDat]

When you see your first pages, do you:
a) wish to burn them
b) Say: euuugh, and leave a message for readers that 'first comics are crude but later gets better'
c) shrug your sholders and nostalgicaly smile: well it's all part of growing up
d) say: They're no different from latest.

b with a bit of c.
I mean, I say euuuggh, and I did leave a message for the readers. But I also accept it's a part of "growing up".

Apart from the standard improving skills by repetition, I also switched from manga-esque style, to realistic-esque style.

Do you plan and changes soon? Are you satisfied with what your comic is now?

Umm, plan? No my art is constantly evolving, and sometimes undergoes rapid changes, suffers from my experiments, and stuff. But I don't need to plan these.
Quite surely I became more consistent. In the old days things would sometimes look good, and sometimes bad, and I would have no idea why, or how to fix that.
And now... still, sometimes things just refuse to look right, but there usualy is nothing a couple of hours of hard work wouldn't fix.

Discuss.

OK. Oh. I just did. Someone else do it.