Oooh character evolution!

[Samuli]

Wow, hard to believe you COULD improve from the first shots, until you see the second set >.< and, technically, said "hideous 'ar't'" would be from the last MILLENNIUM, no?

Technically I think we are both correct And thanks!

[Kemmy]

I haven't made any pretty charts, and I'm afraid I'm too lazy to do so, but it's just barely possible to track the evolution of my characters through my banners, especially since I create special thematic ones thrice a year. These banners appear not on my CG site, which is a bit dysfunctional and spare, but on a slightly prettier site that I find it easier to maintain.

2006:







2007:









2008:







2009:

[Inshue]

Aw man, this one oughta be fun. All right, so what we have here is the one character I've had the longest, name of Pyro. He started as a superhero comic after I watched some Superman: the Animated Series way back in '98, '99-ish, when I was just a little fourth grader. He's been around a while.



This first one has both his superhero phase and "Holy crap I have mythical fire powers let's take the planet back from its tyrannical oppressors" phase. 4th through 8th grade (at this point in time I wound up doing about a remake a year... I don't have them all anymore, sorry).



Here's where he got fun to do. Pyro was, at this point, a universe-hopping soldier who, while fighting off an assassin, had somehow become lost between universes. His only option was to try and find his way home, picking up allies and facing challenges along the way. I liked this one since it let me play with how alternate versions of people would turn out. There's his superhero-ish form and his knight form here. 9th through 10th grade.



The first one is the same as above, just with a less superhero-y costume. The one on the right is the latest version, but with some changes. Now named Phyren Argius dem Resti, he is a soldier for the Greater Disarran Republic, exiled from his home universe for refusing to follow orders and burn down a village (including the innocent people in it) that had been linked with rebel forces during a time of war. His sympathies have changed, and he wants to get home to join forces with the rebels. 'Course, he needs to find his way out of the exile universe first. 11th grade to today.

[Pledged-comic]

I'm new, so I don't have a comparison to make myself, but I've always thought it's nice to see how artists improve over the years as they keep working through things. I think everyone in here has really had their art pay off from hard work, so kudos to you all.

[Alias Pseudonym]

This is the oldest drawing of Zed I'm not too embarrassed to show you.



This is what he looks like now. The forehead writing was changed before I actually started the comic, though.



And it's only really been a couple of months I've been working on Vigil.

[Komiyan]

While I certainly got better, it's not like the start would be hard to improve on

[Brockway]

I've had alot of update gaps. The 2006 one is notable since thats when I switched from paper to using a wacom tablet. Komi, it seems like your characters are becoming more and more adorable!

[Corgan_dane]

I have one of these somewhere...I'll post it when I get home.