Thread "How has your character evolved over time? " in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 8:11PM, Nov. 9, 2018

Show how your characters (or art) has changed over time. I'll start.

This is Yune, she is a adventurer / magical girl from one of my old stories.

2006

My 1st comic page colored digitally in PS CS1. Drawn traditionally.

2008

Drawn traditionally using Microns and colored in Photoshop CS2

2012

Drawn digitally in a program called Paint Tool Sai. Don't know what I was thinking with these proportions. lol.

2015

First try at a re-design. She came out looking too young.

2017

Tried again to get a good face / the right age but I didn't finish.

I'm about to re-draw this character again and tweak her design one last time.
How about you? How have your characters grown?

Posted at 1:11AM, Nov. 11, 2018

Nice development!
You've really come along there and I like how you list your media as having an influence on your style.

Pinky changes from panel to pane because I can't be consistent… This is how she's changed from about 1998 till now.

Posted at 4:11AM, Nov. 11, 2018

I put this together two years ago for my 10th anniversary.

See it bigger.

Posted at 9:11PM, Nov. 18, 2018

It's hard to believe I'd still be drawing this dude even after High School.

The upper left hand Shawn shows him in his first official comic strip appearance (2006) while the upper right hand in his last (2014).

The two images on the very bottom were done this year: the left one was a recent inking for the sketch of a comic I did in 2010, while the right one was for a little project.

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Posted at 12:12PM, Dec. 5, 2019

My earlier Drako the Barbarian character wore just a loin cloth type of outfit, but now that the character has moved to a Conan style of Afghanistan area, he has been wearing a middle eastern style hooded thobe. As far as the style of drawing, that doesn’t seem to have changed much.

— Rick Rudge

Posted at 3:12AM, Dec. 11, 2019

I guess I've got a better handle over anatomy and colors:
2016/2017:
2019:

Posted at 5:12AM, Dec. 11, 2019

Nice!

Posted at 10:12PM, Dec. 17, 2019

Here’s an image I made awhile ago kinda showing how my style evolved as a result of me experimenting and learning I guess. I used to experiment even more than I do now, so I feel like the art is a bit more consistent as of late chapter 2 and chapter 3.

It may appear that I have simplified it, but maybe these panels aren’t the best examples, I used to be horrible at backgrounds, and all those lines looked messy when drawing the characters I panels that weren’t close-ups. But even with improved consistency my art will most likely keep evolving