#Had me really reflecting and comparing old art there. Art Ego eating that self-talk up that's for sure.

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Would you say that drawing so many comic panels of bg3 has improved your art skill and if so which traits specifically have gotten better? (the speed of which you draw these is what I aspire to do one day)

I am not good at the self-reflective details, but even though I don't know what I improved, without a doubt I improved something. It's like exercising. You push yourself a lil bit every day and even though you can't see the results short-term-wise...Long term? Healthy toned muscles baby~

It's like killing those 50 rats in the tavern basement in Act 3. Sure you've defeated the Avatar of Death in the last Act, but you still get experience for obliterating 50 rats. 50 experience is 50 experience. Every little drawing and ankle-biting rat counts.

old art rambles below:

Really the reason I don't know what I've truly improved on is because I've uh. been ceaselessly drawing comics before this, so the BG3 comics were more like casual self-serving therapy on my end. Had to drop everything and give Greygold a satisfactory ending because how dare. I'd say after a year, the spiteful grief has healed quite nicely at least~ Marvelous story that, had me impacted and reacting and everything.

I do think this has helped me loosen up my style though. Was gripped by the perfectionism bug before the casual draws. Obsessed with having everything look like a fully rendered illustration -

Rather than keeping things simple. Had my lineart and shading stiff as a corpse until I got into 'fuck it' expressionism mode.

Had ye ol' classic 'can't see the forest for the trees' drawing priorities. Focused too much on details rather than the big picture.

It will be interesting ( if I do continue my old comic) to see what I do differently now, and to see if I really did improve from drawing sillies for a year.