#i am so close to redrawing the panels for this but thats just Such a ridiculous project it would end me

[bandagegirl]

Been rereading the "sub-canon" The Felt comic by Professor Mayonaka, the original creator of the Midnight Crew. It was written around the time the Homestuck Intermission first happened and acts as a prequel to it, but it also leads to some inconsistencies with Homestuck, such as different designs and jujus for Matchsticks and Quarters or Derse having the prototypings of the Beta kids session despite the Midnight Crew originating from the Troll session. I've written down some notes of everything in The Felt comic but due to most pictures missing, things are difficult to figure out.

-Itchy gets payed in coffee and only coffee. He also hates wasting time

-the Felt mansion has many grand halls

-Snowman always locks her door while Doze never locks his door

-Doze always makes his bed

-Doze has a blue plush teddy bear under his hat! While commonly called "Humphrey" by fans and the song "Humphrey's Lullaby", its called "Humphry" here

-Doze can use his slow mo powers to jump across. Something. Probably a gap. Missing pictures make it hard to tell

-Trace loses things frequently like buttons

-Clover installed a time based lock for Trace but Clover is the only one that can open it

-Depending on the position of clock hands, certain parts of the mansion become (un)accessable?

-"if the paint is peeling, the curtains are missing and the water is boiling, which problem do you fix first?" Itchy says you put out the fire

-the casino belonging to the Midnight Crew is called the Midnight Casino

-Fin has been depressed ever since Matchsticks and Quarters died trying to take on Professor Mayonaka

-Matchsticks and Quarters "were the only guys [Fin] could really relate to in this operation"

-the Felt used to have no one that could stand in their way until Professor Mayonaka and his Midnight Crew came along

-the Midnight Crew is a yakuza

-"Nobody is on [Professor Mayonaka and Lord English's] level"

-Fin tastes future trails?

-Future trails end when a decision has to be made and are created whenever a decision is done

-Fin likes biting people. While he has never bitten Clover, Die tastes like a corpse

-Die thinks Boxcars is [a complete monster if you've ever seen one]

-Die keeps his pins under his hat and has been working on a pin for Spades Slick "for subjective months- a few weeks in each of several timelines"

-Die crowns himself king of the universe after inserting every pin he had with him, including Snowman's, resulting in a pretty empty timeline

-an unfinished pin does nothing!

-Nothingness is white

-Die thinks Fin's hat is red and not orange

-Crowbar is trying to figure out the origins of the Midnight Crew. He found out Jackson Slick, founder of Midnight City, vanished roughly when the Midnight Crew formed

-Crowbar believes not even the Midnight Crew knows who Mayonaka is-Spades Slick is the "day-to-day acting leader" of the Midnight Crew while Mayonaka seems to have kept them alive ever since he founded the Midnight Crew

-Snowman becomes violent if asked about the Midnight Crew

-Snowman has a CAST IRON STUDDED PADDLE

-Stitch isnt "all that terribly fond of Die" and lets his effigy burn for a bit

-Stitch has a towel called "Old Faithful" that has "smothered more flames in your day than most surgeons see in a lifetime"

-Stitch has the ingenious idea to take Eggs and Biscuits' effigies into a warehouse

-the Felt has a communal kitchen

-Someone might or might not have devoured someone

-Scurrilous Scraggler hates colourful hats because the Felt keeps popping up in the desert

-Clubs Deuce' exile name is COMFORTLESS DRIFTER

-CHAPTER 2

-One of the first things the MC did upon coming into being is kidnap some of the Felt

-According to Matchsticks, "there has not been business quite as serious as this since the LANDING."

-Matchsticks has a belt with matchsticks on them. Most likely his jujus. While no picture of him exists from the comic, there is fanart that shows how he looks like. Same with Quarters

-10/11 MATCH ARTIFACTS Remaining. 11/11 REGULAR MATCHES Remaining. 11/11 FAKE PLASTIC MATCHES Remaining. 11/11 PAINTINGS OF A MATCH ON YOUR BELT Remaining.

-Matchsticks takes things very serious. Its all very fucking serious business. Atleast right now because the MC has Snowman

-Matchsticks rides Sawbuck like a mechanical bull as a really serious business callback to Problem Sleuth. Its biznasty

-Eggs and Biscuits were playing hide and seek. Eggs has temporally cloned himself in an attempt to find Biscuits better

-Biscuits hides in his oven and pretends to be Lord English hiding "in the farthest reaches of the void, like a phantom"

-Quarters has TEMPORAL INTUITION

-Instead of coins, he has a rack (the triangle thing used for billiard) that records TIMEPRINTS.

-Earthquakes announce Lord English's arrival.

-Lord English tells Quarters "It's time"-

"A great and terrible fate awaits the Felt family. And its home." (this isnt said by Lord English but its cute they're a family)

-Scurrilous Scraggler is building a city in some ruins

-Scurrilous Scraggler, back in his days as Jack Noir, didnt respect anyone enough to remember their names or get to know them. "They were [...] Just pawns."

-Comfortless Drifter's name is Deuce. Scurrilous Scraggler gives him the fake name Jackson Slick.

-"Something sinister" seems to live in an impact crater according to Deuce

-"[Deuce] believes that it was exiled, like you and he. But for different reasons."

-the MC has an underground complex of hideaways

-one or more hideaway is in Blackwalk Street and Trace parked the ESCAPE MPV there!

-despite his incredible luck, Clover decides against driving because he's too small to do anything while at the driver's seat

-Shit is fucked on multiple fronts but without pictures, its hard to tell whats going on exactly. Multiple rooms in the Felt mansion are empty and their inhabitants gone

-Another earthquake. Lord English tells Fin "Go on"

-Droog's exile name is DERISIVE DISCIPLE and he "begrudgingly leaves his master to his work". The master being the Professor

-DD loves ties and changes his raggedy outfit to have one

-DD is protecting the crater that Mayonaka lives in, even when the Professor is away

-DD has a JACK OF DIAMONDS

-Slick tells DD his tie "outfit is kind of awkward and impractical, especially the stick"

-DD's Jack of Diamonds is a SCYTHE OF DEVOTION and he uses it to attack Deuce and Slick.

-or he tries to? There's like ten textless pictures after some "OH SHIT"s

-one page intermission with multiple broken pictures

-Die made Slick's pin for his doll out of a licorice scotty dog due to how important it is to him

-Die inserts his own pin and finds his corpse stuck on a strange slide door

-the place Die's at is called the SCRAPER and he's been there before

-Crowbar disciplines Biscuits about responsible timetravel with his crowbar and tells Clover that Biscuits fell down some stairs

-Snowman(?) hates it when Lord English "does that without any warning. It always leaves you feeling lightheaded". Probably the earthquakes

-Snowman fully believes she has never been anything but green

-Snowman might have been brainwashed besides being turned green considering she doesnt recognize a dersite (Slick?) and refers to him as someone from "this planet"

-Snowman just crawled out of a crater and scared Slick(?)

-I'm not sure if thats Slick just because he has a tophat on. Perry the platypus moment

-Draconian Dignitary invents ties by wearing a LOW QUALITY BLADE around his neck to overcome this fashion challenge

-The famous gif we all know as Mayonaka we all know belongs to the ALCHEMIST of Derse, someone that DD cant stand, calls a smug bastard and lives on the bottom floor. Agent Brinner

-the name Brinner has appeared in Homestuck on a letter for "Dr David Brinner"

-I am hoping Agent Brinner and Professor Mayonaka are the same person in a similar way to how Jack Noir changes his name to various names starting with SS.

-[S] Doze: Ascend. (No actual flash) The Felt comic was cancelled for some time

-Doc Scratch is here and thinks waiting is a waste of his talents

-He sees no timeline where he does a silly dance

-"It is on occasion that you come across pieces of the darkness which inflicts imperfection on your omnicience and that they make themselves clear to you in the form of images, or sometimes simply phrases. You often waste no time investigating."

-Something exploded that confused Scratch for a moment

-that was the destruction of a doomed timeline due to Scratch's curiosity, causing him to transition "into a timeline whose defining difference is your inevitable success."

-Scratch caused a scratch at that moment? Was that Beforus??

-"You have created many universes in the past, but never before by accident. This is too intriguing to pass up." Hey, Scratch, what the fuck does this mean?

-a troll is introduced on the 26th october. He's 13 years old and alternian perhaps? Alternia doesnt exist yet but sweeps are used

-Someone with the initials ZS is unable to throw a book on human history away because neither Alternia nor humans exist yet. "Duhhhhhh."

-the comic ends with Stitch retrieving Lord English's spare Cairo Overcoat from the vault

[calocera]

got tagged in an ask game about art processes, i dont really feel like doing an ask game format rn but i can share the process of this piece they wanted a process post about! always happy to provide that kinda thing :v

the first one was just a screencap redraw, but i did change some things to give the piece a more distinctive feeling! Got rid of the items in the foreground, added more movement in the hair and fabrics to show a stronger wind, and i upped the saturation and changed the lighting a little because the entire arc had that gray filter over it and i am not a fan of it. you can really tell i struggled with Xiao Xingchen by how many more sketch layers he has, i just went with the flow for the other two i guess! (i also changed the flow of the fabric on Xiao Xingchen cause i didnt want to draw feet 😔) i slightly changed the poses too just because i wanted to make it feel like a standalone piece and not just a direct redraw

this one i put more thoughts into! (also didnt save the sketch layer oopsie) The flowers and the sword boarder are reused assets from another yi city piece i did but never posted bc i hated how it came out; at this point i have sooo many reference photos of various swords i just dip into constantly :( (i would also like to flex again that i did NOT use any line tools for these, i used a piece of paper on my tablet to get some lines straight and did lots of mirroring, but otherwise its all freehanded)

for the first panel, its kinda a redraw of an older concept sketch i did, i changed the composition but the theme is pretty much the same. i kinda just made shit up as i went in regards to how this whole thing is colored.

The second panel just came from me wanting to do some more painting, also i hadnt gotten to draw Xiao Xingchens eyes yet so i took it as an excuse to do closeups. The hand in the first one is perhaps Baoshan Sanren taking the eyes and ofc the other is Xue Yang, they are referenced just from my own hands :) I actually copy pasted the eyes, so if you look closely hopefully you can see that they are the same despite them being in different positions!

hope thats all at all interesting for anyone :D

[onepunchmiss]

OPM s2e7 Live blog

“The S Class Heroes”

IM SCREAMING ALREADY I ONLY READ THE EPISODE TITLE ALRIGHT OK SO IT BEGINS TODAY, MY DEATH guys I am so pumped for the S Class focus thats about to begin with this episode like from here on out they become main players in the series and asfdbfhirksvfjkevfsnjkvfnjek how is it legal for ONE SERIES to contain SO MANY FAVES. Anywayyy Before I get started I’m actually wondering- this is the 7th episode of the second season… do we know how many episodes the season is supposed to run for? S1 only had 12 i think. I’m… I’m not even close to ready for it ending. Now that they’ve introduced Orochi, I’m not even sure where a good break in the plot would be?? Random concerns aside, lets get to the episode. As always, I’m watching this as someone who has read the manga and web comic to date

OROCHI IS PINK HE IS HOT PINK THATS ALL I HAVE TO SAY BEFORE THE TITLE SEQUENCE HITS ME LIKE A GUT PUNCH EVERY SINGLE TIME AND I STILL PAUSE IT AT ZOMBIEMAN OK off to a great start woo

Oh thank god we’re starting with the tournament I can stop quite literally holding my breath. Alright its Choze time. I’m actually excited for him to do things, his face has been nothing but terrifying thus far and hes one of those characters that are just fun to hate unapologetically. I love over-the-top Nazi stand-ins for that reason tbh

OH FUCK OH GOD I LOVE HIM also GAROU hiya welcome back I know it’s only been 2 weeks but i missed you so much thank you for gracing my screen for 5 seconds OH HECK the dramatic music and beginning of the internal monologue just being blatantly REJECTED caught me off guard I cackled AH WAIT WAIT

EYESIGHT DOGMAN ASDFGHK MY BABY IS COMING IM DEAD IM FUKKIN DEAD ALREADY I MISSED HIS CUTE VOICE hey no wait that was very quick?? I must withhold my bias, we’re at the point now where I have SCRUTINIZED every single panel of the manga over and over because of all of my faves, so even the smallest differences will be glaring to me. As much as I want all the action to be drawn out as it is in the manga, I know that’s never been how the anime has rolled. I must bite my tongue.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THE ONLY TIME WE’LL EVER SEE HIM AND YET!!! oof i had to pause for 2 minutes to chill out and actually type. I. I just. juST. BOI ARE YOU OK WHERE ARE YOU ARE YOU WELL AND WHY DO YOU LOOK LIKE G4 tell me your secrets

WAIT COME BACK i dont give 2 SHITS about sweet mast HECKK

speaking of whom get off my screen u creep I have a personal bone to pick with u disrespecting the bae as you will

[SCREAMING]

Oh god this whole scene is so EXCITING and TERRIFYING child emperor’s face as Pig God just eats her, speaking of which -QUIT CUTTING BACK TO THAT TERRIFYING IMAGERY ASDFGHJ  

YES THEY KEPT IT YES YES YES YESYEYSYEYS YOU DONT UNDERSTAND how much Ive been looking FORWARD to that little scene??? im crying how is it possible to work myself up so much of this please help

ok ok back to the tournament give my heart a break phew Hey Choze if you’re genes are so superior then where are your eyebrows????? You dont pull it off HALF as well as Z does. Jeez everything about this guy is so absurd I can’t help but laugh irl the damn DNA helix rolling across the screen dude just stop you’re embarrassing yourself

although you DO know how to strike a pose. change ur name to Poze. Wait no. Your name is now GMO Corn I lied.

AGAIN GETTIN ME WITH THE WEIRD COLORS Hundred Eyes Octopuss is red and blue OK SURE

DEATH GATLING DEATH GATLING ASDFGHJKL guys I cant look at Narcisstoic oh no “no you’ll do no good”

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I WASNT EXPECTING THIS THIS EPISODE BUT I SHOULD HAVE I WASNT PREPARED I paused it I’m afraid to push play he’s not on the screen yet i can still turn back and make it out alive -

                    Behold.                                     the moment   I          died        

I actually have this thing with eye gore and seeing it in motion fucked me up I had to skip 10 seconds but anyway FUCK he’s so SPARKLY and PRETTY

Noting also the music there totally gave me flashbacks to the Darkmatter Thieves invasion for a split second and that sequence in general was really well done I like how they emphasized the suckers sticking to the concrete and everything- it have the monster a lot of weight imo. Of course the studio would be fools to not give Tatsumaki the the utmost respect like that sooo

SPARKLY and PRETTY and TEMPTING FATE YOU FOOL yo I was so excited to this scene but I feel like they didn’t make his response angry enough it’s funnier when it so uncharacteristically mad I might do a redraw with the face he makes in the manga………….. FUKKIN was smiley face man just yelling noises to cover flashy’s voice???? FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

OH MY FUCK WE’RE GETTING MONSTER CELLS THIS EPISODE. OH MY HECK WE’RE COVERING MUCH MORE GROUND THAN I THOUGHT WE’RE ONLY HALF WAY THROUGH THE EP

plot progression plot progression plo t p r ogr e ss i on hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Kamikaze being the badass that he is i lov

SPEAKING OF LOVES LOOKY LOOK God i love those three Okamaitachi is a WIFE and IAI is a BAE HEY WAIT let them speak come back they said words i want voices!!!!!!!  this is going so fast??? Oh my god I was absolutely not expecting to get the Suiryu fight this episode holy crap holy crap?? Ok but I’m getting pumped the music is hype “trying to hide his nervousness by looking like a doofus” “this is how I always look” Oh saitama why do they do this to you. Jeez as much as I love everyone else I forget how much I miss him. 

Oh and he’s getting his hopes up again sweetheart no

This is so good I’m hardly pausing to type my thoughts I’m too invested AND NOW ALSO IM DIGGING THIS MUSIC this is good v good yes and there goes Saitama being a genuinely good person offended by this jackass Saitama is too good for this world

His voice… I love him sm. aaaaaaaaaaaaaand its over. hmmmmmmmmmmmm so I have a guess as to what the post credits scene will be but let’s just see

YUP I KNEW IT cause we skipped it last week and now that we’ve introduced the monster cells it was only logical Genos no bby stop getting completely obliterated mannnnnnnnn

In all, no real complaints??? My children?? Have began to appear finally??? I just wish they literally went word for word shot for d\shot with Drive Knight if only because I’m STARVED for DK content in general. But based on the pacing of this week’s episode, will definitely cover a lot of ground and be pretty intense. I should be less, uh, screaming? Next week too. I’m exhausted from spazzing every 10 seconds hah. Well, I just skimmed the manga again and there might be some but yeah I think I can calm down for maybe 2 weeks. maybe. take a wild guess who should show up right around that time. ANYWAY Thanks for reading see yall next weeeeekkkkk

[ccarkus]

Its been a month but idk I randomly redownloaded my tumblr so heres what I remember of this au.

So this follows the in the water ending of sh2 and follows the eileen death ending of sh4. In his guilt of not saving eileen, henry had began to visit silent hill more and more for reasons he can’t really explain himself. He keeps coming back like it’ll be different like eileen will suddenly show up and he can take her back to ashfield like the 21 sacraments never happened. But as we all know it did happen and eileen is dead and theres no getting her back.

Well silent hill has this weird thing with people and guilt ya know? Sh2 is basically all about james guilt over killing his wife (or whatever ending u went with) so all these visits all this pondering and all the long stays drags the fog in it drags henry back not like he really notices however. Its not like hes in the other world with the rust hes just in ashy silent hill which isnt too unusual as silent hill does get fog from being so close to the lake. Anyways basically this all leads him to meeting james whos also wondering silent hill trapped forever like its his purgatory. The reason they are able to be in the same silent hill as each other tho is henry has ties to james even if he doesnt know it his landlord is james father (which explains why that weirdo kept an umbilical cord in his closet for years)

From there it basically becomes a like idk they kinda vent abt each others guilt how they both got someone they liked/loved killed and they can’t find peace because of it and it brings them close and they fill that empty spot left in both of them and the visits to silent hill become less about guilt and more about healing and being with james

This au originally gave a bad taste in my mouth cause I made it with an ex of mine but seeing ppl actually really like this little weird rarepair has swayed my thinking a bit so yeah. Thats all I really remember of this au and im glad ppl still enjoy my seriously old and seriously shitty art lmao. Hope you enjoyed the lore drop at 3 am maybe ill redraw it idk its just three panels and my arts so much better now lol

@teachingdespair @partyinthemysterymachine

Some gay shit at 1:30 am 👌🏽👀

Don’t look at my handwriting plz-

[sixthousandbeesdrawsponies]

The current berrytube challenge is a free weeklong mega challenge. The fanfic I’m attempting to illustrate is “for want of dawn”, I linked it earlier. I sincerely doubt I’ll get it all done by the deadline on monday, but I might as well try,. I’ve wanted to do comics for almost a decade but was never confident enough to try. lookit me now!! :D

breakdown after cut, mainly to help outline whats going on to myself >///<

First off, I chose this fic because I read it semi recently and it spoke volumes to me. *spoilers* the fics AU were the mane 6 didn’t make it to the castle of 2sis in time, and so NMM returned and there was a war. before the fic starts NMM and big C managed to off each other, but not before masses of damage has been caused. The sun and moon are locked in place and the world is slowly freezing.

flutters is the main an/protagonist, and consistently grieves the lack of kindness in the world now, how everythings so desperate to survive, to be kind is to invite death. nevertheless she is still consistently kind. I relate strongly. Pinkie shows up later and keeps saying “tomorrow will be sunshine and rainbows!” and flutters remarks how thats an easy promise to make when the dawn never comes.

Which hit really close to home.

In the very end, with the help from her friends, flutters gains the ability to raise the sun. Which is an INCREDIBLE metaphor for depression, which I didn’t see until just now. I remarked how people trying to help cure depression sound an awful lot like pinkie pie, how it sounds so easy when you assume the sun will come up. But then at the end of your character arc, with the help of friends, (and either medication or ancient artefacts) you can learn how to raise your own damn sun.

.... so thats why I’m doing this. Onto the comic!

I like comics with pictographs instead of words, because you can convey more information succinctly and it wont need translating. It does add a bit of challenge though.. and I might struggle on dialogue heavy scenes, and metaphorical concepts. “theres no more kindness in the world” now how am I going to pictograph that??

The first page is the one with the aforementioned animal death, which is unfortunate. Its meant to read a wounded deer 1.wandering, 2.hearing flutters, 3. backing away from scary flutters, 4. uhhh happy funtimes had by all, with a pop-out fluttershy singing to it to try and calm it down. 

I like the pop-out fluttershy, but I think it can be done better, and theres some issues with the drawing anyway (not that I can pinpoint them >_>). I also like the two deer I put effort into, they came out really well considering I havent drawn deer before and didnt use a reference LOL. I want to redraw it but I should just continue the sketching. (I like using the pop-outs music notes as a panel separator.)

The second page flutters returns to her cottage to get something to carry the carcass back to base. story says she uses a litter (??) I’ll depict her using an oversized bindle thing. The first panel has some pictograms thats meant to be read “meat return home ? ...need to visit cottage...”, I don’t like the image repeat at her cottage. was considering having that panel be a thought bubble, but then theres too much disconnect between page one and two (already considerable) which would be fixed if I redrew page one but I don’t know how to do that better ;n; ANYWAY the second panel is meant to show flutters coming across her ruined cottage with the ex-city of canterlot in the background, with the eclipse coming from behind the mountains. Thats a hard concept and I don’t think I pulled it off. the next two small panels are flutters finding the quilt in a secret compartment under the floorboards, and hearing a noise outside (signalled by !! coming from the window). Flutters tentatively looking down the stairs at the empty door, before making a break for it and encountering a wild soldier of the dawn!! gasp!!

I’m currently redrawing this page, (getting rid of a conceptually cool sword but its impossible to draw.) and I’ve already redrawn rarity and she looks AMAZING. easily the best drawing I’ve done ever.

The mane six got split neatly in half, with flutters & AJ joining NMM (flutters for hunger, AJ because big C razed everything), and twi, rars and RD joining big C. ponka joins AJ after the war, after saving a bunch of kiddies. Flutters is supposed to be a thestral, with bat wings, pointy ears, bat cm (not drawn) and fangs (forgot). Twi got promoted to general and rars is a scout under her, hence twis CM on her armour.

They’re still enemies, and rars thinks flutters is a big nasty monster stealing stuff from her old friends house. So rars tries to kill flutters ;n; You’ll find out what happens next when I draw it.

[comicteaparty]

December 7th-December 13th, 2019 Creator Babble Archive

The archive for the Creator Babble chat that occurred from December 7th, 2019 to December 13th, 2019.  The chat focused on the following question:

If you could redo one part of your story, which part would it be and why?

Cap’n Lee (Flowerlark Studios)

I can and do redo parts of my story. I’m working on a redux of the first two chapters of my comic, Dark Wings: Eryl (https://www.flowerlarkstudios.com/art-archive/eryl-redux-archives/ - rated M) right now. I’m doing so for quite a few reasons, some of which are very personal and have to do with my own growth as a person, not just as a creator. It was also to update the writing, partly to update the art, and because I took a three year hiatus a long time ago which created a huge, jarring gap in not the just art and writing, but also the tone and direction of the comic. I also sometimes go back and adjust speech bubbles in old pages to close plot-holes or fix some badly-written dialogue. I feel that if there is any part of my story where redoing sections can improve the entire course of the comic and readers’ enjoyment of it, I will. And if I don’t, I run the risk of losing inspiration for the entire comic because I can’t figure out how to work with an older part of it. Rather than twist my plot into pretzels trying to explain something carelessly written a decade ago in current scenes or allowing plot-holes to open, I go back and fix the bad parts. Reduxes are often seen as taboo by a lot of comic creators. But if looking back genuinely helps me to keep going forward, then I will.(edited)

LadyLazuli (Phantomarine)

For Phantomarine (http://www.phantomarine.com/), it'd be less about rewriting existing things, and more about... adding back in the extra pages/detail/fun-stuff that I originally wrote, but had to cut out to meet a reasonable page count per chapter. With the number of hours a single page takes to paint, I really REALLY have to streamline things, or I'll never finish this damn project Good news is, I think it's helped the pacing in its own way. And I have lots of fluff and fun stuff coming down the line that I think are better suited to the story anyway. So... I guess... in a different world, I'd simplify the art style, so I could just write more? Yeah, that. Let's go with that.(edited)

AntiBunny

We all have things we'd like to redo, but if we kept rebooting we'd never make progress. That said in AntiBunny: The Gritty City Stories http://antibunny.net/ I'd probably have set it in the 1980's instead of present day. It's hard to write mysteries around google and cell phones, or to keep the superscience impressive. Grounding it in a known time period would have been easier.

Eightfish

@LadyLazuli (Phantomarine) I just read through your archive and ohmygod, wow! Your art is so beautiful. The colors! The backgrounds! Every page is like a painting the panels are so well put together. And I love the way you draw the seaghosts all together. I can't imaging how much time that took. And the worldbuilding is fantastic and creative, and the dialogue flows so well, and I'm so invested in your characters (when are we getting back to Phaedra??), and your villains are so fun. Cheth is so fun to see, and such a unique idea, I am so into it.

twothirty

i actually did redo the first half of chapter 1 (http://versecomic.com/) when i came back to it after 2-ish years. I opted for a much slower start to introduce readers to this world where things aren't perfect but people are getting by. Originally i had it start off in the midst of a catastrophe and i just wasn't feeling it. I always ruminate on the pacing of my story, i think the first book moves very fast, and there's some scenes i'd make a few pages longer to just get in some more dialogue...

LadyLazuli (Phantomarine)

@Eightfish Oh my goodness!! That’s so wonderful and so kind of you to say. It’s my only current story idea, so I’m putting all the effort in that I can muster. Thank you for checking it out! This is the last of the chapters that help flesh out the outside world - we’ll be seeing a lot more of Cheth and Phaedra very soon... for better or for worse. I can’t wait to get back to them and FINALLY tie all the threads together Thank you again!

seetherabbit

The only one that I would do a redo would the first story in Vulperra https://vulperra.com/comic/flash-gauntlet-1/ Apart from giving it a George Lucas (redrawing it with improved graphics aka art skill), I would also add in pages before and after the 10 pages thats out. What I would add is Flash Gauntlet (the main character) tell the tale of him fighting the demon in the story. There's one story that I did a redo on before it got published, which is this one. https://vulperra.com/comic/guardian-of-castle-bogo-1/ What I changed was the climax and the ending. The story is about a bunch of people in a castle that has only one guardian who protects the rest of the citizen from monsters and such. No one else wants to use weapons and the guardian is tired of his work and tries to throw it on Flash Gauntlet. The climax is that Flash Gauntlet convices the others to help the guardian out by making better defences around the castle. In the old version, the citizens learns to wield weapons instead. I didn't like the old version because I felt it was too preachy, and the ending gave me a bleh feeling. There's a couple of things in the story that's being published now, and one future one that I could change, but that's more minor things that I think I don't need to go back to. I'm more of a "let the mistakes be and leave them as a reminder to get gudd" kind of guy. Unless I hate it the story, like the Castle short

Capitania do Azar

Oh I have done so many edits over at https://www.sarilho.net/en/. They're mostly to text (for clarity) and minor edits here and there for continuity or correcting mistakes. Tho more recently I found out than I have the time I shouldn't let it reflect anything less than my best work, so in the latest chapter I've moved pages and panels around to make for a better story flow (even adding pages when I realized I would go over the initial number of pages I planned)

Phin (Heirs of the Veil)

Sometimes I think I should have started the story with Victoria's situation at home and her relationship to her mother, since that is pretty important for the plot. But to be fair...not showing this at the beginning created a little bit more intrigue and I guess I'm not far enough into the plot yet to really want to change anything of substance.

sssfrs

I would redo chapter 2 https://tapas.io/episode/1486719 to improve the art and change around some of the dialogue

Ooh there were also some details I forgot to include in the most recent chapter

Deo101

I think I would want to add some pages to slow my pacing down, and also spend a bit longer on backgrounds. I suppose in theory I could add pages in now, but I think I'd rather put that effort into moving forward!

snuffysam

In terms of art - a lot lol, the early art of Super Galaxy Knights http://sgkdr.thecomicseries.com/comics/ is pretty bad. But I'm almost finished redoing all the chapters that were drawn on paper & didn't have shading, so that won't be a problem for much longer. In terms of the writing and pacing and stuff, I'm mostly still good with my earlier work? The one thing I regret is the end of Book 1 Chapter 7 - the part where Cahe straight-up murders three guys. I feel like it doesn't make that much sense for his character, and doesn't even resolve the "we need a rounded out team" thing very well. An ideal redo would change Cahe's ability to make more sense for his character - say, he can put a shield on Pejiba that reflects all damage to her back at her attackers. But making a change like that would make it impossible for Mizuki to use that ability while fighting Zebugu, which would take away one of the major aspects of that fight. At the very least, I'd probably cut out the page where Cahe kills the tank driver :p