SuccubusSyndrome
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Important Question about my comic
🕑 Added 2023-08-15 22:29:32 +0000 UTCSo i've been thinking. i've struggled for years to be consistent and post often, and keep my style looking the same as well as similar quality. that being said, through the pages of my comic you can see dramatic swings in both style and detail. Should i start over? When i started, i didn't really have an end goal, it was just one page at a time and that lead me to have a lot of inconsistencies as well as sloppy story telling/paneling throughout my comic.
I was thinking i should start over and plan the first book better, with a specific number of pages, add a little more missing detail, but generally keep it the same. I put so much effort into making the latest pages look nice and colorful but it ended up being too much work when i wasn't planning for any kind of end.
I would be posting my progress here for my patrons, but when the book is done, i'd be posting it to gumroad for people to buy if they don't want to support me monthly for the whole thing.
The plan is to do ROUGH story board sketches for every page before moving to the next stage, so that i can properly manage the storyline through the whole book and make things more clear and precise.
next stage would be clean sketch, then line work for every page, then flat color, then whatever kind of shading i decide to do if any. probably simple blend shading. this way i can keep colors consistent but also gives me time to spot anatomy errors between the clean sketch and lineart stages so i can fix things up with fresh eyes before coloring. sometimes you have to step away from a drawing to see what looks off.
This is something that's been bothering me for a long time and i've asked a similar question in the past, i've actually tried redoing the first bunch of pages but ended up changing it to colored from black and white and the inconsistencies make it impossible for me to sell it as a legitimate comic which is kind of what i want for it, and always did but never sought it out because i was using patreon.
idk i feel like stepping back and starting over would also make it easier to continue the story and plan easier. doing it one page at a time makes it too easy to mess up and have continuity errors lol and i want it to be something i can be proud of! I really wish i had done it better from the beginning instead of trying to do it how i was for so long.
I also feel like being able to post a completed book online as a digital download for people to buy will help with incentive to get it done, when there's no end goal, it feels like a never ending task and that makes it hard to keep going. and i can't really do that unless i start the original pages over and dim down the detail a bit so the pages don't take 8 hours each lol
I feel like this would be the best move stepping forward on here but i was still curious on your thoughts.
Also keep in mind that i currently don't have access to my hard drive ( because my dumb ass broke it ) and may never recover it, it could be permanently busted, i haven't had the time to actually get it checked because i have to ship it out and we've been super busy, so any " in progress " pages are technically lost, at least for now. so i can't work on the comic rn anyway unless is start over. *shrug*
