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Hand Jumper: Canvas V.S. Official Edition
🕑 Added 2024-08-23 08:11:13 +0000 UTCFor a long time, I was too embarrassed to look back on the Canvas version of Hand Jumper. If you don't know what I'm talking about: before Webtoon began paying me to create Hand Jumper, I published it for free on Webtoon Canvas, a part of the platform that allows anyone to upload their comic.
I drew the first pages of Hand Jumper when I was 17, the summer before I became a senior in high school. In the current day, I'm about to start my last year of college. Enough time has passed between now and then that Canvas Hand Jumper feels like it was drawn by a familiar stranger. The differences between Chapter 1 of Canvas and Chapter 1 of Originals, shown here, are kind of interesting: the content is mostly the same, but the perspectives have been switched in every scene. That wasn't intentional!
All in all, I was surprised by how similar the Canvas and Originals versions are-- the art has evolved, but the characters and writing remain mostly unchanged. Speaking of the art... there's Canvas Instructor Sang and Iseul for you! Kill it with fire!
Comments
For_ART!
I've been following HJ since the canvas version. I must've been 18? 19? The original was good, now HJ is GREAT. I'd love to reread the canvas version, it is the reason I kept following the series to this day.
sleepacross
I wish that, too. Early in Originals preproduction, I feel like I was afraid to be too "un-fantasy/action series," and made the color palette more vibrant to match what you might expect from that genre. But in the end, I couldn't make Hand Jumper a genre-typical fantasy/action series anyways. We might see some style shifts in Season 3.
mey
handjumper just feels right in a more muted carnby kim palette. i can spot huge tone differences between the canvas and originals and even though the series now is much more polished, i do wish we could have seen the more mellow and melancholic version of HJ
