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Nervous about my comic quality.
I've been writing my book for a long time (only uploaded recently) but going back to earlier chapters has me nervous about its quality. It feels like I need to redraw everything but right now I'm focusing on finishing the finale, which has taken a really long time. Anyone else go through similar phases?
A bit late, but I actually went through something similar a few months ago. The first chapter I drew of my passion project (not published yet) was drawn in my freshman year of high school... needless to say, I read through it again and even though a lot of people liked it, I didn't. The panels were mostly okay, but the actual text was impossible to read about 25% of the time.
On top of that, the art itself often had bad proportions, lopsidedness, and a couple of the character designs ultimately ended up changing over time. The story itself ALSO changed in some ways, too, so some of the things said in the first chapter did not correlate to that either.
My solution in the end was to completely redo the worst panels altogether, touch up the other panels with the liquify tool + adding on things from the updated character designs, redo some of the dialogue, and stop there.
The truth is, you're always going to see your older works and be unsatisfied with it. Perhaps 2 years from now you'll have the same feeling about your current art. Either way, if you end up redoing everything over and over again, you'll be stuck in a cycle of dissatisfaction. It's easy to want perfect, but you'll have much more success if you settle for "good enough", at least from what I've seen and experienced.
I appreciate your message a ton, and yeah, I came to the conclusion by the time I finished my book that whatever I made is “good enough” and I’m proud of it. Sure, I could do better and go back and fix everything, but honestly, I’ve found charm in the way it is.
My final comic was never my “dream project” and more of a launch point for more to come, and I’m glad I managed to finish it.