I was thinking about writing a bunch about the creative process on my current story and how the more you do stuff the more everything changes. In a good way. But that would require a level of presumption and narcissism that I would not feel comfortable with. It should just be sharing my experience of a developing project but if in the end it turns out to be a bunch of guff, well, that would be embarrassing.

Instead I’m going to put a few of the same pages together that I’ve drawn a bunch of times and they should speak for themselves.

One thing of note is that as the style develops and the pages get steadily better, the pages that are already done get steadily worse.

This begs the question of whether this will ever end. I hope we will reach an acceptable plateau soon.

^This page featured in an earlier blog post, probably from over a year ago and is now classified as “SUBSTANDARD for all of the reasons”

The content contained above in one page has now been embiggened to four pages of higher quality work. You’ll notice the change in style as well as quality, preferring the thicker lines and bolder contrast of the comic book medium over the thinner lines and less contrast of whatever I was producing before:

However I am also expecting these to progress into becoming substandard within an alarmingly short space of time. This is a modestly depressing thought but also a slightly exciting one but mostly not really much of a thought at all at the moment because I have other things to think about. Like redoing all of my earlier pages. For example:

The way I want the world in the story presented has been changing gradually and is now at a satisfying point so I’ll try to keep it here. At first I was favouring showing as little as possible but that was “PROBLEMATIC to future developments” and lacking the depth and conviction required to ensure belief in the place as being a place. Also there needed to be “BETTER CLOUDS” as I like drawing clouds and I was conning myself out of drawing satisfying clouds.

That was all a lot wordier than I wanted it to be and goes against one of my introductory statements:

“Instead I’m going to put a few of the same pages together that I’ve drawn a bunch of times and they should speak for themselves.”

and probably makes me sound presumptuous and narcissistic. It’s really hard to come across as a likable person in a blog post. It’s a good job you’re an idiot.