Happy July 4th to all my American viewers! 😀 I’ll celebrate by watching fireworks on TV and eating hot dogs. And possibly clear the next dungeon in Twilight Princess.
This page was originally composed of 3 panels, but when I looked at it earlier this week, I hated panel 3. I was trying something new and it really didn’t work. I was going to just leave it, since I was on a time crunch and couldn’t think of something better, but looking at it earlier just made me cringe so I changed it last minute. While I know you readers are going to be with me on my artistic journey, and the only way to get good at stuff is to suck a it for a really long time, sometimes, I really just can’t put up the bad crap. I think this page works better now anyway. 😀
I’m a “artistic journey” artist versus a “everything must be perfect before I post it” artist myself, and I think revising stuff that honestly isn’t working is just fine. A lot of times when I finish a page’s inks, I’ll look at the whole thing, find the weakest panel and redraw it.* I think that’s saved my readers a lot of misery. And it’s not like not showing it to your readers negates the practice you put into making it. So maybe in a different place and time, you can try it again and it’ll work out better.
*You can actually see the old version of one of my panels in today’s Sombulus page before I redrew it. Thought about editing it out, but decided that no one would probably notice. 😛
I wish I could be ‘artistic journey’, but my perfectionism tends to win out at times. I’m getting better as I get older… I think. XD