Tome One remastered!
Added 2020-04-27 02:00:34 +0000 UTCHello everybody! This week I've done something that's been due for a while--hundreds of small revisions and some big redraws to Tome One, and they're all up on the site! The updated extended PDF is also for sale on gumroad. There's three whole new pages in there.
Took me six days! It happened kind of suddenly... I was working on Tome Three and the latest drawings are so good they were really throwing into grisly contrast some of those super early panels that would make me shudder when I looked back... No disrespect to my earlier self but now that I've brought the more egregious early panels into line I feel much better about the work as a whole--feels like the comic has a much sturdier foundation now, one I can proudly work from (and comfortably forget about) until the end of this very long story.
Most of the big redraws are right at the very beginning, when I was just starting out. I can't believe the way I used to work, those old PSDs were total clusterfucks! I'm pretty workmanlike about my art in general so it's not like I HATE the old stuff or anything; it's the best I could do at the time, and obviously people liked it enough to read it which is good enough for me. In fact I was surprised at how much of it holds up... and even has some qualities that my newer pieces don't, like some pretty wild gemstone colour palettes.
As I work on the new books I'll sometimes go back and fix little things from recent chapters that bother me, but I don't expect I'll have to do a big revamp like this again; while I'll certainly continue improving and changing in style, the difference in art between some of the Tome One stuff and the rest was just too vast. To put it another way, the worst of Tome Two could still hang with Tome Three but the worst of Tome One was pure WTF.
Anyway check it out! I hope the comic feels tighter and stronger. It's a sweet time to catch up because Tome Two goes for sale on WEDNESDAY the 29th!
Comments
Now I own it!
Mecca
2020-05-04 05:14:47 +0000 UTCI'm not sure I have that much to say... in the majority of cases it was just going over wonky anatomy or messy lighting, improving background/foreground separation, refining details. The biggest redraws are the first couple pages of Book One proper, and I think you can see pretty clearly how the new panels are much more fluid, legible and full of action in comparison to the originals which are quite stiff and have lots of wasted space... storywise the new pages also do a better job of visually setting up the characters. There's also a story I added here: https://irovedout.com/comic/p-17/ which I always felt was a missed opportunity for some setting work. Overall I was surprised at how little work most of the drawings took to get up to snuff, I thought I'd be doing a lot more full redraws.
Alexis Flower
2020-05-03 16:41:51 +0000 UTCHey! I know you said you won't go over all the changes, and I get that. But! I personally would find it pretty interesting if you picked just one panel or page and did a bit of a director's commentary on it. Some of the changes look a bit different to me, but nothing I'd call WTF. It would be interesting to see the bad art through your eyes.
Christopher Vollick
2020-05-03 16:14:41 +0000 UTCDeal. You get $20, I get some Tomes. Win-win!
akrasia
2020-05-02 08:08:27 +0000 UTCThank you for all your effort.
Adam Allen
2020-04-29 06:03:26 +0000 UTCSounds like some sort of pornographic 'wheres waldo'
Generic
2020-04-28 20:31:41 +0000 UTCSame here, T1 is good, T2 is even better, looking forward to T3.
Generic
2020-04-28 20:31:10 +0000 UTCI really like the changes to chapter 1. In the original, Cinder looking out the window on page 3 always seemed a little wonky to me. Also, the flow of actions from one panel to panel is improved in the remastered.
Joshua Wolfe
2020-04-28 16:40:37 +0000 UTCwell no, it was printed 2 years ago
Alexis Flower
2020-04-28 03:31:55 +0000 UTCWill there be a revamping of the physical book? I'm considering getting that one.
Mecca
2020-04-28 03:19:22 +0000 UTCyep. You can still use the COVID69 offer code to get 50% off though.
Alexis Flower
2020-04-27 21:22:58 +0000 UTCBought ✔️ I already have the old version, but who can say no to a new edition? After all, the two girls have great tits ... um, I meant great personality!! (lol)
Antje
2020-04-27 21:09:13 +0000 UTCI bought both Tomes on Gumroad a few weeks ago, but when I try to access Tome 1 it gives me the "Original Product Listing", which is not remastered. Do I have to buy it again to get the new version?
DSqAZf
2020-04-27 20:10:24 +0000 UTCWondering if there are new pages comparing the old tome one pdf/kickstarter vs the remastered, or if they're all up on the site? Thanks, can't wait for the chapters.
2020-04-27 14:41:49 +0000 UTCyep that's life!
Alexis Flower
2020-04-27 13:54:31 +0000 UTCno way, you just gotta read it through again!
Alexis Flower
2020-04-27 13:53:59 +0000 UTCWell... time for a re read I guess!
Michael J. Aquino
2020-04-27 07:01:41 +0000 UTCCould you point us to what you've changed? I have no complaints about tome one, but I'd be interested in seeing what you felt needed fixing.
Fester's Lampshade
2020-04-27 06:36:44 +0000 UTCFWIW, I've no complaints about anything in Tome 1. Also I kind of enjoy watching the evolution of an artist's style and skill over the course of a comic, especially ones that started on the web. It's part of the journey you go on as a fan.
Dave
2020-04-27 02:43:00 +0000 UTC
