My old and new work for your amusement.
First is my giant dog character, Bienfang. Didn't want people to always compare him to the wolves in Princess Mononoke. Made him more puffy and smaller eyes like a dog. Anatomy looks better too. Owning a real dog for a year helps.
Starla and Scout. Working with these characters I really got to know their personalities and how they would react to situations. The expressions I think are the biggest change other than the obvious improvements overall.
First is my giant dog character, Bienfang. Didn't want people to always compare him to the wolves in Princess Mononoke. Made him more puffy and smaller eyes like a dog. Anatomy looks better too. Owning a real dog for a year helps.
Starla and Scout. Working with these characters I really got to know their personalities and how they would react to situations. The expressions I think are the biggest change other than the obvious improvements overall.
Nameless(right) and Faceless(left) This is an inking of an old drawing. The biggest changes are in Nameless' anatomy and face. The hair was really messed up when I first draw this character. Now the hairline looks like it fits to a real person.
Darcie. Starla and Scout's older sister ten years before the present setting of the story. (She would be 12 years old in these pictures.) I really used to hate drawing children and didn't care much for the overly huge eyes. I was (actually from the beginning) going for a realistic manga style. It was really hard to draw children with out making them look like an adult with out the very big eyes. Now years later, I decided to drop the very big eyes and still manage to make kid characters look like kids.
Similar concept as Darcie. It's Starla as a seven year old. (The picture of her as a 17 year old is above) I used a photo of one of the 1st graders I taught this year a reference.
This character Chase changed the most. He's supposed to be 12-14 year old, not quite a kid not quite a guy. He goofs off sometimes ,but for the most part he's a serious supporting character. He knows a good amount of the secrets of the story, but is forced to keep it to himself due to his master and thus he feels bad about it. I do like the smaller eyes and more teenage look in the recent picture(it fits more with what kind of character he is), but he seems to look too attractive for a supporting character. (Looks like one of those emo yaoi bishies.) Much more cute than the main characters(my poor ugly Scout...).
So thus I both love and hate Chase.
(Oh yeah... I got Chase's hair part wrong... Either I change it or say it was always like that. Hahaha!)
