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Opinions on posting WIP comic pages?

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I've seen some artists that will post future pages of in-progress stories as they're drawing them. Sometimes on stream, sometimes on Twitter. Personally, I try to avoid it for comics I'm currently invested in because I don't want to see any spoilers.

What's you guy's take on it?

I'm not planning on doing that myself because I don't want any of my pages to be taken out of context without the words on them...

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ishkee

6 years, 5 months ago

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If you were to do such a thing, I like what you did before on Twitter, a partial of one panel. I love peeks but I think waiting until it's ready is best

misterpickleman

6 years, 5 months ago

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@ ishkee

I was thinking about doing that again. Maybe that's a good compromise...

ishkee

6 years, 5 months ago

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@ misterpickleman

Yeah it's a good option to have on hand to do on some occasions. A little peek without spoiling anything

curtainshowers

6 years, 5 months ago

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@ ishkee

That sounds like a good way to go about it

Kirapac

6 years, 5 months ago

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Little reason to post them unless people are bugging you about overdue commissions, etc, to prove it's in the process.

misterpickleman

6 years, 5 months ago

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@ Kirapac

Good point. I suppose I'm active enough here that folks know I'm still working and not sleeping all day. :P

esanhusky

6 years, 5 months ago

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I kinda agree with you. It can be fun to take a small part and post it to deliberately provide some out-of-context misdirection kind of fun, but I personally prefer to wait for the final product

caldaq

6 years, 5 months ago

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On comics i'd rather see them in the finished state, but everything else would be cool to see it at all stages.

LuDux

6 years, 5 months ago

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I'm into it, but it can spoil things. I think... for what you're doing in particular it wouldn't work, unless you really cropped things. Make it more of a teaser than a wip.

Gendasi

6 years, 5 months ago

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I'd love to see your WIPs! Then again, I just love your work in general, so... I might not be the best to ask.

It's always neat to see the process leading up to a finished piece as well. Some artists put in so much effort and others seem to just put down the simplest of sketches and magic happens in an instant. You never know if you'll be waiting a day or a week to see something shape up into a wonderful new addition to a gallery.

The line comes when over half of a gallery is WIP at any given time and the older versions never get taken down or consolidated into one submission, though. Looking at you, popular Russian artists on FA...

RadixPanther

6 years, 5 months ago

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I'm glad you asked this, I was thinking of asking my followers the same. A lot of the art I work on is related to stories that are also currently in progress. Often I don't want to spoil things. But, on the other hand, I also kind of feel like if spoiling a scene makes people not want to read the story, then it isn't a very good story. But I think it's a little different for comics, given that the art and writing are so tightly coupled. With a comic, I think 9 times out of 10 I'd rather just see it fully completed, and then look at the WIP afterward.

That said, I also think it highly depends on what you want out of the project. Collaboration vs presenting your vision as-is.