[HD Manga] Chapter 3, Page 12+13 | Dealing with Mistakes

Hello, dear supporters

It feels good to draw these three again, although it drives me crazy as always when I realize that I forgot a pattern on someone's clothes again. In this case it's either Taya's tattoo or her spike pattern on her collar.

In fact I always tend to forget a detail now and there. So here is a side note of advice if you want to draw a series of illustrations with a certain continuity by using the a recurring character... doesn't matter if it may be a comic or concept art.

Creator's Lesson #1: Use References

In this case I refer to my own character materials like concepts, expression sheets or drafts. When it comes to drawing the clothes I use to keep one window on my second screen open where I can always see my full-body illustrations of my characters which serves like some kind of checklist for all the details. Sometimes. I tend to forget to look up those sheets until the the last touch and mostly notice the forgotten stuff afterwards when I have already compressed the image file - which can be really tedious if you notice your mistakes during your next check again and again. It is really hard to stay very focused at the end because you are already in a "get it done already!"-like mindset. 

A healthy dealing with mistakes

It always strikes me how some artists like the JoJo creator Araki can force themselves not to correct a mistake after they finished the inking and toning of a manga page. Living with it and learning from it, that's what they mostly thinking. I admire this kind of mentality. Furthermore it's often the case that no one except just you as the creator will take note of such details while the others will never see the mismatches between the depictions at all. I guess the reason why I'm checking my manga pages multiple times with utmost care is also because I attach much importance to single visual elements which play an essential role in my story sooner or later.  It's due to the nature and narrative style of my manga why I want to bringt the potential for visual contradictions between several pages down to the minimum. For now I can't tell much about those elements, but I will elaborate a bit more when the time comes.