(year 2012)
these are some of the oldest snippets of bloodstain, originally it was supposed to be a fully painted comic but..it would take a long time to complete a single panel so I instead tried with a more simplified approach like you see now ^^
(also check that sick comic sans font) XD
also yes XD elly getting up, being late was one of the first strips I made about them.
Bloodstain was not supposed to be a comedy but a very dark horror like story with Vlad doing creepy cloning experiments, and boy am I glad that changed XD
Still these early explorations were necessary for me to decide what to do with the characters.
What I'm trying to say is, if you are struggling to find your characters voices just try different things with them and evaluate it later.
As I was writing this as a more serious dark themed story I discovered I always wrote in jokes and funny situations and my characters would never stay too serous for long.
I always knew the endgame would be Vlad and Elly ending together and on a more even ground so the story could never stay horror for very long.
Anyways there's more cringe old strips of this if you're all interested in the process in the future XD
Or perhaps sometimes it's best not to know how some things started ^^;