Zoe first reboot 1-1
I will start updating Sun, Mon, Wed until the comic is all caught up.
This is the start of the first reboot to Zoe. Originally made on March 21st 2014. By this time I had dabbled into porn and fan service enough to where I thought it made sense to embrace it in the main comic, partly at first. These early arcs I wasn’t fully willing to make it full blown porn, was thinking more of like those ecchi animes. So there is a lot of partial nudity and panties, but no full blown nudity, and not hardcore sex for quite a while.
The art is a leap over the first version of the comic, but during these early arcs especially I made her head WAYYY too big (like a bobble head). The size is often very inconsistent between pages. Over time I eventually settled on where I like the head (basically equal to the distance between shoulders and to of bikini area, just slightly smaller than that).
Discussion (3) ¬
I like the art style in this iteration of Zoe. The desaturated colors work well and your linework is vastly better than in the first go ’round. I’m really glad you found these pages and are posting them for us.
That said, though she’s cute and all, I am less crazy about Zoe’s physique here. I know the “big heads” thing is part of your style, but on this page at least it seems really out of place. Maybe it’s because the rest of the body is pretty realistic, less cartoony. Or maybe she just seems a bit pudgy, especially in the top panel.
Yeah the first 50 or so pages of this reboot the art was all over the place as far as her proportions. I was so concerned with IMPROVING the art, that I ignored the first step of drawing, consistent character proportions.
I haven’t looked through all the pages in 5 years, but at some point she will get a body type much closer to where she was just before the newest reboot. It goes black and white around arc 12 and stays that way till the reboot (which would be something like arc 35 or so). This version of Zoe had a few mini reboots within it but where pretty much going, ignore what came before now is where it starts (it still all fits together like one version though).