If you ever heard me talk at length about my comic, you probably would've heard me complain about "old sketches." I had attempted to start Dear Traveler; Obelin Story on my own a year or so prior. In that time, I had conceptualized the prologue and made these sets of of sketches. It was an idea and sequence I was rather fond of, but I found myself taking a break from the project not too long after. Nowadays, I find the guidelines I left to be rather crude. The art style is outdated, and there's a lot of errors with the anatomy and posing. This would lead to a large struggle early on as I wanted to reuse these sketches. I was still very fond of the visual sequence at display. I thought, by not having to create new material to work off of, I would speed up development time. I was wrong.

Fun fact, the outline (first row) was actually much smaller than depicted here. It has been significantly scaled up as originally it was a set of little thumbnails. The purpose of the outline was so I could see the page to page flow of the prologue and create the visual plan of which I would refine. That's why the outline is just a set of scribbles.

Down the road, I actually edited quite a bit of my line art. In comparison to the colored and shaded version of this prologue, there are several differences that could be spotted. I noticeably thickened Nyoka's neck in the last panel of the second page and even adjusted his knees in the very last page. Whatever else can be your own "spot the difference." I suppose this proves that even in my time working on my senior project my art skills were still developing.