FIXING THE MOST EMBARRASSING WEBTOON EVER
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
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Okay this was painful to look back on but SO fun once I'd finished all the drawings! if you're reading this tell me about your first story/comic in a sentence, I love hearing about where we all started !!!
0:00 - Intro
0:42 - Dramatic Reading
2:58 - Planning and Organizing
8:04 - Redesigning the Characters
12:22 - Sketch Concepting
14:17 - Prop Redesigns
17:22 - Environment Redesigns
19:12 - Talking Story Rewrite
20:17 - Showcasing the Art
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i made cliche story about demons being good and angels being bad (basically like hazbin hotel but made by a 12 year old) and i exclusively used a cursive font that was very hard to read 😭
It was like a story where it was kinda this post apocalyptic world, where these magic alien guys had taken over and lived in floating islands, and they would find out about the humans that lived there before them and would meet this AI called Digi who had digitized the entire human world, but something went wrong and they all disappeared or something? I don't totally remember how that part went.
But the two sister main characters discovered her by accident, and she helped them figure out all the mysteries of what happened. Meanwhile, there was a human who survived, who was trying to digitize everything again so she could be with the family she lost. They would have defeated her somehow and she would've had to just cope with the fact that her family was gone forever I guess-
It was a pretty cool idea, but the execution was *terrible*. I picked the worst colors ever, there was a character I took in and out of the story, and even genderbent- I couldn't decide what order things would happen and I just never ended up posting it lol
I made a story about a cat and a dog but they’re like fbi agents or something and they had guns and stuff.
mine is just stories of my ocs and their lore 😭
My first ever story was based on W.I.T.C.H. and totally spies, but it completely derailed because I was a kindergartener when I thought of it! The mc had an alien sister, there was a lost sister storyline and their mother had gotten lost in a forest for years (but survived?) There was a mermaids special which was a crossover with another one of my stories, they defeated a dragon queen at one point and there were furry thieves. I've tried to salvage it many times, but I honestly don't think it can be saved 😭😭😭
I love how i can tell u watched souleater as a kid💀 (lowkey love the old art style tbh)
REAL this is the most souleater-esque webcomic EVER lol
I love Soul Eater, it's one of my favorite anime/manga. I also took inspiration from it when doing my own manga. 😊
I also see a bit of Gorillaz in there
i legit read souleater as soulter and i was so confused
SOUL EATER MENTIONED 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Honestly the fact that you even made a webtoon at 15 is very impressive 😭 I would just give up by like chapter 3 haha
Real 😭
that's so kind of you~ honestly if you get to chapter 3 that's also a big accomplishment though!!! comics are such a marathon
@Lavendertowne was impressive for doing that, i made a comic series at 15, but am only getting to making it a webcomic
I had made it with a small sketch book and inked and color it myself, using color pencils and those pens they give you as free merch. I had 6 chapters, with 27 pages
well at least they could draw at all.
unlike the thing is see on relfective surfaces
this is the most 2010s thing ive ever seen and i love it
To me it reads middle/latter half of the 00's. The 1337-speak, the edginess, how zany and "random" it is. Got a flashback to ”t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m" during the read through 😂
*holds up spork*
SHIVER PFP :0
@@Chroma10008 WOAH DEDF1SH PFP????
splatoon liker spotted
Cheese and rice SPLATOON MOMENT
'Afterlife Outlaws' is quite possibly the best title for characters I have ever heard
Hell that could maybe even work as the title or subtitle for the comic lol
god that sounds like a good story. i wanna read it so bad
this isn't a comic but there's a show called dead boy detectives where the main characters are ghosts who run away from death and stay on earth to solve supernatural cases instead of going to the afterlife. i'd definitely recommend it if you want a story with that sort of concept! 😋😋
@@ronilicious For the record Dead Boy Detectives is originally a comic! Love the show sm though :)
That would be a great name for the dead boy detectives, since everyone in the show keeps commenting how horrible that name is
me, seeing the thumbnail "oh wow is that coleslaw? I remember reading that..." and opening the video like "LavenderTowne made Coleslaw!?"
Where did u read it? Cus I’ve been searching for it
Maybe they read it on webtoon back in the day but now it’s taken down that why you can’t find it on there
@@Strawberryria_Mags It used to be on Smackjeeves! I spent all of my free time on that website back in the day, but it's been wiped from the internet years ago. I don't think it's been around for at least 4 years or so? I read Coleslaw there over 8 years ago though, probably even longer ago.
Been searching for it as well beforehand lol
she said the site she hosted it on is defunct now
As someone who lost 95% of my art from ages 13 - 15 I'm lowkey jealous you were brave enough to publish a whole webtoon you can look back to.
How did you lose it?😮
@@abeckorilla I'm not sure honestly! Between moving, purging pictures, and loosing sketchbooks in school stuff its hard to say. I only have what was documented on DA and my old FB that I'm locked out of. Oof
me too😭😭 i lost all my traditional art but to be fair it was all bnha ship art so i guess im not too sad
same but I sold them I feel bad for those lil elementary students who paid 4$ for them because they were so bad and everyone was hyping me up, so I believed them
I’m so sad that I lost my old books, I only found one as of now and it’s very cringe, but it’s also fun to see what ideas I had as a kid.
Calling your Russian character vodka is soo funny to me
As a Russian, this character is better than 90% of the russian characters in anime because of the one time he swears in russian
wait is he actually named vodka? i haven't watched the whole video yet
edit: BAHAHAHHA he actually is lmfao
its like naming ur brazillian character caipirinha
As a Russian, I genuinely love this
@@Tanyiishka as a not russian but a slav i completely agree with you. funniest slavic rep in media i love vodka
Got my Greek friend to translate the gibberish at 1:07
“Aloaps in tee-eh oronw plahe”
“Goth thamn amerihan vops”
“Oh-eeh-oh tee-eh feehk are psow”
What
lmao😭😭😭😭😭
15 yo Haley could have genuinely misremembered the Russians using the Greek alphabet instead of Cyrilic, and that's kinda funny
@@retro777br honestly I think that's probably what happened 😭
the second one sounds like "god damn american cops" LMFAO
I like to believe it was named Coleslaw to sound like Cole’s Law. Like Murphy’s Law that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. I think it’s an interesting way of looking at the title in relation to the story of how the two main characters came together by something going wrong! And I assume the rest of the story will follow misfortunes of the two and problems they have to solve together.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this haha. I totally thought that's what the joke was at first
@@kappathefish7171 I thought this too!
artist redesigning their old characters and stories is my FAVORITE kind of content
You said it
13:12 i hope you dont mind but-- i was raised catholic and one of my biggest all-time questions for my priest was always "where do babies go if they die?" and the church actually went through a few places before they settled on their current descision! at first, it was said that babies automatically went to hell, because they hadnt been forgiven of original sin, then the church said "actually thats a lil messed up" so they decided that babies probably go to purgatory (limbo, basically), and that was widely accepted for like, a while. relatively recently, though, the church decided that babies probably go to heaven, because like, theyre babies n stuff. so yeah! youre not technically incorrect, depending on when this is set and how up to date you are on the catholic church lol
Interesting. I was raised Christian and it was thought that babies went to heaven as far as I can remember.
That beginning is some grimdark shit right there. Imagine telling a child babies go to hell for not repenting, AS IF THEY'RE CAPABLE OF IT!!! That shit is one reason why I hate religion.
Does it depend on if they’re baptized?
@@thesilverprincess being raised catholic, I learned that if a non baptized baby dies, they go to hell. Therefore, once the baby is born, the church alarm parents to baptize their child as fast as possible to save their soul
It's crazy because this is also tied to ghost stories, some people thought that unbaptized babies couldn't go to heaven, nor hell, nor purgatory, so they would stay on earth, haunting people.
The drawing of Vodka holding Cole gives very strong “Don’t you talk to my son or I ever again 😤”
Its giving silco and jinx
It's always so fun going back to old works and making them new. The new designs are so interesting and cool! 😁✨️
It makes me want to look back at my old stuff and redo them because of how cringe they were but I'm not confident enough to look at them in a way that makes me think I can do better
I agree, but the thing is that all my old drawings got thrown away so I couldn’t get references for my remakes 😭😭😭😭
OMG I LOVE UR VIDS🥰🥰🥰🥰
Wow I didn’t expect to see you here!
I remember when you redrew a page from this webcomic years ago and i alwasy wanted you to make a video like this! I love rewriting my old stories :>
same! I also love drawing characters from stories I made in middle school. I wished so much to be able to draw them back then, and now I have the skills to do so
Me too omg! I was hoping for this video
I remember that one too!! I thought the concept was so cool im excited to see her fully remake it!! :33
SO THATS WHY THIS VIDEO FELT SO FAMILIAR! I REMEMBER NOW
Omg you remember that too??? :D
I’m still a teen but I honestly relate to this a lot. I used to want to be a writer but now I want to eventually make comics. I still want to use my old ideas because I still love them and I think they grew with me! This video was super helpful on how I can look at starting projects, thank you! If you can go more in depth about your project tips, that would be awesome!
Same I'm 14 and I have an idea for a comic and this was helpful
Start making your comic now. Im 16 now but started when I was 15. And remember making it will improve your art so if your first few pages suck, you can redo them later. And maybe start with your shortest story too so less scary. Try to do at least 2 hours every day and maybe more when u have the time.
Omg same 😭🙌🙌
lmaooo no way i immediately said "it looks like soul eater" then you said it was mainly influenced by soul eater lol i loveeee that one of my fave animes
this is a really lovely sponsor actually. rare that i actually watch a whole sponsor segment in a video, but you explained it really nicely and it links to your content so well! love this!
thank you so much!
I actually really liked this comic originally. The pacing is the only real problem, the characterisation was pretty fun.
Legit if this was a full comic or a TV show or somthing I'd love it, it's so fun seeing how newer artists can have some of the most amazing ideas and with a bit more skill they can be amazing stories.
I remember when you first redrew a page from this 😭😭 IM HYPED FOR THIS VIDEO
Same lmao
Oh, it's Coleslaw! I remember reading it after you did your original video on redrawing one of the pages from it (which I just realized was 4 years ago, wow), and felt a little sad when it went down with Smackjeeves.
Ok but you actually did a really good job in the old comic? The style is unique, the proportions are good, the characters were distinct visually and each had a unique voice??? Like seriously, you did better than a lot of people do now
Redesigning old work is one of my favorite things to do because it feels like a lil gift to the person you were who would be so stoked to see the progress you've made.
Loveeee the idea that vodka/cain has cat eye pupils which expand and contract. Like at the beginning of the story his eyes are slits, but by the end when he’s in love with Cole they’re super round and wide
I love that your style at 15 was practically fully developed and then you went "time to pivot!" And developed the style you have now. Very admirable!
Unicorn slaughter!
Maybe you were going for "Cole's Law" some saying or belief the MC was holding onto for the whole story. The fact that written out being a food makes it a recurring site gag to MC's chagrin. Booting an angel character into hell and forcing him to buddy up with a local is certainly going to test some personal philosophies.
Even with the older still experimenting artstyle, your coloring preferences are still present.
I actually remember reading Coleslaw a while ago and I do not remember the internet l33t speech at all 😭
my theory is: the story ends with cole somehow gains authority, and creates a new law, and it's called cole's law (coleslaw). Roll credits
The second i saw the thumbnail i remember your old videos about fixing certain panels feom this comic😭😭
The updated concept is actually so cool?? I would totally read it if it were real.
your old style is actually so cute i can really see the soul eater vibes in it
we need to stop calling mid and late 2000s "dated" bc it still holds up SO MUCH
YES OMG 😭
i’m gonna be honest, a few years ago you mentioned this story in a video and me, still in middle school, tracked it down and read it (or what was left of it) i thought it was so cool that you made a comic at an age so close to my own at that the time. reading your old work solidified my path to do art for a living.
so even if u cringe now just know that it was life altering for someone
(when you re read it at the beginning of the video i did start to realize i had no taste in middle school tho)
even though the story and character design aren’t that good, the art of the original one is actually really impressive 😭
What are the odds that this comic will actually get a finished rewrite? I would 100% read it! It sounds fun! Very 2010's!
omg this was posted exactly at 3am for me 😭
Same
It was 3 pm for me 😭
Sameeee, philippines?
3pm 4 me
8:01 pm xx
actually drawing seventy pages of a comic as a teen is so awe isnpiring to me, like even now I'm mostly just daydreaming about making comics one day always telling myself I'm not good enough yet in some aspect or I need to do more research, god maybe I'll start planning them with milanote and that will be a step further than just daydreaming haha :"D
I would read the hell out of this comic tbh
It's definitely a fun thing going back to things you wrote a long time ago. I've done that too with characters and stories I created when I was young, and yeah while simple and cringy, I found it a good exercise to try to update my stories with the knowledge I have now and make them more interesting.
So happy to see you revisit these characters!!
the way that there is ZERO question that you were inspired soul eater omg. iconic
Id honestly love to see this as an actual webcomic
the fact you're able to just develop a new art style and stick to it though a whole project is really impressive to me. I always have a problem with my art style chainging with every drawing I draw and the same character looking different every time I draw them
waittt chat i rlly love this new concept actually lavender pls dont abandon these cuties 🙏🙏(the urge to make my own comic of these two is resl why am i getting attached to literal concepts)
This webtoon looks like something I`d write if i became 12 again and got silly while writing the first few pages. Edit: this is talking about the og, not the remake.
I loveee these more personal projects/ your personal art videos these are so inspiring
same i hope she does more videos like this!!
I actually love the different fonts showing each character’s style of speaking it’s really unique
I actually read coleslaw! The original! You mentioned the comic in an older video you had made that I watched and I wanted to read the comic. So I had looked it up and found a website thing that had somehow like, saved or recovered some of the comics from the website that got shut down that you said you originally posted the comic on. So I got to read the whole story and I LOVED IT. Sure some things were confusing and stuff, but it was great and I loved the concept and things. When I finished reading everything that was written, I was sad that it was over and felt like it wasn’t really completed/finished and that I was sort of left on a cliffhanger. I would absolutely LOVE if at some point you could actually redo the comic and post it somewhere! You don’t have to of course. I know that you’re probably busy and have other things going on and stuff that you’re working on, so even if you do choose to redo the comic you probably won’t be able to until much later. But I would really love to see it and I bet others would too! Then you can make it even better and do all the things you wish you had done with the original, and even more people will get to experience the story and great concept but in an even better way! It’s such a great concept/idea and had/has great potential, and I would love to see what you could do with it! I bet it would be so amazing and I really would love to see it. So if you can, I would love it if you could at some point maybe try and re-make the comic (if you want to).
Even if you don’t redo it, maybe you could add to the original or something. Since the original didn’t feel totally completed kind of, so you could finish it sort of and continue with the story or something idk. I just would love to see you do more with it because it has a ton of potential and with your current skill you can totally do incredible things with it!
You could also just write it out and not draw it as a web comic or something. If you don’t feel like drawing out the whole thing or anything like that, just writing it out would be cool too!
As a fellow 2000s deviantart kid, these kinds of videos where you go back and review/redo your old art are my favorite. Its so nostalgic to see all of the design choices and character tropes that were so popular back then.
I’ve always thought this old webcomic of yours was so cool!! I’m so excited that you’re returning to it!!!!
"The moment I saw your oversized emo sweater I knew you would be easily manipulated" LMAO, top tier
Videos about character design and story building>>>>
They are so calming istg
I love that most artists have a BL phase
Why are they exactly the kind of characters I enjoy 😭 the redesigns are so cute
I used SmackJeeves when I was younger! I had a comic called "Vampire Chic" on there, it was awful! Now I am writing a comic which is that comic but better because I guess I never learned my lesson
i absolutely love the concept of this and the characters. i would genuinely love to see you re make this hole story. i kno thatd be a lot of work tho. would it be okay if i did my on redraw of the characters??
absolutely! :)
i wasnt on the internet when the original was made, and i think the style and inspirations are so cool to look at! that genuine product of the 2010's is very cool to me and id be interested in reading it
ngl cole and vodka + that artstyle is so good for no reason,i love how they look in the og and the redesign
It’s been a while but oh MY AM I GLAD I’M HERE!
It’s so cool to see an artist’s old work. You can see how much they progressed. Also it’s really neat to see this because I’m a teen working on my own webcomics, and I definitely struggle with getting things sorted out (especially the main storyline/plot).
My first webcomic’s premise is basically that ancient robots start to reanimate in a sort of magical post apocalyptic world, and two kids have to stop them! I started it when I was thirteen and finished the first chapter last year.
My other webcomic is about a werewolf and a witch who are both fugitives. It centers around them trying to survive and they eventually fall in love (of course lol). I’m currently working on the prologue.
This story reminds me a lot of good omens. You were very talented even as a 15 year old! The dialogue and plot was ofc so messy but the art was v fun to look at. Also I love the idea of one single baby deciding the fate of every souls eternity 😂
i must say, that original cover art was badass. i love that neon and bright SCREAMING cover, it really drew the eye! beautiful redesign:)
I never forget my old stuff, everything gets redesigned and brought back into the fold~!
I don't know if you're planning on doing more for this webcomic, but I personally would love to see more !! I love seeing people reboot their old characters and plots with fresh new ideas, art, worldbuilding, etc :D
The artstyle really gives Souleater and Ghost and Pals and I absolutely love it! :D
Man, I really want this comic. LavenderTowne is great at making up stories
Always loved the video where you redrew a page from your old comic so I'm excited to see another video like that!
ive been writing my own comic VERY inconsistently since seventh grade, (im going into my senior year of highschool). I recently rediscovered my love for drawing as i got on antidepressants, havent really been drawing much since 8th grade but its been and always has been a part of my identity. Anyways as i draw i always imagine it actually being a comic other people can read but that takes a lot of work so i just stuck to paper and pencil, besides i didn’t really understand digital art and i still dont. After watching this video and seeing the planning process it really helped me understand how to plan this idea to make it a reality which i am currently doing. I didn’t realize how hard is to be consistent so i’m planning everything out instead of just adding panels which is what it did before. I just redesigned the characters, and i had so much new ideas but they conflict with others so now i have to sort through everything and i probably actually have to make a plot too 😅 milinotes is definitely a big help tho, its literally what my brain would create if i could create a notes app like it’s actually just perfect i can’t believe its free, and it seems more efficient for me than a planner (i have severe adhd and have trouble organizing my tasks)
Are we living the same life?? We actually have the same timeline! I've literally been doing the exact same thing! I put my 7th grade comic on pause though, since it's a bigger project, and I'm working on smaller comics at the moment. Good luck with your comic process!!
@@carmelsela7430 oh wow thats so cool, i should look into doing smaller comics to practice having a complete plot as thats one of my biggest struggles, last night i redesigned the characters to and im currently making a rough draft of what will hopefully soon be the first episode. Its so interesting with a big project like this watching the improvements
one of my first comic ideas was a creepypasta fancomic where all the fan favs were in highschool, very much inspired by my love for monster high at the time 😭
u shouldve made it honestly
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I really love the video and it’s really inspiring seeing how you created a whole comic as a 15 year old and how far you came from. As somebody who’s 15 turning 16 in a couple of months who’s also trying to create a webcomic.
Luv your video and I can’t wait for more especially one about webcomic.
i'm actually in the process of revamping a very old idea for a book of sorts that I had. I'm turning it in for a grade eventually, and milanote makes it seem more polished than the google doc i was originally organizing things on. (for the one-sentence thing: radioactive acid nuclear fallout on hawaii, but some random 12 year olds survived)
I love watching your process of design and just watching the drawings come together is super cool!!!
0:15 your new animations are so cute!!
I absolutely love this !!! maybe its just because im working on a webcomic as well, but watching this and your process of planning/ remaking a webcomic is so so cool to me. id be so into more content with these boys! maybe even a redraw of a page would be cool
I LOVE your new art BUT SOMETHING ABOUT THE NEW ART IS JUST....UGH it speaks to my soul!!! I think the original comic is amazing honestly the biggest issue with it was the backgrounds but it doesnt need to be changed so much(imo) !IS THERE A PLACE WE CAN READ THE ORIGINAL??? ;__;
PLEASE. PLEASE PLEASE IM LITERALLY BEGGING YOU TO MAKE THIS A REAL COMIC WHEN YOU HAVE THE TIME 😢😢
I love seeing you redraw old art!!! Youve improved so much
I remember you talking about this before!!! I love looking at artist's old work :D
I would love to see you do a video like this with some of your other old webcomics! Like I remember you saying in an old video that you had another old webcomic called “Salem” and the storyline and concept of that sounded interesting too. If you could possibly find a way to share your old webcomics with us then I would love to read them! although the execution of the stories you made might have not been the best, the ideas and concepts sound super cool and interesting. Your younger self put effort into your old comics and the ideas are amazing. It shows your development as an artist and writer and just as a creator in general. I really would enjoy being able to read your old web-comics, if there is a way that you could possibly share them with us!
“Get the bad drawings out” is so real I can’t 😂
I love it when you add pressure sensitivity to your art!!! Its so pretty! I also looove how your sketches look! so cute
nooo its not so bad! after all you improved and it helped you a lot! good job as always
this was so inspirational world-building wise!!! it makes me want to really flesh out my own stories deeper, thank you :D
I loved this redesign!! So fun seeing your creative process reinventing the characters :) :)
I honestly love the art in the og! And the writing isn’t nearly as bad as some other webcomics I’ve seen! XD
These are adorable! I love the new designs sm TwT really reminds me to go and work on my WIP comic right now... you're a HUGE inspiration, keep it up!
This is so amazing 😭😭💖💖 I used to want to make comics but literally never even made a full page LMAO I am so blown away by all of the work you put in at such a young age, and I love these new concepts and designs!!
i really love your designs, you're actually one of my motivations for making good character designs. I struggle with it a lot but seeing yours help me a lot. I am also still changing my character's design bcs when i made them i didn't searched anything abt the cultures i was refering to (i just did a session of reseachs abt middle east culture bcs one of my characters is inspired by it)
anyways, i wanted to say that i love your arts and how you design your characters and it inspire me a lot
i’ve never been this early to an upload! i love your videos!!
YOU ARE SO COOL!!!!! Your ideas from when you were younger were already super cool and now with how you've grown and with more experience and stuff, this would actually make such a sick webcomic. I would 100% read this. You are such a creative super power! Thank you for sharing your art and creative journeys with the world, you've really helped me grow as an artist :3
I love the dramatic reading lol😭
your characters are always so cool! 😮
Finally. A sponsor segment that is useful to the video.
I've been reworking an old comic from the 4th grade since 6th grade (im in highschool now) and this actually is helping me think through the reworks and being able to truly put it down somewhere! :-)
I love the relationship between cole and vodka, they're so sweet to eachother 🥺♥︎
This has inspired me to try my hand at making a webtoon because ive had so many ideas floating around but never got to. Love your stuff
Honestly I need this comic to be rewritten cause I’m hooked!!
Afterlife Outlaws has a ring to it though... I would totally read that