Redrawing and reredrawing

The very first time I started drawing Collide, I posted the pages on smackjeeves. It was all well and good, but after getting a much honored critique from someone who I greatly respected, I decided to redraw the first chapter (which I had just finished). When I began to redraw chapter 1, I moved my comic to google sites, and soon after procured a URL for myself. And now, I am a few days from posting the last page of chapter 2.

The thing is...

I didn't script far ahead of myself. This happened because I was a bit frightened of the largeness of Collide. But after a bout of successfully scripting one of my other stories in a few days... I tackled Collide. And it went marvelously. I finished the first go a few days ago, and then proceeded to ponder the script and adding scenes which were necessary. I think it's pretty satisfactory now. But the result of this scripting was that I got to know my characters even better. And that meant that when I read my current Chapter 1... I not only cringe at the dreadful art, but now my characters aren't acting quite right.

And the other evening, I finally accepted that I would have to rescript and then redraw chapter 1. Again. Which, really, I have no objection to. Except that probably means I should redraw chapter 2 as well. Probably. The last few pages of it are actually quite satisfactory, so maybe I'll redraw up to those...? Blarg. I don't know. Chapter 1 is definitely getting redrawn. Chapter 2, probably. That kills me inside because I just spent the last year drawing those pages. A whole year. I don't call it a waste since my style has improved by leaps and bounds since then, but it's still murderous to my happiness to consider it too long.

But I'm still going to move forward with chapter 3, and work on the revised chapters in my spare-spare time. Yyyyeah.