You think your art sucks?
Well, you have this anime called "xxxHolic" (read as Holic) which was produced by a real Japanese studio. The author of "One Punch Man" was like any other digital artist out there -- he sucked at drawing -- and the manga only got an upgrade when a real mangaka name Yusuke Murata (who've worked on Eyeshield 21) reached out to him.
Tatsuki Fujimoto (the author of Chainsaw Man) also started posting comics online, didn't have much artistic experience and one of his editors once described how terrible he was at drawing manga. I remember stumbling upon Rebeltaxi's failed comic called Loki IRL on Webtoon and to me, it was still awesome. I am glad he is back to working on it and this time has an animated pilot trailer.
Here are a couple of panels from Jhonen Vasquez's "Johnny The Homicidal Maniac" and "I Feel Sick." I kind of blame them for making me add those loooong speech bubbles in BIOMETRICS. Just kidding! I still owe Jhonen for inspiring me to work on my graphic novel.
The rough pen-and-ink art style often resonated with me since I was a kid. I grew up with ol' newspaper comics which explains why. I've read somewhere the titular character from JTHM was based on the creator himself. This was back in the 90's and Jhonen later found it cringe. I love these two especially their take on society and pop culture except it doesn't take up most of the story.
Oh, let's not forget Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim series! It used to look like something straight out of Gorillaz before slowly turning into a cutesy anime-inspired masterpiece.
The second one may not look bad at first but if you look again, the characters on the cover appear to have unusually long necks. They're from Ken Wakui's "Tokyo Revengers" on the Shonen Jump magazine. The third one is a sample page from Hidekazu Himaruya's Hetalia webcomic.
There are just so many examples I could think of but I don't want this to be much longer. You know you've grown so much when the stuff you used to be proud of makes you hate it more. This is why the Internet shouldn't be so afraid of seeing bad art. Progress is just as important as the final result and what you perceive to be terrible could be worthy enough for someone to be featured on a magazine.
