When should I start my webcomic?

[Morgana]

I have this story for a fantasy webcomic, I have a good outline ready and all the characters are pretty much set. But I don´t know if I should start one yet, cause although I´ve been drawing since forever, I don´t know if I´m good enough yet. I´ve just now started doing digital and coloring, and honestly all my art to me looks very stiff and amateurish, and that makes me a bit worried that I´m not good enough to get my project starting. I know Rich has said that art is less important than the story, but honestly a big part of the reason why I enjoy OOTS so much is the art, and the artwork has always been one of the biggest reasons I decide to try a comic or not.
I also am a VERY amateur author, and if you don´t count embarassing fanfiction, all my creative writings endeavors have been always DnD and GMing related and like a comic that lasted I believe 3 pages.

[Thorsby]

If you are invested in this particular story being good, maybe start with another comic to practice. Maybe something short.

Making a comic takes a lot of time. If you want to practice your writing maybe write some text. It takes a lot less time. Especially short stories obviously.

[Ibrinar]

Maybe try making the first few pages to see how it turns out. But it isn't necessary fatal to start with weaker art. There are quite a few webcomics where the art was significantly worse in the beginning. Like gunnerkrigg court.

[Jimorian]

Maybe try making the first few pages to see how it turns out. But it isn't necessary fatal to start with weaker art. There are quite a few webcomics where the art was significantly worse in the beginning. Like gunnerkrigg court.

Questionable Content is another where the art has *drastically* changed over the years as he got better at art.

There was one comic which the whole purpose was for the creator to get better at art. The first comic was a single black dot, and he went from there. (I can't recall the name of it, though I keep looking.)

[Morgana]

Thanks everyone, I gave it a shot and it´s not half bad I´d say, still not too sure about my writing skills, I haven´t even started coloring the first page, but I´m cautiously optimistic!

[lumy]

really thankyou soo much for all of you for telling alot of thinks that we should in our mind while starting webcomic we all have to built our writing skills must 10/10.

[Knaight]

It's definitely worth starting. You can always come back and redo the art on the early pages later (A Girl and Her Fed did exactly this, to pick one example) and when it comes to getting a lot of art practice quickly webcomics are really solid.

[halfeye]

It's definitely worth starting. You can always come back and redo the art on the early pages later (A Girl and Her Fed did exactly this, to pick one example) ...

A Girl and her Fed started doing that. It's not finished, and it's not currently happening so far as the public knows. Ignoring the original art may be a better option in the long run.

[Willie the Duck]

I've also seen a number of comics start, get momentum, and then go back and redo/fix some of the earliest art.

The best I can say is that you won't get good until you start making yourself work on it every day, and feedback (including, and this will almost inherently be the case, some rather harsh and frankly sometimes unfair feedback) will help you craft your writing skills.

[bc56]

I wouldn't worry too much about art quality.

Comapre the first Schlock Mercenary (https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2000-06-12) comic with this more recent one (https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2019-04-08). Howard Tayler even comments on how bad his initial art was in the annotation.

Bad art doesn't really make the story worse, and I personally read comics for story.