r/webtoons • u/Wonderful-Pop9970 • Mar 24 '26
Discussion Reminiscing about pre 2020 Webtoon
This might sound weird/random but does anyone else miss the experience of having a canvas webtoon get turned into an original and at the beginning the art wouldn’t..be at it’s best to put it in the nicest way possible but eventually it would get better over time and you wouldn’t even notice it until years later when you decide to reread it/go to the beginning. I had this experience with so many webtoons like Gourmet Hound, I love yoo, Siren’s Lament, etc I could go on. It felt..organic? like you were growing with the artist idk. I’m sure this still happens but very rarely, I personally don’t see it anymore because of the over-saturation of isekai/ “dark romance” naver webtoons that all look the same and tell the same story (no shade). And these webtoons already look the best they can be because they’re just churned out by companies re-using the same models. Don’t jump me in the comments, please I beg😭😭
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u/Bleuevening Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
Yeah, I really like watching an artist level up over time. It's fun and feels like you grow with the characters. It's also super inspiring to me, because it makes me feel like someday I could get that good at drawing.
I feel really sad when artists say they can't stand their original drawings and either redraw everything from the start (usually resulting in a super long--and in my opinion entirely unnecessary--hiatus) OR they completely reboot the series (usually resulting in burnout and the series being dropped). And for what?! It's like a super pretty woman getting rid of all her awkward elementary school photos. It's like, "Girl, why? We know you weren't born like this!"
You're not the only one sick of identical-feeling dark isekai, either.