Line #8 PlayingWith/ArtEvolution


1	'''Basic Trope''': The art quality improves or otherwise changes during the work's run.
2	* '''Straight''': Bob's webcomic starts off as amateurish pencil sketches, but a year later looks like something by a professional cartoonist.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Bob's webcomic starts as a bunch of scribblings in UsefulNotes/MSPaint reminiscent of ''Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff''. Some time later, the art is of Creator/NormanRockwell quality.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Bob's skills improve... but not by much.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** The webcomic is about a universe still being under construction by a god; with time, the universe looks better and better.
7	** A redesigned character in the webcomic just grew older between strips.
8	* '''Inverted''': The art quality actually declines over time.
9	* '''Subverted''': The art quality gets better... but it's just because Bob took a holiday break and the webcomic is currently being drawn by his more talented friend, Alice.
10	* '''Double Subverted''': But when Bob returns to his webcomic, it turns out he learned to draw better during the holiday.
11	* '''Parodied''':
12	** The characters travel back in time to the beginning of the webcomic and [[MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness end up in a crudely drawn world]]. They stand out so much that the locals revere them as gods.
13	** The characters go back in time hundreds of years before the beginning of the webcomic, and end up in a world of primitive stick figures drawn in UsefulNotes/MSPaint.
14	** Late in the comic, the characters notice something that was supposedly in sight all the time, but the crude art made it hard to make out before.
15	* '''Zig Zagged''': The art style shifts back and forth between the old style and the new style.
16	* '''Averted''': The art in Bob's webcomic doesn't change much.
17	* '''Enforced''':
18	** As Bob draws several pages each week, he naturally becomes better at drawing from all the training.
19	** Bob's been criticised for poor artwork, so he set out to improve his drawing skills.
20	** For a specific work, the medium is different, which requires the style to change to fit the setting. At least some of the changes stick even after the medium shifts back.
21	* '''Lampshaded''':
22	** "Remember when we used to look completely different and disproportional?"
23	** "Man, that one month of online art classes at [[BlandNameProduct Chillchair]] really paid off!"
24	* '''Invoked''':
25	** Bob treats his webcomic mainly as a means to practice drawing.
26	** In-universe: the characters cannot read a blurry clue, so they wait until the art gets more detailed so that they can make out what it says.
27	* '''Exploited''': A fan of Bob mocks his art style for being terrible,Bob is then motivated just to spite the fan.
28	* '''Defied''': Bob is aiming for StylisticSuck and tries to make sure that the art doesn't get ''too'' good.
29	* '''Discussed''': "I just wonder how are we all going to look in a few months, after the next mysterious Visual Upgrade event hits."
30	* '''Conversed''': "This webcomic may look bad, but the art is gonna get better if it is updated so frequently."
31	* '''Deconstructed''':
32	** Bob invests so much effort into his art that the storytelling suffers, and eventually Bob has to quit the comic altogether because he is such a perfectionist that drawing each episode takes [[ScheduleSlip too much time]].
33	** TheyChangedItNowItSucks
34	* '''Reconstructed''': Bob finds an art style for himself that looks nice, yet is also not too hard to draw.
35	* '''Played For Laughs''': "I've been in this comic for ten years, and I ''still'' look like a stick figure drawn by a four-year-old while everyone else has turned into the most realistic people in comic history! GIVE ME SOME [[TitleDrop ART EVOLUTION]], YOU IDIOT ARTIST!"
36	* '''Played For Drama''': A character's wife ceases to love him after ArtEvolution makes it clear that he's ugly as sin.
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