* James Howard got his start working on ''ComicBook/TheAstoundingWolfMan'' and his growth as an artist is '''very''' evident. In the early issues his art was cartoony and character anatomy was a little odd. Yet he improved so that by the last issue he was using much more shadow and his designs were significantly more intricate and detailed.
* Naturally, every [[TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] character has gone through this. For example, {{Superman}}'s emblem wasn't quite the shape we know today when he first came out. Also, {{Batman}}'s costume was modified a lot in the first few stories and, appropriately enough, it wasn't until Robin debuted that Bob Kane had come up with all the main elements of the design.
* ''{{Tintin}}'' improved enormously as Hergé developed his signature ''ligne claire'' style.
* The Wolfrider elves in ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' were originally quite short and stocky, since their design was influenced by the elves in Creator/RalphBakshi's ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}''. As the series went on the elves appeared to gain about 6 inches in average height. When the original series was reprinted by Marvel comics additional pages had to be added to fit Marvel's page count, and the difference in style between the [[http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ02/DisplayOQ02.html?page=9 old]] and [[http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ02/DisplayOQ02.html?page=17 new]] artwork is very noticeable. (The new pages were retained in subsequent reprints and the online edition).
* André Franquin's style evolved dramatically during his work with ''ComicBook/SpirouAndFantasio'' and ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe''.
* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' has become much less scratchy and much more rounded, smooth and neat as time progressed. Just compare the [[http://scottpilgrim.com/index.php?id=previews covers of volume one and volume 4]]!
* ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' has improved a lot over time, the linework improving very noticeably over the first 25 issues or so and continuing to get better in smaller ways, and the jump to color which started good and became incredible.
* Likewise fellow Anartic series ''NinjaHighSchool'' did so as well. Starting off from a look reminiscent of Golden Age comics to a more cartoony look giving the characters wider eyes and less thick outlines.
* [[http://blog.dootdootgarden.com/ Craig Thompson.]] You can tell ''Blankets'' and ''Habibi'' are done by the same guy, but the difference in skill and execution is amazing.
* ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'' faced a drastic improvement in its artwork over the first 50 or so issues as Dave Sim moved from aping Frazetta-style fantasy art and started developing his own style. When Gerhard started doing the comic's [[SceneryPorn background art]], freeing Sim to concentrate on the characters, the art improved again.
* ''Buddy Longway''. Even if Derib's way of drawing landscapes has always been extremely detailed, his character design went from somewhat cartoonish to highly realistic and detailed during the years.
* The entire point of the "Mick [=McMahon=] Collection", a collection of ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' strips bagged with Meg 301, see to have been to illustrate just how much [=McMahon's=] art improved. "The Howler" is crude and blocky, and it's often difficult to tell what's supposed to be going on. "Voices Off", on the other hand, looks like it was done by a completely different artist; it's very detailed, infinitely more realistic, and also nicely fluid.
* ''{{Nodwick}}'' gradually got more stylised during its time in ''{{Dragon}}'' magazine. Most notably, in the early strips, Nodwick's nose and Piffany's glasses are both realistically sized. (One strip suggests Nodwick's nose has gained mass to balance out the stuff he's expected to carry on his back, and in an interview Aaron Willia says Piffany's eyes keep getting wider with shock at what her teammates get up to.)
** Parodied/Lampshaded in a ''DorkTower'' strip celebrating ''{{Dragon}}'''s 30th anniversary. The strip purports to show how the three strips then running have evolved over the years. A genuine early Nodwick, crude stick figures that are supposed to be "early ''[[PhilFoglio What's New?]]''", and an "early Carson the Muskrat" ... who is actually Yamara.
* This becomes a minor plot point in ''Comicbook/TeenTitans''. In Raven's early issue appearances, she looked every bit like an average teenage girl. But George Perez gradually gave her sunken eyes, a gaunt face, and receded her hairline, giving her a darker and more sullen look. Cyborg notices this early in the ''Terror of Trigon'' saga when he looks through some old photos, and is the first to realize her demon father's influence is taking over. After Perez left the title for other works, his successor Eduardo Barretto drew Raven more like her earliest self (although after he left, other artists took her back to her gaunt appearance).
* In ''GenerationX'', Skin has the mutant power of extra skin that he can control at will, sort of a pseudo-RubberMan. However, it left him grey-skinned and ugly in the beginning. But by the end of the book's run, he had this roguish handsomeness going on. It's never addressed in the books, but it's fun to imagine that as he found new ways to make his powers useful, he began altering his appearance, or that his improved self-image made him more attractive on the outside.
* [[http://disneycomics.free.fr/Mickey/show.php?num=5&loc=YM037 Behold!]] The exact moment MickeyMouse's eyes changed in the comics!
* ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'' changed artists between volumes 1 and 2.
* ''ComicBook/TheMask'', the original series' first album, illustrated by Dough Mahnke, goes through quite an evolution in its art and coloring style.
* This also happened with LoveAndCapes, between [[http://www.loveandcapes.com/readit/lnc0104.html the first appearance of Abby and Mark]] and [[http://www.loveandcapes.com/readit/lnc0145.html just an issue later.]]
* ''ArchieComics'' has gone through some serious redesigns over the past 50+ years. The art was simplified sometime within the 60s or 70s and occasionally Archie tries out a new design - to which they always return to the "classic" one in the end.
* ''MortadeloYFilemon'' looked [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DBGRwBG2dbk/T2Gk4GhEfrI/AAAAAAAABW4/p9ewIdezEKk/s1600/mortadelo+y+filem%C3%B3n.gif like this]] in 1956. And [[http://www.oconowocc.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/OLE-N-%C2%A6191-Mortadelo-Filemon.jpg this is the cover]] for one of their latest books.
* Noticeable in TheBeano when David Law was drawing DennisTheMenaceUK the character actually grew over the years from a small child who looked about 8 to by the 70s the character was lanky almost teenage looking character. The character's design stayed constant when David Sutherland took over drawing him in the 70s and then finally the character was made smaller and younger looking in the 90s in time for the AnimatedAdaptation.
* Steve Moncuse's art in ''ComicBook/FishPolice'' took a more "shiny" appearance when the comic changed from black-and-white to color upon moving to Comico. Interestingly, he kept the color-friendly style even when it moved to Apple Comics and reverted to black-and-white.
* In the German comic ''ComicBook/{{Werner}}'': Can be watched throughout ''Oder was?'' and over the course of the first eight books. The drawings got clearer and more detailed. ''Eiskalt!'' let a shade of gray enter. Some stories from ''Normal ja!'' on were inked, yet still remained grayscale. ''Ouhauerha!'' was the first book in color, and when its successor ''Wer bret hat Angst!'' was released, the art had evolved so much that people decided this wasn't the ''Werner'' they knew and loved anymore, also because hardly anything was actually drawn by Brösel hielf anymore rather than the staff of artists he had hired meanwhile. %% This entry was added automatically by FELH2. In case the wording doesn't make sense, rewrite it as you like, remove this comment and tell this troper.
* ''ZipiYZape'': Compare [[http://www.recuerdas.es/tebeos/zipi-y-zape-por-josep-escobar-primera-historieta-publicada-en-la-revista-pulgarcito-numero-57-en-1948.php this]] and [[http://www.tenyten.com/entretenimiento-infantil-destacadas/humor/1066/zipi-y-zape-se-pasan-al-cine this]].
* Ken Penders is an odd case for ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'': His earliest work closely resembled official artwork from SEGA, but as he continued on, he drifted towards a [[DarkerAndEdgier grittier, more realistic look]]. He has a deep-seated grudge against current main artist Ian Flynn, who began mimicking what the video games looked like and has followed their appearance with microscopic detail since.
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