Aaagh, I don't like the way this came out! (Redoing your art/writing)

When I write, I am a perfectionist. When I'm done and notice an error, I'm just like, "welp, too lazy to fix that now." That's actually kinda the reason I want to potentially rewrite my first Pokémon JourneyFic in the future... a lot could've gone way better. Basically, I write and never touch that piece/chapter again. I just feel it gives me something I can compare my work to later in the future, no matter how bad.

With my art, I just draw and keep drawing and erasing until it looks good. Then I never look at that piece again, lol. So I'm not really compelled to fix it...

I just don't redo anything. It's either it's a part of my history or my laziness probably the second option.

 

In terms of writing? I usually just fix minor grammatical mistakes. I WILL NEVER go back to correct a mistake in my writing itself. I MAY create a remake or something of that sort down the line, but I will never change what I wrote.

In terms of drawings? Maybe I'll redraw something. But, usually I just like to move on a draw something else. That's it on my drawing side.

 

If I'm making graphics for someone else, I am, because I want to satisfy them.
If it's just in general I don't really care lol

 

I'm generally satisfied when I finish a pic but over the course of maybe hours, maybe days I start to notice the mistakes. The stiffness of the pose or maybe the parts that don't make sense shading wise.
So sometimes I do redraw older art but to be honest it's mainly to stroke my own ego and see how far I've improved. Some art I compromise "I can't draw this exactly how I want just now but I can come back and redo it. Now I have this version that exists to remind me of that."

A few months ago, instead of redrawing older art that had smaller issues I just went back and fixed those issues and it made me feel really happy with a lot of the older art I fixed.

 

I used to be a perfectionist. I still kinda am with some things. While I am writing or drawing things, I keep tweaking them until they are as good as I can get them. The difference is this: With art, I already know what to do to improve them, I just can't do it. So I just drop it. With writing, I will keep going in and tweaking it as I think of little things to fix. I updated a chapter on my one fanfiction like 3-4 times after uploading it, because I kept noticing things to fix or add.

Either way though, after I am done, and the passion to work on it is gone, I will not redo it. I have looked at my older works and considered it, but I no longer care enough to fix them. Basically, if I care enough to continue working on it, i care enough to fix it.

 

I am a perfectionist, no if ands or buts about it. I love to have everything in my writing to be just perfect. Due to my reading disability, it has hampered my word choice and I often find that I don't really care about the specific words as long as the idea is conveyed. However, my perfectionism comes in with the ideas. It hast to be this idea or image and nothing else. The words are just a tool to capture my image. If the image is captured then that's all that I really care about and I can move on to the next image (of course in editing I try my best to word smith).

I am a perfectionist. That's why I can't draw.

 

I constantly go back and review my stuff, fixing things like one or two words because I think it's 'not right'. I know nobody will ever notice that one word has changed, though...
#MissingNo

 

Oh heck yes. I usually have such great ideas which I think people will like, but then my writings just don't turn out like I would envision them. It really disappoints me sometimes. So yes, I would say I'm a perfectionist.

 

i usually would only go back and rewrite it, if it was for a school assignment or something. if it was on my own time though, i honestly almost never go back and rewrite my own writings that i write for my own personal joy. sure i'd fix the small minor errors but other than that, i don't usually.

 

Hello, this thread was made for me.

I CONSTANTLY erase/redraw lots of my drawings. (I'm pretty sure this only going to get worse as I'm doing a small little comic...) And when I try to make the line look better, it usually looks worse than before.

This is usually a pain, especially when I start making the lines darker. It's either is comes out perfectly, or I mess up the area near the eye and it can't ever be fixed. Hooray for more pain in my hand...

 

When I worked with Photoshop, I realised that every action that I found proper also had 5 things that I didn't like,so it was hard to get a middle point. Lets say "Yes" > Doing and Re-doing is a curse on me at almost every field and Drawing or Editing Pictures won't be the exception.
Now, while writing I prefer to do it at PC since I used to throw like 12 paper-balls every time a sentence didn't fit for me. I am still deleting entire paragraphs each time I try to write.

Note: I was an addict to the eraser when I was younger

 

With writing, after I finish a solid chunk and take a break, I'll often notice mistakes here and there and everywhere. I'll usually make an effort to fix it, but sometimes I just can't do it so I'll leave it like that for the next time I re-evaluate. Grammar mistakes are usually a must to correct, though. With drawing, erasing and redrawing and erasing until the paper starts fraying is a thing with me. ._. I rarely am able to get anything done right in one go, especially with drawing on a nice sheet of clean paper. Everything just goes wrong.

 

If I ever do this for whatever reason, be it art or writing, it's not going to be enough for me to make noticeable tweaks here and there and just keep on going. I'm going to have to gut the entire work and re-do it from scratch (or, in the case of writing, re-do whatever I'm gutting from scratch).

With art I try my damnedest to make sure this doesn't happen, since I go step-by-step with a trial-and-error process to make sure I'm satisfied with where I am then, before moving on to the next bit. Despite that, some banners still come out looking like crap, but I've been getting better about that and I'm seeing less and less of those - and if I do see one that looks like crap, I can usually tell early on in the process, and in that case, I just delete it completely and don't bother finishing it - sometimes not until later, sometimes never.

Writing is somewhat the same, except with how I write, everything is very deeply tied together (because most of my stuff is short stories anyway) so I would have a formulated idea ready from the get-go. I don't really attempt to 're-do' writing, though; more often than not I just completely throw it away if I'm dissatisfied, rather than trying to 'fix' it.

For either medium, I feel that if I made a mistake, I did so early on, and it was there near from the onset, so it affected pretty much everything after that. Therefore, the best (and potentially only) way to fix that would be to start entirely fresh.