Small comic vignettes turning into epic monsters is no surprise to most comic artist and workflow is the bane of us all
a Few times now I have started out doing a 80 -100 page comic that soon expanded to 166 pages and then I once did a comic that was so ;ong, I found a spot where I could stop midway and turn one comic into two
There will always be that factor where you find that you can give more insight into a story by going off script as we comic artist want to make the best product we can. Then there are times when you get to a point and say, this script sucks as it is and I can make it better
So don't tear yourself up about not following a planned script
As to renders. Reduce the DPI of the render to increase rendering time, if you can reduce the number of ray tracing elements. Remember you are putting these images into a comic panel unless you are just doing visuals images without text. But if you plan to tell a story, then text bubbles and boxes will crowd your art.
Sometimes it is better to render a panel and use less speech bubbles in the scene and then rotate the image, do another render, and then finish using text bubbles
None of my render images goes beyond 150 DPI because in post work I ad additional contrast is needed and the comic life software I use had panel enhancement dials to sharpen my images for a high quality look
Lastly you want to feel happy about your work as you must first be happy with the final work, before you pass it on to others this way, hit or misses in how well your comic sells will be based on what floats the boat of your readers but you will know that you put out your best work.
You have a lot of time on your hands with the quarenteen make the best of it and make your you are happy with what your are creating..
Three years ago I thought I would never feel possible about doing transgender work, but now I have fun creating dozen of stories for another site, just as much as I like doing BDSM storied for Renderotica.,
I had a requested commission to do a gay comic and I had to turn the job down, I just knew that I could not get behind doing Gay art and pull it off to the point that I would be happy with it and that must be your number one priority.
and that is to be happy with what you are doing
Nuff said for now.
Regards Shadoman
Who knows what lurks in the hearts of perverted artist....
The Shado Knows