A change/evolution in your art style that surprised you

[Leyelle]

When I was younger I used to always draw my female characters with visible eyelashes and I never thought they looked pretty without them. Now my art style has developed to a point where I virtually never draw Notable eyelashes on my characters, and it honestly feels like it would be weird to add them unless the character's are supposed to be wearing makeup.

What's a change you never expected to happen that you've noticed in your art?

Eyelashes? What are these eyelashes you speak of? (Ignore Chili he IS wearing makeup)

[Skyy]

How I used to draw heads, I never really liked it but I didn't know how to change. Recently when drawing in my sketchbook when I'm bored I found how I draw heads has change a lot. I'll see if I can find examples.

Just something about the shape just was off to me but if you look at my more recent stuff you'll see that has change.

[applebun]

The way I used to draw noses vs. the way I do it now. I have an anime kind of style, so I originally drew the classic small vertical line as a nose. Then one day, I accidentally drew one of my characters with this kind of nose:

And I realized that 1. it actually looks a lot cuter and 2. it made it easier for me to draw wider noses without it looking odd! I mostly draw noses this way now, except if the nose has some kind of distinct shape, then I take more of a realistic approach.
Also the way I draw eyes. They used to have a lot more… iris in them. Now most eyes I draw look like this:

Which looks cool and is easy to draw, but sometimes it makes it difficult to add eye color lol

[Leyelle]

I used to draw noses more vertically too, again, because of anime, but there is very little obvious anime influence left in the Sketchy Business art style I think (what's left is in the hair.) I used to really want to be able to draw anime style, but it just isn't natural for me.

[KennethLopezJr921]

The way I used to draw muscles back then vs now! Back then, the most I would do for a muscular character is add a hatching line to define the biceps and triceps and that was it! Kinda similar to how Dragon Ball and most older manga with cartoony art styles did theirs

In 2021, I took an anatomy course at my community college the result of that was an increased knowledge of anatomy to drew better, and a discovery that drawing muscles was fun! Initially I would still keep them simple, especially for the comic but eventually I started drawing the muscles detailed during the sketching process. And now, I'm at the point where muscle detail is no longer implied or suggested, its fully rendered and right there in center! Pectorals, Biceps, Deltoids and even obliques are full detailed now!

I feel like the one character that's been impacted the most by this change is Scamp. I should make it clear that he's always been a little muscle head, but in early 2022, I began drawing his pecs more defined which I don't really do consistently since it depends on the mood of the scenes. And that same logic goes for how I draw muscles in general; if its a more intense scene, I'll go all out with the muscle detail to make it more epic. And if its a light hearted scene, I'll dial it back a substantial amount. I honestly don't know if I can go back to the way I had drawn them initially but I personally like how I do it now. Is it realistic for a dog or cat character to have muscles so defined it pops through their fur? No but does it look cool? Yes!!! Also, there are certain characters that are muscular but hold back on the muscle detail like Julia. But that's more of a personal preference than anything

[NGChloe]

As the years went along, the eyes got even bigger. It went from a more realistic to a more shoujo-esc look, just because I wanted the eyes to be bigger

[NickRowler]

People used to have normal eyebrows

By the end of Crow's Worth, everyone had these tiny brows, with a couple characters being an exception. This feature got carried over into my next series.

[kyupol]

I leveled up but overall remains the same style... except the smaller eyes