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Been a while since I made a topic huh? :sweat_smile:

Let's do a thread about art evolution! Show me your art over the years (or months or weeks if you are a new artist).

Goal of this thread is secretly to inspire artists hopefully and show we all started somewhere

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I'll start and I'll use Danivere to showcase my growth

2019:

2020:

2021:

2022:

2023:

Ooooh that's a cool evolution! Totally inspired me to go and check out your stuff (and get stuck reading for an hour instead of working, eheheh), nice!

I don't exactly have one character who goes through the years, but let me try to collect some stuff... I'll go in twos, otherwise this thing will be too long.

2010 -

2012 -

2014-

2016-

2018-

2020-

And finally,

2023-

Ok, time to dig deep down into the depths of my deviantart gallery
some of the oldest artworks I could found that I could find online

2009:


mouse and... I think photoshop...


scanned lineart and painted (most likely) in photoshop

some less eye-bleeding stuff from 2016:


how obvious it is that I've never been a fan of drawing backgrounds? 'xD

and finally some current stuff:

ok, bonus - comic making progress

2009 (first version of Vampire Prince)

2013 - doujin phase:

and current:

EDIT
ehm... does anyone know how to unstretch deviantart links?
EDIT 2
you don't use them, you upload everything from your harddrive...

I really need to dig out some of my first drawings for threads like these but theyre all packed in the basement :cry_01:

But I got these of my comic characters, helps me on days when I feel like I struggle to much, that I do improve a little every year :sparkles:

First one is 2013, the first lil idea of the characters was born

This was 2016

And 2020

Oh God, it's naked baby photo time. Alright, let's do this!

2018- the whole gang.

2020:

2022:

i had my drawing tablet since 2018 but started to actually use it since 2020

2021

2022

2023 (yesterday)

(this is all the same character)

Here is how my OC Anna changed in 14 years. She still has violet as main dress color and I found a way to draw her hair.

This is a pretty cool idea! I've been practicing drawing manga for a long time now and it's always so fun and nostalgic to go back and look at my old artwork. I believe I've evolved considerably since the start and I'm quite proud of my progress! Hopefully I'll get even better in the future.

2019:

2022/2023:

well we can start with 95 XD and WoodD

2003 The anime-ing

2007 ish oc take over

2010's uni hell

Art break from 2015-16 due to work n health.

2017 return

2019 dive into digital art and the start of Mythic mayhem X3

2021 spirit caller starts

Current

Yā€™all are so good, I can see the improvement!
Hereā€™s mine

Iā€™m been drawing for a while but I started digital art around 2020

2020

2021

2022

2023

I've been drawing her for almost 10 years now, and she's gone through an enormous evolution!


Man itā€™s times like this I wish I could find that Undertale fan comic I drew on notebook paper in 2015. It was my first attempt at a comic, and of course I ended up throwing it away like the goofy goober I am

Anyway, hereā€™s the first serious drawing I ever made:

That was in winter of 2015.

All my sketchbooks from 2016-2018 are at home, so unfortunately I canā€™t share anything from those. But hereā€™s a page from the first webcomic I ever attempted back in late 2019:

(That comic never got finished, but I am planning on rebooting it soon)

For a while in 2020 I tried doing a sort of slice of life style strip. Hereā€™s some headshots from that:

From 2020 to around the very end of 2022, I pretty much only did lineless art. Hereā€™s one of the last lineless pieces I did, in September of last year:

And now here we are with some of my work from over the past few months!

Does the guy on the right in that last one look familiar at all? Told ya Iā€™d be rebooting my first ever webcomic soon! ;^)

And just as a little treat, hereā€™s the most recent thing Iā€™ve drawn:

It's for one of my upcoming finals, so it's technically still a WIP, but I don't think I need to do much more with it beyond tweaking a few things.

And that's my art journey so far!

1998~ Pre-digital period

2003~ Art growth period

2008~ Gray period

2013~ Return to creative period

2018~ Webcomic period 1 (current)

I don't have a lot of my older art, but here we go!

So these are from 2015. Back then I used to draw with the track pad because I was broke(still am).


2016, still using ye olde track pad, but also still doing trad art.

2017, I was using my phone because I had a stylus, so my stuff is neater, but I also did more sketching.

2018, I was actually finishing stuff, lol.

2019, this is the only one I could find that's for sure from this year, lol.

2020, I did a lot of drawing for reasons that have to do with having a lot more time.

2021 By this point I'd gotten a little drawing tablet and Clip Studio

2022 I did so much drawing, mostly sketching and concept art, but also some illustrations for one of my novels.




2023 I'm doing more digital painting nowadays. I've gotten lazy. :'D

Looking back, I've definitely improved from the start, but I dunno how much that has to do with just having better tools. One thing's for sure, my style is all over the place.

I've redesigned my OC Akina over the years
2014


2015


2021


Current 2023 I Plan on rebooting the series as pure Slice of Life


Bonus Remake of 1st image from 2021

Redraws of my first tablet drawing. I played around with lots of brushes for a bit, but mostly stick to the default brush set.

the lovely progression of my characters becoming more short and round, less lanky skeletons.

Redesigned an old character and played at least one pokemon game within that 15 year gap.

Sketches 5 years apart that feel like I haven't really changed much. . . AH, that's okay.:tapa_pop:

Hoo boy look at that! Love seeing everyone's progress!
When I first started drawing in 2018:


Still same-ish year:

2019:

2020:

2021:

2022:

2023

This is very interesting, let me check my old files LOL!

This is from 2021 when I bought my first drawing tablet!

This is the last illustration I made in 2022

And lastly, my most recent artwork in 2023

It was really fun to go back and look at my older work. This helped me realize that I actually might be improving.

2015
This is the earliest digital artwork of mine i could find. I drew this on my 3ds lol

2019

2020

2021

2022
I started to do more digital art on my display tablet. and finally moved on from my 3ds

2023
My most recent drawing. I redrew my art from 2020

Heh. I just blogged about this drawing today;

Made with GIMP, a fresh off the shelf Bamboo tablet, and a lot of free time I should have been spending exploring Japan instead.

Fifteen years later I can see both the evolution of my skills and the DNA of the choices made below... Mind you most of that evolution only happened in the last five years because I was too bummed out to really care about art and really that's a different subject for a different thread because depression what fucker, eh?

That same tablet is dead now. I'm too hard on my gear...

I wish my art was evolved enough for this thread. Theyā€™re still weird little art amoebas.