I can show progress with the same drawing, though it was 30-36 years ago:
First drawing, 1988:
Second attempt, 1990:
First attempt at this drawing of the same knight on a computer, 1990 (note, I was using a 12MHz 286 with 1MB RAM, 640k video ram, 640x480 resolution and using ZSoft Paintbrush which came bundled with a Microsoft mouse driver - I used that mouse to do the drawing):
Second attempt at the same knight on a computer, this would have been mid 1990's using a 486 DX2/66 with 8MB RAM and a 4MB video card, still at 640X480 but now with 16.7 million colours:
Going back to 1991 or so, I was doing my comics on that 286 using the mouse:
And I drew this on that same computer. Yes, there are only sixteen colours in this pic (except for my monogram, I added that later). I drew this pixel by pixel and mixed and matched those 16 colours to make more:
I was still drawing stuff on paper too, though, because drawing with a mouse was very difficult and the limited hardware back then made it no fun (Colour printer? LOL!)
Here's an example. This was an early attempt at drawing a deer on that old computer:
And here's the same drawing on paper:
Did some colour stuff, too. Wild Nights, Hot and Crazy Days started out as a slice-of-life comic in the early 1990's (this image suffered water damage at some point over the last 30+ years):
Then, inexplicably, I put down my pencils, pens, and mouse, I stopped drawing for 30 years. Don't know why I did, I just did. During the COVID lockdowns and general unfunnery I decided to start again. Bought me a new drawing tablet and stylus (Microsoft Surface Pro 8) and dove right in. This was the first drawing that I did:
Then I got serious and laid down some character designs for a Wild Nights, Hot and Crazy Days reboot. I was not happy with those designs (top) and redid them (bottom):
As my learning new software and techniques progressed so did my style:
And I continued improving:
