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So, looking at the dates I think June 2013 marked my sixth year of studying art seriously. I decided it would be fun to mark the occasion by putting all of the work I've ever put online into an archive I could share with you guys, to sort of expose all the ugly shit that goes behind anything even remotely successful I've ever made.[link] Download link!
Now I'm still a long way from where I want to be and I'm more eager and excited than ever to keep on putting out as much work as I can, but it can be an incredibly positive experience to take a moment to look back on the journey you've taken so far. Maybe a lot of you guys know me from back in the CA.org days and maybe some of you don't, but I used to regularly update a sketchbook thread on there, starting at age 14 with the encouragement of a few badass artists who decided to help motivate me and keep me on the right track. Somehow I got lucky and stuck with it and this body of work is the result of that decision.
Looking at the work from the first year is a weirdly motivating experience, if I had known back then just HOW MUCH I didn't know, I wonder if I could have even found the willpower to stick with it. It just goes to show how important it is to be present and enjoy the learning experience and just stick with it!
Anyway, at risk of getting super cliche, keep killing it everyone, keep putting yourselves out there and keep grinding away, hope you can get something from this. No matte how much time passes I still feel like a complete beginner in the grand scheme of things and this whole thing is only just starting. Share your own progress too let's see it!
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I have town years to go before I Get any real Improvement
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thanks dude! I'll take a look... I just love your stile.... I hope I learn more about your traditional work by studying it ....
best regards and merry 2015
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That's a really cool stuff, i wish more artists shared something like you did. it's like walking to the house of a stranger, seeing bits of the beginning of a relationship with the house and how comfortable people are now (sorry if it sounds creppy, haha).
I just skimmed through the folders, but will look more carefully later. sometimes sketches are much more interesting than complete illustrations.
thank you again for this
p.s. wonder, if you plan to update this archive years later?
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thanks man, definitely maybe next year
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Thanks for the boost, one year in and ready to give up but this says I should persevere.Β
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Wow! That is so inspiring, thank you very much for sharing!
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Inspiring stuff, wish I was doing studies at 14, instead I was drawing anime. :')
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Thanks for putting this up!
It's very encouraging seeing someone else's progress.
This might be totally unfair but it also made me appreciate your work even more, because to be honest you weren't really that good in year one (well, you were 14, I was still tracing stuff at 14 hehehe). And now the quality of your work is awesome.
Very inspiring stuff man.
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Thanks so much, consistency is the key
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thanks for uploading this, really amazing 
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Wow! It's very inspiring! Thank you very much for sharing. You are amazing!
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Is this the stuff that's on your CA sketchbook or there's more stuff than that?
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wow, your progress is unbelievable! I saw your work at conceptart.org 4 years ago and I've been watching your portfolio since then. This is really inspiring!
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You're a real inspiration man, you're skill and determination is incredible, thanks for sharing it all and keep it up!
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Thanks for going to the trouble of putting this together, really motivating!
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this is really inspiring but also like super daunting? I mean you did an imagineFX cover when you were 16? I gotta step up my game ;_;
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I have a question! An important one!
I've watched several progress archives of various artists and none, NONE of them contained pictures about studying perspective. You rarely see horizontal line and vanishing points in their scetches and all that junk, especially in studying human body.
They say perspective is very important, and I still find puzzling to apply hard perspective measurment to some tricky human pose yet it seems as if most artists do not trouble themselves with such things, even while studying.
Soooo... hard perspective studies remain behind the stage and usualy are not put in these archives or am I missing something out?
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This is very inspiring. ^^
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i'm having trouble downloading, but from what i can see on this picture it's very cool to see the progress made : )
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Man... this is very inspiring... Thank you for uploading!
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Just went through everything, awesome to see all the progress, must say, your pencil drawings are pretty amazing. Really like them, and I can just imagine how awesome some of those could be if you made them into digital paintings.
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Those six years of hard work really paid off
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This is really interesting! You've come such a far way in such a short period of time. The hard work shows. Awesome, thanks for sharing.
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Awesome. Thanks for the great words and the sharing, I didnΒ΄t know youΒ΄re work and is cool to take a look to your advance along the years.
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Holy cow, this is somehow simultaneously super inspiring and morbidly depressing. You got so good so fast! It's super cool looking through the whole archive. Thanks for posting this.
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Very inspiring man. I'm still at the beginning of the grind, but I look forward to the day where I can make an awesome progress pack like this too.
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Thanks for sharing, I hope that one day I will share mine too (after thousand years of practice).
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Hot damn, you truly have come a long, LONG way in just six short years. 8O
Seeing your progress is really encouraging!
And although seeing your progress does make me feel like a mere beginner, I'll have to keep in mind that I've been actively working on building my skills only half as long as you have so I've got only myself to blame for not being better. But gosh, now I feel like I really could do it if I put more effort into getting better!Β
But yes, man you're one skilled artist and I'm glad I've had the chance to follow your work the past couple of years and see how you've been growing as an artist. c: I can't wait to see how you'll progress in the future!
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very inspiring man, great progress. gives me hope!
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The thing that confuses me the most right now is probably lighting and anatomy. I picked up learning anatomy about a month ago or something and though I'm not completely oblivious anymore, there's just so much I don't know. Looking at your work it gives me the impression you really know the location of each muscle. ._. Also, gesture drawings are really hard for me to do for some reason.
Downloading the archive right now, by the way. Hopefully it'll inspire me! Sometimes I forget to look back but even in the little time I've been doing art, I have improved. And you've been doing this for six years. And me? 9 months. I should really try to understand that time does go into it. A lot of time. It's weird but whenever I learn something new it sort of feels like it just "clicks" to me instead of reading it somewhere.
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This is awesome and very inspiring. Thank you for sharing
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So motivating and amazing!! Thank you sooo much! <3
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Thank you so much for sharing this! It's very inspiring to see someone progress so much. I feel really motivated now! So thank you for that! :')
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You rock, thanks so much glad it's inspiring
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Of course!
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