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shadowknightpaladin — 2007-2013 Art progress chart! by-nc-nd

Published: 2013-11-07 09:40:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 490; Favourites: 3; Downloads: 0
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Description I recently saw someone I follow do this kind of chart and I suddenly realized I've never done it....possibly due to my laziness to dig up old arts. I actually have a ton of drawings even before 2007 but they're all up in the ceiling somewhere and I'm not that psyched to find and take them down. I'll let them rest in peace.


2007: All these characters and the spree that followed them all started somewhere during & after Shonen Onmyoji first appeared on Animax. While Shounen Onmyouji took place in Medieval Japan [I think?] I wanted to play more on the modern side. Unfortunately, 13-year-old did not know of the words "color harmony"

2008: Then Gaia Online further fueled my drawings since I could draw avatars. Though most of the characters here are from my Neopets days.

2009: And Behold! DeviantArt! I also started playing with doing digital works and trying to familiarize myself with the programs.

2010: I got my tablet during this year so it added more digital works to my gallery. Also, I started doing backgrounds more- making fuller pictures. I also entered college during this time so the amount of ideas in my head were just over-flowing

2011: College started to boost my drawing quality a bit. I also started playing with digital works more since I got a hold of paint tool sai.

2012: The discovery of dA RP groups really pushed me to produce more detailed and quality drawings for both digital and traditional works! However, the amount of drawings I could do was traded for quality- which was pretty fair.

2013:Somewhere along the way, I started doing detailed backgrounds again and I placed more effort in doing details on clothing.


I know there is a month left till the end of 2013 but I doubt I'll be dishing out a lot of drawings till then so this will suffice.

After a little self-analysis, it was quite evident that I was more of the slow-progress type. Like I noticed a lot of people suddenly jumping/or having an art boost between years due to constantly drawing while mine took more of the slow moving type. My submission count decreased but the quality slowly boosted, specially during the last 2 years.


Also, I noticed the my constant style evolution/style change may have hampered it. It used to take place every 6 months to 1 year but it seems to have stabilized last year till now.


All my characters are very old carry-overs from old stories and rps so yeah.

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Comments: 5

Kittywolfz [2013-11-07 14:43:25 +0000 UTC]

it's getting better

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shadowknightpaladin In reply to Kittywolfz [2013-11-08 09:20:59 +0000 UTC]

Thanks QuQ

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Tastikixtutsu [2013-11-07 09:40:46 +0000 UTC]

nice ^^

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shadowknightpaladin In reply to Tastikixtutsu [2013-11-08 09:20:50 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Tastikixtutsu In reply to shadowknightpaladin [2013-11-08 09:22:15 +0000 UTC]

you are welcome ^^

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