Digital Improvement Meme

Edit: I'm going to update this every year sooooo yeah I should of done this earlier but decided to do this now cause I can /w/

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I cut off 03-05 because I wasn't drawing digitally back then. C:
I should do a traditional version too, It'd just be hard for me to figure out what year was which >A<;;

Fun Year -_{This was the year I first found ms.paint on my computer. I was a gaiafag and I was in the art freebies section a lot drawing my avatar and other people's. I was 11 or so and didn't draw very much, but I believe I was having the most fun then.}

Beginning Year - _{This was the year I opened my deviantart account. I had decided that I was going to be a MS.PAINT AMAZING ARTEEST, I was ttly serious about my art and was going to give it my all. I experimented the most with ms.paint, basically deciding this after watching those speedpaints on youtube. (How to draw a real woman on ms.paint, how to draw an anime girl on ms.paint, etc) and I was going to be THE MASTAH. Going in and out (ohohoho) of realism and anime.}

Comfort Year -_{Glory days~ Another more of my funner years I suppose. This is when I was deciding to make a FANIME~ and when I was gaining more of my friends. Epic Fails of Kiki was at its beginning and ends this year, and I had finally found my so called "style". I was comfortable in drawing and drew using my mouse, times couldn't be better. I was making myself known throughout the fanime community and felt like a BIGBOSSU. I had gotten myself to believe that I WAS GOING TO BE A MANGAKA OTAKU MASTAH.}

Breaking Year -_{The year I was introduced to programs such as Easy paint tool sai, for a while, I had been drawing primarily in ms.paint and gimp, but now I had found another program. Something similar to photoshop in many ways, something I could never use, and I saw all the capabilities on it. And I was also seeing all the flaws in my "Style", and in going to highschool, I realized that, I wasn't going anywhere. This was the year of truth, I wanted to make a living off my art, and I realize that it would only be a matter of years before I would have to become a freelancer if I didn't buckle down, so I decided to throw away the logic I had in the past and try my best to make myself a better tomorrow. So I went into 2010 with the mindset of "I may be good for my age now, but I wont be fifteen forever.I want to be a good artist period, and so why shouldn't I learn to draw like a thirty year old? I WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS WITH MY DRILL. RORO FIGHT THE POWA!"}

Fuck Everything I know, Fuck Everyone I know- _{This was the year of letting go. Comfort zone, whats that? This was also the year of hellavalotofdrama. And while I wouldn't normally talk about drama having to do with my art. The sad thing is. It had a lot to do with it. Actually it had a fairly good influence on my art for the most part. I pretty much gave the finger to everyone this year as far as "You don't draw enough anime" "Your people are ugly" "Your people are fat" "Your noses are too red" think up something it probably was said to me this year. This was also the year I learnt to take critique with a grain of salt. Most people don't like to hear me say this, critique can be very good, but in all honesty it really is just someone elses perspective. And as an artist, you have that right to not agree with peoples perspectives.As a person even. Thats what makes opinions and cultures and without those things life just wouldn't be interesting. So I did what I wanted to, when I wanted to do it. I took the things I felt were reasonable and ignored the things I thought were not. Somethings I thought were unreasonable at a time I considered valuable later on. Point is I improved because of me not because of someone elses jurisdiction. I learnt to say "no" artistically and slowly even generally. I lost a lot of friends. I gained a lot of friends. I lost alot of my root style, I gained a lot of new styles. This year was more or less a rebellious year and boot started me into becoming a more determined artist for the next one >:3 This was also the year I met mr.tablet in my closet~ HE WAS COLLECTING SO MUCH DUST A SHAME WHAT A SHAME~}

Art From Within
<sub>Soooo. Huh, a lot of things ended up happening this year. I had one idea for the year and my mom/life was like EEENOPE. So at the beggining I was going to do a theme for every month, then the FEB draw fest, but right in the midst (of like day 5 or 6 or something?) I got swooped up into a Mental Hospital. I was having bad panic attacks around the beginning of this year and last year, and I was seperated from the computer for a month+ I was going to be there for 3 months but I JUMPED OFF A FUCKING SWING.

AND THAT SHIT HURTS.
ALOT.

I broke my pelvis, life was beautiful, I still get ghost pains every so often.
MOVING ON.

So then after that was a bit...rough, art wise I had to ease in to art again cause I was afraid I'd lost my 'touch' and had kinda gotten a new style I was unfamilar with, but then time eased my worries. I had grown cold this year and then some unsuspecting friends managed to thaw me out. ...and make me cold again. AND THAW ME OUT AGAIN, drama happened, I found yaoi, I forgot about it, friends still mad at me for it, gravy and toast.

As for my artistic endevours? I...I can't exactly tell you what happened. For a while I stopped drawing as often, hadn't completed many pictures this year, was mostly doodling. But then my doodles started to go from just sketches, to something some would call "complete" which is kinda sad, since most of that is still doodles in my eyes... Pictures that were only taking an hour two hours thirty minutes were increasingly growing to be some of my favorite works and then I realized something, after reading a book called Art Revolution.

"The minute you draw for you, draw what you want, and aren't trying to fit into a mainstream box, will be the happiest and best artwork you produce," and you know what. They were right.
Most of the reason my art would take forever was because I was trying to drag myself to do things I didn't like doing. Like LINEARTING. Pretty much this year, any picture you look at, probably doesn't have any lineart, and if it does Vanity did it.
Most of my artwork was both drawn of what I wanted and /how/ I wanted, and I will continue to experiment in and out of my comfort zone for the rest of my life. I promise.</sub>



...
AND THUS
MY ADVENTURES BEGIN
IN A NEW TV PREMIERE SERIES CALLED *shot*
Alright I'm done. =w=

ANYHOO
So when people always ask me, how long have you been drawing? I always have iffy answers. Cause I was drawing for forever, but the years that I decided to draw seriously I believe was when I first got my dA.
ANYHOO.
SORRY FOR BEING SEMI INACTIVE, I'M JUST BUSY ANIMATING FOR STUFF THAT I OWE BUNCHES OF PEOPLE AND JOBS ETC.

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