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Blizz-Mii โ ART PROGRESS 2004-2009
Published: 2009-03-24 15:12:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 35594; Favourites: 770; Downloads: 499
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Five years of CGing improvement, from really bad to sort of bad.
I deleted some of the more embarrassing older pieces in my gallery, but left most of them for the purpose of showing the gap between my art now and my art in the past.
I hope people find this inspiring to some extent. Anyone can improve. Jiayou! ^^
(Will scrap this later.)
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oh i don't mind if it's a rant...^^ what you're saying really makes sense to me... thank you so much for your help...i think i'm gonna pull myself together and start again i guess...thank you for your time... ^^
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yay!!~~
i love improvement charts like this *w*
it shows that hope is at bay XD~~~
i want to make one of these when i get a little more better XD
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Very inspirational, thanks for showing this c: I know how you feel about the earlier ones. I don't like to look at what I did even a year or two ago (so ugly).
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Wowwww >O<
So amazing!!
I hope i can improve like that!!
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Wow ^_^ Just keeps gettin' better and better!
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Thank you, now i'm inspired again to draw... theres hope.
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wah! amazing...
I feel a little inspired now. :3
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This really inspired me... 
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Whee~ I love getting comments like these. >w< I'm so happy this inspired you! You can do it!
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to have from the first stage to the last stage.
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Nice improvement over time^^
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uwah *A* you've improved so much! C:
it's amazing *A* you can see the really big difference from the first drawing, to the new one!
Amazing. owo <3 in just 5 years XD
-needs to work hard now after seeing this one- "OTL
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I just realized I have a couple of questions XD
It's incredible how you improved...
But how did you do it? Did you make yourself draw every day?
And do you think it's a bad thing to use references when you're first starting out? I'm starting to get into it, but as soon as the pencil hits the paper I realize "I don't know how to draw that position." But then I worry that if I use a piece of art with a similar pose as a reference, I'll end up copying the entire style.
So how do you avoid copying somebody else's style when using their art to practice?
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Heh, here we go...
1. I did not draw everyday, nor did I bother trying to draw every day. Drawing too frequently, from my personal experiences, drains creativity and encourages quantity over quality. (aka less improvement)
2. Drawing for the sole purpose of improvement is not fun and not very productive, in my opinion. (I draw primarily for stress relief in these hard academic times. 
3. Everyone necessarily begins by copying. Copying isn't bad per se as long as you're not posting your copied art and flaunting it as if you were some kind of genius. From what I've been seeing, people have an originality complex where they feel they can't draw anything because it's been done before. It's stupid. Just draw what you feel like drawing and be done with it. Your "own style" develops as you merge together existing styles you like and add a touch of your personal flavor. Nothing is entirely original; all of the influences we get in our visual world influences how we draw, because unless you're doing abstract, the shapes and colors and whatnot must come from what we see. ...Whoops, getting a little into theory there. I'll stop now. xD
I hope this serves more as advice than as a general rant.
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well we're total opposites on 1 and 2
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Aggressive advice is the best advice you can give! XD
Thanks Blizz <333 *off to copy more Yu Yu Hakusho book covers* The third point is the thing I was most worried about, so thanks for getting into detail with it! ^^
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No prob, I'm here to rant it out anytime.
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These are always so cool to look at. It gives me hope that I might possibly someday be as good as you if I continue to practice. Pretty Drawings ^^
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You have improved well over a relatively short period of time (in years).
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This is a true testament to the saying: Practice makes better!
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Bravo on your years of improvement, I look forward to seeing more from you ^_^/
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HOLY EFF. > _____ >
BIG changes. <3
PSH. SORT OF BACK! *slaps you*
WROOOOOONG!
EPICALLY AWESOME! D8<
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I am truly inspired
You improved so much ;~; !! I found Silvarta last year and then when I stumbled upon your dA a few days after I was pretty shocked, haha.
You really are talented
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That is incredible improvement, Cire! 5 years...I was still drawing stick figures back then. Haha, maybe I can improve too in five more years XD
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Whoaa blizz *_* you improved soo much!! haha I remember you artwork way from Smack Jeeves! xDD I really love your current style alot though
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i congratulate you on a job well done through out these years, i hope that you will continue to improve your art and grace us all with its utter awesomeness 
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Wow, you imrpove so quick! Congrats Blizz~
LOL. If I keep practicing, maybe I could be almost as good as your July 2004 art. XD;; (slow at improving haha;;
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I.... I hate you ;____;
Feb 04-Nov04.....How? Just HOW? Improvement THAT much, THAT fast is like impossible for me! You are no human! You....you.......superhuman! DDD:
*cries*
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Wow, seeing your first couple of works to now is very inspirational. I hope I can improve that much with time.
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That's so cool how you did that...I'll do that someday. When I become good. You've put me in an artsy mood.
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You've made outrageous improvement! I'm still trying to find my own style.
I can't even lineart OTL
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wow such improvement from just February '04 to November '04! I hope I can improve this much too in five years!
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for cging im probaby at the 2004 stage ;;
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wow you improve from linearting to coloring ;D
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LOL. Colors don't matter if the lineart is bad.
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XD but you improve so much
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Usually I look at these and the people were absolutely awful before and are suddenly amazing--not with you.
why were you always so good? I mean, by Jul2005 you were already better than I was like 3 years later OTL
you went from amazing to OMGWTFBBQ amazing. ;_____;
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I wanted to try to start drawing. I drew 3 or 4 drawings and my best friend told me I should continue. But I thought I wasn't good enough to really improve. And now I see what you did in 2004, and what you do now !!! That's unbelievable ! Now I want to try again.
Thank you, I think you gave me the power to work harder and to be patient ^^.
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I so love this 
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You were actually pretty damn good by Nov. 04. XD
And then it just kept getting better. lol
Very inspiring~
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kyaa! inspiring-ness!
>___<
are are a magnificent artist, and the only way to go is forward, so keep up the amazing work!
*fave*
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