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Published: 2007-08-15 10:02:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 52127; Favourites: 913; Downloads: 0
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I was looking through my scraps and saw this very old portrait I did back in 2002. It made me smile, and laugh, because A) it's funny to see how I started and B) it looks so terribly bad. I remember, when I finished my first portrait, I was so proud of myself!I had this crazy idea of getting all my best portraits of each year and put them next to each other.
Hmm, I think I improved my skills just a little, don't you think?...
I had several periods
2002 - the 'I like to draw stuff from magazines' period
2003 - the 'Lord of the Rings rox my sox' period
2004 - the 'Johnny Depp is so cool' period
2005 - the 'random actors and actresses' period
2006 - the 'I think I really do like Final Fantasy' period
2007 - the 'and House kicks ass as well' period
So people, stop saying you won't become as good as I am these days. When I started, my stuff looked really bad, too!
Have fun watching and... keep up the good work!
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Gosh O-O That's amazing! I have 14 years now, and I'm just starting, and this kind of thing really makes me feel like I have a chance xD
I'm sending this image to my friends and they don't believe that the last one is a drawing. Everyone thinks it's a photo!
One of them asked "Is she famous?!". I aswered "I don't know, probably not. She's SOOO good, better than a LOT of people, but isn't world's famous...That's really ironic, huh?"
Well, kisses and good luck!
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It's evolution, baby! 
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Thats really amazing. Maybe this kick my ass up 'cause i think i can't draw anything good... Your work is amazing! But tell me - how many hours per day, days per week and weeks per year you are spending with drawning? Or had you spend to become so good? Would be intresting to know this. But also you have to be talented!
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Oh my.. This is so inspirational! It's so nice to see that great artists such as yourself were once inexperienced. There's hope after all!
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Thank you!!!
There's always hope, no matter what people say to you
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thats an insane speed of improvement!
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...and still improving!
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well there's hope for my yet then cos i've been drawing a long long time, but i've been drawing animals all my life it wasn't until a a couple of years ago i started to like drawing people so i'm kinda at your 2002 standard.
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I'm 19 and I think I've just about reached your 15 year old stage. The drawing of House makes me feel like an inferior 19 year old compared to you!
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lol, the sad thing is that my brother can't compete with the 2002 drawing if he had a gun pointed to his head
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You have progressed so fast. It's a great idea too, showing your old stuff. Well done.
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This is absolutely amazing! It's always so interesting to compare your work over the years and see just how much you've improved. You've definitely improved a great deal in just five years, that's for sure! I only wish I would have drawn more when I was in highschool - but this definitely inspires me to pick up my pencils again and give it a go!
Thank you for sharing this! <3
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Aww thank you!
It's never too late to pick up the pencil again
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You've gotten sooo much better. I really like your work
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you progress is kind of unbelievable.
when I first saw on of your pictures of Hugh Laurie, I thought it was a photograph!
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aww thank you!!!!
I'm really proud of the last Hugh Laurie drawing (: the one I sent to my friend *callsignKateJones
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You're welcome!
And it was, no doubt, incredible.
Great work. (:
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It's so cool to look through all of them and look at the ways you've changed or improved! I've been trying to start on drawing more realistic people for a while, but I don't know where to start! I know I'd have to pray or something to get this good, but do you have any suggestions?
By the way, great job on the House one.
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I amost had a heart attack when I saw the dates of the draws... IT'S AMAZING THE WAY YOU IMPROVED IN 5 YEARS!!!
YOU'RE THE ALMIGHTY DRAWING GODNESS EVER!!! And I swear it! I MUST TO DRAW LIKE YOU BEFORE I DIE!!!
AWESOME!!!!! I MEAN IT!!!!!
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WoW! you have improved soo much! i know you're probably too tired to respond to one of the comments but your drawings have progressed so much! i highly admire you. may i ask, how often have you practised? did it take a lot of effort to improve?
i am around 14 and wish to become like you in the future!
amazing.
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oh my wow... i try to draw realisim in any way, and i fail miserably. if i try to draw a person, it ends up being an anime version of themself or looks worse than your 14-years-old picture. and i'm 20... >.>' i bow down to your greatness.
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I'm in love with the first one.
No seriously, the fact that it's so strangely distorted is stunning.
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oh my fucking god, this is sooo awesome! im actually into drawing for some month's and THIS is really giving me hope
Thank you alot <3
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Lol, i remember right when I decided to improve on drawing. I was so proud and went around showing my friends. The other day (a year later) i found some old drawings, blushed crumpled them and hid them in the bottom of my trashcan. I'm so embarrassed at the thought that I was showing people pathetic misshapen faces. XD
Ey, practice makes perfect.
:3
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Oh wow, this is awesome.
I love all your artwork because they are probably the most amazing pencil artwork I've seen and well I love FF7 and you did pictures from it
This is incredibly inspiring though cause its really cool to see that -you- actually started out that way and worked your way up to this.
I doubt I'll ever get as good and drawings not my main thing by any means but still, thanks for this cause it gives me some hope in my drawings getting better lol.
Peace
keep up the awesome work.
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*gasps*
that is simply amazing how you have improved. i absolutely love your art. you are amazingly good!
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Are mine on alright? I started pencil drawing a year ago
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this gives me inspiration that i can get better!!thank you
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*sigh of releif* You don't know how happy I am to see this. 
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yeah I know
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very nice, you can see how much you improved from when you were 15 to when you were 16; it's amazing how good you got in such a relatively short time. I love looking at my old drawings, so I can say "Wow, I don't suck that much anymore, and my guys look less like women now, it makes me happy."
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your improvment is obvious, and so is your improved taste in art forms...from magazines to movies, to video game/movies and finally one of the most kick-@$$ tv shows ever! House is more awesome than bananas, all manor and sort of cheese, and fuzzy bunny slippers put together...*owns seasons 1 and 2 on DVD*
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aer you an art student? or are you learning by yourself? o_o
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my drawings aren't really that good T.T
you inspire me to try new things
like smudging
and truth is...I'm not half bad at it lol
you are my hero!! <3
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btw! your proportions where much better than mine when I was 14.
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Isn't it amazing how time sort of fly's by while you do your portraits, then you look back and your like OMG!
It makes me realise how long it really takes too do something like this, too many people give up and live too regret it.
Do you think drawing is something you would forget if you stop drawing completely for 5 years, or you would still have "it"?
Such great improvement
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Nope I think you'll still be able to draw the same.
The reason why I think so is that back in 2004 I didn't draw a lot (just a couple of drawings in an entire year).
And at all of a sudden my skills were so much better when I drew a new picture in 2005 (the Jessica Alba one).
In 2003 I drew a LOT (about 3 drawings a day) and they all were of the same quality, to worse lol.
It's just that... once you trained your eye for details, it will hardly go away. Maybe it's different for everyone else, but that's how I experienced it...
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im 14 so i hope i am as good as you!!!!! i feel inspired
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Thank you so much for this deviation
I've had a really bad day in school today (I study 3D-graphic art) ,I didn't succeed in anything I tried to draw and my sketches looked so hopeless.
This deviation of yours once again proved that great results can be reached with lots of practicing. This portfolio really made my day better
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...I'm 15... SO THERES HOPE FOR ME YET!!! yays
I think this is really inspiring and encourages people not to give up... me anyways...lol
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yay i'm 15 now !!... poss my drawings are slightly better than yours were at the time
maybe i'll be as good as you are now when i'm 19 XD
great work!
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Even your worst looks considerably better than anything I have ever done... It's why I prefer cameras and/or 3D software to trying to draw.
Just the jump in quality from when you were 14 to 15 looks pretty significant to me. Just out of curiousity, how many hours per day drawing do you think you have put in on the average, during the time period displayed above?
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