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Published: 2009-09-15 02:10:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 2492; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 40
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Date and age.. progress over 10 years has been slow ;__; now that I'm 21 doesn't seem all that impressive anymore cry*Related content
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Hmm! I'm finally getting to look at this!
When I was 16, I started drawing and I was about where you were at 14, and well, your color work at 17 kicks my butt pretty much even now.
You say that progress over 10 years has been slow, but you've got to remember that you started VERY young, and kids aren't able to do what adults can do, unless they are supernaturally gifted or they are trained very hard from a very early age.
Heck, I wasn't able to draw what I can draw today until I was halfway through college. There was a very rapid improvement in my work between 2002 and 2003, because that was when I began my studies at UCF as an art major.
For you, the difference between 2005 and 2006 seems to be your watershed time period where you improved quickly and your style solidified. The improvement over the last 3 years has been steady and gradual, and one needs to look at the difference between 2006 and 2009 to see how much you've improved.
Your composition, layout, lineweight, form, and texture have all improved quite a lot over the last three years, and you're now doing well what you knew you wanted to do but might have struggled with 3 years ago. Your color quality has improved and become more sophisticated, and you've generally improved on everything from proportion to expression to hands and feet.
Seriously, you've made some really strong gains in ability!
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Yeahhh! thank you ;A; yeah 2005 was when I was on my oekaki kick and I drew everyday. O_O; I was pretty uch addicted to drawing. Sometimes I had to sneak on in the middle of the night because my parents would scold me XD. shhh..
Right now improvement is going to be slow cause I feel like I have the basics down, but I need to enhance it a bit as well as have a stronger grasp on anatomy. I feel like I'm lacking in detail as well. i get really impatient when I draw nowadays. ^_^
Thanks for looking at this 
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Sure thing
You're more like at the polishing stage where you've revealed the surface, but it is still a bit too rough for what you want, and you're getting rid of rough edges and working on parts that you feel aren't well-formed yet. Honestly, this is a painstaking process, and you might feel like you're spending a lot of time going very slowly moving from one piece to the next, but I think that the progress you are making now is still visible.
Eventually you'll get to a point where you don't believe anyone can see the changes you are making, and a lot of people probably can't see it, though they might 'feel' it instead. The trained eye will still be able to tell, but don't let that frustrate you ^.^ Just keep pushing ahead!
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That's so interesting! I love seeing these progress memes.
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THERE IS NO PRONZ!!!!!!! o___O;;; WAT ON EARTH ARE you talking Ab0Ut! >_>;;
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Wow, very nice improvements~! I was 17 in 1999..and only a little bit better at that point, too.. ;__; You really improved around 2001~2002, and mostly perfected it around 2007...2003-06 must have been difficult to go through if you were worried about improvement by then(otherwise doing that well for those ages would have been great for me). I'd do something like this myself if I had some time and energy to do it... >.>;
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Thanks
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I just spent like 3 hours working on one, and GIMP suddenly died. ;_____; I hadn't saved. T^T;;;;
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nuuu I'm sorry. the same thing happened to me when i was working on one of my Joseph yusra comics. and I was finished inking and toning and was just about to do touch ups xD Then electricity went and when I re-opened it I realized I hadn't saved since the rough sketch.
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Ouch, that's even worse, having to do actual drawing... I was just drag-and-dropping and scaling it into small boxes(it was just tedious and involved choosing a lot of different pictures for those three hours)..
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OoooH! NIce Progress! Impressive!!!
But The 12 yr old pics of yours seems impressive to me
Why? I'm JUST 12 yrs. Old ^^
I wissh I can be like that
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Thanks, don't worry you got a long way to go, just keep at it xD Go! go!
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Hehe, Thanks ^_^
But I can't post most of my improving drawing yet since scanner is broken xD
But I'm currently learning photoshop from my brother ^_^
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wow this is amazing! hahaha i love looking at these :3 unfortunately i prolly wont be able to make one since i dont really keep my old art ^_^;;;
i also like your 19-20 year old ones best. your backgrounds have improved immensely!
and hehehe i'm 17 and i havent reached your 17 year old level yet ;_: love the bakura pic btw
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Thanks yeah the ones last year are better I guess cause nowadays I'm getting lazy with backgrounds and such -__-; Thanks I love Bakura *w*
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I think you've made quiet a bit of progress
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Thanks
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My computers in meh room
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That's more progress than I've made. I need to make one of these..
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Thanks. yeah you should, It's good to look back to see where your art is going ^_^
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