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Yearly update 5.1.2014. This is fifth time including actual submitting. Luckily it happens only once per year.MoA art from the beginning (August 2002). A good character for character developing chart like this, oldest one who has continuous art track since invented.
So.
2002
Here is the first picture of Mistress of Air EVER...somewhere from August. And the second one/first coloured one. I still remember how this creature was created - I just took pencil and paper, sat down and draw "a creature what I'd like to look like". So this creature was alter ego from the beginning. At this time a she and stayed that a long while.
At first she had a huge mane, saberteeth and weird armorparts on hindfeet. She didn't have a thumb but five fingers anyway. And after this one picture she hadn't any orangeish parts. But half-white-half-black -coloured nails are here already and they will stay.
2003
MoA developes a bit during the year - from upper left to bottom right is from oldest to "newest". Saberteeth get smaller during the year, colours start to get right form and she even gets a thumb. Wrist feathers disappear. Fingernails change their shape from sickles to short and round ones. Toenails keep their shape. Wing feathers get standard amount 14-12-10-8.
She still doesn't really have a name yet during whole year and wings are awfully small.
2004
Saberteeth continue disappearing, MoA loses heel feathers (I never remembered to draw it so I thought the heck, I don't need them. <.< ) Colours are right but anatomy is absolutely horrendous. She gets the name "Mistress of Air" and it stays. Her cat-like snout changes into current form. I try a bit shorter legs just because of "realism". (Later I noticed it's not the right thing for MoA.)
2005
Very bad MoA-art year - bad because there were very little art of her at all. Not to mention awful anatomy. But this year she was called "MoA" the first time. And saberteeth disappeared for good.
2006
To get outlines more visible, MoA begins to look blueish (she's still "black" colour in my opinion...). She gets her long legs back (the heck for realism). Anatomy fails again, but differently than earlier. Helmet changes its colour from black to mainly blue and it stays.
2007
MoA turns even more blue. And I don't even understand she looks surely a blue one now instead of black. When I see people start get confused with her colour I jump back to clear black... MoA's anatomy gets a bit better. Nothing radical after the colour change.
2008
This year seems like I don't draw any reference styled art of MoA - just many more and less weird expressions including art but at least now she has her black colour again. In the end of year wing feather amount changes from 14-12-10-8 to 19-17-15-13. MoA gets a new "layer" for her chestfur (it appeared from nowhere. Really.) She gets new random detail to her tailtip - three half black half white spikes and first time ever even somehow good skeleton design . Black bones - don't ask.
2009
Standard expression through whole year. Regardless randomness she's getting more matured with yours truly self. Wing feather amount stays the same but wings grow - the result is: huge feathers.
2010
Nothing radical happens, MoA looks much more matured than early years, wings are finally relevant size and anatomy is somewhat stabilized. Tail is slightly longer and heavier than earlier.
2011
Very standard expression through whole year. Snout is sligthly longer than before, with more mature look. Tail and especially tailfan become a bit bigger. Also mane is a bit longer than earlier.
2012
I thought nothing will happen, but I did a quite much stylishing and tried to improve. MoA's head decorations look even more wings than before, tail keeps growing, feet are thinner than earlier, wing feathers are a bit re-arranged. Now officially genderless, formal "she". Design reached age of 10 at August.
2013
Now she/he/it, I don't even know anymore. Year of quality art, seriously. Because guess what happened: in 2012 I finally got MoA to look like something I have wanted all these years. So, bye-bye hard trying, bye-bye strict nitpicking over anatomy, welcome stylishing. And I don't think I have ever had this fun when drawing MoA.
2014 ->
I don't have any idea where this is going now.
PS. That coloured image from 2005 was the first image I ever submitted in dA. And I was proud of it pfffth.
Another character evolution chart.
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Comments: 110
Sysirauta In reply to ??? [2014-01-07 18:16:55 +0000 UTC]
That's natural - it's easier to draw something facing left if you are right-handed. Left-handed people have easier drawing things looking right instead. That happened more often before I learnt to be aware of this, and not drawing creatures always facing left even if felt easier.
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Saskle In reply to Sysirauta [2014-01-10 19:39:22 +0000 UTC]
That makes sense. I'm right-handed, and I draw my creatures mostly facing left too.
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SkyfireRoy [2014-01-05 18:23:20 +0000 UTC]
IMPROVEMENT GALORE! Honestly though they're all pretty good I think the part that stands out is the design, not so much the art skill. In that sense it's been good from the very beginning.
Chibi MoA is so cute <3 (2010/2012)
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Eraili [2014-01-05 15:35:38 +0000 UTC]
Aww echt toll
Wie sich alles so leicht verändert <3
Still love the right top pic of her (I'll just say she, since it's easier xD) *-* Those swirls <3333
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Sysirauta In reply to Eraili [2014-01-05 19:01:24 +0000 UTC]
Danke. x>
Do you me the top right of year 2013 or that one from 2002?
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Eraili In reply to Sysirauta [2014-01-05 19:16:41 +0000 UTC]
Bitte <3
2012 xD Sorry, somehow I forgot to write the year too, lol
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Evil-Darkrai [2013-01-09 20:34:03 +0000 UTC]
Pakko sanoa että oot kehittynyt huimasti vuosien varrella
Saanko kysyä että mistä sait idean MoAan? Se on niin upea hahmo ja sinä niin taitava piirtäjä!!
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Sysirauta In reply to Evil-Darkrai [2013-01-09 21:41:28 +0000 UTC]
Mä istuin alas ja aattelin tehdä jonkun hahmon joka vois kuvastaa mua. Tuohon aikaan en tienny termiä alter ego, mut sellanen oli suunnitelmissa (mulla on ollu kolme vähemmän tai tosi vähemmän aikaa käytössä ollutta egoa ennen MoAa, ne oli myös aikana ennen internetin suurempaa käyttöä joten mä en ole ollut niiden takana julkisesti yhtään missään. Ne olis ollu ihan kelvollisia mut MoA tuli ja korjasi potin.) Alkuperäinen MoA tuli oleviin yhdistämällä useita sen hetkisten suosikkieläinten piirteitä (jotka ei todellakaan näy koska taidot ei riittäneet). Pään mä piirsin viimeisenä, en ollu ihan varma mitä mä halusin mut päädyin lopulta kissamaiseen. Mä en kyllä muista mistä kypärä ja päähärpäkkeet tuli. Valkonen kauluspörrö on koska olin joskus kuullu että tiikerin vatsapuoli on valkea koska se heijastaa valoa ja näkee paremmin hämärässä (liekö totta tai ei, tosta se lähti), harja on hevosten inspiroima. Niin, ja siihen aikaan olin aika kova Pokémonfani (mun poksukorteista suurin osa on yli kymmenen vuotta vanhoja...), oli kiva piirtää jänniä otuksia (joskaan ja onneksi MoA ei ollu koskaan poksu).
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Evil-Darkrai In reply to Sysirauta [2013-01-10 13:52:21 +0000 UTC]
Vähänkö siisti tarina ja olen todella kiitollinen että viitsit kertoa sen OvO
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Mad-Zazzy [2013-01-03 20:37:37 +0000 UTC]
Wow, old character!!! I love your character designs!!
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Ribbontail [2012-01-11 05:48:46 +0000 UTC]
WHOOOOO. Look at this, I'm commenting after ages and ages of being gone.
(first off, these history things are really fun to do. I've got one, for Eclipse, that's been sitting in my Sta.sh for weeks now. Should post it... some time... soon...)
This is quite an incredible piece you've got here. I think it's neat to see how a character progressed over the coarse of years. I also think it's interesting that she's changed only slightly over the past decade. It's as though you KNEW what you were going for the day you made her. I like that!
(My belief is that my characters "come to me" in their present form... in my whole gang, only three have had real design changes)
But MoA started out so cute!! Look at that little thing... the big, sweet eyes, the derpy looking fangs. For some reason she does come across as a bit tigerlike, as you once said, but she's the "cute and cuddly" tiger, not "rawr" tiger. Hahaha! Over the years she's grown not only in style and skill but also in maturity. Her newer design looks appropriately adult, while the 2002-2004 looks like a youth. Cool! Pretty neat work, man, and kudos again on keeping all this old art for so long!
I've got a question, if you don't mind. I know that MoA is your personifying character and those aren't always HUGELY developed... but I'm curious as to how she's developed as a concept? Has her personality changed over the years, or her "story"? I'd love to see the development of her miiiind. ;D
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Sysirauta In reply to Ribbontail [2012-01-11 20:45:54 +0000 UTC]
Oh my gosh, what is this. D:
Back to 2002 when I had just finished that coloured one, I thought it was perfect (.......) but also had a strange feeling it won't look like that after a while. I didn't even drawn MoA a lot in the beginning, then during one rather boring Finnish lesson I skethed this creature. And more during German lessons...and even during art lessons...and at home. I started to like it and so I kept it (there's a slight possibility that instead of MoA I had a little black gryphon or strange beige creature with helmet and metal accessories as an alter ego...they were also made to represent myself even before MoA).
Rawr, fear my over-fluffy mane (that thing disappearer really fast and became this horse-like one). xp
Anyway, not sure if she has became more like my real self or vice versa. Mind story starts from *drums* epicness. So yes, at first she was so clichéish Mary Sue styled character that just...shoot it. |D The Chosen One, the creature who knew everything and appeared every little storypart and could do everything and lives forever and etc. etc. etc. You know. That thing what is surprisinly common (and hopefully vanishes when growing up). ... Now MoA just "floats in interspaces", she's still special creature (no known ancestors neither have descendants) with some special powers, but is not chosen to do anything special, doesn't play main role anywhere, gets older and dies like any common mortal creature. ... About my real self, I've of course got almost ten years older, lost weight and got some fit (since my anti-exercise early teen days), wear almost always black clothes and never go out without any headgear. xp (And even half-seriously thought should I take third name "Moa" just because. I could do that, it's even accepted name. I just had to pay new driver's license so let's see what happens when I have to change my license...sooner or later...)
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Ribbontail In reply to Sysirauta [2012-01-12 08:04:16 +0000 UTC]
It's mmmmmeeeeEEEE.
-flourish-
Haha but isn't that funny, how some of our best monsters came up during class? I recall having created the Eclipsian demigods in school too. Perhaps classroom boredom just makes some folks think about... big monsters!
Thanks for answering my question! That's really interesting... and I'm happy that she went from being mary-sue-esque to simply ambiguous. For some characters, especially the more fantastical ones like MoA, a "floaty" story is the best one. ;D
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Milarcha [2012-01-04 10:53:32 +0000 UTC]
Ihana evoluutiokuvasarja! Tosi kiva nähdä, miten hahmo ja piirtotekniikka ovat kehittyneet vuosien varrella. Lisää näitä!
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CryoftheBeast [2012-01-04 07:02:11 +0000 UTC]
Hmmm...well if you can't think of any new ideas i have a few and am more than willing to help you with that cause i really love this character.
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hemophobianessticity [2012-01-04 03:36:39 +0000 UTC]
It was cool seeing your art style evolve like this!
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DevinePhoenix [2012-01-04 02:22:05 +0000 UTC]
WOW
O.O
That's a lot of drawings!
She's nearly ten! That's amazing!
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Starcraft3000 [2012-01-03 23:38:43 +0000 UTC]
a amazing improvement from you. i suck in moment on a artblock or more a motivation block
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SilvyrKitsune [2012-01-03 22:31:10 +0000 UTC]
augh fantastic. I adore the one on the right in 2011. hooray for making a seemingly simple pose dynamic, and lighting is something i cannot achieve in traditional no matter how hard i try ^^' (can barely achieve in digital.)
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The-Sky-Walker [2012-01-03 22:26:08 +0000 UTC]
Wow, you've really improved a lot in coloring, both digital and traditional. Not to mention chibiness. Let's see what awesomeness you bring this new year
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Eevee164 [2012-01-03 22:19:02 +0000 UTC]
Wow. Lots of improvement here in the character's design. Personality changes as well?
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Sysirauta In reply to Eevee164 [2012-01-04 17:13:40 +0000 UTC]
Yes - to more mature and less Mary Sue.
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Eevee164 In reply to Sysirauta [2012-01-04 22:23:43 +0000 UTC]
character development is good
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Silvolf [2012-01-03 21:42:00 +0000 UTC]
Wow, it's really amazing seeing your art and character grow!
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Sysirauta In reply to Silvolf [2012-01-04 17:12:22 +0000 UTC]
I would be worried if she hadn't changed at all. |D
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oOMliOo [2011-01-24 22:08:28 +0000 UTC]
radical changes are good. shows that you grow as a person, dont be afraid to make them ._.
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MQ-Killer [2011-01-24 15:00:49 +0000 UTC]
I don't remember have seen the first one in 2010 O,O
All of them looks great Fave
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Sysirauta In reply to MQ-Killer [2011-01-24 20:24:19 +0000 UTC]
It's the main picture in MoA reference sheet. |>
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BardTherony [2011-01-08 01:18:00 +0000 UTC]
She looks more serious as time went on. Its rare that folks kept their art.
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Sysirauta In reply to BardTherony [2011-01-08 12:44:29 +0000 UTC]
Maybe I'm a bit more serious than some years ago. ...a bit. x>
...I save every art thing... <.<
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BardTherony In reply to Sysirauta [2011-01-09 00:31:46 +0000 UTC]
Well considering the computers and such, its still quite rare.
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HyenaVitani [2011-01-06 06:11:35 +0000 UTC]
Oh woowwwwww x3
This is actually really cool 8D And your chibi-baby forms are SO ADORABLE DAWWW!
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SheeKNS [2011-01-05 23:37:27 +0000 UTC]
Will those wings grow even more? xD.
I always love to see this kind of pics, you can see both art and character improvement :3
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Sysirauta In reply to SheeKNS [2011-01-06 15:30:38 +0000 UTC]
Nobody knows... x>
I like them too, people just don't often have old character with continuous art. But sometimes (like you have DIX.)
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SheeKNS In reply to Sysirauta [2011-01-07 00:57:25 +0000 UTC]
...Or they simply don´t keep old art. As me, I lost many of the draws I did when I was child.
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Almiras [2011-01-05 23:26:14 +0000 UTC]
Its very interesting to see how your style of drawing her changes over time I also see how art skill/anatomy and shading/colour gets better and better each year
very radical changes when you compare 2002 with 2009 and onwards. I rarely keep older art works so its nice to see an artists earlier work.
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Sysirauta In reply to Almiras [2011-01-06 16:53:45 +0000 UTC]
In 2002 I honestly thought that this is near perfect but had doubts this will change a lot, I just don't see it yet. Now I should congrate my eight year younger self, she knew at least something. <.<
I save everything... x> Bad habit.
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toothless666 [2011-01-05 22:39:11 +0000 UTC]
this may be a stupid question butt does she have more friends?
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