Art Evolution?

I created this thread so we can show our drawing skills evolution, what do you think?

when i fist started, my pics. were like this one:

http://www.mangatoanime.com/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=chejo_cg&id=unseen

but i wasnt happy with the style, it was a bit realistic and i wanted big, cute eyes, so i changed it into something like this:

http://www.mangatoanime.com/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=chejo_cg&id=aac

one month later it was like this:

http://www.mangatoanime.com/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=chejo_cg&id=navdib

i was having a hard time with the face and didnt like the results, two months later my pictures had aquire certain "style", i started to like it so i worked on it:

http://www.mangatoanime.com/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=chejo_cg&id=panties

a few months ago i finally settled up and came up with a style of my own:

http://www.mangatoanime.com/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=chejo_cg&id=aaf


Check the attachment to see my last work(still in progress n_nU)

That concludes my time line, btw, i've been drawing for around 1 year and 8 months more or less

I hope you guys show us your evolution!!

 

That's a cool lil journey you took us on. I see that you've evolved into flattening out the chins on your characters, and getting a unique chibi look. I think I liked your style the most about halfway through its evolution.

I'll try to show my style's evolution too, although I don't have enough exemplary pics in my gallery... My first true styles were all trashed (from when I was 13-16) cuz after every few years I'd realize how ugly they were, but they were basically kinda like my style now, just that I made the faces a lil longer (or should I say, I made the jaws bigger than now). At one point, I broke out of that, like in this one: http://www.mangatoanime.com/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=seraphinx&id=aab
And this one:http://www.mangatoanime.com/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=seraphinx&id=aae

From when I was 18, I started up my "drawing binder" where I started keeping drawings starting with ones such as the two above. In my 1/2 inch thick binder, I keep all my drawings in clear sheet protectors (inspired by the manga binder my new friend at the time had).

I experimented with hair and eyes at the time, so I didn't have a regular style yet. Also, I was merely just concentrating on faces. I tried to make a "pretty" style that was different from typical bishoujo anime kind...
http://www.mangatoanime.com/vbulletin/attachment.php?s=&postid=79634

I hadn't taken any good drawing classes for learning how to draw bodies yet, but from a ton of observation I taught myself to draw girls' bodies. (Not women, but girls.) Yeah, this was the time when I realized that I should start drawing thin girls, cuz that's what I'm magically attracted to:
http://www.mangatoanime.com/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=seraphinx&id=aaj

Up until this point though, I was always spending hours and hours on every lil drawing. For example, just the face on this one took probably half an hour. (Probably took another 2-3 hours to draw her body, not even counting the shading yet!) This drawing particularly I went all out with the light sourcing, sort of applying actual art skills I learned in school.

At about this time, my personal style began to appear. Last year, I finally took Life Drawing class, so I finally properly learned to draw bodies! I liked that class a lot, and even though we learned to draw realistically, I applied it to my anime-style bodies.

So my most recent style has ended up like these:
http://www.mangatoanime.com/vbulletin/attachment.php?s=&postid=129321

http://www.mangatoanime.com/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=seraphinx&id=aah
I've been doing more and more complex poses too, like in my contest entry: http://www.mangatoanime.com/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=seraphinx&id=aaf, but most of my good, complex poses haven't been scanned yet. Also, within the past two years, I've learned to draw faster by drawing a lil more simpler, using light sketches first, and from simply being used to drawing them. I'm 21 now.

 

thanks for sharing Seraphinx, you have certainly improved your art skills, i specially like the way you draw hair, its very natural and looks great on your characters!

OK people, time to show what you are made of! share your time lines with us!

BTW, remember that attachment in the first post? i already finished it

http://www.mangatoanime.com/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=chejo_cg&id=monicadibujando

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i'm 19 years old

 

ok... they're pretty interesting guys. ^^. i guess my evolution happened while here. and still is.
i started out trying to copy screenshots and general fan art. which i hand coloured, cause i had no idea what 'cg'ing' was lol.
1
i did this for a while.... then i got a scanner and it came with a really bad cg program. and i did stuff like this.
2
i then started doing my own stuff...
3
after i got photoshop 5, i then went for the really cartoon look, with huge eyes and small nose mouth etc. This one is probably the height of that little stint... i was also taking out my line art at this stage too.
4
then i did a 180 and went for realism...
5
i guess now i'm trying to blend it all together. and i've kind of gone back to having line art in my cg's, but i add depth to my line art instead of a single thinkness like i used to do.

a virus just wiped by harddrive blank, so now i don't have photoshop 5 again, but i've got a copy of 4....:bleed:
lookin' forward to that.

i'm going to start doing pics with some kind of purpose now, rather than just boring character shots. i'm also going to go into some rather different stuff...
5 i'll be taking it slow from now though...

guess that's 'bout it... i haven't being drawing long enough to have a real evolution.

 

I really can't show a very good evolution of my style since I never kept most of my old stuff, I don't have a scanner and after reformatting my harddrive, I found out I no longer have a copy of Photoshop or PSP. Still, I can show how my CG work has gone along.

This is an example of one of my first pre-CG art in what I call my okay stuff.

Old Junk

This is a slightly later but favorite subject

Cat Girl

Here is one of my first attempts to use Photoshop on an existing image

Catgirl 2

This was my first attempt to draw exclusively with a mouse. It was with what was then a five year old computer using photoshop 4.0, the one with no history option.

Painful

I lost patience with it and it became this

Forgetabout it

I'd largely given up on drawing full figues for a while and drew things like this on and off

Orange

Hope that covers everything. Now for a shameless plug. I am working on an anime tarot card deck and I need help. Details in the anime section!

 

hey poom poom, you certainly know how to change styles that leno pic is funny!

furry, that last one is really nice, your color is getting a nice soft style, keep it up!

whos next?

 

furryb: ur drawings aren't that bad..for me theyre really cute specially the last one.
chejo: i like your pics too theyre cute specially ur best pic! i really liked that one

 

mmm, i think that'll be up to you since you draw everything most of us draw only characters
looking forward to see your evolution, ser!

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