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Improvement Meme: JDWasabi and beyond

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Actually this was sitting on my hard drive for the past month and a bit. Wanted to do this for Jan / New Years but it just didn't happen (LOL). Hopefully I've improved >_____> ....
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1. First time I used photoshop, I drew a wolfie without any reference! I was a very happy and derpy teen :dummy:.

2. I could dig out some oooooold stuff but I couldn't be bothered to scan it but luckily I took a pic of this ages ago and here you can see it in its ugly glory! Giraffe necks for the win...?

3-5. I went through a phase of being slightly obsessed with the display pictures on MSN so I made myself a bunch in Microsoft Word. I had a face for every occasion, eating, sleeping, studying, being happy. You name it.

6-8. This was the year I was technically focusing on music composition so not a lot of development in the drawings. These pics were doodled in Japanese language classes when I was supposed to be studying. I must've been really depressed with my studies to do something stupid as to sign up for evening classes! Add my final music exams to that year too. Hoo boy.

9. Lol my first digital painting with a tablet!

10. There was a t shirt design competition at one point so I started to take Photoshop a bit more seriously.

11. First *proper* digital painting.

12. First photo manipulation? Started to really enjoy the graphical side of things from my Media class. I'm still proud of my magazine covers :3 I decided not to add the magazine covers I did to this meme because it didn't really fit but I'll link it here anyway!



13. Bored in university lecture because our tutor didn't turn up (something happened if I remember correctly...can't remember what though lol).

14. Bored on train journey.

15. Bored in lectures again / missed doing some traditional painting.

16. Oh hey! The Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) and The Nostalgia Critic were doing a poster contest!

17. Oh hey! My university was also doing a poster contest! And I won! :dummy:

18. Seth suddenly appeared in my brain. I don't know how or why but I had such a strong image in my mind that I had to paint it down somehow. Although he was still nameless back then lol.

19. Oh hey! I decided to develop that character concept and The Ghost & The Rose project popped out. Majorly embarrassed about showing this project at the class presentation but I made a promise to myself that I shouldn't hide what I like. I'm glad I kept that promise to myself, even if it was slightly nerdy of me being the weird girl doing a sad love story anime themed animation XD.

20. Developed the G&R project further, going back to the original concept of 18 which was Fallacy's Lore. Back at 18 it was called 'Fallacious Lore' >_>.

21. Did a movie trailer complete with home made animation, music and voice acting! You can probably see that keeping that promise to myself, my drawing style has improved greatly as I had to draw so much. Drawing level up!!

22. Turned my attention to The Knight of Nights (TKON), my first ever flash game. Flash experience level up!

23. Finished uni, was feeling utterly drained but I managed to churn out a decent picture for *Lubrian's contest ;D

24. Getting fed up with my lack of style, so I started focus on practising on that for both line art and colouring style.

25. Oh hey! I got distracted by my camera. I've actually been into photography ever since joining dA and after attending loads of gigs during my university years I wanted to take proper pictures of the musicians. This is my first 'fancy' photo, totally forgot that I could do photo editing in photoshop .... :iconmingplz:

26-28. After my snappy snaps spree died down, I turned my attention back to my drawing ability, again trying to develop my own style. And I still am! 8D

So there you have it, a meme of my old stuff, not including my old music tracks or the film/animation from university...goodness >___>.
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TL;DR: moral of the story, don't give up. Don't let what others think of you hold you back. It was scary especially in retrospect when I presented my old work to my university peers but I'm glad I did it.
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NitroDragonTrigger's avatar
wooo from awesome to awesomeness, yeah u have improve to the max:D