Basically, show me your art when you first started drawing compared to your latest drawing!
Unfortunately I don't have any of my traditional art from when I first started drawing but I do have some of my art from when I first started digital drawing.
My earlier work
My recent work
Edit: Just thought it was important to mention, I never really did any traditional art (seriously). I started digitally with that mushroom guy I posted below. I did like to draw Wario and the Noid a LOT back when I was in highschool, but that mostly boiled down to giving the noid huge boobs, or drawing Wario's face on popular characters like Kirby, Steven Universe, and whatever else was relevant in the mid 2010s.
This isn't anything that isn't on my profile, but the earlier posts on my page often looked something like this. Granted, it was literally my first time drawing, and I knew that they weren't good, I mostly uploaded them here on NG for archival purposes (Most of my old drawings from this time frame are gone, but most of them were more like "Angry Bean Guy" and not "Fancy Mushroom")
Fancy mushroom is honestly kind of crazy for my first (proper) digital drawing, it has it's issues, but it holds up better than all my other old pieces. I still like that dude to this day.
My more recent pieces are still not great, they lack important things like uh, backgrounds, perspectives, proper lighting, but there are some character design stuff that I like that's starting to show up in my little guys.
I'd have to attribute most of my recent art improvements with the development and release of my game's demo, Viva Hexagon! Feat. Ipulo, since I had a huge motivation to perfect/finalize the character design before I immortalized it by animating it (which in turn improved my other characters designs). Also, having a good character design made it easier to animate. I know NOTHING about animation (it was my first time), but Ipulo's (the bee guy) simple yet flexible design kinda hard carried the process.
Still hate how this piece was probably the one I got most interaction with, mainly from people calling it ugly lol
But I am happy to say I feel I've improved a lot in 3 years
It may not be a big difference, but never stop drawing! I love the texture of your line work, keep it up!
Well here's one of my first drawings I ever did on digital that I never uploaded, luckily for me.
And here's a recent one!
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The handwork is impressive, me personally I've always struggled with drawing hands and I still do lol. I'm also in love with the blood wings, that's such a cool concept!
Baba Yaga, about 2 years ago
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Buccaneer, 2 days ago
I've been drawing for way longer than this, but this is my first drawing from when I started taking art more seriously:
This was made in (I think) February of 2022
My most recent drawing (or should I say painting):
Made this month.
AHHHHH!
At 11/23/23 11:08 PM, SomeDoodles wrote: I've been drawing for way longer than this, but this is my first drawing from when I started taking art more seriously:
This was made in (I think) February of 2022
My most recent drawing (or should I say painting):
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/somedoodles/gross-up
Made this month.
I really like this! There's a lot of personality put in this last one, I'm giving it a 5 star!
I was started on this
And this is my drawing now
How it started:
How it's going:
My 1st known drawing
My last online posted drawing
I might have improved slightly ? Maybe ? A bit? None ? Uh. Although looking at modern art, i'd say the 1st one was masterpiece too and could be used for good money laundry scheme in big gallery.
I went from drawing Hotwheels
To drawing literally anything else
This is approximately about 14 years of difference or something idk
Link to ballpen drawing:
My first digital art ever 
about 2 and a half years in between these!
My first concept of one of my OCs, which dates back to when I first started drawing
And here's the most piece I did of him as of recently
Still not too sure what I'm doing half the time all these years later lmao. I was so proud of being able to draw a whole person head to toe back then
yoinked this from my old deviantart account since idont have access to the computer that actually has the files w my Really Old Art so theres definitely a ton of earlier stuff . couldve looked through my old scratch account or tried to track down my colors3d for the 3ds art too but that is way too much effort for me ithink . not even getting into traditional art
but anyways heres the first thing that i could find that id vaguely equate to a finished piece drawn at the ye olde age of 10 or 11
and heres a thing that id vaguely equate to a finished piece that i drew a week ago
coolguy
I would go outside and touch grass, but unfortunately there's an obstacle known as
much of my old art is lost or just on some notebook that i can't really be bothered to find lmao. but this should be some cool progression too.
here's my art from early 2022, it's of my character Jay when i first came up with her design.
and here's what my current art looks like, this one's of the same character too :)
my art's changed quite a bit since last year lmfao, because that's when i started actually drawing regularly. before that i'd just sketch some random thing once every few months and that'd be really it
Here's my first digital art piece, from July 2020, I don't have anything traditional from around the same time.
Still having nightmares with this.
And here's my most recent art piece from yesterday:
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Here's my 1st drawin I did on this site:
what
The first art I made (which is atrocious).
And my more recent art which I can actually look at with a smile.
Had to search my old ahh and cringe facebook and welp... this is p much one of the first traditional draws i made, it's so fucking horrible and i hate it lmao, but aside from that... i'm really happy to see that i improved a lot on these years, genuinely feel satisfied with my progress
(Btw the skull on that shirt looks like Papyrus... and this was before Undertale existed, my cringe ahh past self predicted Undertale indirectly lmao)
And this is one of my recent draws, as i said... i feel proud about myself and all the progress i made so far, and as always i'll try to be better and better every day!
Its still crazy to me how i started off in my rayman phase. I hated drawing limbs so i stuck with this
Im glad i stepped out my comfort zone and practiced anatomy and what rules to break on it because i have discovered my love for dynamic art
This the earliest thing I could find, back then I didn't really care for drawing just something I did out of boredom. While I've sort of gotten better through trial and error of what looks 'good' at the time I had no concept of any actual drawing technique so its just glorified symbol drawing.
Latest finished piece. Wasn't improving as fast as I could since I'm lazy af and busy with uni, but at least now I can do stuff outside of wobbly front views and no longer feel intimidated looking at works by cracked monsters on Pixiv, Artstation, and Twitter.
Not my earliest drawing, but I was starting to take art slightly more seriously here.
Some LPS Popular fan art I drew when I was maybe 9-10 years old (anyone who knows what LPS Popular is gets instant respect from me).
And here's my most recent drawing
Wacky characters and groovy patterns
Well this was a year ago
and this is my most recent drawing
Froggo is always watching.
I'm going to shit your pants
[Pronouns are they/them btw]
At 11/24/23 06:53 PM, MondoBilby wrote: Not my earliest drawing, but I was starting to take art slightly more seriously here.
Some LPS Popular fan art I drew when I was maybe 9-10 years old (anyone who knows what LPS Popular is gets instant respect from me).
And here's my most recent drawing
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/mondobilby/cool-pants
Omg lps popular!
When I began drawing:
When I began drawing digitally (I took the oldest pic I could find in my computer):
My latest serious work (my actual latest is rated A, so I won't share it here to avoid incomodating someone):
Being 100% alive means taking a 50% of actions and having a 50% of perspective
The pieces from 2020s were all on my old NG account that no longer exists. I might re-upload the recent ones at some point. Still not close to where I want to be, but its progress...
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