#art timeline

[incaseyouart]

Template credit to SunnyDionysus on Twitter!

[nn-ee-zz]

I don’t really have a lot to ask I just want to say I love your art style! It kind of reminds me of like Eldritch Horror meets Celestial Divinity type of thing so with that said I was wondering on how you came to this type of art style you do and how long did it take you to experiment until you found the style that you wanted? Sorry if that sounds kinda confusing 😅 thanks for taking the time to read this and have a good rest of your day!

Thank you! I did not found my artstyle, my artstyle found me. Here is a timeline of my digital art/illustration journey

2014 - The beginning

I finally took my tablet and bit the bullet that was digital art. I remember specifically forcing myself to draw (because it was not fun) because I wanted to learn digital art no matter what it took.

2016 - Experimental

Boldness seems to have dominated this phase, not because of the themes but because I rendered without any under sketch (example above of how the first draft looked like vs the end)

2017 - The breakthrough

It was only from here that digital art began feeling RIGHT. The most important things I've learned were how to render texture variation (especially softer things like hair and fur) and how to color a drawing from greyscale. I was slowly settling onto my desired artstyle

2019 - Happy accident

We were tasked to design characters based on chess pieces during college. 1 week deadline. With the mindset that no one will see my designs except my teacher and I, I did things boldly and rendered them (trad ink plus digital shading) to emphasize shape and design, rather than texture variation.

I began mixing traditional lineart with digital rendering.

2020 - Fallen from heaven

My friend and I decided to attempt to design angels based on widely popular tumblr emoji mashups. It was the first time I colored one of my character design drawings, using similar methods to the ones I've learned in 2017.

2017 - 2024

I cannot name nor describe my artstyle nowadays. I haven't seen many people with something similar either. I use what I've learned in all my phases; the spontaneous boldness of 2016, the texture variation of 2017, the sharp shapes and design mindset of 2019, the mix of traditional and digital from 2020. It all melted together and keeps evolving.

The way I approached art changed too. I was so worried about making things beautiful and technically outstanding when today I only worry about making things interesting and readable.

[mxmint323]

since my birthday was recently, i decided to do a redraw of my narry a year apart to see the improvement! the 2023 one (left) was more hastily done, while i took more time on the 2024 one (right)

[7thatlas]

Redraw! 2 years ago vs now. If my goose-drawing abilities have improved, surely some of my other stuff has too.

[pumpkinspice-creations]

Hmmm... I might need to redo some of my art pieces that I do every few years to really see improvement, these pieces are too different.

[lexissketches]

This one you can definitely see more a difference - the Infernape drawing is so flat and over-saturated!

[that-cryptic-kay]

Art Timeline!

For the Original/Template Click HERE.

[greydoesthearts]

Art Timeline 2023 🫶

Fun year, fun year!! Getting right into it :)

January (JSE - Chase Brody - "Bright Brody")

February (JSE - Inky Shawn Flynn)

March (JSE - Jackieboy Man - "Calling for the Apocalypse")

April (Original - Human Sweetie)

May (Original + Welcome Home - Pip and Howdy)

June (JSE - Chase Brody + a cat)

July (Original + Multiple Fandoms - My Birthday Drawing)

August (Original - Me)

September (Original - Shells)

October (JSE - Antisepticeye)

November (Fionna and Cake - Marshall Lee and Gary Prince)

December (JSE - Seán and BB)

[reiningsoral]

friendly reminder that your art will get better, because

2021:

2024:

you will improve, i swear

[frindoka]

it’s almost been a whole year of heath

[ersh-ova]

something like this

[mxihi]

a little timecapsule thing i saw on twitter (original found here by @SunnyDionysus!)

[neonionpill]

(UP) I tried to draw in my old artstyles

(DOWN) My old artsyles I used as reference hehe 🫶✨

[reverendazmx]

guh

[vix-fr]

Found some old flight rising drawings in my art folder and decided to compile a bit of an art journey. Here are 25 drawings from 2019-2023

Coatl - Jan 1, 2019

Fae - Jul 6, 2019

Sylvenius - Mar 26, 2020

Pearlcatcher - Nov 18, 2020

Resheph - Feb 17, 2021

Ambros - Mar 1, 2021

Lorena - Mar 2, 2021

Noodle - Mar 16, 2021

Bitts - Apr 1, 2021

Bitts - Apr 13, 2021

Ambros - May 5, 2021

Zoisite and Kelpie - Sep 4, 2021

Ignited Imp - Apr 7, 2022

Jerboa Clawmasher - Apr 26, 2022

Lamar - Jun 5. 2022

Itan - Jun 20, 2022

Moss - Jul 5, 2022

Ambros - Aug 4, 2022

Skydancer - Aug 11, 2022

Manchineel fullbody - Sep 16, 2022 Manchineel headshot - Nov 2, 2022

Pearlcatcher - Dec 4, 2022

Monsoon - Dec 24, 2022

Barkwatcher - Jan 3, 2023 Sunfire - Dec 27, 2022 Jasper - Jan 6, 2023

Mocha - Jan 29, 2023

Aberration - Feb 5, 2023

Ghoulie - Feb 9, 2023

Tools: MS Paint for pixel art FireAlpaca and a mouse for digital art *Zoisite, Kelpie and Lamar were lined in Medibang on mobile, then colored in FireAlpaca

[cupidarling]

2019 -> 2021 -> 2023