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Before + After Meme : 10 YEARS

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TEN WHOLE YEARS.

But honestly, my current drawing abilities/skills are the same as they were 6 years ago with very slight improvement. My skills improved greatly during high school, especially by the time I got to senior year. The "before" that you see above is from the summer break before 9th grade. So yeah, if you see this and you're thinking,"Whoa! It takes 10 years to get to the level of your 'after' piece?!" then, the answer is "no".

Before: July 2001, 13 years old. (Technically, the original drawing was completed in July; colored version was completed on Nov. 17, 2001.) I drew this for a friend of mine, since it was her RP character at the time. I remember how proud I was of the pencil sketch. What you see here is actually a coloring test in Photoshop 6.0, which I was pretty new to. You can actually tell that I was experimenting with different brushes, gradients, and the cloud filter. I used a mouse to color (badly, but it was intentional -- my oekakis from that time weren't colored as badly as this). Yeah... I was a digital coloring AND Photoshop noob.

After: August 2, 2011 (started in July but finished just now), 23 years old. While I was looking for an old "before" piece I could use, I was worried that I wouldn't have one on my computer, especially since my external HDD with all of my old art stopped working. But, I found this gem (thankfully, I didn't transfer *all* of my old stuff onto my external) and decided to do a new version of it. Except, this time, I wanted to make Sailor Moonburst look closer to the Sailormoon anime style, specifically Sailor Stars... since, y'know, I originally drew her in the school uniform from Stars. 10 years ago, I didn't try to mimic the anime's style. But, this time, I wanted to incorporate more of the anime's style into the piece. :3

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Before: Pencil + paper, scanner, mouse, Photoshop 6.0
After: Wacom tablet, Paint Tool SAI + Photoshop CS5

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pitye's avatar
Whoa, that's a really big improvement. And I love the way you did her hair. XD