(Because everyone's doing it! o3o)
How I found deviantArt, should be given thanks to none other than Yoshi, from Nintendo. I've always loved Yoshi since way back when I was 3 years of age, first introduced to me from the video game, Super Mario World.
We had gotten our very first computer along with internet by 2005. Come 2007, (I am 13 years old by this time) after playing Super Smash Bros. Melee at its release, I fell in love with Yoshi all over again with his new 3D Model, and decided to use the internet to perhaps search all the wonderful art of him, and fortunately, was redirected here to deviantArt. :3
Being a total
My mum loved that my younger sister and I loved drawing, especially using the best of our ability to work with the little that MS Paint brought at the time, and decided to install a new Art program for us to widen our skills, Paint.NET.
I decided to try the new program, and give a gift to the artist that inspired me the most and pulled me into joining deviantArt to begin with. n.n
Of course though, my mind was open to trying new things, I believe this was also the same time I was exposed to some of the furry community here on dA, seeing individuals with canine fursonas and characters, and thought to myself, "I love dogs and foxes too
" and wanted to make one of my own XD
(totally wasn't referenced from Dog, from CatDog)The funniest thing about being an artist, is that sometimes, when we don't exactly know how to draw a certain thing, we take what we /do/ know, and use that form instead, shifting a few things around to morph it into something else.
Mine... was a little more obvious, ahah!
(my canines all had Yoshi round noses and massive eyes -laughing to self-)Come 2009, I had been drawing Yoshies and Canines separately enough to have finally differentiated the two into different styles.
This was also around a time that my mindset had been filled with insecurity, and started taking the art path of setting standards and expectations too high. I wanted everyone to love the work I produced, but the more my Yoshi hype faded, and drawing of canines took its place, the more my watchers begin to diminish.
However, this also happened to be the same time my mum found new tool add-ons for Paint.Net, and so the creative part of my mind began to explore once more.
(Oh look, shading! o3o)I loved the little by little improvements my art was undergoing, while at the same time... my insecurity began to grow as well. Come 2010, I began to feel very unhappy with my work, feeling that everything I touched, died (basically XD) whenever I wanted to draw an idea that rushed through my head. Sadly enough to say, that insecurity stuck with me for a very... very long time, but I'll get back to that in a bit.
2010, actually has to be one of my best years when it comes to my artwork. I had made a huge challenge for myself to draw at least ONE thing every two weeks throughout the year from start to finish. And surprisingly enough even to myself, I stuck with it.
Despite all the times I complained how I was never going to grow, thinking and feeling my art wasn't improving in the slightest... it did. Lol.
(<--- THIS DRAWING I STILL LOVE SO MUCH) It definitely kicks every feral canine drawing I've ever attempted, even at my current day style :'I2011!
It was around this time that I had been in the furry community long enough, to try to transform my canine feral style, into practicing anthros!
Oh, and I still haven't forgotten about Yoshi :3 (who also began taking a more anthro form over time)
Even after all these wonderful images came into light, I still thought my work wasn't improving in the slightest. XD But this is where, I looked back at my 2010 year... remembering how I was the same way, feeling that my art wasn't getting anywhere. But it took a whole year for me to finally realize how ridiculous I had been, and that my work improves regardless of how much I draw on the side, how much I practice, etc. But unfortunately, this insecurity sticks with me just a little while longer, which I'll get back to soon.
2011 was the year I turned 18, and by then, I had already exposed myself to plentiful of artistic maturity, that I decided to myself, "You know what? I'm going to take my Anthro works to the next level." And became open upon drawing my characters nude, or in artistic erotica. Needless to say, that is something I enjoy highly in my work, and I've become proud in expressing it.
I didn't exploit this new freedom enough after my birthday that same year, so here we move on to the span throughout 2012
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As you can see (for those of you who did see) my Anthro artwork is further improving and taking a more proper shape.Come Christmas 2012! I was blessed with gifts from very very good friend's of mine with a brand new laptop, and tablet ;w; (thank you guys again, seriously agh)
And since Paint.Net doesn't support pressure pens or tablets, I had downloaded Paint Tool Sai, and it was like I was learning art all over again XD
sta.sh/2bf5v0xk528?edit=1 (<-- three tablet doodles to get a feel on the new tablet XD)
But in about a month, I finally got the hang of it!
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So now we enter 2013!
I think this is where my art finally began reaching its point that I looked back at myself from 2010 to 2011. From 2011, to 2012. I thought, "man... two years have gone by, that I continued to complain about how my work wasn't getting anywhere... but goodness was I blind, because... I can finally see that I had been getting better this whole time.
It didn't take from mid 2009, to late 2013 for me to finally realize and accept, that I love my work. No matter what it is I may come to enjoy drawing, however it may look (most of the time) I'm going to appreciate that my art has grown so much over the years, and that it will only continue to grow as long as I let it.
So with this new confidence and pride in my work, as well as drawing mature works regarding artistic (or erotic) nudity, I continued to practice, continued to draw what I enjoy the most, and even developed a lot of supporters and even what I can now call, fans, of my work. ;w; (love you guys<3)
Come late 2013, I've come across yet another obstacle my art has now come to face. XD By this time, I had been focusing solely on drawing the anthropomorphic body as accurately as possible with every crease and detail it holds... that it's like I had forgotten all about proportions... ahahah...
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See how my, what used to be, thick style slowly became much more narrower. Now my drawings came out looking like twigs, oh god.I have became well aware of this problem, and even had two individuals tell me that they did enjoy the thicker aspect of my style, so... we enter, the present time of 2014! QwQ
I am still an artist in learning, I know my art isn't the greatest, but I have finally come to love my work for what and how it is. <3
That insecurity I had for so long, about how my work will never improve? It's faded away since the end of last year up to now. :3 I love my work. I improve at my own pace, and there's no other way I'd want it.
However... I now have a new insecurity that I must face. And that is my dislike for the pace of my drawing process. :I I feel like I draw /exceptionally/ slow, taking long to finish images that easily could have been done within 3 or 4 hours at the best of my ability. It's just something some of us may face as artists... where some days we draw faster than how we did yesterday, or some days we draw better than how we did yesterday. I'm unfortunately a victim to this, but as I mentioned earlier... I'm still learning. ^^ Maybe someday I'll reach another point where I'll look back a whole year and think to myself, "damn, what and why was I complaining about this time?"
Thank you all for sticking with me through the thickest and thin. About that 'twig figured' style? I'm doing my best to add a little meat to their bones again. :3
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One last insecurity I had had over the years was that, when you look through my gallery, the images never exactly fit under a specific color theme or style. Everything just looked... different, and the images in thumbnail format clashed really hard.
For any of you who noticed though, I seem to have developed a liking to color my work in a very soft or smooth, bright kind of style! This has been with me since mid 2013. :3
So now if you look into my gallery, the images don't clash too much anymore, thematic wise! :'3
Thank you all!<3 I think I'm going to place that challenge onto myself again, how I am now to draw /one/ thing every two weeks starting, now!
Expect a bit more artwork to come your way!
~Cloud
