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Iconoclast wanted me to post what I've done in the past few years (except she told me like a month ago D: ), improvement and stuff. So, here you go.

This is like the first thing I did with Paint Shop Pro, or on the computer other than MS Paint. End of June, 2004.


The next thing I did with Paint Shop Pro. D: August 2004.


I can't find/remember anything that was specifically done between then and the next image, in 2005. Dino gave me Corel Painter, and this next one is probably from May or June 2005.



-throw up- (summer 2005)



I actually learned something from this picture that I still use today. Light, light yellow-green is neat for highlighting. (late summer 2005)


Towards the end of the year, I started trying to use Photoshop. Which means a few lines here and there. Still colored in Painter, though.

2006:







Then I got a tablet for my birthday! Got it towards the end of the month in March. I think that it really made a difference because I could do things a whole lot faster, and therefore put more work into something without a lot ARRGHHASLKJF:SDLKFJ.





Started having contrast issues, for some reason:




2007:

Didn't figure out "Hey, an opacity brush would be nice!" for a while. Scritch, scratch, scritch, scratch:



Throughout the year, February - December:







Some practice from stock I've been doing:

to begin with i was like:

OH GOD

gonk

near the middle i was like

OH GOD

surprised

and by the end it was like:

OH GOD YES YES YES YES YES

redface

I wish the AFG had some sort of serious prestigious award to give to people for being awesome, because you are awesome.

Like a "Faggie"? XD

Wow... your progress... holy s**t. I remember the crap I did back in highschool and junior high holy s**t. Holy s**t that's awesome stuff girly. HOOOOLY SHEEEET. I went that direction too, anime to more realistic type stuff. MADE OF AWESOME U IS. *Yoda voice*

your sig made me wet myself.

And yeah, you went from from like "H" to like "H".

H IS FOR ART.

Did you get articulate cyborg hand implants during your progression? seriously, this is amazing.