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drawing beards dont scare me no more! yippie!

Aragorn study from same scene, 2 years apart

Tu'er Shen (Hare) from my novel, the portrait was painted this year and the concept art last year.

The one on the left is purely digital, while the one on the right is a traditional sketch scanned and then colored digitally. I didn't age the character, I just didn't know how to show maturity a year ago like I do now.

I only just got back from a 2 year hiatus couple months ago but I'm going at it full swing and taking it more seriously.

:>

I will say though my art has kinda declined just a bit but it's mostly due to mental health issues. On a good day it looks fine to me. I'm not sure if the old artwork was drawn in 2019 or 2020 but whatever ( btw: I was 14 or 15 in 2019/2020 and I'm currently 22, I drew this when I was 21 )

Same OC/Character! I dont really draw her in that hairstyle anymore but recreated it to match the old image more.

First one was made for Inktober and the new one for Drawtober ✨

The first picture (3 years ago) is actually traced from paper then colored in

After I got made fun of a lot from my best friend at the time, I stopped drawing humans altogether and stopped showing anyone my drawings until around a year ago when they got out of my life and slowly picked up a pencil again! This is still the first time in a long time I've posted my sketches anywhere because of their "constructive criticism"

Now I love drawing comics more than anything and practicing drawing than when we were close (which took away my excitement and motivation) and even now I still can't show anyone I know unless it's a chibi sketch that I think is good enough

<3

I also love the fact that the new one only took me 2 more hours than the old one. I'm proud of myself!