12 to 20 - My style

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Here goes the narration:

I just recently turned 20 and stumbled upon multiple sketchbooks and discovered some items from back as far as 12 years old.

12: I, like many others of that time, was completely obsessed with Dragon Ball Z. It's a wonder I found even 1 this old.

13: Another 1 picture one, but at this point I was trying to make my own stories and of course I needed characters to put in it. No real concept of hairline, no fine control of my pencil whatsoever.

14: I got a hold of ballpoint pens so I was bent on wasting all of them for kicks at camp. Overly large eyes were still present at this point, hair is a mess and outlines are ridiculously thick.

15: Finally I find a year that had more than one picture. I finally discovered a micron pen and I loved the brush tip, far too much infact because everything is thick-lined with the bugger. Anatomy at least has some resemblance to humans by this point, though wings out of the neck is a trick that I still get mocked on.

16: Started some more experimentation, more accurate anatomy and bolder drawings that started to shape my style. Hands were, as they still are, a mess and arms were ridiculously long proportionately. Heads were long and necks were thin.

17: I started to get into photoshop some and play with it for some cg, I was obsessed with metallic pencils for some odd reason and wings were used in a majority of the drawings. Inking finally left the constant thick stages and got a tad of variety.

18: The year I took off. Debatably the year that had the most influence on my style all-around. Started getting semi-proficient in CG and faces were finally getting closer to human-like instead of newbie manga.

19: The dead year. I started college and as such had next to no time to do much more than one thing: speed sketch. If 18 was the year I developed my style 19 was the year I developed my speed. Low-time led to numerous sketches in under 10-15 minutes which allowed me to, time granted, draw astronomically faster when I actually tried.

20: Now. Too soon to really tell much other than newfound interest in nib pens and brushes. Speed and style of 18 and 19 starting to show in a new refined style. More detail in less time, but drawbacks are flat lines, little emotion, and no skill in curves.

Overall I still have a long ways to go but it's a start.