10 year challenge

Jeremy Ross

Hi @eriberart, what a great reflection!

I stopped drawing everyday when I was about 9 because of poor grades, but here’s my very first digital illustration on October 2018 some 30 years later (after getting the illustration itch), compared to a recent illustration this year. Needless to say, SVS and this community have really helped me progress!

October 2018

March 2020

ajillustrates

This looks fun! I'm going to try to find something really cringe-worthy from 10 years ago

Heather Boyd

I was just starting college but also found work late high school. Just need to narrow down to one though I may try more because I still like some of the ideas just add a bit more kid friendly to them. A lot of them are drawings though.

Heather Boyd

@ArtofAleksey did you ever find one and do this? I didn’t realize this was a year old lols

Heather Boyd

@Chip-Valecek did you end up doing one of these too?

ArtofAleksey

@Heather-Boyd no i havnt done this! I know i talked about it i should totally do it.

nadyart

What a great idea @eriberart and great progress over time! Are you going to do this more often? I see the post is from back in November, maybe you can draw the same image every year haha!
@Amanda-Bancroft Looks great!
That's awesome, @Jeremy-Ross!

Thanks to this topic I found this gem gathering dust in my files
This was the first picture book I "illustrated" for an amateur writer. As an amateur illustrator haha. I wasn't able to find all of the drawings, but the story was about a duck that had abnormal feet. It was a picture book with A LOT of text and black and white spot drawings.
I painted the cover in Paint Shop Pro
The illustrations were made with graphite pencil and I did not yet know how to create a transparent background.

Oh my. Maybe I will pick one of the illustrations to draw again.

korilynneillo

What a fun idea! I'd have to really dig to find something 10 years old (many of my old sketchbooks are lost to time) but I'm currently re-doing a 4 year old watercolor!

eriberart

@nadyart I actually think those old drawings are really cute! I used to redraw the same picture every year to track my improvement but I stopped a few years ago. I know I have them saved somewhere but I can’t find them... I did find this though! My monthly improvement over 8 years until 2018. I never did one for 2019 https://imgur.com/a/yPAVKIn

nadyart

@eriberart Thank you for sharing, it's very cool to see the growth over the years, such a difference!

eriberart

@nadyart it is cool (and a bit cringe!) to see all the phases I went through... I was 14 when I made the first one!

Chip Valecek

@Heather-Boyd I did.

The year was 2012 and I just introduced myself to digital art:

And then last year I took the same idea and did this: