And that’s my 10 year art journey. Thanks for reading, if you just looked at the art hope you enjoyed that, here’s to the 20′s holding more art and inspiration for everyone(and more comics for me specifically).
Happy New Year everybody!
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2010s Art stuff
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I did this on Tumblr, but I thought I should also do it here since it's kind of my old home.
Since it’s going to be the 20′s in a bit it seems like the right time to look back at all the work done over this decade, appreciate the improvement, be embarrassed with the early stuff and so on. This should be particularly interesting for me because I started taking art seriously when this decade began(2009 to be more precise) and also stuff like high school and college happened.
2010-2012
Back in high school I was drawing really complex abstract stuff, watching anime and getting ready for my college entry exam. I always liked weird stuff and luckily for me so did my first high school art teacher, so with a little guidance I started to explore the abstract side of weird, which had the advantage of looking good without me knowing any basics of drawing
So for the first years I was drawing super detailed stuff that took forever to complete, to compensate for my lack of knowledge of form, line, composition, perspective, anatomy and so on. These below are much more representative of my overall art from that time, cause I did draw a lot of fan art and such. Sorry for the bad quality, I used to photograph my work with a potato back then and I didn’t think these were worth scanning when I still had them:
I should also mention the architecture, cause it was the only drawing related thing my parents wouldn’t freak out about so I decided to pursue it. To get into architecture school you need to take a drawn entry exam so I spent my high school free time at a preparatory course. Sadly I can only show a few sketches from that course cause all of my old work from it is in my parent’s attic and I’m only going up there if my cat’s life depends on it.
I did learn some fundamentals at that course like shape, forms, perspective, a bit of composition and how to intersect a hexagonal pyramid with a dodecahedron; I just didn’t think of applying any of it in my personal art until
2013
I saw the first Hobbit movie at the beginning of the year and it reminded me how much I love Tolkien’s world so I reread all the books and also felt like illustrating them and I was super committed to doing everything, characters, backgrounds everything. And…well if you’ve been avoiding for the longest time to draw the things you’re bad at when you finally do everything, everything sucks. I was also really not helped by the fact that I didn’t know when to stop with the shading. But I’m glad for my commitment, cause things didn’t stay sucky forever.
I still did weird stuff in 2013 but I had enough confidence to move away from abstract drawings and towards surrealism which has always been my favorite thing in the world. 
By the way, I did get into architecture school but I haven’t gotten any of my work back from the school so I can only show some sketches I did in 2014 for one of the courses. 
This transitions us into
2014
The year when both my illustrations and surreal work were Tolkien themed. Still too heavy shading and not very happy anatomy, but things were looking up.
In 2014 I also experimented with some colored inks and started my Blue Book series, which is a series of surreal paintings that might make your eyes bleed from the extremely contrasting color scheme that is the same all throughout, but I was always a fan of high contrast so I enjoyed filling a sketchbook with them.
In 2014 I also experimented with some colored inks and started my Blue Book series, which is a series of surreal paintings that might make your eyes bleed from the extremely contrasting color scheme that is the same all throughout, but I was always a fan of high contrast so I enjoyed filling a sketchbook with them.
2015
Was my best year creatively, so much so that I can’t narrow down my favorites any more than this, sorry.
It was also the first year I did inktober completely. Drew a bunch of hands for that.
Also this happened at the end of 2015. It’s not representative of anything really, but it does mark the one time my sister got drunk so it needs to be remembered
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2016
Did the bulk of the sphinxes
Did MerMay and my favorite inktober series so far.
And started doing comics, which may not look as impressive as my other stuff but it’s a really important little step (especially if I manage to stick to a schedule next year).
It was also the first year I did inktober completely. Drew a bunch of hands for that.
Also this happened at the end of 2015. It’s not representative of anything really, but it does mark the one time my sister got drunk so it needs to be remembered
:2016
This was my best year in terms of technical skill; stuff finally stopped looking so wonky all the time. I also started working freelance and since most of the jobs I got were for children’s books I started doing more kid friendly stuff to build a portfolio in that direction, cause who doesn’t love to get paid for doing what they love. 
I continued working in my Blue Book and experimented a bit with an abstract style that we’re going to revisit soon. 
I also did sort of a story for inktober, but I didn’t like it enough so it went nowhere after the challenge.
2017
Due to my professional work for children more color crept into my illustration work. I also did some of my best surreal work ever; I’m still so proud of that, whoa! 
The Blue Book kept going
And I started the design100somethings challenge; I choose to do sphinxes for it, which to be honest facilitated more evolution in faces than overall design skills.
I did inktober again, only half though, cause doing detailed old buildings was a bad idea for a daily challenge.
2018
A lot of stuff happened in 2018. I kept adding to my illustration portfolio. 
I finished my Blue Book
Did the bulk of the sphinxes
Did MerMay and my favorite inktober series so far.
And started doing comics, which may not look as impressive as my other stuff but it’s a really important little step (especially if I manage to stick to a schedule next year).
2019
I can’t show the bulk of what I did this year because it’s either freelance work or comics that are not yet in a state fit to be seen.
I did manage to finish the design100sphinxes.
Remember that abstract style I said we’re going to revisit? This is what it turned into and I did a lot of art just for fun in it this year. I find it kind of funny that I started the decade doing abstract art because I didn’t know how to do anything else and after getting a reasonable grasp on the fundamentals I got back to it. 
Someone will enjoy comparing the old stylized stuff because I couldn’t draw to the new art in an actual intentional style.
In terms of improvement, and that’s probably what people want to see, the most important step forward this year was dipping my toes into digital art. Just digital coloring so far, but everyone has to start somewhere.
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Music in art-Feature
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There's no secret that music and art go hand and hand. I present to you some of the happiest results of the union I have found. Don't forget to give some love to the artists
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Where I live we had a whole rainy week, and I love it! Grey skies, cold winds, the downpours all part of the joys of nature, but with the potential to give us a heavy dose of melancholia. Not such a big problem if you're already melancholic by nature, it feels like everybody is finally stepping a bit into your world. Tears from the sky are usually connected to depression, tragedy and loneliness, and it's true that it adds well to any sorrowful image but it also gives a special glow to those moments when we welcome somebody under our umbrellas. Plus all of our cities finally look interesting during rain and nature has a beautiful glow to it. So to celebrate the rainy days here are some artworks and artists to support.
Aaaand my beloved rain just turned to snow
Go home weather you're drunk! It's fu*king October!
. Tears from the sky are usually connected to depression, tragedy and loneliness, and it's true that it adds well to any sorrowful image but it also gives a special glow to those moments when we welcome somebody under our umbrellas. Plus all of our cities finally look interesting during rain and nature has a beautiful glow to it. So to celebrate the rainy days here are some artworks and artists to support.
Aaaand my beloved rain just turned to snow
Go home weather you're drunk! It's fu*king October!
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