#improvement post

Reasons why some months aren't on the poll:

[ID: Two drawings. One of Sal Fisher from Sally Face sitting on his bed, covered in blood and holding a knife. the room has red tones. Second shows a character named Pixel, smiling with one tooth fallen out and her mouth bleeding. teeth are floating around her. /End ID]

one year apart!!

🦋 Redrew a really rushed assignment for class! 🦋New on the left/Old on the right!

My art progress is really really long since 2015 the first time I existed on internet.

Here's my OC Vadim Trifonov, he's a FSB Spetsgruppa Alpha "A" operative with rank of Captain.

He exists since 2016 as a RP OC when I was a wee lil 15 years old kid and really interested in spy movies like TMFU 2015 and James Bond.

He's really special to me because he came to me through a dream. I saw a man looking like how I draw him telling his name was Vadim Trifonov, and he was a really gentle, kind and selfless man.

He also gave me some sort of comfort and coping as well so he's really special to me. One of reason why I just don't end myself, is who will finish writing about him and edit it out.

Here we will see the progress of it!

September 2020 - Digital Art (Latest)

It took me like 4-5 hours to draw this considering I don't use line art and have to fix it by painting over and over.

I also got the hang of painting digitally due to experimenting with acrylics and poster paints and reading tutorials.

Russian friends are also helping with sending me images or Russian handbooks and sites to see so his uniform isn't all that inaccurate. I usually don't draw ranks because it's really small and like how friends said, "Yuri spends 10 hour on the face and shading and then just fuck it on minor details," which was true on this matters ahhahaha.

July 2020 - Pixel Art

One of the stills from How Unfortunate art and it's really nice besides how meme material it is (Vadim's forced smile and lenny face like expressions). It's intentionally shaded only in two colours because I don't like being a fussy wussy animating things and to show dark-light in rather not eye hurting way and I use darker line art compared to usual way I do (use a lighter tone of brown/darker or orangey one) so his expressions would be easily seen.

May 2020 - Watercolour

I'm really invested in FSB and Chekist stuff so his uniform is correct for now and I like how abstract it is.

I also got my watercolour style and I really like lining with brush now.

January 2020 - Pixel Art

First time getting into pixel art thanks to Russian and Ukrainian and Texan friend telling me to do it. I forgot there's a tool to yknow, line the shit outta it and circle tool. So that's why it looks so thicc. It's also blurry because that's the first time I learn to resize pixel art.

2019 - Digital

I got into modern militaria stuff (never a fan of modern tanks and ships tho but I like the planes and soldiers) and here's Vadim with slightly accurate tactical gear.

I haven't done much digital due to how time consuming it is for reasons.

November 2018 - Watercolour

When I didn't get to art club I just actually put him somewhere. I want to retain his secret service stuff and I don't wanna change much of his bio so I just put him as "FSB" even the uniform wasn't really that accurate.

I also recently studied anatomy more and prefer slightly realistic facial feature because I was quite into Shoujo animes and KyoAni styled stuff and it only helps with lining thinly.

2018 - Digital Art

First digital rendition of Vadim? It used Paint Tool Sai which also I just don't like it for some reason (I prefer Clip Studio Paint like what I'm using currently due to basic tools are already good and Photoshop for larger images and edits since brushes there are good too?)

It's blurry because it's for Tapas.io title image so it's small and the first rendition of my current art style (the no line art painting) and look how I attempted my current semi realist stuff hahahha.

2016 - Watercolor

He was listed as RP OC of an Art Club thingy (you know like Daisuki Club). Also yes I was anime artist fight me.

2016 - Concept Sketch of Vadim, (image dated 2017, but it's literally older than the 2016 watercolor)

Below was sketched after I had the dream and I was just thinking about it.

so basically, this took since october. I'm SO proud of how this turned out! Way, way better than my older ones! June 2017 November 2017 Designs belong to or are referenced from Climbdraws