#progress meme

2006: The year I made my dA account and started actually putting fanart on the internet lmao Before this, I’d literally just kept it all to myself. Ballpoint and gel pens and colored pencils are the tools of the trade. Lined paper is a common sight for some reason, considering I wasn’t in school

2007: Started using ballpoint pens more than ever lmao But also transitioned to color ones instead of just black all the time. Also remember experimenting more with colored pencils. This is also when I got into Kingdom Hearts and started drawing dumb comics. Had also a brief period of time when I was interested in trying some digital art, but all I had then was paint lmao

The style is still very Jhonen Vasquez-y pfffft

2008: Not too much change. Still in to KH. Still using ballpoint pens and colored pencils. I did download GIMP at this point and tried it out to color a picture or two. Also drew a lot more OCs and ambitious cover-style pictures, laughs

I also did a ton of comics this year

2009: I bought my first handful of Copic markers this year. I also remember messing with the colorization and hues, etc. in GIMP after scanning in pictures. Still mainly using ballpoint pens for inking purposes

2010: At some point I dropped colored pencils entirely, either in 2009 or this year. Getting way more comfortable with markers and learning how to Use them, ha. Also started using colored ballpoint pens again when I was bored. I started college the previous year and was in art classes

2011: The Marker Renaissance i guess bc wowie. Still drawing a lot of comics, but they were usually colored very thoroughly with markers and then inked with ballpoint pens. Obviously they were also then more spaced out since they took more time to do lmao Still occasionally drawing OCs and original stories, but fanart is definitely more prominent thinking emoji

2012: Hetalia invades jfkfd;a Also remember buying a double-sided grey marker/pen and using that to ink just for the heck of it. I had both a Color and a Special Topics class this year, which resulted in a lot more marker practice