List some artistic phases you went through or habits you picked up and why.

For instance, when I started drawing characters pretty much all of them had scarfs and bandanas because the first manga style character I ever drew was Crono from Chrono Trigger. I also went through a phase were all my characters had long elf-like ears after playing Zelda 64, and after seeing princess mononoke, few characters were left without having a scar somewhere.

Stuff like that.

It doesn't have to be art in particular, it could be habits in film, music, writing, anything really.

In third grade I would only draw secret agents because I though Kim Possible was awesome. Lol.

Then in fifth grade I would only draw furries.

In sixth grade I drew elves all the time but refused to call the elves for some reason. >.>

Now I just draw everybody facing viewer's left. |D

That is disturbing.

GO PRINCESS MONONOKE! BEST MOVIE EVER.

Ahem... Anyways, when i first started drawing manga I couldn't draw a character without a sword; I don't know exactly why.

Now, whenever I draw I have to change the eyes in each of my drawings, which isn't a bad thing, but it can look odd.

I draw women who are well endowed.

I have a de javu with this thread. There is not a similar one in the draw section?

I still don't mind furries. I don't see what the big hangup is.



Yes.

|D
I used to draw girls with big boobs but their heads were bigger.

Then it turned to big-boobed girls with more proportional heads.

Then loliz.

Now girls with boobs again.

On a more serious note:

I would only draw girls with their hands behind their back when I was little.

I then went through a phrase later on that only involved drawing with a pen. The time of inking/lineart obsession.

Switched back to using color.

Now it's more like using different mediums and styles of art. :U

I'm in this particular phase where I actually use a reference.

1. mostly my cat, my family sometimes, ect
2. lots and lots of pokemon..
3. neopets lol and cartoon network characters
4. attempted manga stuff that sucked arse
5. trying realism a little. that helped me a LOT
6. trying a more realistic manga for a bit
7. found my own style, started working more with colours

and it took me 13 dang years! ;a;

Before you do a useless thread, see if someone else did that thread before.

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That isn't the same thing, though. This is more about about habits, smaller details rather than the overall progression.

are you saying that small details are not a progression?

This is unrelated to the thread, but I loved Neopets when I was little. I think I still have a few hundred plushies and cards stuffed away in the back of my storage... Nostalgia is kickin in....

On a related note: I still draw girls and probably always will draw big-breasted girls. (Unless it's for art class or something...)

Related to my last post, most of the women I draw have an hour glass figure.