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2013 ART ONE YEAR MEME

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Howdy!! 
Thank you so much for the great year, everyone! You've made my 2013 amazing and that inspired me to make a one year meme to summarize the year! :D Enjoy!


January: The picture used was this one:  Five heroes by XJasmin3x
Most of my early drawings were posted on my old account, :iconxjasmin3x: 
My experience with Paint tool Sai was still limited; I had only downloaded it a few months ago before creating this piece. At the time, it was the hardest thing I've ever managed!! "Five Heroes" was made for a contest, in which I won a premium membership x3 

Februrary: Another contest entry! This time it did not win anything :C But I still really enjoyed drawing it! :D I mainly used traditional media around this time because my SAI skills sucked xD I'm beginning to try out new poses, and trying to improve my sketching skills (which I applied to anime and such). 

March:A gift for my friend, :iconcockatiellover:  Invasion~For CockatielLover by XJasmin3x I was inspired by other artists and decided to try out more colours in my art. Using more airbrush and brush tools in SAI. I still use lineart. 

April: I DON'T EVEN KNOW!! I'm pretty sure I've drawn things but I never scanned them.. or something like that. I couldn't find anything in my old gallery that's worth sharing ... so. BLANK. 
I've drawn many traditional works and I think I had artblock around this time... and the art was mostly "realistic" anime..

May: MADE A NEW DEVIANTART ACCOUNT!! yay!!
I shipped Ichiruki SOOO much at the beginning of 2013. Literally: the only thing I could draw was either Rukia or Ichigo or them together... I didn't really feel interested in anyone else LOL xD 
This art I felt very proud of when I finished it. It was a more complicated pose. Again, more colour usage here than before. Harder pose as well. The realism is coming in to my art style.

June:Holy crap you guys have no idea how much I screamed (in joy) over this. A few more months of practicing with SAI and I stepped out of my comfort zone. This took me 10+ hours. The feedback I received was really nice and that felt worth it :)

July: I begin my own doujinshi (which I unfortunately canceled later). I made it from the prologue to chapter 2 but I never got time to draw it, and always felt a loss of inspiration. At this time I got into Adventure Time and that's probably the reason. I started to ship less Ichiruki (is this good? lol) And became less obsessed xD I love how rukia looks so I just had to draw her :D Tried out textures here... :3

August: Dev ID contest for Tara by XiaooyuA gift for my best friend :iconmisscreepypastaneko: Art style changing again... (Got inspired by other people I guess.) This time, I wanted to make my art more 3D and less FLAT. So I returned to my style in June and used those sparkly things in the hair to brighten it up. More realism here... 

September: I drew my BFFL (RL) a picture for her birthday:  Because she likes Fluttershy :3 
Style didn't really change that much.. I got inspired by Yuumei and wondered how she got those edges on her brush. Sooo I figured it out? (Add a Fringe). I wasn't an expert at it though xD 

October: This World by XiaooyuGOT INTO ATTACK ON TITAN AND RUINED MY LIFE SDASKDAJLSJDAS it's such a good series though ;_; Started shipping Eremika and read comics drawn by someone on Pixiv (I think yall know her cus she's so famous right now) www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=14…
Her colouring was simple and yet AWESOME so I tried to be more simple in my art.. Naturally I am a detail freak so it was hard to change (as you see on the clothes). But it was nice to see something new and I really love the hair ^^

November: SPOILER ALERT: The previous month I was way over obsessed with SNK and didn't draw much BLEACH or Adventure Time... Felt kind of bad so I reread some manga and GOT SO MUCH FEELS over Gin's death ;_; I painted him here, and tried to use less lineart and make it more real. (So I cheated by locking the line layer and colouring it a certain colour ;D) 
Adventure time fanart I did was "The Vault" inspired by a new episode. 

ahh...December:It was hard to choose a picture to put.. I really liked all of them equally ;w; 
Royal Relationship by XiaooyuI wanted to know how to add more colour to my art, and :iconforgottenpantaloons: helped me get there. I studied her art, what made them successful, and I tried applying it to my own. That helped me a lot and I begin using more colours. I really wanted my art to stand out from others. I felt that December was really a month that I found out what type of artist I really am. The other months, I was pretty much influenced by many people.. but finally I could combine my love for colour and realism together.. and create something I really loved. 
(Layer properties helped a lot too! lol)



So again, thanks for the great year!! I really honestly couldn't have made it without you. And a lot of you have offered me great tips to help me get to where I am now. Thanks a lot. You guys have all my gratitude!! :hug: 





Disclaimer time: I do not own any of the characters (Bleach, adventure time, attack on titan, My little Pony, OC's, etc). They belong to their rightful owners. This is simply fanart.
The meme base is found here:www.deviantart.com/art/One-Yea…
Credit to original maker. 

Thanks for looking! :)
I can't wait for another great year spent with you guys ^^ 

ONWARDS TO 2014!!


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ArieneX's avatar
looks like you've improved pretty well over a year o: