DeviantART has been a big part of my life for a small handful of years now. Very small. I'm closing in on my 4th dA birthday next month, in fact.
It all started on September 17th, 2010. After being pushed/nagged/harped on by a close friend, I set up a devaintART account. My younger self, who had yet to develop the ability to pick good usernames, picked the gem of a username I have now: IamaCutie. Far from an act of arrogance, I just didn't have any idea what my username. I posted a few pictures I had copied freehand, and left it at that. This is the first deviation I ever submitted.
For almost a year, my galley consisted of this deviation and four or five others. For a long time, most of my deviations were copied freehand from manga and anime I liked at the time, scanned on a crappy printer.
This continued for a bit, till I was introduced to Photoshop, and dappled in it, using it solely for coloring. Around this time, I was OBSSESSED with Homestuck, and it was the only stuff I drew.
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At this point, I had gotten a but better, but something was still lacking. Like, body proportion? I wasn't breaking my drawings down to a sketch and making sure everything was proportionate. Then, about two years, I was encouraged by the same friend who persuaded me to set up this account- a friend by this time had moved on to bigger, better, tumblr things and had deleted her dA account- to break my drawings down to a sketch. From that point on, my skill increased dramatically. I was cranking drawings out left and right, and with my newfound skill in Photoshop, and the eventual obtaining of a tablet and the program on my home computer, I was on fire. I kept getting better and better, and as I look,back on it now, I can't believe how much I improved in four short years. My skill got even better in the last two years I've been on here. I also worked on my skills as a writer, and have posted several fanfictions. Though they have never received as much attention as my art, I keep writing in hopes they get more love. When I love back on stuff I USED to write, I cringe at the horror. I pushed myself hard, improving everything in my writing.
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I met so many awesome people, and befriended people who, at first, were just inspirations to me that I could never hope to be friends with. Even though we are all friends now, they continue to inspire me and push me to better my art and myself. I've watched them get better as well. I've met people, said goodbye, and watched my art become better than I could have ever imagined. Art was just a hobby for me before making this account. DeviantART transformed it from a mere hobby to a passion, something I never want to stop doing. DeviantART is more than just a website for me. It's a place for me to share what I love doing with the world, to talk with people who love it as much as I do, and to become better as an artist, and as a person.
Thank you deviantART, for a truly wild and wonderful ride. I'm not getting off anytime soon!
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For almost a year, my galley consisted of this deviation and four or five others. For a long time, most of my deviations were copied freehand from manga and anime I liked at the time, scanned on a crappy printer.
This continued for a bit, till I was introduced to Photoshop, and dappled in it, using it solely for coloring. Around this time, I was OBSSESSED with Homestuck, and it was the only stuff I drew.
:thumb318040719: :thumb329033945: :thumb329375265:
At this point, I had gotten a but better, but something was still lacking. Like, body proportion? I wasn't breaking my drawings down to a sketch and making sure everything was proportionate. Then, about two years, I was encouraged by the same friend who persuaded me to set up this account- a friend by this time had moved on to bigger, better, tumblr things and had deleted her dA account- to break my drawings down to a sketch. From that point on, my skill increased dramatically. I was cranking drawings out left and right, and with my newfound skill in Photoshop, and the eventual obtaining of a tablet and the program on my home computer, I was on fire. I kept getting better and better, and as I look,back on it now, I can't believe how much I improved in four short years. My skill got even better in the last two years I've been on here. I also worked on my skills as a writer, and have posted several fanfictions. Though they have never received as much attention as my art, I keep writing in hopes they get more love. When I love back on stuff I USED to write, I cringe at the horror. I pushed myself hard, improving everything in my writing.
:thumb374550567: :thumb413830542: :thumb453090274: :thumb463070827:
I met so many awesome people, and befriended people who, at first, were just inspirations to me that I could never hope to be friends with. Even though we are all friends now, they continue to inspire me and push me to better my art and myself. I've watched them get better as well. I've met people, said goodbye, and watched my art become better than I could have ever imagined. Art was just a hobby for me before making this account. DeviantART transformed it from a mere hobby to a passion, something I never want to stop doing. DeviantART is more than just a website for me. It's a place for me to share what I love doing with the world, to talk with people who love it as much as I do, and to become better as an artist, and as a person.
Thank you deviantART, for a truly wild and wonderful ride. I'm not getting off anytime soon!
:thumb409510964: :thumb459209308: :thumb374435609: :thumb463071775: :thumb468171974: :thumb471741185:
