The title. I have been drawing since I was in elementary school but I have only been good at it for about 3-4 years now. I used to get in trouble for drawing in class and that was the only thing kids at school even knew me for (if they didn't know me as the weird kid but that is a story for another day).

I have tons of drawings on paper but I can't find too many photos right now so I'll just show when I first started digital art.

I started on MS Paint on a shitty hp stream laptop my parents got me for Christmas. I didn't even have a tablet at this time or a mouse, only the touch pad. I used one hand to hold down the click and the other to move the mouse and draw. Also I didn't know the trick with the pencil tool that made it so that when you went to fill in the colors you would not get those white pixels everywhere.

I got a drawing tablet from my dad on Christmas 2016 and this was the first thing I drew with it, my three characters Katrina, Ruby, and Angelica. It was really hard using the tablet because it was one of those basic ones that didn't have the screen on it. It was so hard that I started avoiding using it after that for a couple weeks! I did eventually go back and start learning how to use the tablet, and I haven't looked back since.

Now this is the point where I am more active on the internet and found out that other art programs exist outside of MS Paint. Was looking around for some free ones (cause I was broke and a child) and I found Firealpaca.

This is not the first thing I made but is a good example of how I used to draw my console tan characters back in the day. I've been doing this whole console tan thing since I was in middle/highschool and my character Rev (previously named Blue, based on the Wii) was created while I was in 7th grade!

Found out even better art programs existed and started using Medibang, may have been around the time I got my new laptop too. The hp was on its last legs and even gave out on me during a college final I was taking on it (not that it ended up mattering because I dropped out of that college...) But I needed a new laptop and had my eyes on a Microsoft Surface Go. Bought that one in December of 2020 and have been using it since. Has a way better screen than my old shitty laptop!

In 2020 I suddenly had a lot more free time (like most people) and I drew more than I could before. I could say this was the period I actually started to like my art more, like I could look at art I made a year ago and NOT hate everything about it. But I had a weird habit of drawing the legs way too long and I didn't even notice until some more time had passed.

I always liked using bright colors but now I could use them in a way that I liked! In the past I also never used construction lines and just raw dogged the pose and character, no planning what so ever. 'Stabilizer' was not a word in my vocabulary, even though I had skakey ass hands.

My most recent developments when it comes to art is drawing different kinds of things, I started out drawing just humans (was a huge weeb in middle/high school) but branched out info furry-like (thanks Star Communicator GBA) and whatever else catches my interest now. Also I just bought Clip Studio Pro this year as a early birthday gift for myself, it was on sale! (I got the one time payment version because fuck subscriptions)

That's all I really have to say about my old art right now but I did find this old drawing of Rev and her first design, back when she was named Blue. Still based on the Wii but does not have as much 'style'. Her fit was so ass.