17-year-old art

[eye_of_toad]

drawesome did a "10-year redraw" challenge recently. And I actually don't have any art from ten years ago because I went through a long phase in my life when I wasn't making any art of any kind, so to find something over ten years old, I had to actually go back 17 years and found some doodles that I'd done while at work.

The 2007 versions have the advantage that I had recently taken art classes at the time and I had a desk job that was incredibly boring with a lot of free time on my hands so I probably spent more time on them. The 2024 versions have the advantage of being larger so I should have theoretically been capable of better detail, but I couldn't shake my "meh, fuck it" attitude. It was easier to display them here at the same size, but the originals of the ones on the right were much larger.

2007	2024

I don't hate the new versions, but I think I was hoping I'd magically see improvement. I want to believe my skill has grown since then, but I also have so much less patience than I did when I was younger. (I'm also just in a bad art phase right now. I don't think I've really liked anything that I've done this year.)

Comments

[senmut]

I like old and new.

(This seems to be a thing for creatives; I feel like I had a sweet spot in writing that I have failed to maintain.)

art

[eye_of_toad]

There are times where art just seems to flow and it feels easy and fun and I delude myself that it will always be like this or that I'll keep getting better. And then I hit rough patches where everything is hard and ugly and frustrating.