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8 years of Emi! the history~
11 years ago
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I saw 
post about how her sona is turning 5, and I started to wonder when my "sona" was born. I wasn't actually a furry until mid 2013, but I had designed the Neopet/wolf then neko version of my sona all the way back in 2008! I colored those little Makeables! Not a whole lot has changed, but adding thicker stripes, a lighter belly and chest, and longer limb stripes. And of course my little moles and hair!
So here's the first official art I had made of my original sona design, who was at the time unnamed. The first art has a credit but the artist is not active on DA anymore. The second and third were also freebies from other Neopians.
http://i.imgur.com/yyNzFUe.png
http://i.imgur.com/3sZQcot.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/WgkK1wv.png
I adooooored those pics so so much! I'm pretty sure they were done for free, as request, most likely from the Neoboards. Amazing!! My neopets username was iironfan at the time, because I used to RP Temari from Naruto back in 08, ahaha .. Anyway! It makes me feel a little silly to know she started as a wolfy-canine thing. It doesn't suit me at all! She eventually evolved away from a feral creature to a sort of neko girl, because I was starting to hang out with anime lovers at school in 2007/7th grade, and we drew ourselves constantly. The next link was another amaaazing artist from Neo, who drew my 2008/8th grade neko-type version of Emi! Probably one of my fav arts I've ever received. And probably the first free digital art of "myself", my anthro version. My nickname at the time was also Wire, because I was in those silly little emo kid cliques on FC in the boards heheh.
http://i.imgur.com/8FH6YaY.jpg
I was still iironfan aka Wire at that point. But not long after, I kinda fell out of Neopets because of the Viacom changes. I got into Gaiaonline, anime, and doodling myself with my friends. These next ones are ones I did myself, from 2008-2009 or so.
http://i.imgur.com/lVIE96q.jpg 2008, mfw summer school
http://i.imgur.com/WhOPT5W.jpg 09, experimental chibi
http://i.imgur.com/j7vRpXB.jpg 09, pastels, emi got (weird) ears!
http://i.imgur.com/T8zidMq.png emi '10, got her actual ears
http://i.imgur.com/eFjyIWs.png '10, more of a likeness to me!
Then I kinda left her there, as a cute little neko raccoon "me" to draw with my friends. I later dropped out of highschool and just kinda kept to myself. In 2010-ish I drew this random pic (first link) of Emi, just as a human, with no raccoon features or anything! And the second link ... in mid 2013 I was on IMVU and found a guy advertising custom skins his friend made. I didn't know people did that, so I followed him to his friends hangout, where I met 
who pretty much changed my life! She agreed to convert me to the furry side, by making me a furry set! She asked me for a reference, and suddenly everything changed. She joked that once I went fur, I would never look back. And here we are today! Here's a little history of her changes. <3 Some links are NSFW.
http://i.imgur.com/PQYXJNZ.png
http://i.imgur.com/4H9Kxip.png boom, furry!
http://i.imgur.com/5Q5w4hB.jpg the original IMVU fur
http://i.imgur.com/vmGX1Y5.png one of the first arts i made!
http://i.imgur.com/zE9ii7W.png secondlife version of emi
http://i.imgur.com/1VUXVxt.jpg hair change, and first SAI
http://i.imgur.com/ApiWIrJ.png more hair change~
http://i.imgur.com/C0yY3JH.png most recent!
So that is how Emi came from an unnamed Lupe makeable on Neopets, to the chubby blue haired raccoon she is today. It's been a pretty long journey, from mid 2007 to early 2015. I didn't realize it had been such a long time since Emi was first created. Her design has been with me thru awkward middle school, some of the best friends of my life, hard times with family and first love and school, my beginnings as a commission artist, and my ventures into adulthood. It's kinda crazy how a little drawn rendition of myself as a raccoon can be there thru so much, but there's the receipts. Pretty cool~
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this is so cute!! i wish i had old pics to compare to my art now but i lost everything :(
this is like the first thing i was proud of drawing in paint, i think i was 12 :') i sadly did lose my colletion of emo kougras lol
http://i.imgur.com/9MRrVwZ.jpg
....... and i also did neopet freebies omg
http://i.imgur.com/HA85M7r.png
*gags*