These 2 years were kind of interesting for me for a few reasons.
 
I was starting to come into my own with digital art, really trying new things and new techniques. Practicing shading styles, backgrounds, colors, processes. I was creating more characters for myself, something I had never really done before, and I was just putting out more art in general. I was making a shitton of friends in this community and having a blast.
 
But it was also tough, because my family had gone through some pretty huge trauma late 2005 and moved several states away in 2006. This ridiculous fetish and these awesome people were definitely an escape for me and helped me through some really tough times. I can't thank everyone enough for just being there; whether you chatted with me or just hit the fave button on my stuff, thank you.
 
From here on out, each year is likely gonna have its own retrospective post because my output cranks up quite a bit! We may even see some of the stuff show up in my normal gallery.

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15 years is a long damn time to be doing this shit, hahaha.
 
It's always been a fun ride, though. Watching people break through and turn deviantArt into the state that causes it to be made fun of today was a hoot. There weren't as many people doing this kind of art, so you actually had more than 5 minutes after something new was revealed to call dibs on being first to "ruin" it.
 
I had some serious issues with anatomy back then. I was just starting out being an online entity that people payed attention to (for whatever reason. I know the reason, but it's still weird to me) and I kind of reveled in that attention and didn't really think much in the way of personal development and artistic improvement. You can see it with how bady I jump around in quality, how some pictures can suddenly be better than others. I was using references and mimicking stuff, but felt guilty until I figured out years later references weren't bad.
 
You'll see a slow improvement for the next few years. I started asking friends for critique, started getting more into art help books. All of this being self-taught stuff. It'll be a fun ride!

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So I've finally managed to get all, or as close to all, of my expansion art in one folder! I'm going to be scheduling posts for the foreseeable future, I have enough to stretch out for quite a while.

A fair bit of the early content is of human subjects, to be forewarned. I'm also going to be judicious about which things I post into the main gallery, and which I post into scraps. It's likely that not much stuff before 2010 is going to be showing up in the main gallery.

I'll be tagging each of the pics by year (ex. "Title" [20XX]) and include some stats on them if I can, and anything I remembered about the pic at the time I drew it. And since I have conveniently forgotten (oh shucks) which commissions were private, you guys will probably end up seeing some stuff you've never seen before.

Hopefully everyone is ready for the ride, it goes pretty far back. There will be a whole lot of ups and even more downs, but it's progress throughout the years!
And with more than 1,000 pics to post, we'll have plenty of time.

Hey everyone, I ended up getting a Patreon as a tip jar!

You can find it here

It won't affect how and when I post things here in any way, so nobody has to worry! It's only $1 and you will get a chance to vote on ideas in a monthly poll.
I'd appreciate it if you checked it out!

Please DO NOT GO to my old nsfw tumblr account.

Looks like it got sniped by a porn bot and everything about it just screams malware.

And now we're near the end of my frenzied posting.
I wanted to get a good chunk of content from this past year uploaded before Christmas, because I've got some stuff planned!

I'll be periodically going through some of my old folders, probably every weekend, and do another mass upload once the holidays are over with. Thanks, everyone, for following, and I hope you're having a great holiday season!

I'm gonna be uploading a whole bunch of stuff from this past year and a few months over the next week or so. I eventually want to upload my entire backlog, but I'm only doing the current year because I've got some Christmas stuff coming up that I don't want to be totally buried.

You've forced my hand, tumblr. Damn you.
I'll try posting stuff starting tomorrow.