This right here is total inspiration.
Cheers for posting such thing. :)

This is actually kind of inspirational. as a artist still starting out it gives me alot of hope.also your art actually improved a lot in a short amount of time in the last three years.

If you just keep drawing and drawing and drawing you Improve a lot faster especially when you have people help you out along the way

Your improvment in the last years is amazing and inspiring.
Thanks for sharing this.

Wow, your evolution of your skill is unbelievable!

If I've learned anything over the years, is this: Any great work is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Meaning it's a simple idea followed by a lot of work. The worst part is that the first, second, even third try won't be perfect, a lot of mistakes will be made along the way - but we all learn from those mistakes and if the person in question really wants to achieve, the won't let those mistakes discourage them, they'll learn and do better the next time.

This collection of works you've put up showing the timeline of events, pretty clearly exemplifies this, and I can't help but bow to your dedication and determination. The results have clearly been worth it.

But, as you say, where to go from here?

That's a very difficult question as it almost feels as if predicting the future. When you first started out, you had a level of quality you were wanting to achieve, and you had a long way to go. Now you're for the most part there. The number of peers for someone of your talents is far fewer then when you started, so what do you reach for now? I wish I could help you answer that but that's going to be something you have to determine yourself personally.

But I would like to say that I'm definitely looking forward to whichever direction you pick.

Totally.

I can just wish that everything will work.

wow you improved a ton in such a small time frame!
thanks for showing this as often people are too afraid to show what they did in the past, when it can be used as reference for your own improvement :]

It takes a lot of courage to upload this indeed.

the warhammer online one is the Chaos Zealot class I believe, and is indeed a healer class (as well as handling buffing allies and debuffing foes)

Now I remembered. It is the Chaos Zealot indeed! I mostly play as the warrior priest, because warrior priest is so awesome and unkillable. lol

each to there own, in most rpg, mmo or not I prefer the typical fighter class, since lore wise in most games they clearly have no supernatural power, just pure, natural badassary.

Amazing progress! I look forward to what your art will look like three years from now! :)

well for me, it is taking pictures of places where you can't get a camera, because they are in your mind, that is what making images is all about.
other people have this thing about characters and emotions and i guess that's ok for them. but really it is how to make places by making things to make places with, to be in harmony with the natural forms and the gratification of living there. and then to convey and share this by making images, that is what has always interested me.

i mean i like people, real and imaginary too, but always it is places and the things that are in places, that i see and think more in terms of.

my dreams always involve places, and only rarely involve people, and even more rarely anything like anyone i know in real life.

i know what you are trying to show is your own progress and i am happy for everyone who advances in what they are able to do.

but it is the images of places you have made, and i hope you make many more, and of kinds of things in places, that attract me here to look.

It's breathtaking to see your progress over the years. I learn paintings from different people who willingly to teach me, I think it'll need an extra effort to make my passion on art and drawings to be advance.

Thanks for posting this x) It's always makes me excited to see years progression like this.

Why do you only draw guys and have their stomaches always exposed? Hmm I wonder.. :P

Wow...this is inspiring. Thank you for sharing this

Wonderful. Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this!

>_> Learning art helps so fucking much. After I started to do studies here and then it really boosted my pathetic skills. So much time was wasted before that.
Really encourages me to visit courses and life drawing classes beside school. The more you learn, exeperiences you get - the more is possible. It's lovely. Your improvement is a nice example of expanding complexety in scenery. I'm really impressed.

It's like opening your third eye. I never see the wold the same way again after learning art.

Yes, that's the thing. Very fitting metapher!

中肯
你的進步很不得了, 練習真的是王道啊

噫！好久不見了啊JC！
是說我已經跟台灣獸圈失連好久拉，已經不知道大家都在哪了。

都在噗浪上自成不同的圈圈啊~ XD
你有噗浪嗎~?

有的，不過我對噗浪很不熟 :p

http://www.plurk.com/KrayTSAO

加了~ 不過怎麼完全沒東西啊 XD

This is really inspiring :3

Thanks for uploading these! I'll have to view it in better quality in a few minutes; the mobile isn't all too clear. I can already catch a hint of your progression.

Wow, the last paragraph is the crossroads I came to before starting some things for the first time. It was a personal "get off your sorry butt" moment. Glad to hear you feel the same way.

You certainly have come a long way from the beginning. Your landscapes and everything are phenomenal. I'm not even at the skill level of your first image, so don't be ashamed of that one. Heck, I've never been on a computer with even photoshop running before.

This is very inspirational.

Good on you! I drew a lot of horrible art as a kid, just for my own fun. I had no idea I was training for a career.

this is amazing

Hell yes dude! I love it!

I hope everyone sees this, because this kind of progress is great to see.

I love this so much. I have a question, though. When you say you started to "learn art" in 2010, do you mean that you took formal or classes or that you started teaching yourself?

Formal art classes. Take those which trains traditionally, charcoal, gouache, you know.

Out of curiosity, do you still work in traditional media at all?

And there's not much to say on this upload which hasn't already been said. Very interesting to see where you started, as well as how you've progressed.

I still sketch on paper, and still use a scanner, other than that, I draw fully digitally now.

I'm that not a good traditional artist actually, I'm quite good with charcoal, and that's about it.

Oh wow! Much like the comments before me, this is amazing how gracefully you advanced in just six years! Thank you a lot for posting this, it's always fascinating to see how an artist you look up to has grown themselves!

This is fantastic. Thank you for having to courage to show all your older art. The rate that you progressed was really interesting to see.

Kray, you're awesome! You and artists like you prove that art isn't necessarily a 'talent', it's something artists work at 'cause it's what they love doing. Just like no one can write professional-level stories right off the bat, it takes years of practice, and the determination to see yourself through.

I won't say improvement is all work, but more about absorbing knowledge and know-how.

Knowledge, like how to stage the lighting, how to make the compo flow, Will make you better.
Practicing, the painting itself, will familiarize you with the knowledge, and make you faster and more confident.

reading books, watching tutorials, looking at art, they all help.

Very inspiring. You've come a long way since then, keep up the good work buddy

This is so awesome and inspiring, and also quite relevant for me at this particular time of my life. Thanks for posting it ^^

Do you have any tips on learning to paint enviornments? That is one of my weakest points, and while I have been doing my best to be observant [of the world around me and other peoples' techniques] I still feel as if there's a lot I am missing.

Tips are hard to give, since painting is complicated and hard. aid you can show me a environment you did, I may be able to tell where you're lacking.

Nothing that isn't embarrassingly simplistic. I've kept my attempts to myself [or deleted them] so I don't have anything to show what I can actually do [it isn't much, heh]

It's ok, come find me when you need help. And remember, it's ok to be embarrassedly bad.

absolutely fantastic. Its one of my biggest pet peeves when people think that artistic talent is learned over night and they just give up. you are one of my favorite artist on here and I'm glad that you started from roots similar to mine and It gives me hope that one day I'll be up at your level

There's no reason to be ashamed of anime, as it is a great art form, but my being through it is quite surprising isn't it?

嘿同樣是台灣的朋友！其實已經偷偷觀住很久了^^" 這六年的進化令人讚嘆啊，期待看到更多作品～!

嘿嗨，遇到台灣的朋友一定要打個招呼的

Thankyou for persevering!

I was wondering if you could tell us which programs you used, if you remember them all. I'm working with several. So far Photoshop seems to work best for me so far.

Yes, actually I do. 2007 Photoshop, 2008 to mid 2010 Sai, Late 2010 Painter, 2011 to present Photoshop.

Thanks. I hope that I can have my art improve too.

This is very inspiring. My boyfriend asked me just the other day why I don't draw anymore. I don't like my style, or my crappy attempts at shading. The collection you've got up there is proof about practice really paying off. ^_^

I absolutely love this. It takes balls to post the things you're embarrassed about and maturity to see past mistakes and learn from them. I go through my old photography all the time and it's so painful to even look at things from a few months ago. I hope I'm still doing that after 6 years and have continued growing and learning so that I can do this then too!

Thank you for proving that Tools aren't that Important to create an Epic Arts. :Db

Thanks for this, it was really inspiring. Especially those words of closure gave me new energy to continue my efforts to become a writer.

...this is really inspiring...

wow!

7 years to be uber talented xD

this is pretty inspiring ^^ iv only been doing furries n men n digital for 9 months now ~ still got a wayz to go :U

No words. I can´t believe.

I used to draw a lot of bad art in 2005-2006 in MS Paint, all of it anime style with a mouse. I guess a lot of us start here! You've come a really long way! I'm going to keep trying to get far too.

Your comments are killing me :) this is the sweetest thing. Keep on trucking. Even if it doesn't feel like you're improving fast enough just realise you're always getting better. You're amazing <3

Congrats on your success! I really love your style!

I'm saying the same to some friends - don't break yourself for how 'shitty' you think you are drawing/creating - just go and create!

http://bit.ly/1dFTwQe

With this... I feel like i have a future huehuehue.
Thank you.

Lets both go nuts.