oh wow!
i must say... i love the 2002, 2003 stuff! <3
is there any chance to see them in full view?

Ahhh goddamnit, now i definately have to do one of these.

I recognise some of the 2004 and up stuff :3 The 2002 pic on the right is still kinda cute.

Wow, this is wild! You have such a huge change in your style, yet there is no point where it changed REALLY dramatically. It just slowly morphed steadily over time. :3

And I'd say that you were top notch matieral since 2002. ^^ After that, you just got more buttery and yummy

I never modelled my style after anything specific. I just incorporated more and more into it.
2002 marks the first year of studying animation so that's where the biggest influence comes from.

Looks like you've always been experimenting with unique poses, and your proportions were in good shape... I think it's just the level of detail, or something. But you can definately see a jump in quality there. Yay for pricey schools being worth it. :P

Luckily it's a candian school. So it's not nearly as pricey as schools in the US

Well hey; I'm Canadian, so all the more power to you. ;3

also notice that with the years the breasts get bigger too :P

Not really. There's a lot of big breasted art dating even further back, I just didnt have that scanned and dated :P

What happened in between 2000 and 2001? you mega-improved.

I learned how to use skeletons :D

Mmm.. Your art made a leap forward between 2000 and 2001. Then a bigger one between 2002 and 2003. After that it seems to have stayed fairly consistent in skill level. Though I do think it has somewhat evolved towards a style close to that of Ferris.

That last pic in the series was actually drawn in Ferris' style. I used it just because i tried to have one color and one b&w pic per year.

Well yeah, the rest one is really exactly the same style.

But actually since 2003 there has been a similarity. (That orange dragon for example looks close to his style too.)

Not that thats a bad thing or anything. Lots of artists styles resemble eachother. (I think Moonstalker and Cougr have very similar styles too for example.)

There is only so many ways to draw something and have it look good. ;)

I see it more as a scale of cuteness =)

This might be interesting...

Did this for Aether?

Yeah, I love some of the 2002-2003 stuff too. Muscular and busty are win <3

But yeah, '04, and '05 are still uber-hot to me =D

Can you show is a recient collage of boobies please? (GRIN)

Can you show is a recient collage of boobies please? (GRIN)

i remember the two in 2k1 >.>

lol

hehe ive been a lurker for some time im just usualy too damn shy to say somthing ~_~;

nothing prior to 2002 has ever been posted online :P

then how the hell did i get...*feels like an ass and thought he remembered seeing those pictures*... sorry...*goes away*

nice

Remember seeing one or two of these around before, but I'm not the most observant sort, so the rest snuck by!

Hmm, more muscle than I was expecting in there. Cool.

all of your characters have the cyutest faces ive ever seen!!!

Wow, that's a change, I wanna see the girl from 03

...So it was animation school that gave you your main boost in drawing skill? Was it just form, or was there other aspects there that you think added onto what you had been doing?

I got to rethink my entire outlook on art. I started really enjoying the process even more than the result. The main things i got from animation were probably Shape of pose, anatomy, weight, movement, gesture and color theory. I also got to learn about the psychology of design and how to put a personality or mood into a piece, and make it so that everyone can see it :)

Oh and I learned how to take a critique.

If something doesn't look to everyone the way I intended it then I didn't draw it right.

I think that last I can do, and I'm pretty good with poses and anatomy, though not great through lack of practice...

...I'm trying to think how to phrase it...
How did you pick up your skills in shading and depth? I draw like I only have one eye when I do my art/scribbles... they're painfully flat and once done, I can't even see where to put shades to try for depth. The one time I tried I had to destroy the picture from damage, erasing, and sheer frustration at how badly it was coming along.

I think I ate the pencil, too...

I learned it through life drawing, though I've been using shading since the 4th grade (I was really good at portraiture).

The issue I think you have is that you're thinking of the drawing as being flat. You've got to see the picture in three dimensions and then project light onto it. Even a flat color shadow will give amazing depth if you project it accurately.

One thing that isn't really visible in my drawing progression is the fact that I learned to draw in full three dimensions. So although some of my earlier works look pretty good, the posing options were limited.

That's quite a progression. You were always strong on expressions and roundness, so it looks like structure and anatomy were your biggest gains.

Seeing how the anime influence got less and less warms my heart.

I felt the whole anime thing was slowing me down. It lets you cheat so much by using predefined symbols for the most important features.

crazy, never seen any of that older stuff!

As they say in inspirational posters..

"You've come a long way, baby!"

love it all but the second picture on 2003 is /haawwt/ I want to lick the belleh!

Cougr's influence, blame him.

Do you have any of your old stuff uploaded anywhere?

Only on VCL
http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Mif_Maf/

Much of the art uploaded there date between 2001 and 2003

mid 2005
:D

Self Taught

Inflation toy was the first flash

Love the improvement.

First you were at anime style, and then you went to shiny and hot, I likes shiny and hot :)!!!!!!

mute

ohhhh im sure you have much older stuff than that. ya dont just wake up and start drawing like that.

Whoa thats awesome !! :O

I see the improvent all around...but I noticed a big change in the way you make your faces and the upper body. Really great ^_^

Outstanding picture, mifmaf. Your artwork has really improved over the course of six years.

Excellent job.

...The bottom right picture looks an awful lot like a Ferris drawing. In fact... I'm pretty sure it is a Ferris drawing..

lol, I get that sometimes. The reference image was drawn by an artist that draws like ferris. Since that's how the character was drawn I decided to stick with the style for that image.

It is however my own art, pose and design. If you want to see my ferris based art check my VCL gallery, he was a big influence early on and remains one of my fav artists. Oh and as for the pic on VCL that is essentially a direct copy of one of Ferris' he gave me permission to post it. It was also done from memory :)

Ahh! Okay. Forgive me! I can certainly understand why one would use his work as reference. ^^ Sorry about that.

I really need to do one of these but I've only drawn for almost 2 and a half years ><

2001, 2002, 2006, 2004 are my favorites in that order! ^_^

Hehe, it's nice being able to reflect on the years you've been drawing! ^_^ I've not been drawing long enough to do that yet though. ^_~

my god youve been an amazing martist sence 2000