The first *successful* digitally colored drawing made way back around December 2015 which was the pre-production experimentation era roughly 1 month after creating my first anthro characters ever.
It says 'PC Color Beta 2' because Beta 1 some way or another went wrong and I had to start over, I'm fairly certain it was the same image though. This was created way before I even had a drawing tablet and it was just me, some paper, a scanner, and GIMP. Actually this might've been pulled from a comic panel of an ultra early version of New Life (titled something else at the time)

If you can't tell this was an early version of Sara although I dont think she was actually named that yet.
It's crazy to think this was just over 5 years ago, some parts of me feels like it hasn't been nearly that long but then I look through the hundreds upon hundreds of drawings and comic panels I've created since then and yeah it's been a while. Here's to another 5+ years.