I see so much improvement, for sure, but my goodness, you always had such a beautiful talent and style!!

Thank you, but the Google Image backgrounds I used in 2007 would beg to differ!

Wow, this is really cool and inspiring to see. Its sort of neat to watch your style develop as these progress.
What spurred the decision to start using only hard round brushes??

Photoshop is so powerful that I needed to reduce it to force myself to be intentional, rather than relying on brushes, filters, and other digital gimmicks.

I've restricted my aims like this in other ways, too:

I spent mostl of 2007 using ballpoint, no pencil.
In 2013 up to present, I traditionally paint almost exclusively in greyscale or monochrome.
Alchemy is just… it's basic. If you do good work in Alchemy, you feel like you're immortal or something. That program took me a few years to understand.

Short answer: I avoid overwhelming elements until I prove to myself I can handle them tastefully.

Thanks for answering! I might have to give the ballpoint a shot. I really rely on the lack of permanence in digital and pencil and i could probably benefit from becoming more deliberate. I should probably do more excercises in general, ive been lazy this year as far as doing anything that resembles actual work ha.

Photoshop really is something else though. Ive gotten to the point where i really only use one brush, but the texture thing really had me in the beginning. I wanted to put textures on ALL the things and it did...and it was terrible lol. If there's one thing Ive learned about PS its "just because you can, doesnt mean you should"

I dont think im ready for alchemy yet ha, i say you using it in stream once and i was like, but how?? It was really cool though. I kinda get what you mean after seeing it in action.

This is very inspiring (especially the disclaimer, to be honest)! I need to keep looking at this, even if I want to keep art as just a hobby.
You've grown so much, wow! It's wonderful to watch your continuous journey.
Keep up the good work!

Thank you for the kind words, My Prints.

Thanks for this beautiful insight. This is really enlightening to the process.

when I grow up, I want to be like you!! Fantastic progress

I don't know if this is reassuring or, looking at the huge time gap, really scary...

but man, you walked so much road!

You've been through a lot.

just picked up drawing for the first time since i was...about 11, so double that and here i am lol

since september actually...

this is really motivating for sure

just need to find the right guidance

Wow, that's some amazing progress. Your art is among the best I've seen, and I love seeing progress like this.

Hopefully I'll make progress like this. I'm drawing almost every day just to see what happens.

Thank you for the high compliment! I'm sure your daily work will be as good to you as it was to me!

I'm not sure what you mean by alchemy in the last parts, but this was interesting to see.

http://al.chemy.org/

i come back to this often
the boom in 2010 is crazyyyy
and i've been meaning to ask, when you started drawing every day, did you draw whatever you thought would be interesting, in whatever medium, or did you try to hit certain subjects like anatomical studies or such?

What a great artistic journey I'm looking at right now!