Danny's been gone for two months! He must have been kidnapped by pirates or something. I'm sure you guys have been wondering why I haven't been posting and where I've disappeared off to, but I feel this pic should offer an answer to that. So, you might have seen this if you've dropped over on my last couple of streams, but I've worked as fast as possible to try and have this pic completed, and it took a little over two months to finally finish it, definitely making it my biggest project to date. That's no exaggeration, this isn't even the full file size of the pic- I had to work on a MASSIVE canvas to try and get all of these details as clear as possible. I may put a link so you guys can see the full-sized pic, but it's ridiculously huge.

Anyway. This is indeed my 1,000th drawing on this site. Not only that, but it's also celebrating my 10 years of being on this site... sort of. Admittedly, I missed the mark by a little bit, as I started using the site in September 13th of 2009, though I did keep to this being my 1,000th drawing as much as possible, so I have plenty of other finished projects ready to post, this one was just in the way of that and I needed it done as soon as possible. So I will ramble on for a little bit about my time on these past 10 years and explain more about the pic in question.

So 2009, that was my year of starting using the sight. I had actually started posting my work on DA in my first account back in 2008, and it was all thanks to the user  Kitsune-Kyon, who wanted a request that I couldn't do over on DA. So I started posting my work here, with with Danny being my first ever post, which mainly consisted of some of the earliest versions of my Timeless characters. Things went on like that until 2010, in which I started trying my hand at digital for the first time. You CAN tell it was the first time I ever tried digital, especially because I was using freaking MS Paint. Still, it's not bad for those tools, but I clearly didn't know much of what I was doing at the time. It was also this year that I took a break from art for a good... year or so. My work dropped to a trickle, and I didn't come back to work until 2011, marking the end of the era in which I was using any of my original techniques, including coloring pencils.

2011 was my return to art, though! I closed my original DA account, opened my new account, and started with something pretty shocking- a ponysona. I know, it's a little weird that it was My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic which is what brought me back into drawing, and it also brought in my first new shift in style. I feel my style became a bit more developed at this era, more cartoony, started to make more use of thick outlines, and I wasn't using any colored pencils, which I think was a good idea because the pics looked pretty good without color. Though back in 2012 I went back into coloring the pics, I also introduced the third era of Timeless character designs, which continued onto 2013, and I was confident in my skills improving, especially because I started art college this year. The quality of these traditional pics were a lot better as I had now realized how to use a scanner, as shown here, though that would be the last year where I would do strictly traditional art.

2013 was the year where I made my jump into digital art again, though it wasn't a move that I did full-steam ahead. I was quite... not great at digital art. It was a a better take on digital art, especially compared to how I first did it back in 2010, but it was still pretty rough. I had started making use of GIMP, a program which... I know can be used a lot better than how I did it, but I sure didn't get grasp of it, though I did get better on using the software through the rest of the year. Though this was also the year where I started doing fanart pics, so I can safely say that might have helped me get a bit more exposure and grow somewhat of a fanbase, which I am glad for those of you that have been sticking around that long (or even from all the way back in 2009). 2014 was more of an extension of my skills in 2013, and comparing my Valentine's Day pic from 2013 to 2014's, the improvements are... very much noticeable. I did make a lot of notable connections by making friends with a lot of artists that I admired, and it made me feel pretty happy that people I looked up to wanted to notice my stuff or talk to me at all. This early Digital Era was a decent jump in quality, but it's nothing compared to what comes right after.

Now we're getting onto 2015, the year where I made a jump to the program that I've been using ever since, SketchBook Pro, which I have shown a lot of growth with its tools, how to use them, and digital art in general. A good example of such is on the Power Possum pic. I also suppose that this was the year where I did my yearly projects, starting with my Which Wich bag gifts for a good lot of friends of mine. 2015 was a decent jump in quality, but that wasn't as great as the year that came right after- one of my favorite leaps in quality ever, 2016. 2016 is one one of my biggest and favorite years, not only because I found that I really started nailing my style down to what it is right now, and in terms of digital works, my pieces started getting more ambitious, such as my pic for the Best Movies of 2015. This was also the year where Timeless got its biggest retooling yet, starting with a proper logo. This was also a big boost of fanart as shown by my... movie fanart-based project, one of my biggest accomplishments, I dare say.

My next era of growth came in 2017, as I showcased some more of my skills as a digital artist by being able to replicate screenshots from cartoons I enjoyed, it also showed a big increase in my original projects- mainly characters, teasing possible projects which will be worked on in the future. I was planning to work on Timeless this year, but thanks to college at the time, and admittedly getting cold feet on working on something so... ambitious in concept, I decided to freeze the idea, at least until I gained some proper skill as a comic artist working on something a little bit smaller to try and expand on that. However I didn't want to stop working on Timeless, to try and keep working on it I decided to do the Cast Sketch Challenge in which I sharpened my skills on character design in 2018. I also tried to experiment and change up my way on how I work on digital pics. I would say that my digital coloring skills improved but I always felt like my shading skills could use some improvement. Helping with things is that 2018 was also the year that I finally graduated from college, and I think that six years in college helped out my skills as an illustrator a lot, though I felt something in my work was lacking... until my very last pic of the year, where I felt I was onto something.

That finally brings us to 2019, the last year of the decade, and one of the ones where I felt that my experimenting helped me out quite a lot. As some of you may have noticed, I've gone back to my earlier designs in the Timeless Cast Sketch Challenge and have redone them to make them better, improve their silhouette, make them more interesting to look at, and I think that the jump in quality in a mere year is showing. On my full colored digital pics I started doing things like changing brushes for more interesting linework. I discovered more techniques in my experimenting to create more interesting effects in lighting, coloring, and overall presentation , and something tells me that coming in 2020, these techniques will be shining through even better, such as... this pic!

That was a LOT of talking just to get to this pic, but I needed to get all of that out of the way because this is a very special pic. All of that history... is engraved in this one pic. 10 years of growth, all featured in the background of this pic, which features in the foreground, the big, important faces of this gallery, showing the projects that I will be working on for this decade. Aside from the Timeless stars: Noah, Danny, and Vincent, in their new designs, we also have Ruth, Andy, and Liz from Go! Go! Hypergrind: Take Two!, also in their new designs and looking better than ever. Right in the middle are the Hazelnuts, the only characters who are not part of a... big project, they're a family of squirrels who are designed for more... standalone projects, let's just say, but I like their designs too much to not show them off. Kyle, Coco, and Kyle's older brother, Kevin, being featured to represent their world. Next to them, these guys may not seem too familiar, but they are the characters for the RPG idea that I introduced MANY years ago, Anthro Video Game Fest- a name which will be worked in- Lance, Xerxes (a new face to this gang), and Rachel, all of which have... also new designs. Finally on the far left, the MCs to the brand new, upcoming smaller comic I teased in earlier paragraphs, I introduce to you all... the cast of Inconvenience Store, featuring Bucky, Chuck, and Katherine. Now these are all not new characters, but characters that I created in college which are getting a face lift and all getting introduced in a project of their own, a proper comic which should actually get going later in 2020. And of course, the man himself, Dan, happily showcasing his creations, proud of all the work he's done, and his own growth throughout the decade.

Guys... thank you for these 10 years. It has been one long and fun ride. I think this year, and new decade will be even bigger and better than the last one, and so let's start this off with a bang. This is Danny, and here's to another 10 years and 1,000 drawings.

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Timeless, Inconvenience Store, Anthro Video Game Fest, Dan, Bucky Bales, Chuck Canciones, Katherine Klaus, Lance Tabby, Xerxes Darkwing, Rachel White, Kyle Hazelnut, Coco Hazelnut, Kevin Hazelnut, Ruth, Andy, Liz, Noah O'Possum, Danny Hazard, and Vincent Quantum created by