Art 1998-2007 10 years of work

Practice, practice, practice. This is 10 years of hard work and constant painting, studying and practicing. Art isn't something you just pick up and learn quickly. Art isn't fun and easy. It takes a hard work, a serious desire to improve and as much skill and learning as anything else.

You might think the pictures at the beginning are still good, but they are lacking a lot of things.

1998 - I think the first one may be the first or 2nd watercolor I did. I was still doing a lot of digital for fanart. I still did in later years but I didn't include any of the rest.

2000 - I lost the middle paint and have never found it. I must have had a thing for red hair.

2001- These are all characters from my comics. The first green one I would consider my first really good fantasy art that was good enough to keep showing for years.

2002 - First two are illustration from college. All of the sudden I was forced to paint lots of pictures with backgrounds and full figures for my project.

2003 - Started sticking with inked drawings and hot press watercolor paper here.

2004 - More detail....

2005 - I made an effort this year to draw entire figures that fit in the picture without feet being cut off etc. Started using more photo reference.

2006 - Can't think of anything notable. Maybe less fairy wings...nah

2007 - At this point I am usually spending 80% of my time on backgrounds than the people in the picture.