[Schneemaehne]

Week #28: Personal Improvement Challenge! Find a very old picture you drew months or years ago, and draw a new version of it. See how much you have improved or changed your style!

Side-to-side-comparison just for fun:


I'd love to be able to just delete some of my old drawings here because just looking at them makes me cringe. Honestly, if you have a look please don't judge my abilities by them, otherwise I will never again get a commission over here *laughs*
My first and second drawing with Chibi Paint were of "Desoto", a canine character I made up while drawing because canines were so cool and sparkledogs seemed to be the height of fashion. Don't get me wrong, I'm a total dog person, I am totally fascinated with canines and I enjoy looking at other people's creations, even if they might be a bit on the colourful side. But you know that feeling when you want to travel back in time just to kick your own butt? I kinda get it when I look at these:
Check them out:
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and
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They are both from 2009 and I decided to give poor ol' Desoto a good revamp. I'm still no master of anatomy, but at least he doesn't have a broken hip anymore, also stopped using the burning tool for highlights (*headdesk*) and I redesigned him a bit. Tried to keep close to the original picture(s), though.

As I created him simply for the joy of designing and he never got any use I offer this design/character up for anyone interested. I don't want much, maybe a WL pet or something, and mostly a guarantee that you can put him to good use as a RPG character or whatever.
Some more info's on this point:
- the markings are symmetrical
- he is build rather heavily with thick fur, especially around his neck area
- Desoto may look intimidating, but he resents brute force and will rather try to scare away others by his appearance and demeanor
If you want to change his name, character or even parts of the design this may be possible. I just need good reasons.

Thanks for looking and reading and if you are interested write here or shoot me a PM, please!

Desoto now belongs to marlow. Thanks to all who noted me about him!

[violentPrince]

Sent ^>^

[From the Stars]

But you know that feeling when you want to travel back in time just to kick your own butt?

Story of my life, actually :')
Desoto's new design looks great! ( Although even his original version wasn't even all that sparkly ;) )

[Schneemaehne]

OMG, Stars! *jumpsatyou*
Sorry, I kinda missed you.
And thank you. I don't know, he wasn't thaaaat sparkly, but the burn tool.... it just hurts.

@Thundercrash: Thank you, I answered with a PM.

[From the Stars]

Oh goodness, really? *hugs*
I was afraid that you're annoyed or angry or something because I really suck at replying to messages sometimes...

I think we're all guilty of using the burn tool for shading at one point in our artistic career, don't worry. :')

(also, our avatars look very suspicious of each other :

"Why are you looking at me like that?" ------ "And who the hell are you?"
)

[Schneemaehne]

Nah, don't worry! I wasn't angry at all. It's not like as if it was something urgent, so I simply thought you might take your time. Or never reply, what also would be fine. I spent hours opening and closing tabs with messages and never being able to get myself to reply them, so I'm not one to point a finger at you

Haha, that's great, haven't seen that. Or we need something really disturbing to put in the middle so both of them could look at it totally flabbergasted.

[From the Stars]

I'm very glad to hear that. :)
(tbh, I wanted to reply but then I forgot about it and when I remembered, a few weeks had passed and I thought the later I reply the weirder it gets and that's the story how I procrastinated something I wanted to do until I was too anxious to actually do it :') )

and I'm still thinking of something to put between the avatars...

[Schneemaehne]

It's not too creative, and definitly not disturbing, but how about this:


(Not sure if this conversation would be regarded as spam...lalala)

[From the Stars]

Pffft, this works so well, she really is afraid of horses xD
I do think that a real life MLP would be quite a disturbing sight, to be honest, so...

(well, TECHNICALLY we're just bumping the thread, aren't we? ^^;; )

[violentPrince]

.3. How bout this?