9 Years of deviantART - art evolution (Patreon)

Today I'm celebrating 9 years of deviantART since my first post. So many things to tell...

Since childhood, I was doing hundreads of personal comic strips and mini-magazines with stickman figures (I'l share some someday). Up to 2009, that was everything I could draw. But until them, I wasn't sharing online. I had some posts in forums, but nothing real (it was a controlled place and such). I didn't have the courage to create a character, a public account and face possible hatred and indifference.

In that same day, Jan 20 2011, when I was 18yo (adulthood in my country), I finally took real courage to create my first character and start an account based on a private thing: feet fetish. My first post was my girl, Fire the Fox.

And, for the first time, I got approval in my art. With help of friends back there (sadly not with me anymore for multiple reasons). Every art was done in GIMP using pencil in a Windows XP machine. Poor and noob, I know.

... then Free was born:

In a few artworks, she got better anatomy and such. But still, no tablet.

Sky came after:

She was pretty cute at the time, but still their style wasn't good enough.

Back at 2011, dress-up games were a sensation, then I've used one and changed their styles:

... and decided to use that same style in all my girls... and get a drawing tablet!

Progress! Fire got her red legs, Sky was less hedgehog-ly, and Free got some real feet with her.

Finally it's my birthday:

Notice the eek-english. All girls was still using three toes. But it was going to change in 2012:

First time that Fire shows her "spiky collar" and the ring in one of her ears. That was the only artwork of her using that "pantyhose".

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In 2012, I took a really stupid decision to delete my deviantART account and move to another one. My plan was to start doing more anime and human characters, instead of furries only, because famous people was drawing it... and that was my ultimate regret. I was moved by sadness and envy back them.

Lots of my moves and things I couldn't do within this 9 years was made because of inferiority complex and artistic envy. Other gettings thousand views after 24 hours of post, getting fanarts and gifts and being highlighted in video compilations... that made me to delete and move to another account.

For the first posts, it was okay, but...... I couldn't resist and deny my own girls and furry characters, the ones I loved to draw... and after a few months I've returned to furries.

And today I celebrate three birthdays: Jan 20, Fire's bday; Sep 24, my bday; Sep 30, actual account's bday.

Enough drama.

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It's 2013 now... Free gets her first visual change until now. My plan was to make her as a Canadian-style girl, before rethinking her as a English girl years later.

Sky, finally, gets her first design change:

In 2014, Fire got new ornaments: a dog collar in her tail and darked fur in her legs and arms.

And their style was good enough to make a wallpaper. For this artwork, I've dressed Free with work clothes, which made me to make her a lawyer. Sky got a halo... and voilá.

It's now 2015. Three years of the new account.

Also, my first artwork for Paw Day (I don't celebrate it anymore):

New characters were made in 2016, but my main character was still those three.
Things was getting hot:

And for 2017 and 2018, finally, the actual versions my girls was made:

And with that version, I finally made a cute version which everyone would love.

It allowed me to make commissions starring my cute girls:

... and finally, one of my recent artworks including all of them in the same picture:

The most recent changes are simply coloring and standardization.

... sooooooooooooooooooooo, 2020 is here.

Does it mean a new style for them? Or just new clothes?

Well... only time can tell. ^^