Kings Journal: A humble comparison of my improvement (Patreon)

Today I finished drawing my new avatar and I just felt the need to put both, the old and new one next to each other.
The ones of you, who supported me right from the beginning, the new ones and all of you:
This is, what your support made possible! Thank you very much. :)

It took me about a year to get better with the programs I use, to discover  new techniques and to improve in general.
I´ m excited how my art will look in the future. ^^

Let´ s start the comparison:
In 2016 I used the custom pen tool to draw my lines. They look sharp - just look at the hair. You could hurt yourself by touching. ^^,
I chose a frontal pose for my face, because this is nice view for creating a face in general. A side view is helpful and "welcoming" too.
If you want to draw a nice face without much training, do not start with a profile view or special angle. They are pretty hard to draw. Frontal and side are always easier. Not easy - just easier as some other poses. XD
The colours are simple with only little shadow and light hinted.

For my new avatar I used a customized sketch tool to draw the lines. They are smooth and I drew my lines with a much more confident movement. The hair "flows" and rests on the shoulders. It looks soft and vivid.
The colours are strong and there is light and shadow. I also improved in stressing the difference between different "materials" like hair, skin and metall. And I create many layers for colouring and extra ones that are bound to the lines for example.

To compare an old image with the newest one is actually nice but I checked my older Artpacks, too, to see my development in many steps.

Is there something that didn´ t change during my drawing improvement?
I think yes. If you check my new and older images you need to look how I draw noses and the shape of the eyes. The eyes and noses did not change - I still draw them very much the same. I think that is something good, because even the eyes can determine a whole style. My art becomes better and remains bound to how I started. I really like that. I change without changing. ^^

There is so much art out there and a lot of gifted people, but many of them adopt an art style. I have seen many nice images, but if you would ask me who created them, I couldn´ t tell you.

I improve my skills by analyzing certain parts of other artists styles. How does artist "x" draw that part and then I try to learn that. The lines get my "handwriting" automatically.
Each new pose is a little challenge and after a while I feel different about drawing the male body. My hand or whatever remembers the shapes and forms I drew before and it feels like a library in my head.

I think all these things combined together make the difference between my avatar from 2016 and the new one.

Well, I just gonna have a look at my old and new avatar...
Thank you old one and be happy you look more handsome now.
I kinda drew me more handsome than I am I guess. ^^,
The power of art. XD

Did you ever draw yourself? Tell me in the comments.  :)