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The OutcastIt was not difficult to find out about my mother in a village like West Harbor. Even though decades had passed people still whispered about the demoness of the Underdark who had arrived to the village one night over twenty years ago. They said she was unnatural creature with her obsidian skin, silvery hair and glowing red eyes. She moved like a shadow through the village, always during night-time, never letting rays of the rising sun touch her. She was a drow, the cursed one.

No one knew why Daeghun and his wife Shayla would suffer someone like her in their presence but for some inexplicable reason they did. They welcomed the foul creature

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Improvement Meme: Digital Paintingby *Isriana

Just a little walk down the memory lane. *SlayerSyrena suggested recently that I'd fill this improvement meme so I thought "why not?"

It was fun to put this together and see where I came from.

I decided to go a bit further and add some of my very first digital attempts from year 2006 - that was around the time when I got my first Photoshop 7 for my little laptop, and realized that I liked messing around with it. As you can see, at first I had little clue how to use all those different utilities so I started with simple shadings, color overlays and such.
It was actually really difficult to find anything I painted during 2008-2009. Those four I managed to dig up are pretty much the only ones I did during those years since I spent almost all my time doing photomanips. All my manipulations have always included digital painting and those years have taught me a lot about working with Photoshop, so I do think it was time well spent. Eventually I wanted to return to digital drawing and painting, though... and here I am.
As funny as it might seem, everything I can do today is based on those first difficult, inspiring and frustrating years with Photoshop. Every single artwork posted in this meme has been something I've been very proud of at the time I created it - even though at the moment some of the oldest ones make me grimace a little.

It has been a long road, but as you can see lots of things can happen in six years.

Thanks to =Kamaniki for the original template!

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For another improvement meme, see below:

_{2007: Once Upon A Troubadour | The Dryad | My Selene | Snowbringer
2008/2009: Maiden Elf | The Dead Boy
2010: Rowan | Once Upon A Troubadour | The Druidess | Spell of Light
2011: Selûne | Revan | Don't Shed A Tear For Me | Skaila Skaran
2012: Dovahkiin-in-training | The Alfar | Submit Yourself to the Taint | Far From The Sands Of Elsweyr}

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~DemonVexx 5 days ago Hobbyist Interface Designer

you are an art goddess. please teach me how this is done ('-' )

~vick330 Sep 14, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Always interesting to see how artists evolve, and you've sure grown artwise wonderfully

~TheLugia702 Sep 9, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

..You improved SO MUCH in two years (More than I could...or will)

~kirahall-gresty Sep 7, 2012

this.....is......AWESOME!!! your really good all i do is draw sketches of Cicero and Babette attempting ti make them look realistic (like in this drawing) but having them turn out all cartoony and cute (like in this drawing down the bottom) I wonder what your drawings will look like next year!

*Lauraurora Aug 30, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I loved seeing this! Well done by the way. It's great for someone like me to see your development as I am at the beginning of mine really. You've done amazingly!

~LiberianGurrl Aug 22, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

The improvement is amazing, but you can see that you already had loads of talent in 2006 ^^

~LyeenAlandis Aug 19, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Haha ^^ I think my skills we be nearly the same... I started digital drawing with 16, but I didn't like it that much and now I adooooooore it!!!! But I really really like the way you draw nature. I wish I was as half as good as you ._." well I don't succeed doing lineouts digitally. The problem is, that I don't succed in sizes and measures...

~smashbrawlguy Aug 16, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

~andmonkeygirl Aug 16, 2012

wow

~IsraelHusky Aug 15, 2012

imagine what you could do next year!

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