Do it Again! Before and After drawings.

There's a type of meme that had circled around on deviantArt and still does to this day that encourages you to take an old picture of yours and re-draw it now that the previous one was several years old. You're supposed to make the same picture (or what the picture was supposed to be when you originally drew it) and draw it once more to see what you've improved upon, how it looks and so on. It's neat and fun, and certainly inspiring to those around you (or so I find)!

So I wanted to kind of bring this in here but in a different way. A lot of the people on the forums are "fanimators", so seeing as a good portion of them are ones from back in duh day (5+ years ago), I'd like to see you all take a still from your fanime (or if you never had an episode or op/ed, just use a picture) that you made and re-draw it. Try and keep as many features the same while still implementing your current style. Try using one of the oldest ones for more hilarity!

Even if you don't have a fanime currently, or it isn't that old, just take some old art of an original character of yours and redraw it!

I think it'd be awesome to try and draw it in the same program or using the same method as you did back when you originally drew it!

Here's an example and my first take on this:



Even though this character, Mina Shirogane, has been re-designed and thrown into a completely different universe now, I'm sticking with the original design for this. I recreated the (gross) background, made a shadow beneath her, had her hair the same and kept her outfit the same as well. While I tried to stick as much to the original pose as I could, it was kind of difficult, seeing as the pose is physically impossible. As of such, I had to improvise and come up with a pose of which was similar somewhat.

I tried to keep the colors the same, but some of them looked awful together so I changed it a bit to make it a little more matching.

I used binary which is the same tool MS Paint uses, which is what the original drawing was done in. Though I now have a tablet and I used Paint Tool SAI for a couple things, I still tried to maintain that smooth but still slightly pixelated look. I'm kind of addicted to it. Anyway, enough chatter! Let's see what you come up with, or what you think of other people's comparisons.