Ho-ly guys... we’re cleaning out the shed today and I found a ton of old sketchbooks from high school I’m LIVING rn

If you weren’t drawing Inuyasha fanart did you really live through the 2000s?

THE QUEENS https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😤" title="Triumphierendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Triumphierendes Gesicht">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👑" title="Krone" aria-label="Emoji: Krone"> omg this DIDNT have a date but I’m guessing it was from around 2006ish?? THE EYES IM JUST

14 years old and Tokyo Mew Mew was the first magical girl manga I was introduced to https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🍓" title="Erdbeere" aria-label="Emoji: Erdbeere">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😤" title="Triumphierendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Triumphierendes Gesicht">
(The eyes aren’t just making me CACKLE but also are so signature young weeb learning to draw)

EVEN IF YOU DIDNT LIKE NARUTO EVERYONEhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👏" title="Applaus-Zeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Applaus-Zeichen">HADhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👏" title="Applaus-Zeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Applaus-Zeichen">Ahttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👏" title="Applaus-Zeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Applaus-Zeichen">NARUTOhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👏" title="Applaus-Zeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Applaus-Zeichen">PHASEhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👏" title="Applaus-Zeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Applaus-Zeichen">

HOLY MOLY haruhi suzumiya... This is 100% how you play guitar.

I also used to draw on boards I broke for martial arts cause it was...artsy? Idk I think I just liked using up a different canvas

I thought maybe I had traced this one, but the paper is way too think for that, so I must have had a picture in front of me and referenced... really well??? (The sqwee is killin me tho)

Aaaand some more peeks into my first attempts at my more signature art style! These are all VERY old OCs I believe.. lol everyone has the same hair https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen">

So the biggest thing with this thread is not only the nostalgia, but realizing how far I’ve come in my art skills.
You can start anywhere and with enough practice, you will improve. It might be slow, but looking back makes you realize how far you’ve come!