20+ People Challenge Themselves To Redraw Their Old 'Crappy' Drawings, Prove That Practice Makes Perfect

If you're dedicated to your craft, working on it is a pleasure - and drawing is no exception. Through hard work, you improve yourself more and more each day and seeing how far you have come makes you appreciate every minute it took to achieve the skills you have now. To showcase their progress, artists have started a challenge called 'Draw This Again' in which they show their old and current work side by side. From doodles to beautiful paintings - seeing these artists' progress will inspire you to work hard on what you do. Check out the amazing progress pics in the gallery below! h/t

#1 Two Years Of Drawing Every Day

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#2 I Broke My Neck And Was Paralyzed In December, 2010. Here Is A Photo Of The First Drawing I Did In Rehab, With Assistance From My Recreational Therapist Ashley. Followed By A Self Portrait I Did 7 Years Later. I’ve Improved A Little

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#3 Found This Drawing I Did In 2008 When I Was 11 Of The Puppy We Adopted Who’s Now An Old Man

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#4 It's Been Exactly Three Years Since My First Drawing, So Decided To Do This 'Draw This Again' Challenege. Not Dissappointed

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#5 Me And My Art, 6 Years Apart

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#6 Eye Improvement In 2 Years, 13 To 15 Years Old

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#7 1 Year Improvement

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#8 I Found An Old Drawing Of Mine From When I Was Seven Of My Mad Baller Speedboat - A Hybrid Blend Of Top Fuel Dragster, Funny Car, Racing Boat, Tactical Jet Aircraft And Whatever The Hell Else I Wanted. Then I Did An Adult Version To Homage The Original

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#9 Then And Now

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#10 My Drawing Improvement 2014 - 2017

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#11 Nearly 10 Years Ago I Drew Sybill Trelawney From Harry Potter, And Now I’ve Done It Again. I Pushed Myself With The Details, And I’m So Proud

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#12 My Drawing Improvement 2013 - 2017

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#13 A Little Evolution Trough The Time

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#14 My Drawing Progress Over The Year, Criticism And Advice Always Welcome

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#15 Awesome Progress

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#16 The First One I Drew When I Was Twelve Years Old. The Second Sheet Is A 25-Year-Old Guy Who Started Drawing

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#17 A Remake Of An Old Drawing From 2014. It's Nice To See How My Art Style Changed As Well

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#18 Improvement

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#19 One Year Drawing Progress

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#20 Sometimes I Think That I Do Not Advance Or Improve, And Then I Find My Drawings From Years Ago

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#21 Improved Nutella

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#22 Old Work Done Around 2008-2009 And The New Version In 2012

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#23 It's Always Nice To See How Far You've Come, And What All Of Your Time And Effort Has Ended Up As

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#24 It's Been 4 Years And I've Learned A Lot. And Honestly? I've Learned Most Of It By Watching Much Better Artists Than Me

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#25 Honestly Most People Drew Better Than Me When They Were Kids. I Just Enjoyed Drawing, So I Kept Doing It, And Improved As A Byproduct

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#26 Did A Re-Draw Of My First Ever Digital Painting From 2012. Pretty Cool To See How Far I’ve Come

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#27 I Got Inspired To Remake A Drawing I Made 7 Years Ago For A Friend

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#28 Recently I Came Across A Super Old Drawing Of Mine And I Thought It Could Be Fun To Redraw Or Paint The Thing. I Added Some Details Though To Make It Look Nicer Besides The Whole Rendering Part And Everything Else

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#29 This Was So Much Fun To Draw! I Used The First Pic I Ever Drew With Photoshop And Did It Again. Any Improvement?

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#30 One Year Of Practice (1 Hour Each Night)

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#31 May 2014 To May 2018 - Four Years Of Practice With Colored Pencils

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#32 2.5 Years Between The 1st And 2nd Picture

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#33 Davy Jones - Draw This Again

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#34 Redesigned A Character That Was Created In 2010, Called Semira, Now Called Lily. I Find It Very Cool To Remake Old Designs, 'Cause It's Easier To See How I Have Evolved

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#35 So Satisfying. Watercolors

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#36 Draw This Owl Again

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#37 Elephant Before And After

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#38 Progression, Digital

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#39 I've Never Really Redrawn An Old Artwork Of Mine Even Though I Love Seeing Them From Other Artists. So I Gave It A Shot And Tried To Keep Pose And Palette Similar. 12 Years Of Difference

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#40 My Mom Found One Of My Old Sketch Books From 1999 And The Drawing On The Left Was A Little Gem I Found In There. I Drew The One On The Left At Age 9 And The One On The Right At Age 19

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#41 My Progress In 7 Years

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#42 3 Years Apart

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#43 Gosh, I Was So Proud Of This Back In 2013. And I Really Did Improve In The Past Three Years

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#44 Draw This Again: Drowning Maiden

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#45 1 Year Difference (Progress)

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#46 Here Is The Remake Of A Self-Portrait I Did Back In 2010, Before I Did Any Digital Work, All Inks And Cross-Hatching Back Then

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#47 I'd Seen People Do This Before And I Always Wanted To Try It Myself Some Time. To Make It Fair I Stuck To The Same Conditions: No References, No Color And The Same Pose

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#48 I Redrew My Childhood Drawing

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#49 My Drawing Progress From 2015 To 2017

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#50 Coloring Improvement Over A Year

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#51 Not Sure When The First One Was Made, May Be 1994 Or Something. Anyway, A Bit Of Progress Since Then

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#52 I Really Enjoy To "Restore" My Old Characters Of Elementary And Middle School And Only Now I Realize How Synthesized And Anatomically Incorrect They Are

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#53 So In My 12-Year-Old Mind Preppy Equaled A School Girl Outfit. It Was Very Fun Redrawing This! Huge Confidence Booster

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#54 Left: When I Was 15 Years Old. Right: More Than 2 Decades Later

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#55 So I Opened My Drawing Time Capsule From 10 Years Ago. I'm Not Sure If That Black Thing Is A Mouth Or A Mustache

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#56 Organizing My Files, I Found This Drawing Which Is One Of The First Digital Drawings I Made, 13 Years Ago, In Paint. I Thought It Would Be Fun To Redo It And See The Result

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#57 One Of My Old Drawing, Which I Didn’t Throw Away - Today I Can Do Comparison Of My Progress

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#58 My First "Draw This Again", And I'm Really Proud Of The Result

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#59 This Should Give You A Lesson: Never Give Up! You Can Do It

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#60 7-Year-Old Me Vs Now Me

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#61 A Huge Progress In 4 Years

#62 This Just Goes To Show You What Practice Can Do! If You Just Stick With It, You'll Improve

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#63 I Don't Remember When I Did The First Drawing, But At That Time I Didn't Draw With Tablet, It Was With Mouse, And My Pulse Is Horrible. I Hate The First Drawing But I Think That The Difference Is So Incredible

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#64 Had So Much Fun Doing This, I'm Glad I've Improved

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#65 I Still Can't Draw Hands But I'm Getting There

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#66 It Only Took 13 Years To Get Around To Doing This. Better Late Than Never, Right?

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#67 This Isn't A Strict Redo, But It's More Or Less The Same Thing! Both Mirror Studies Of My Face

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#68 Re-Draw Of An Older Drawing From 2003

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#69 1 Year Progress, Actually I'm Kinda Proud

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#70 One Year Improvement

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#71 Zero Improvement, Right?

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#72 Honestly, I Feel Like This 2015 Is The Best I'm Gonna Get, But Who Knows. Maybe In Few Years I'll Draw Him Again And Look Back And Cringe At The 2015 One Too

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#73 Leveled Up

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#74 Draw This Again - Cintia Dicker

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#75 I Found This Drawing Book I Had When I Was 4 So I'm Like "Ok I'm Gonna Draw It Again And See What Happens"

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#76 Ocelot And Dog 6 Years Apart

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#77 Somewhere In There Were 5 Years Where I Had Stopped Drawing Altogether, And I Wish I Hadn’t Because I Think I Would Have Improved Even More. All That To Say, Keep Drawing And You Will Get Better

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#78 A Year Of Progress In Portrait Drawing

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#79 Redrawing My Old Artwork From 2016, Here Is My Year Progress

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#80 I Did A Draw It Again Meme Thing

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#81 Well, I Tried To Draw Jessica Alba Again

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#82 I Decided To Recreate One Of My First Hair Drawings To See The Difference

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#83 Pirates Of The Caribbean - Draw This Again Edition

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#84 My One Year Progress In Digital Painting

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#85 Three Years Of Difference. What Do You Think? Can You Tell The Differences?

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#86 I Think I've Improved A Lot

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#87 You Can See My Progress For 3 Years

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#88 I Didn't Practice All This 8 Years. I Started To Draw Last Year Again

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#89 I Hope, I Have Learned Something At The Last 10 Years

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#90 Characters From Dragon Ball Z. In Both Version I Used A4 Paper And Colour Pencils

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#91 A Lot Has Changed In A Decade! Though The New One Is Just A Speed Paint So It Could Have Been Better. I Cringe At My Older Drawings

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#92 Improvement In 14 Years

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#93 2 Years Painting Progression

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#94 For Comparison

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#95 Well, Could Be A Higher Improvement Considering The Time-Frame, But I Am Still Glad That I Improved After All

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#96 Draw This Again, And Again, And Again

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#97 Sometimes I Get Close To A "Realistic" Territory, Even Though It's The Same Character, He Looks Different

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#98 Miss Emma Watson Portrait Progress

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#99 247 Days Of Practice. Still Struggling With Adding Correct Values/Shading And Hair. Helpful Feedback Would Be Greatly Appreciated

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#100 Sketches Of A Hand

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#101 Draw This Again Geisha

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#102 Which One Do You Like Better?

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#103 I've Got Nothing To Post Lately And I'm So Slow At Finishing Art Trades, So Here's A Quick Sketchy Redraw

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#104 I've Wanted To Do Another Daenerys For Ages And Seeing Other People's Before And After Memes Inspired Me

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#105 2013 Vs 2018

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#106 Huge Improvement In Just Two Years

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#107 When I Dig Through Old Art I Can See Clear Phases Of Different Styles I Tried Out. When I Was Younger I Drew A Full On Anime Style, Which I Got Teased A Lot For So I Ended Up Switching To A More Realistic Style As I Got Older

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#108 When I Was About 11 Or 12, We Made A Wildly Derivative Card Game Called Rakafikimon With 2 Friends. I Found The Cards The Other Day And Have Decided To Work Up Each Character Into A Fully Illustrated Design

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#109 Wow I Made A Huge Progress In A Year, Didn't I

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#110 Redrawn After 4 Years

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#111 Drew This Again

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#112 The Right One Is How I Wanted The Left One To Look Like. I Think It's A Lot Better In The Technical Sense Too (Light, Style), Do You?

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#113 The Progress I Made In A Few Months. Critique Appreciated

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#114 3 Years Apart

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#115 About Two Years Of Practice. Right Still Unfinished

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#116 I Painted This Vampire For Drawtober, It Reminded Me Of Something I'd Painted A While Back

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#117 I Can't Believe It's Been Four Years Already. I Still Remember Typing Out The Words 'Can't Wait To Do It Again In Another 4 Years'

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#118 Draw Again

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#119 I've Been Trying To Improve My Drawing Skills, Here's My Progress

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#120 This Is My Improvement In 5 Years

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#121 My 2 Year Progress

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#122 This Old Artwork Is Actually Far From The Best Of All My Works From 2016, But It Has A Special Meaning For Me

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#123 The First One Was Done In 2012 After Seeing The Avengers, The Second One Now In 2018 After Seeing Thor Ragnarok And Infinity War

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#124 Re-Drewing Elsa Every Year Has Become My Tradition

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#125 I Just Realized That Two Years Ago I Started Draw, And The Demonic Bride Was One Of My First Illustrations. So... I Wanted To See How Changed My Skills

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#126 Here Is A Draw This Again Challenge That I Made For My Very First Ever Digital Painting! I've Come A Long Way

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#127 First Digital Drawing And A Digital Drawing After 1 Year

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#128 I Can't Believe I Was So Terrible In 2015, How Did My Teachers Even Like That Drawing

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#129 2016 Vs 2018

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#130 My Improve From November 2011 - To August 2012

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#131 I Don’t Know That I’ve Come All That Far In 8 Years, But I Still Have Fun With It

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#132 What Ten Years Can Do

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#133 Hope You Like It

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#134 Fun To See The Improvement Over Time

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#135 That's The Very First Drawing I Made On My Tablet, At That Time I Had No Idea How To Use It

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#136 One Year Progress Check

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#137 First One Done September 2006, Second Done June 2017. I'm So Scared People Will Say The Left One Looks Better

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#138 My Angel From 2006

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#139 Draw This Again Challenge, 10 Years Of Difference

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