Sometimes art takes 10 years to make
This is a piece I made for my first ever art market in ~2016. It was based of the Rider Waite Coleman 10 of swords tarot card.
I illustrated it in some cheap sketchbook I had leftover from high school, scanned and printed it on someone else's printer using sticker paper from Officeworks (super professional).
Years later I revisited it.
At this point I had my first drawing pad (a little Wacom Bamboo tablet), and I was finding my style. I also thought maybe if I drew it as a set it would be more interesting. It was not.
Last year I tried again.
Better! I had researched medieval swords and better understood their form, but I didn't feel my skills at the time could properly communicate what I wanted the piece to be. I was also going through much self-doubt after being in a project with people I clashed with the year prior.
A few weeks ago, after much growth and finding like-minded folks, I tried again.
I tried to look more critically at my previous attempts and pinpoint what I did not like about them, and experiment with things that people did like about my art overall.
(I'll edit this post with future iterations if I decide I actually don't like how it turned out ha)