My deviantART Story

According to my profile, I'm a Deviant since Mar 20, 2010 so I'm here for over 4 years by now. This is a really long time in which lots of things happened.

It all goes back to my time at school, where after years and years with complicated, idiotic classmates I finally met someone with my interests who's just as crazy and creative as me. It was AnaisKalinin, who told me about deviantART someday. She said, that it's an awesome website for artists where people can post their pictures, get feedback and find other artists to exchange comments and critiques with. Back then I had no clue how much this website could mean to me someday.

The first pic I posted was my fanart of the Mad Hatter in the back then newest Disney Movie "Alice in Wonderland".
It was posted here  on April 24 2010:


At this point I didn't know anything about groups and how to bring my pictures to other people  to make them notice my works. I just drew and posted and when I didn't get a lot of feedback, I was a little disappointed, at first. The next bunch of pics were posted at the beginning of July 2010 and they all were Pokémon-Fanart. After months of trying and posting and never taking things serious I found my first bunch of groups and the first awesome people which still are great friends to me.
Luckily I knew some people from various german Harvest Moon-Forums which already had their accounts here. This way I had my first contacts here, which were ChelseaCherryblossom, BriniChan and oOLuccianaOo - Es ist toll, dass ihr immer da wart und seid ♥

In 2011 I started the 100 Themes Challenge and finished it during this one year. I worked with Bases and References a lot and drew tons of fanart. Thanks to this I got some watchers and feedback and also found a bunch of groups where I could post my pictures.
Here are some of my best results from this challenge:


Also in 2011 I started coloring different linearts by one of my Idols and the best Line-Artist on dA: sureya. This way I learned a lot about coloring with pencils and tryed out various ideas of light and shading. This way I also created one of my most faved actual drawings: The bunny-girl on the right~


In 2011 and 2012 deviantART was the website which consumed all of my time. The subject I studied back then was total horror, I had to live at a place with people of which I didn't like most and so I drew and commented on other peoples art in every free minute I had. I also gave up on this studies back then because it was no fun at all and if I would have kept studying this subject, I would have had to give up on drawing forever to have enough time for learning. deviantART was the place I could escape to and I got to know lots of awesome people.
I was extremely happy, when the amazing Aurorella asked me for an ArtTrade back then, when she still had her former account. To trade with an artist who creates such wonderful dreamy pictures made me incredibly happy.

Also I created my most successful "artwork" in 2012. It's a tutorial/reference/help-thing which came into existance only because of a funny idea. AnaisKalinin wanted to make a Hairstyle-Challenge and add hairstyles to Harvest Moon / Rune Factory-Sprites. She asked me if I would just create some random hairstyles so we could kinda work on this together and I drew 50 hairstyles.
With about 3,655 Faves and 425 Comments this is by far the most well known thing, I've ever created. Sometimes I get a little sad because all the pics on which I spend about 7-15 hours hardly ever get more than 50 Faves and this simple thingy is so popular that it hurts xD



These were my starting years on dA and the hardest years of my life. After the middle of 2012 I started studying subjects, which I like and which give me enough time to keep working on my biggest hobby and dream: Drawing.

I met lots of awesome people over the last two years, especially three german Artists who draw Ecchi (and lots more) are people I just love to chat with and support with constructive comments, buying commissions, making gifts and stuff. MoroMonster, Fhran and YuukiTheHellgirl - Ich bin froh, dass ich euch kenne ♥

Now at the end of this journal I also wanted to add some awesome pictures I got over my long time here. I collected a big bunch of pictures of my OCs so far but since I can't post them all, I'll just post some great examples of what I got as Trades, Gifts and Commissions:

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I would love to add information about every single year or month I spend here but this would make this journal thirty kilometres to scroll, so I'll leave it this way.