because, well--I may not have drawn Final Fantasy 7 in awhile, but I was sure I'd improved beyond THAT level. The result was this: 
And what I realized (i-ignore the second top one, I got lazy and didn't make it look good) was that, at long last...I'VE ACTUALLY CAUGHT UP TO THE PEOPLE I IDOLIZED.
...As they were eight years ago. One can imagine that they've continued to improve just as I have, and I am nowhere near their current level, but actually most of them have moved on from DA to their own sites, so I can't easily compare. *sigh*
So it's hard to say, really, if this inspirational/encouraging to compare the difference (I was never really sure I could draw on their level at the time) and that I've actually made it to that point, or disappointing to think that it took eight years to do it. Let's call my mood 'excitement tempered by pragmatism'.
It's funny, though, because I can't fully accept that I could draw what I did, I've been staring at my art quite a lot recently, trying to decide exactly what happened. (And why Kishimoto's style is something so foreign to me that I just can't nail it....
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