deviantart and old art

It's amazing what patterns one will find when looking over old projects.  I recently got back on deviantART and while looking through tons of files of my old art, I couldn't help but notice certain palettes I would come back to, certain themes, certain angles I draw faces from; it's given me some good insight into the kind of artist I was and glimmers of the artist I hope to be.  Good food for thought!  I also found some of my original ideas/sketches for completed pieces.  For instance:

The original sketch:

Followed by the finished painting:

Interesting to see how the piece morphed (I had honestly forgotten about the ink sketch, I had grown so used to seeing the painting).

Or like this POS:

Sketch:

Final:

(This multiple face thing came up again throughout the years).

Fun stuff!  But, yeah, totally back on deviantART again so check me out there as well as ConceptArt.org!