I don't really have a dA story, but dA has been integral in my growth as an artist, more or less.  It's really gave me a community to promote my art and network and that, though other people have already written essays on dA about this, so I don't want to write an essay here.

But I got this account in 2007, then quit art in '08 because of terrible things in real life.  Then I came back in '09 determined to improve and start making comics. 

Here are a few pictures that display my growth as an artist, oh ja.  (Five just wasn't enough, sorry.)

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I picked three for each year. 

To summarize:
2009: I started actually trying to develop my craft.
2010: I left behind my childish beginnings and began to grow.  I started to find my voice and style.  This was also when I started exploring my synesthesia.
2011: Took an art class, which resulted in taking a level in bad-ass.
2012: Kept going forward, experimenting and that.  I was really dissatisfied with my work for most of this year, though I like a lot of it now.
2013: More experiments, more boundary pushing.  This was the year that I discovered my love for weird tentacle-armed women with big eyes.
2014: This year I've been working really hard to get better, and so far it's been good, more or less.

Also, I've recently started a comic about Space Aliens.  It will be up on the web later this year, unless I break my hand or something.

(Sorry if this seems vain, I just really needed to do this.)