This picture marked my transition from round-headed, rectangle-shaped limbs to an attempt at better anatomy. I remember I did this between 6th and 7th grade, which would be 2008-2009. It took me about three hours just to do the girl on the left. I'm pretty sure I got the pose/hair/expression from a picture on Google (because I was not creative enough to do 3/4 view with a bent knee at that point in time). The head on the right was directly from some picture of anime kid wearing glasses. I thought I nailed my representation of the character to a T when I drew it.
Needless to say, I'm glad to see how far I've gotten since then!