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inv1337 · junior member Member # Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 1

Greetings to you all, masters of the digital brush, rulers of the virtual canvas. Please take a moment to hear this humble proposal.

It is, in fact, the request of a friend who, unlike me, visits this forum quite often. He told me about it, but he fears to make an arse of himself. So I kinda volunteered for the job.

Here goes:

Often we, young aspiring artists in our twenties, browse the galleries of the guys we want to be like when we grow up. The "old guys", the guys with galleries of stunning graphics galore, each better than the other. We look at our own crummy collection of doodles and we think to ourselves: "Man, I suck. I could never be as good as these guys."
But sometimes we forget the context, we forget that these gents and lads are people with 10 extra years of experience behind them, many working in directly related jobs, etc. Maybe we don't suck so badly after all, but who is to say?

I thus invite all you old salt dogs of the pixel sea to step up and show us, not what you -are- made of, but what you -were- made of. Show us those very first finished pictures from your highschool days. Show us that image you were really proud of when you were 21, but that now for some reason is no longer in your online gallery. Show us your skeletons. True greatness has nothing to hide ;-)

And I leave you with a phrase from H�gar, the terrible viking:

Are you men, or are you rabbits?

Peace and Respect.

The Uninvited Guest

Capt. Fred · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 8:33 am

Yeah! Answer him someone!

(preferably someone very good Razz

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oDD · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 9:30 am

[edit]this are not my sites, they belong to other artists[/edit]

http://www.johnwallin.net/ capt. flush (21 years old)
http://members.surfeu.fi/pveik/ gecko (18 years old)
http://tonchyz.ice.org/ mr.t aka lung bug (16 years old)

now go and eynjoy your depression Twisted Evil

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AndyT · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 9:49 am

It's pretty depressing. There have been other threads about old opposed to recent art. There were no stick figures done by the really good artists Crying or Very sad

You see some artists improve but not to a level anywhere near the celebrities here.
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BelgianArt · junior member Member # Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 40

lol, you get worse the older you get odd Very Happy

I love the 'sketches' on your last site (16), but then afterwards it seems your losing your sence of detail ? Look at the airwulf you did on the 21 years old site, I can do that atm Smile

But not what you do on your 16 yrs old Smile

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oDD · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 10:07 am

egerie · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 10:23 am

BelgianArt : He's linking to other ppl's websites... LOL Rolling Eyes

oDD : wow I never saw Tonci Zonjic's website before ! I hope he keeps drawing and getting better. The sketches are amazing but that red thong photorepaint makes me cringe. not in a good way. Still can't beleive he's 16. wow!

edit: I just realised.. all those links point to sijuners, no ?

eyewoo · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 10:49 am

Here are some of mine - early oils done as an art student in my early 20's... The first is a self-portrait.

These were all painted in the 60's... Gad!

I was a huge Francis Bacon fan... still am...

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BelgianArt · junior member Member # Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 40

I'll try to install my scanner tomorrow, I'll scan in my first picture I actually finished lol, sure as hell gets owned by all the shit getting posted here Sad

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oDD · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 11:57 am

-HoodZ- · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 12:22 pm

balistic · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 2:25 pm

I'm only 23 now, but here's one from when I was 15:

Looking at that, you'd never guess that I'd turn into a lighting and texture artist would you? Smile

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Anthony · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 4:21 pm

Hehe, or me a model/texture guy Laughing

This from my Junior year of High School(I made it with a friend actually, although I was doing the actual modeling and lighting and all).

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balistic · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 4:38 pm

I see we shared the same adolescent passion for textures with contrast.
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Lunatique · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 8:27 pm

You guys forgot Tim Vihola(http://koti.mbnet.fi/badgers/). He's only 17.

spooge demon · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 1:27 am

bad scan of a crumpled zerox of an ancient acrylic painting.

Sukhoi · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 3:08 am

Cool Spooge, if it was made post 9/11 we'd all take is seriously though....

I was three when I did these. In that age progress is quite obvious.
There was a time between when I was 16 and I was 20 where I made NO progress at all. Not until I joined this forum really. No bullshit. So if it hasn't already come to you, it will Smile

Sukhoi

-HoodZ- · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 5:12 am

Loki · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 8:43 am

1990

1988

both done in 32 colors on an amiga with deluxe paint. learned that way.
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Max · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 9:20 am

oDD · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 10:15 am

BelgianArt · junior member Member # Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 40

Yeah idd, making me feel worse every post too though Very Happy

Drunken Monkey · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 11:46 am

Does anyone really think that starting at a late age (18-25) make any difference in the long run if the person is just as persistent? This is more of an inquisitive question.

eyewoo · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 11:51 am

Right... didn't Van Gogh start painting in his 40s...?

Case in point... me... after graduating from Art School in '67, I got involved in various interests that got me into the sound business for 12 years and then computer programming for another 8 or 10 years. I didn't really get back to serious visual artwork until I was almost 50.

Persistance... right... the Rand Corp Think Tank did a major study on the reasons for success about 15 or 20 years ago and decided that talent, skill and even genius were not as important as persisitance.
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Svanur · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 12:11 pm

I beg to God that you are right Eyewoo
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Aaron · junior member Member # Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 40

I'm guessing amatuers can show their stuff too. All I have old is pencil, I didn't even own a computer until recently. I drew these two when I was 16 (and a half).

And this one when I was 13.

Jaeger · junior member Member # Joined: 25 Nov 2002 Posts: 15

Aaron, is that Martin in the top left pic by any chance? Or maybe Matthias or someone else.

Kingofcups · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 2:58 pm

1993. Macintosh IIVX (33mhz) with 8 megs of RAM, Photoshop 2, and a hand scanner.

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Aaron · junior member Member # Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 40

Jaeger, that's right! It's supposed to be Matthias, I'm surprized you knew that. Ah, what fine books those were....