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Capt.FlushGarden · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 10:49 am

Yo!

I was digging in my CD case and i found a mysterious blank scratchy CD, and i found this image, I think it was my absolute first try at making a serious digital painting, i think it was when i was 16*correction maybe 18 years old? I'm 23 now. as you can se it is a ripoff of spooges marathon pic, I basically sat with it next to this painitng, comparing, trying to understand tricks and stuff, jerking the mouse around. i was probably riding my bike way out of the neighbourhood. lol

I think i did anotherone after this one but i havent found it yet, that too was a spooge copy...

wayfarer. · junior member Member # Joined: 08 Aug 2003 Posts: 34

16 you said?

Well there are other young artists but nevertheless great image as well as story behind it

weaselball2 · member Member # Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 101

16? Geez. Im almost 17 and I suck big time. That may be a rip off but it's a pretty nice one Very Happy

Spooky · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 6:00 pm

Being a Mac guy, I remember seeing all of Spooge's art for the Marathon games and Myth as well. The Marathon Trilogy collection has a nice set of his stuff on one of the CDs. If I didn't see who posted this piece, I would have thought this was something he did.
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Cicinimo · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 6:15 pm

Hahah, nice! I would pull out my first, from when i was 15, but its sad Sad

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Fiend · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:55 am

16 - very good indeed Flush - it would be a great subject for a new post (post something from when you were 16 years old. Ofcourse if you are 16 now you should post something from when you were 8 or 9 years
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B0b · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 3:09 am

wish my mac was as fast as they are today back when i was 16.. only had a IIci with 8MB of RAM back then.. Pixel paint roxed tho' Wink

Capt.FlushGarden · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 3:55 am

Hehe great memories with the old macs!
Spooky: yeah i had the trilogy box set too, i remember i was in florida at the time on vacation, so all i did was read the manual for 3 weeks hahaha!

Fiend, yeah maybe there sould be a thread with "first works" or something like that Smile

whicked idea!

Diruo · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 9:09 am

Great thread idea. I'm looking forward to seeing your stuff. I hate to post these after that pic but here's my first two attempts at 2d art. I'm working on my third.. ^_^

These were for the artrage thread.

1st

2nd

CwStone · Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 1:34 pm

did this when i was 13. I had done other things on ps b4, but this was my frst painting.
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Capt. Fred · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 4:03 pm

my first p-shop painting - as opposed to lassoing, choosing things from menus and so forth - was with a mouse.

That was 2 years ago.
God, weird to think I've had my wacom less than 2 years. Seem like I've been using my wacom since� forever!

Here's one from as far back as 95, I must've been 9 years old. here it is exactly as it was when I saved and quit 7 years ago. Must scan in more sketchbook work. I can't even find sketchbooks from last year.

In fact, I'm going to bed. I'll dig up and upload some more oldies later. I have TONS, maybe some older than this,

oh here's one before I sleep, trying to customize the drones in marathon 6 years ago using resedit or something, I can't remember, or was it forge and anvil? can't remember:

JickyJak · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 7:38 pm

This is the earliest one I could find -several years old, I am pretty sure its the first, and if its not its a close second for sure. It was based off a reference I found in a Commarts mag - a cover on a previous issue or something.

heh.....i still have this posted at devart, among others....I havent progressed that much since then either by the looks of it.

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balistic · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 8:06 pm

This isn't the first digital art I ever did, but the very earliest stuff (1992-1994) was eaten in a disc crash.

1995 (age 15), Autodesk Animator, 386dx20 with 2mb RAM

As you can see, my weakness for sexy cyborgs goes way back.
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Capt.FlushGarden · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 3:37 pm

woooowww! so great to se your first ones!!'

thanx dudes!

Diruo: very nice atmospherics in your 2nd image, and the colors are very purdy in the 1st! are u saying youre new to this? u must have traditional background huh? looks like it!

CW Stone, pretty impressive for first one and only 13!

Capt.Fred: i envy you that you still have that many left, i probably lost mine, but one thing is funny though, I actually got interested in digital painting when i was converting the marathon sprites too! it was great fun, but i used some other program than photoshop, cant remember the name tho... what the hell was forge and anvil? those names ring a bell, it was like the level editor and chatracter editor or something, gmmm.

JickyJak: awesome!

Balistc, there's something special about those old big pixel pictures huh? i kinda miss them!

Capt. Fred · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:17 pm

hehe, this is fun.

1999, i was 13, making desktops in illustrator. This shark is one my brother had recently bought from the oceanarium (in huggable fluffy form rather than man-eating) an we were both rather obsessed with the thing.

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more! when I was a wee wacomless 15yo.

okay okay, enough, oldies from me.

Flushy, forge and anvil were the level- and physics-charcter-everything-else- editors, respectively. I remeber making so many levels in forge, that was so cool.

I also remeber when playing marathon once asking my older brother how they made the images in between stages, spooge's stuff. I remember thinking, it can't be a photo, not of that quality for a game, props lighting etc., and I had no idea at the time that that sort of imagery could be painted.

Yarik · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 6:32 pm

Well, this was my first week of painting in photoshop. Never done it before, started when I saw many of the work here at sijun.com
It took me a while because I was using a mouse.
This was an overpaint. I have not done anything else since because I am too poor to afford a wacom tablet:

It is supposed to be me.

The image below is after I applied a filter

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henrik · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 9:17 pm

Looks cool cap'n.

Remember seeing that one back in school....but no way man, you must have been at least 17!? Smile

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Capt.FlushGarden · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 12:56 am

Wow Capt.Fred, i was thinking the exact thing when i saw those images, thats why i tried to do that one lol, I remember Carrying my mac to a friends place and we made levels and played them all day long! i remember making bazookas(the one with 2 pipes) that could fire like machineguns, and shotguns that were stronger than bazookas and so on hahaha!

dammit i have a shark too somewhere, wich is done in illustrator, and he's cuddling with a inflateable floating thingie...

kool Yarik post more if u find any!

Henrik, dude don't u have your oldies? I remember i thought to myself "shit i have to beat that, i have to!" Laughing

, heck, maybe i was even 18?? Rolling Eyes

Capt. Fred · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 1:21 am

Max · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:18 am

yeah, I was 12 back than....MSPaint addicted

Capt.Flush: that's awesome. I am 17 now and not even half as good....
Capt. Fred: nice stuff Very Happy

Diruo · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 5:04 am

Thank Captn! Nah I've not really painted before at all. I've mainly done 3d work. It was really hard to start drawing because I had to think really hard on things like lightning and stuff. Working in 3d you get all that for free.

I'm going to buy a wacom and get into 2d art one day. I can't do things like people and complex shapes with the mouse. Not very well, anyway.

Yarik · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 7:44 am

@Flush Gardens, thank you for your comments. It really means a lot! Shocked

Highfive · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 3:42 pm

I was a filter whore at 20 Twisted Evil

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watmough · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:46 pm

you guys were waaaayyyy better than me... this was done with a mouse and photodeluxe,biiiatches!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i llloooooooved maxfield parrish!!!!!!

Capt.FlushGarden · Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 1:33 am

Hi five, weren't we all filter-whores in the beginning, lol!

Watmough, what are u talking about!!?? thats a freaking matte painting ffs!
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Sumaleth · Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 2:01 am

I don't have my first digital picture, but I remember it was a picture of a car pixeled in 16 colors on the C64.

I do have my second pic though, which was also my first on the Amiga. It was pixeled in Deluxe Paint at 320x256 x 32colors, and was never finished:

This next was my first 256 color pic. Still 'pixeled' and still on the Amiga, but I used Brilliance for this one:

And this was my first PC picture, which was also my first play with 24bit and a Wacom tablet:

Ahh, memories.
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spooge demon · Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 2:27 am

Down in the cellar, past the rotting skeletons come these from 1993. These were for a show called space Rangers. They were done at ILM under John Knolls supervision. He did the spaceship animations using swivel 3d and electric image, which were amazing considering the tools. The tools were amazing in themselves.

The "paintings" contain a lot of photos, and no wacom. I remember trying to do them at 1000 pixels across and the machine just stopped dead. I think it was a mac IIfx, at maybe 27hz and 16 MB of ram. PS 2.0, no layers or alpha overlay. Maybe 5 minutes in between fatal crashes.

One time I saved some work in a folder called "temporary items." It was where PS kept its swap at the time. When I quit PS, the folder and all the work was deleted. Scott Squires, the VFX supe looked at me as if there was no metaphor strong enough for how stupid I was. He is a great guy though, very patient and knowledgeable.

The original idea was to do a traditional matte painting and then modify it in photoshop. These space rangers were my first try at all digital. Yusei Uesugi might have tried before, don't know.

Heh check these out. From full paint, early-mid 80's probably. I was 18, maybe?

I remember my Dad telling me in the late 80's (he reads a lot) "You had better get on the bandwagon with all this digital stuff. It is coming so fast that you be left behind overnight!" I did not pay much attention till 24-bit color and PS were available. But he was right I guess.

DangerousLlama · Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 2:32 am

i was so amazed by steven stahlberg's paintings on cgtalk that i bought an aiptek pad and did this with photoshop... 15 years old... i remember feeling so happy when i was done Mr. Green

allpetter · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 8:13 pm

edit:
Correction, these were actually made when i was 13.
year 1997 Laughing

13 years old

year 2002
18 years old
I remember this was my first real atempt on digital art.
Before that I'd just been making some stupid twirl and lens flared logos in photoshop, such as them above!

year 2002
18 years old
I used a reference of Salma Hayek for this one.
I was soooo proud!
Atleast 4 days from time till time on this one...
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ChenZan · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 10:39 pm

sorry if this is asking too much but do you think you can mention your age now and your age when you did the "virgin" digital painting? Sorry its just a thing i do sometimes on the boards, i compare myself to other people on the board skill wise not knowing that most of them are paid professionals that are already in the industry. some of my friends say i am too critical on myself for doing that.