[mtw]

I remember when I was young, I would draw large pictures of scenes that had millions of things going on, not all related. A while ago I noticed a picture on the wall of someone I work with, and it was by his son or grandson when he was young. It also had lots of things going on. Is this type of drawing common among kids?

[Rat]

I dunno, but I've got a drawing I did when I was in first or second grade of a stick-figure me holding a huge ice cream cone, and standing next to me was a dinosaur. It was my first illustration...of my journal.

Actually, I haven't really seen much little kid stuff. Just mine, which have always been fairly bizarre.

[Giant Hamster]

depends.

Kids who draw simple scenes with uhh, simple things are usually just plain dull little boys and girls. your average person.

people who draw huge messes tend to be more anal about details and such...they get angry when things don't go right usually but can do amazing things.

ones that draw a solitary object, usually themselves, surrounded by intricate patterns and shapes are usually skitzophrenic as it subliminally symbolizes the chaos around them.

[Awetopsy]

My First drawing ws a big yellow bus that had doors and windows and wheels.

[balistic]

In third grade (roughly age eight) my friend and I, being the class artists, were asked by our teacher to draw a mural on a bulletin board outside the classroom. She told us to draw what we thought the future would be like, and gave us an entire bucket of markers and a roll of butcher paper.

So we sat there in the hall for hours, while everyone else was doing schoolwork. We drew an elaborate cityscape, with rocket launch pads, and giant towers, and skyscrapers, and radio telescopes . . .

And then, at street level, we depicted what can only be described as a twisted massacre. Deadly robots revolting against their human masters, sawing people in half with their vulcan cannons, women and children running screaming from bipedal assault mechs. The streets were awash with blood and body parts. I think we only stopped drawing blood when we ran out of red markers.

It was bloody brilliant. I wish I had a picture of it.

She tore it down and gave us detention.

I hope she lives to see it all come true, dammit! THE ROBOTS WILL REVOLT! THE PROPHECY OF AARON BATEMAN AND BRIAN PRINCE SHALL COME TO PASS AND THE HUMANS WILL BE EXTERMINATED LIKE THE DIRTY VERMIN THEY ARE!!! ROBOTS FOREVER!!!

[iByrn]

I drew dinosaurs. Lots and lots of dinosaurs. I'd always have a side view of a dinosaur, and a little fern, and a sun. They all seemed to live in the desert. I liked drawing T-Rex best.
And then later I drew Ninja Turtles. But the rest is just a blur.

That sounds like a kickass mural, balistic.

I remember in 6th grade a friend and I drew a big mural of a forest for a school project. We were obsessed with Super Mario World, so all the trees had smiley faces, and there were warp pipes everywhere. And we drew monkeys fencing in the trees with sticks.

[ September 16, 2002: Message edited by: iByrn ]

[gigatron]

LOL@Balistic omg lol....

oh and ibyrn thats weird alot of ppl i know liked drawing dinosaurs o_O Beside the doodle stuff when i wasl ike in grade3 i used to draw suped up cars lol, like with added skirts, fins, sexy hood sexy hatchback, spoilers big ass wide ass tires >D it was soo great! I also used to draw like super hero ppl or at least attempted, usually very x-men comic like pumped mutants with glowing fists or firey look or perhaps some person like guile from street fighter and such. Usually bad ass hero type characters :P

[gigatron]

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Originally posted by Giant Hamster:
depends.
people who draw huge messes tend to be more anal about details and such...they get angry when things don't go right usually but can do amazing things.

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#@$%.. thats so true when i was a bit younger id draw like bizzare messes alot of like.. millions of little things then now i get angry at my drawings/paintings and i err have a problem with 'too little detail' type of thingamajig issues hehehe. Hmm and i actually still do it when im super bored, just starting drawing boxes, circles, lines, little dots, doodle ppl, etc... on a paper when im waiting for something, bored in class or well bored in caf i dunno :X

[gigatron]

Not too sure about the 'draw awesome stuff' though :X LOL i kinda suck...

[Max]

That's nice Balistic.

Show your works guys.
Here are mine.
I was 8 years old...more or less


Some dudes fighting each other...



Detail:



This is my jumping-ball- ( I have no idea what the word for Flummi is in english... ) -factory.



Detail:



Yea, I loved submarines. Especially the yellow ones.


Detail:




Cool isn't it......

[ September 18, 2002: Message edited by: Max Kulich ]

[Max]

Gimme your childhood drawings guys !!!

[Freddio]

mine are very similar to your last ones..

i'll try and dig em up.

[Max]

Yes, please do that Freddio

[gigatron]

Damn i used to draw alot more detailed :P Im serious, argh i wish i had my old old old old drawings... sniff like grade3 fun :X Good drawings though lol

[soogarrush]

these were done at age 6-8, dont recall exact age...

pic 1
pic 2
pic 3
pic 4
pic 5
pic 6

yes, if you are around my generation, you would understand why i drew TMNT haha, man these pics bring laughs, i had a good laugh looking through that sketch book. i was better at art back then then now hehe.

[Max]

Thx soogarrush
Your pics are cool.
I love that with Supermario.

[Lord Nicon]

Hm, interesting picture i found. I think i was 6 or a little older when i drew that.
http://www.hot.ee/lynch/stiks.jpg

[Giant Hamster]

I used to draw mazes a lot. It was a trend or such at my school.

Our school had huge, something like 28x32 sized, pieces of paper...Big mutha fuckaz.

Take one of those, anumber two pencil, clear off a table durring lunch and start in.

They always begun in random spot, usually a corner, and they'd have between 3 to 6 starting paths. The mazes always stuck to a drawing style... Some mazes were all square angles, some were all curves and looked like brains afterwards.

About 5 of us would sit there churning these things out every day. Dunno how it started.

I'll draw one right now to give you an example of how they used to look. =) *grabs a paper*

[Hunago]

yawp, aside from lots triceratops, I used to be fond of drawing mazes too, but those never gets huge, each just about a4 size. but there are those teleport points and bridges/rivers/mosters that you need to go somewhere else to get some stuffs to get pass them.. ah the olden days

yeah and great pics Max, I love how creative those are.

[ September 23, 2002: Message edited by: Hunago ]

[wayfinder]

i used to play really elaborate racing games on paper with a friend during classes..

one of us drew a race course (on 5mm box paper, usually A4 size)

a course might have looked like this:


you started with a line of length 1, and went on from there after certain rules: vx and vy should never be incremented or decremented more than 1 each, so that from a line with vx=1 and vy=0 you could go to vx=2, vy=0, or vx=1, vy=1, etc.



the result looked somewhat like this:



winner was he who used less lines to get to the finish line.

we played that about every day, for more than a year-. we had a rallye paris-dakar with 30 or so checkpoints and really elaborate courses with all kinds of decorations, a boat race, special bonuses, warp platforms etc.. it simply ruled.. i've dreamt of programming this for a long, long time...

[Max]

Lord Nicon: Haha, remember this kind of drawings...why do little kids draw such bad pics ( nothing against yours I also did this but???? )

Thank you Hunago - happy about hearing that !!!

wayfinder: Hey, that is a very cool idea - must try that - muhahahahah..............

[Giant Hamster]

Oldsk0ol Maze

Ahhh yes. Just like old times...just crappier and with less teleporters, doors, keys, endless pits, jump ramps, and secret messages...and also much much smaller.

[Max]

Giant Hamster, your pic has stolen me 10 mins - Great labyrinth -