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Arc]i[Pello · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2001 2:17 pm

ive decided to make a thread about everyones early pieces so that we can see exactly how far people have come in terms of skill and technique, weve all seen the newcomers works and laughed a little, but most forget that those odd and shabby pictures were more or less the same thing that the great digital artists were spewing out at the begining of their artistic journeys.
well since im just a beginner my self i think ill show you my second attempt at digital art, i drew this about 3 years ago when i was 13, then decided to colour it yesterday (not finished)
http://204.225.71.133/~ben/Alien.jpg

it would be great if thos with a lot more pieces of work to your name to show your very earliest work and then your most recent, just so that we can see a comparrison.

Enayla · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2001 2:41 pm

Well, I haven't been working on the computer for so long... I can't exactly recall if this picture was drawn 1999 or not, but I think so. She's a roleplaying games character I've played for two years so that SHOULD be it.

Her name's Emily Haines. The character itself has changed somewhat throughout the years - she's gained more... well... dignity I guess you could say. I also forgot, somewhere along the way, that she originally had green eyes. So she now has blue. Anyway... this is it. Don't laugh at me, please =/

Joachim · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2001 2:47 pm

yeah, hehe, this is something I did back in 1993 or something. Too bad it's such a color optimized version, but I just found it on the net and I don't have it my own, hehe, but that doesn't matter!

[ July 23, 2001: Message edited by: Joachim ]

Arc]i[Pello · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2001 2:48 pm

yep i definatly like the 2001 Emily more, if only looks could kill

SlightlyTwisted · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2001 3:24 pm

Before and afters, eh?

Well, fortunatly, there are a few things I've drawn twice...

L99Relm · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2001 3:56 pm

On your right is first digital picture I ever did of Locke (and it was also my first digital picture ever) -it was done in Painter 5.0. And, on the left is a more recent depiction of the same character. I think it's safe to say that I've improved a little since 1998.

Isric · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2001 5:18 pm

There are only a handful of people on the net who may remeber these. back when I first started doing digital art, a friends scanner, a mouse, and Paint Shop Pro. They're all about 2 years old.

Note the laziness with the Photo backgrounds.

And also, I just found this cleaning out some old boxes. It's apparently (according to my mothers record of how I described it) it's a sick man (in bed) touching Jesus'(the big guy in green) robes and being healed. My favorite part is the sick man's pink arm. It's reaching out for Jesus, but then changes course to grab His robe closer to the floor. And why Jesus has glowing red eyes? I'll never know. Hahahha, great to walk down memory lane like this.

[ July 23, 2001: Message edited by: Isric ]

Akolyte · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2001 5:35 pm

Why, oh why is Jesus getting fondled?

Cool stuff...I like to see progression.

Binke · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2001 7:08 pm

I never really bothered to finish this remake, but I found the PSD which I had saved. Hum, maybe ill continue on it and finish it.

roundeye · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2001 7:36 pm

i cant believe im showing this but... this was (i think) my first finished PS illustration. its about 6 yrs old now... pardon the jpg compression, and sorry theyres no contemporary counterpart.

(dont ask)

ebrian · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2001 7:42 pm

old, so bad quality hehe

badoli · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2001 1:35 am

first is 1997 or 1998, not sure....

second is 2001

DiXter · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2001 1:48 am

Pictures made 94 to 97 I guess..

green.7 · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2001 5:33 am

my old stuff.

[1997]

[1998]

dogfood · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2001 6:36 am

This was a friend's character for Gemstone, I believe, a text-based online RPG. It has to be from '93 or so and I didn't even have it on my computer anymore, he sent it to me a while back after getting it off the site. Sorry about the quality.

kohse · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2001 8:10 am

An experiment in 1994. I thought that my paintings were too rich in color so I took black out of my pallet and painted this. Without black I was forced to mix colors more and not be so inclined to use them straight out of the tube.

GRID · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2001 1:09 pm

I think i made this like 8-9 years agoe, on the good old amiga 1200!

/GRID

Jim S · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2001 1:38 pm

This is one of the first digital pics I've ever done. It was made in MS Paint on a 12 Mhz 386 PC with 4Mb RAM and a 100 something Mb harddrive running Win 3.1

And I didn't use a wacom. imagine that. It was printed on a brand new HP laser printer. I think it was back in 1991 or 92. Since then this pic has been sitting on various doors, about three or four I think, and I was just to put it up on my latest door (just got a new room) when I saw this thread

/Jim

[ July 24, 2001: Message edited by: Jim S ]

Nick2k · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2001 4:34 pm

Emm this is something i did for my art project at school i think i actually made it in 1999 but i stuck 2000 on it to make it look newer

ok now for a newer pic big diffrence

Damn i wish i still had some of my older artwork i done when i was about 14 years old in deluxe paint on an amiga 500.

cybertoker2001 · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2001 11:04 pm

Here's a piece I did when I was seventeen (1995). It was done in acrylics on board.

It sucks ass, I know.

Here's my latest piece (2001). Done entirely in Photoshop 6.

They don't have to be of the same subject matter do they?

Anyways............

Take it easy,
CT2001