Show off your old art gang!

[abigaillmartin]

I’ve been looking through at all my old art lately and I have been seeing how much my style has changed and improved over time.

These are all from 2018 when I was in high school. This story was called…
Go Omega and it’s basically about kids who live in the future. They are in a world where Earth made their first contact with The Cilans and they coexist.
I forgot the whole plot but that’s what I was cooking up when I was a baby freshman in high school.

Here are a few of the comics:

It’s so cringe, but the writing still surprises me to this day. Anyway! Show some old art!

[Tursastheeternal]

All from 2014

[kyupol]

All done when I was in highschool

[nellyyism]

Some old art of my character Dimitri from 2021! Before my comic was a thought in my head, I just made him for animation practices. He is one of my oldest ocs I have and will be appearing in my comic, but just at a later date : D~<333

[delladz]

Omg this is so cute, I love how there's still that core style of yours we've come to know and love on the forums haha

[stiatent]

Both U and I were super anime influenced back then XD
Taroon n Knox look super awesome and enjoying all the vivid colors, you ever thought of turning them into easter eggs in your future art or episodes? lol
I did that a few times with old art in the backgrounds of Sick Boy comic

I wish I could find my old color pencil ones
but I do have some of my Digitals

Tis was for a RPG game idea
Hand drawn and painted on computer (while just learning about digital art, used for phtoshop class project)
The main antagonist was the twin brother of the hero, they were made of plants and he kills ppl with his giant lollipop:

the Hero and some of the party members:

The rest of the party members are here: https://www.deviantart.com/stiatent/gallery/66384997/festiva-kingdom-old-art
There was another RPG idea i had with Pirate anthro-dog people called Rover Knights but cant find the art anywhere

Age Of Ruins
Planning to reboot this one in future as a webcomic, my oldest story idea, lost all the high school drawings just have some digital art,

did these for a school project all hand drawn and colored on computer (was now learning to paint on computer at the time) looking back at the story here super cheezy vs what it evolved into over the years lol

Slightly improved here

Anime Era, The 1st time I tried my hand at digital comics:
This one was from when I was getting a better grasp of Digital Art, recycled it as a comic series within my current series I'm Not A Sick Boy

More seen here: https://www.deviantart.com/stiatent/gallery/64213195/spherical-crisis

This was wehen I tried to make a comic series based in Trinidad -

More here: https://www.deviantart.com/stiatent/gallery/62866081/me-meh-family-and-something-like-dat

[abigaillmartin]

I haven’t but I thought of rebooting this series many many many…
MANY times.

Mainly because it has a lot of concepts but lack of story and structure.

[abigaillmartin]

Thank you. I believe the style first originated when I was working on a Super Smash Bros fanfic that I made into a comic. That was in middle school when I was 13.

I got into the anime style, went back to my Minecraft style and then I decided to do something original for once which was not these ones. It was a story called Tera and The Scale Saver. It was about a princess who wanted to be a knight and she finds a lost prince who is under the apprenticeship of a famous wizard named The Scale Saver.

Her father, the king basically outlawed all the dragons and ordered them all to be slaughtered because the queen died from one or something. I don’t remember. Basically the king hates this wizard guy and Tera rebels by joining him.

I wrote that one in my very first year of high school. Who knows? Maybe I’ll get back to it.
I basically wrote it while learning about the Middle Ages in my world history class.

There were also these villains in the story called The Ravenous who wore blue cloaks. I think I remember writing that the king hired them to kill the dragons or something.
They were inspired by the bubonic plague… for some reason?
I don’t remember why it’s been so long!

[ThunderChicken]

Old art? Well, given that I am actually old, I have plenty of old art.

This is the oldest piece of my art that I still have, drawn in 1988. It's a military vehicle from World War II:

One from 1990:

One from my first comic series, "Sam the Shark". Sam was born on the back of a math test on 10 May 1988, and my teacher loved him. It was her words that encouraged me to draw. Sam comics were featured in the high school newspaper, my only published work. The comic was long ago terminated but I still call my little operation Sam Studios, and Sam still features in my monogram/signature stamp

I used to do nature scenes as well. This deer has long been one of my favourite drawings, and is the only one that I ever framed and hung on a wall. I did some experimenting with this one: After drawing it I rubbed a wad of toilet paper all over the drawing to smudge the pencil and soften the image, then used an eraser on the whites. I still love how that turned out:

I liked teh effect so much that I tried it again with this drawing of a momma lion and her cub, but it didn't come out as well

I also dabbled with colour. My most treasured gift was a set of 60 "Laurentian" coloured pencils. Sometimes the colours were pale, as in this Murphy's Law comic (another canceled series)

Gonna continue in a second post

[ThunderChicken]

Continued from first post:

...Sometimes the colours were deeper, richer, as shown in this unfinished tribute to Ren and Stimpy (my current drawings also feature rich colours):

I swear to God, by the way, that I had no idea what the significance of the rainbow was back then. It is entirely coincidental that my Sam Studios logo incorporated pride colours, and I just happen to be gay. In fact, I was so closeted back the I likely would never have done that had I known.

More rich colours, and also a car (I love drawing cars)

In the very early 1990's I got my first real computer (not my first computer, but my first computer that was actually useful). It was a 286 screaming along at 12MHz, with a full megabyte of RAM and a VGA video card that could show an astounding sixteen colours at 640X480 resolution. Also, it had a mouse! Naturally, I put that hardware to work, drawing some Sam the Shark comics on it, like the one below:

I honed my skills, and created what was, at the time, my magnum opus. This rendition of the Helion, the cover for Judas Priest's 1982 record "Screaming For Vengeance", was drawn by me, with a mouse. Since i was limited to sixteen colours, I coloured this drawing pixel by pixel, mixing different shades of different colours. It took me two weeks of after school evenings to do it, and I am still proud of it 34 years later:

The actual album cover for comparison:

I'll continue in the next post

[ThunderChicken]

Of course as time went on I got more powerful computers, with more colours and higher resolution. The art got better as a result:

This is a redo of the knight in the first post:

A tribute to the 80's/90's comic Bloom County:

These were all still drawn with a mouse. I had not used a tablet/stylus until 2021. I also still did some traditional drawing, such as this very early Wild Nights, Hot and Crazy Days comic (please excuse the water damage):

And then I just stopped. For almost 25 years I didn't draw anything, other than drawing up plans for buildings that I built or renovated. In 2021 I decided to get back into drawing, and so I bought myself a Microsoft Surface Pro 8 and a stylus. This is the first drawing that I did on it, after a two and a half decade hiatus and still using Microsoft Paint but retaining my old drawing style. Note the shaky lines - a medical condition causes my hands to shake. This would be a hallmark of all of my drawings since this one, except I have gotten a LOT better and I've adopted a new drawing style to minimize the effects:

[wolflu66]

Back when I was a student, I would paint with watercolors, acrylics, and alcohol markers. Once I became accustomed to digital drawing, I stopped doing traditional art as much. Partly because it's more hassle, and partly because art materials are so expensive.

Most of the images below are copied works. I can no longer find the original references.

[sophialyn]

Old meme with one of my leads from 2020! Still makes me laugh tbh

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[kyupol]

Drawn when PhP 10 ($0.20 USD )was worth more and could buy you a small meal.

Bad guys have nothing better to do than run over defenseless kittens...

No translation needed...

[Krysteena]

OLD
I didn';t like it

NEW
This I like.

This is a poster I created I am thinking of changing the title piece to this.

[abigaillmartin]

Are you kidding? This is the stuff I would have dreamed of drawing as a teenager! 🥺️