The earliest work of your life

[wolflu66]

Share the "earliest" drawing or novel you can find!
Mine is a drawing from when I was about six years old.XD

[Red_Dog]

This is the earliest one I could find:
Behold!
Snake Man!

[wolflu66]

Cool ! At what age did you create this work?

[Maxouco]

I was maybe 15 or 16? I supposed that I leveled up a bit!

[Paul_Tromba]

I can't, sadly. It was destroyed by my parents along with the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th ones before I moved out and started the 5th.

[Red_Dog]

I'm not sure, but I was at least a teenager.

[allenT]

My earliest work that I was able to preserve is a Mario stage level drawn in red marker (I think when I was 8~9 years old)

[CarltonIsaac]

Not he earliest, but one of, from waaay back.

Girl and her Guitar. From way back, early 1990s, ball point pen sketch on a school notebook.

[beebutterbee]

A horse from when I was 2 years old! Found it in a scrapbook years ago. Lowkey I want it on a shirt, it’s too weird to be ignored we call it “Honse” in my family.

[skullforceagents]

I wish I had saved it somewhere but I still have the memories.

The first time I drew something I really liked was way back in about 1997 when I drew Link from my Legend of Zelda instruction book. I remember how much it inspired me to want to draw. 27 years later, I made a graphic novel!

[kyupol]

I was 14 years old

[ArtGremlin]

Man, it would be crazy difficult to find… whatever it is could be in the attic for all I know and I don’t even know what it might be. I’ve drawn stuff for as long as I can remember.

[GothickangelStudios]

My mom gave me all my art I made a decade ago but I have not scanned it.
Much of it has yellowed on paper, its over 40 years old. I keep it in its own portfolio bag. I liked painting and crayons back then.
I drew alot of daytime stuff like suns and wierd people. But also the stuff in my nightmares.

[NickRowler]

I drew this when I was 6.
I know I have something older but I don’t feel like searching for it.

[Shanny8]

All of my earliest stuffs fall into two categories: art from when I was little- that is [probably] now stored away in a storage that my oldest sibling has and hasnt cleaned/maintained it in a WHILE, and old [teen] comic art that I lost moving around over the years and sent to a friend(that has now lost it)...I have a few pieces left, which most are in my storage- and a few character sheets that I have with me(that I've been updating the looks to)...

Some stuffs made it to be archived(scanned) to my external HDs, but I still have a bit left.

This is some of the earliest stuffs I have- from my character sheets that I did in 1991 in my last year of high school; I still have lots of other characters that I hadn't even drawn yet...

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In these pics you get a slight glimpse of what was once my style...I've evolved beyond this, but I can easily look at my work and trace a lot of my process back to this- and stuff before this.

[CarltonIsaac]

@Shanny8
Your early work is reminiscent of one of my favorite comic series from the 90s - DCs LEGION featuring the art of Barry Kitson, Jim Fern, Keith Giffen, etc

[ThunderChicken]

I used to have a little booklet I made in the early 1980's (I would have been 10-ish) called "The Book of Blip", with all my cartoons in it, but it was lost in a house fire. The oldest drawing I have now is this army truck drawn in 1988 (I was sixteen). I've always loved drawing vehicles:

[annuskabriar]

splitting this into two screenshots bc the full image is too big, even after compressing it haha. definitely not the oldest drawing ive done, since ive been drawing regularly ever since i was able to, but i made this when i was six!

[wolflu66]

@annuskabriar Those dogs are so adorable

@ThunderChicken Vehicles are damn tough to draw, at least for me.

[ThunderChicken]

I tend o go overboard when drawing them. I'm a car nut