Unwise projects, failed attempts and other embarrassing things we created

[therosesword]

I would categorize this under a failed attempt that was super unwise and slightly embarrassing.

Here's the thing about failed attempts (at least this is how I look at them): You tried. So many people don't, they're too afraid of what will happen. (at least you were a teenager... I was an adult )

I wish we all could retain that spirit of "I can do this" throughout our lives.

[therosesword]

The idea was a post-apocalyptic adventure/mystery

AaaaaaH! What is it about post-apocalyptic stories (did you see my failed Shakespearian post.)

and a big high five to you, sir!

[vothnthorvaldson]

@crowstories I find it is very difficult to know beforehand if the bad choice for a learning project is going to be to go first for our favorite project or to start with a second rate project.
I went for my favorite project as a learning project, and depending on the day I think it was a mistake, or the best alternative. It's not clear in my mind.

@pilot-obvious It's very impressive that you worked so long and created so much content! At minima, it shows that you are very persevering and able to handle long projects. It's close to home too, because my current comic project used to be a music project, and I also worked quite long on it before changing it to a comic. It's interesting that we both ended up realizing that a comic was the best way to tell these stories.

@sevenstarsofeightIam It actually sounds like a neat idea! Post-apo adventure/mystery is not something I would associate with poetry, and this piques my interest!

[rajillustration]

I've been making cringe since the day I was born so I have no shame anymore.

When I was younger I used to make movies on Powerpoint, because we didn't have youtube back then. Youtube came out when I was in High School. I used to be DEEP into Catz 4 when I was a kid, which was a video game where you played with like...ugly ass digital cats..

they look like this, for anyone who is too young to know this game

Anyway, they completely consumed my little tween soul and so I made an entire animated soap opera series on PowerPoint so that way I could share what my Catz were doing every week. I was such a strange ass child where I was born an old cat lady, and then have become less of a cat lady every year. Like Benjamin Button but with cats. These Powerpoint movies were terrible, by the way, just unbearable and I made all of my friends watch it, and the only friends I had that I think liked it--also played Catz.

Also I spent a lot of time trying to hack the game so I could join the modding community, but I didn't realllllly know how to do that, so I spent I want to say several months trying to get the toybox to play Robbie William's "Millennium," which was my favorite song at the time.

Catz was a crazy fandom, no regrets. A shame no one talks about this game anymore. And now that I think about it, it was basically my first fanfic but I didn't realize that's what I was making when I made it because to me, those catz weren't fiction.

But stuff that I have photo evidence of as an adult (I tend to delete my awkward stuff): I just get ideas in my head that I think are going to be AMAZING:

Until I do em. Sometimes you just don't know until you see the physical product and say "wow I just wasted perfectly good animal cookies." but like...I draw so many embarrassing things on the reg as a kid's illustrator, I don't know if I can even feel embarrassed about my own work anymore. I mean...I make a comic about magical cats and I'll tell anyone that asks.

[crowstories]

Makes sense. I'm having fun with it, so I don't regret the choice. I think if I'd gone for a story I'm more attached to I might get caught up in the compulsion to reboot it every time I level up at art, which is hard enough to resist as it is.

[Black_Conscious]

Ok now, I'd like to hear all YOUR embarrassing stories!

I see we are going there now...
lol
the only thing I could think of making was an Dabi x Bakugo fusion they are anime characters from a tv show
Back then I used to watch a whole lot of anime because my "friends" where fond of them which rubbed off of me but like
...
Why I have I made this...
WHY!

The Dabi x Bakugo Fusion drawing

[allenT]

That cookie clock was incredibly BAD but also a nice try for creativity sake!

I don't have much projects that are "unwise", however i have some old game projects that are basically just mockups, that doesn't really work. (I re-envitioned it a decade later)

I also have bad game concept sketches (thrown away) as a kid, which doesn't make any sense.

[vothnthorvaldson]

I think I misunderstood. ignore

[vothnthorvaldson]

I think I'm going to have to be honest and admit I know pretty much nothing about most games and 100% nothing about anime, so I can't get an idea of the problem in these fields
I trust you that the ideas were bad

[Black_Conscious]

lol thats fine

[DiegoPalacios]

When i was a kid and during my teens, most of my projects, be it comics or games were over-ambitious and my patience was limited, so i kept the thing for a week or two, and moved on to starting something new.

Ex: "i have this cool rpg idea" (procceeds to do it)

one week later: meh....

(starts doing a slightly similar rpg idea.....)

There were few memorable exceptions my family and some friends still remembers fondly, but the topic is not about them XD

[Freemints30]

3 words:

Edgy MLP Fanfiction.

But also my first attempt of a webcomic on smackjeeves, which is what my currant one is based on.
It was... hella edgy

[nathanKmcwilliams]

Well...I only have one failed webcomic attempt here on Tapas. And that was Office Drone. (It's no longer available)

My comic that featured a depressed bee-man who has the worst luck and a crappy job.

I made a few mistakes with it, namely trying to tie it into my main comic Dragon Sparking. As well as offering cameos into it.

I did used to write Godzilla VS other monsters fan fiction on a tiny forum way back in 2003.

And in 2007 made this. It got 76,000+ views back in the day. But it's pretty embarrassing. Here. You can all laugh at me XD it's very unwise.

[vothnthorvaldson]

For me who started to be very active on internet in the late 90', this was very nostalgic! Not embarassing unless... unless it took you long to make then... ok, a bit embarrassing

[cherrystark]

I remember another one. I was in high school and the Twilight series was big. I wrote a piece which was basically Twilight fanfiction, but instead of vampires, it was a family of superpowered "gatekeepers" that were assigned to protect the gate between their world and ours. For being fifteen or sixteen, the writing is actually pretty good, but the idea was not. I could have developed the whole mythology of world but didn't. I had no idea where I wanted the story to go and ditched it.

[nathanKmcwilliams]

It took me around 6 hours if I remember correctly. And it was the second version. (My pc had crashed and I hadn't backed it up, so I lost the original)

[amortelito]

@therosesword I honestly love that mask

@rajillustration My "crazy cat lady" mind approves of that clock.

My unwise project was this "robot-esque" creature I started when I was just learning to make dolls. It is 1:1 scale, so it is the size of a person. I'm into creepy stuff but he scared the hell out of me at nights and decided to just keep the head and dispose the body... which I had to hit with a hammer to disassemble to not scare the trash recolector. Then I had to dispose the head too when I cracked, I put it in a travelling bag…ok the story sounds creepier than intended.

I haven't stopped making questionable projects but this one definitely was a bad idea.

[narkao0]

I would have paid to keep him alive. He looks adorable!~

[Inspector_Spinda]

Mine are bad but not as interesting as yours. I basically got into comics because I wanted to do a rip off of fairy tail so that was my first comic. Then I tried to do one based on a fantastic rpg I used to like and it slowly became super derivative. My current comic is only my third effort to do an ‘original’ work.

[Inspector_Spinda]

Knowing the common meaning of gatekeeping makes this super funny