What do you do with your REALLY old art?

[Rhonder]

I still have almost everything from when I was in elementary school onwards lol. A few specific drawings and comics I've lost track of, but I have a few drawers full of childhood drawings. One fun exercise that I recently did for a video I was recording was to put together a little montage of my experience with the "redo loop" with my first "original" comic that I wrote in middle school. From ~10:12 to 11:40 plays a sequence where I show off like 10 versions of the same comic spanning from 2007 to 2017 xD

I only started doing primarily digital art in 2019 so much of my art history is physical and in those aforementioned drawers lol

[WoollyPAR]

I keep it so I can look at it and go "I used to suck, but now I'm awesome" and it makes me feel better

[DualDragons]

That depends, the traditional art rots somewhere in my closet while the digital ones get lost in time

[Legendofgenii]

Pre-dropbox it just disappeared whenever my computers died.

[BlairFujin]

Well... there's still stuff back from middle school on my deviantart (I'm 27) and even if I felt like removing it, that would be way too much of a hassle (I'm almost at 2000 deviations ;p). All that stuff just sits there (recently got comissioned because of an 8 year old pic, so who knows, maybe it'll happen again?) but I sometimes dig something up for a redraw
for example

[jkb4753]

I was going through my old art, and I found this note my sister (age 10 at the time) wrote to me when I was in highschool. It reads: "I don't have a boyfriend, and I am a drawing freak." addressed to me from my sister. Absolutely roasted.

[jkb4753]

Holy shit the redraw? Your middle school self would probably die if they saw this.

[Kelheor]

Most relatable note ever

[nathanKmcwilliams]

It's all on the bottom two shelves there XD that's my art from 2008-16. Anything earlier...I've got no idea.

[skyfarron]

@nathanKmcwilliams
VEGETA!

@jkb4753
Same

@Rhonder
That's really good advice, the first comic I finished in 2013 was five pages long. Before that I'd usually stop around fifteen.

[InkRoseArt]

they get sent to the Folder of Shame

[jcmraz]

I keep them for myself. I have my first comic series from 2005-2006 ish still with me. The stuff I have digital copies of I have on my computer. A bunch of old, unfinished comics are still online. My big one from my mid-twenties was on Smackjeeves so not online anymore. I've considered reuploading it lol Probably not worth it though considering it's unfinished and I don't plan on returning to it. At least not in the form I left it.

[jkb4753]

just completely brutal. destroyed. no reason to go that hard on a post it note.

[jkb4753]

folder of shame! Aw no reason to be so harsh!

[jkb4753]

Lol you are also a drawing freak with no boyfriend?

[AmysGames]

I hoard all my old art. I even have a website where I archive all my old concept art for characters and such, because I think it's interesting to see how much has changed/improved over the years, haha.

[InkRoseArt]

no reason to be so harsh!

are you sure?

it burns

[Kaydreamer]

I still remember the names of my old DeviantART accounts, and I've never bothered going through and deleting art from them, so everything embarrassing I ever made as a teen and young adult is there for as long as that site continues to exist.

[skyfarron]

loads a rifle

are you saying you want that to change

[erudenedure]

I have a laundry basket full of my very old sketchbooks and loose papers. For my digital stuff, I have a folder on my Google drive with digital art from my old DeviantART.

I like going through it and remembering how far I've come, both art-wise and life-wise.