What do you do with your REALLY old art?

PaulDevers 2021-03-31 02:41:00 UTC #42

I wish I knew, friend. Got over 6 years worth of sketches, character designs, and concepts.

MeltingCORE 2021-03-31 02:45:37 UTC #43

Yep. This right here. I have three huge boxes of all the art I have done since kindergarten. It's enjoyable to look through it and see all my wacky ideas I had over the years. Sometimes I redraw them too!

jkb4753 2021-03-31 04:03:27 UTC #44

Those are super cute? Also, the alligator clip looks super threatening in the photo, like "no one can see what's in here!"

AmandaJ-art 2021-03-31 04:38:36 UTC #45

I have all of my art still. I have a big box of art in my room from like age 7-18. My mom kept all of my kindergarten art. It's just lying around somewhere. I can never bring myself to throw it out. I like to go trough it sometimes.

noenoh 2021-03-31 04:58:59 UTC #46

In December I did a deep cleaning and finally found all my drawings that were mixed with other books or magazines into catalogued boxes and now I have like 5 boxes of my old drawings from since I was 18. I dont think I will ever toss them away ever. But since Ive been on digital art more at least I dont think I will need a new box for a long time in the future.

This is one of my OCs and Jelly's avatar art I did back in 2011 when I was still playing rps lol

FancyDreamer 2021-03-31 05:09:54 UTC #47

I like to collect my old art, so I can look back at it later and laugh my ass off at how stupid I was. Recently, I've actually been redrawing some art. For example, one of these was done in 2017 and the other was done last week.

iHateFridays 2021-03-31 10:23:14 UTC #48

Really old art? I just keep it around so I can laugh/cry at it XDD

darthmongoose 2021-03-31 10:42:09 UTC #49

Well, a lot of my pretty old stuff is on Deviantart still. My Devart has works dating back to my teens. Earlier stuff I keep around in folders for posterity, and my oldest drawings from when I was a kid are at my parents house. This turned out to be pretty useful when a few years back for lols I redrew a little girl's hearthstone card, it went viral and then a guy from Kotaku emailed like "can I interview you? Did you do stuff like this when you were a little girl?"

Please enjoy some terrible old Sonic fanart and fan characters from me aged like 6-7 years old.

surenlicious 2021-03-31 11:19:18 UTC #50

I actually use it as inspiration! Sometimes I look back and smile at how old me did certain things in art and its nice to try that stuff again with improved skills.

skyfarron 2021-03-31 18:07:12 UTC #51

That's pretty rad, yo

DualDragons 2021-03-31 19:15:40 UTC #52

Ah seeing this reminds meof the old sonic art I did as a very young kid xD

And actually, my brother did a "sonic oc" rendition of one of my characters to troll me a few weeks back as well

darthmongoose 2021-03-31 19:45:58 UTC #53

Hahahaha awesome! Yeah that sounds like siblings...

TedGravesArt 2021-03-31 20:28:31 UTC #54

omg this image is 1000% perfect. lol you're killing me Kelheor

Kelheor 2021-03-31 20:29:27 UTC #55

You're always welcome

neichasart 2021-03-31 20:56:23 UTC #56

I keep it as a reminder?
Recently redesigned a bunch of OCs from my middle school days
2010

and the remake

When it comes to old comic pages etc, I like to leave them there?
Most readers say they enjoy seeing the art progression so I try to not judge old art too harshly.

skyfarron 2021-04-01 00:56:53 UTC #57

@DualDragons
"I like soil"

@neichasart
damn, nice work!

neichasart 2021-04-01 09:54:56 UTC #58

Thanks ! I can't really salvage the story because it's absolute mary sue garbage, but the characters meant a lot to me back then. If you have old OCs of your own I'd definitely encourage you to revisit them ! It's 10/10 fun