Old Stuff #6 / Oekaki, cute / Ramblings

Not terribly old, from 2004 it seems. For some reason, this was in my "Really old stuff" folder, so I had completely forgotten this.

Cute. Very cute for something I drew. I'd guess I wanted to do something different for a change. The artwork is sloppy, and there are some angle problems, but.... Aww....

The oldest remaining stuff seems to be from beginning of 2001, mostly Sailor Nothing... I did draw some stuff that got scanned even before that, I think, but while I may have some hardcopies in an old shoe box here somewhere, I doubt any of the digital stuff remains.

My skills... work kinda funny. There's some general improvement going on, but I seem to... peak, for the lack of a better word, from time to time. Usually this signifies the end of a relatively productive period drawing-wise. On the other hand, this, for an example, is probably me being inspired by Cloud's Sketchygirl series. He went by drCloud in the forums... which ones, I'm not sure. It's a shame, but it looks like the first two series aren't up anymore... I've got an archived copy of the first one on my hard drive, fortunately.

Digressing...

Right, seasonal arts, peaking... For an example, the halfling is from 2001. It was scanned in September, but it was probably drawn around june. While the feet are kinda blah, all in all it still looks okay. Ah, 3.0 and a loose reading of rules. Of course halflings can wield longswords one-handed...
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I'm starting to think my time-stamps lie. It's possible, I've gone through several hard-drives since some of these were drawn, that may have messed things up. Well, worst case - the arts are actually older than the timestamps claim.

Speaking of old stuff...

This was drawn the very beginning of 1999 - that's eight years ago, now. Probably just before I went for my six months - bare minimum of military service.

Interesting thing about this one, is that this blonde, cheery girl keeps appearing in my drawings from time to time, and I have no idea who she is.

It does seem like I do actually come up with "characters" from time to time, even if I'm not actually aware who they are. Then, Ben comes and just absorbs everything.

Digressing again. Oh well, nevermind. In any case, while there is some weirdness going on here, this is another picture that shows how little I've really improved during these last eight years.


Heh.

Here's an old tutorial on drawing hands I did at one point - ah, youth. One thinks one's so right then...

It is a pretty good tutorial, though. I'm not sure I always draw hands that good anymore. Again with the blurryness, though. It's probably due to something I did back then with scans, which I thought looked good.

In my defense, it probably did, on my supercrappy old monitor. I mean, it was reeeeeally blurry.

More new arts tomorrow. Hopefully.

...I need to think for some sort of label for this sort of rambling, "back in the old days" post. Later, later....