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[JMickle]

I am wholeheartedly behind this thread! I don't have anything to post though :I

[Bandages]

Perhaps add just one picture of your contemporary work for comparison?

before and afters are much more fun than either on their own, methinks. not to mention we can all gape at how far/little any one particular person has come :3

[1982]

I made this when I was 20

[Gauss Jordan]

Best thread!

Gabriel, I think you were already talented in many perspectives back then. You had a great sense of colors!

I have much more stuff I could post but I only have some at hand right now:


This is the first digital painting I made, I must have been 16. Look at those err... amazing texture filters i used!

Lesson to be learned for beginners - don't use filters and textures as shortcuts. It will NOT look good if you don't know what you're doing.

[ANtY]

First digital painting I made, 2 years ago:



It's terrible in every possible way, there is even no background ^^

Perhaps add just one picture of your contemporary work for comparison?

before and afters are much more fun than either on their own, methinks. not to mention we can all gape at how far/little any one particular person has come :3

(it was the beginning of December ofc :p )


edit: ok, so comparison, 3 days ago:

[ClockFrog]

I did this for a League of Legends character suggestion, about a year+ ago. 

[anonymous]

ah flashback.  I'm in a car, the drawing desk I put together from scraps of wood is on the roof, my mother is driving me to drop it off at my friends place for christmas, I tuck the drawing of elliott smith inside, when we get there, the drawing is gone 

and for laughs, rpgmaker, 14:

[Aquanoctis]

Yeah rocking out the photoshop filters in 2007! Please do not copy guys!

Seriously don't copy it.
Look at the shadows on that thing. I can't understand why I put white edges on them...


Y'all should post some comparison shots as well. It's always nice to see how far people have come.
For comparison, 2011

[PompiPompi]

Wow, that's really good!

[Theophilus]

I don't like to post my old work because I deleted it all. Also it was made when I was 12 and thought I was an 'artist' for using photoshop filters and a little fruity text, usually spelled wrong.

Man. I wonder how many people will post in this thread saying "I was such an IDIOT BACK THEN"

[PompiPompi]

I don't like to post my old work because I deleted it all. Also it was made when I was 12 and thought I was an 'artist' for using photoshop filters and a little fruity text, usually spelled wrong.

Man. I wonder how many people will post in this thread saying "I was such an IDIOT BACK THEN"

Err, isn't this reply belong to the "Grumpy old artist" thread?

[iffi]

I was such a terrible artist back then. I still am, maybe even more so.

[herror]

stuff

Do you have a blog or something?

[JoGribbs]

I didn't get that much better at animating.

BUT SERIOUSLY GUIZE GIVE ME CREDIT IF U YUSE THESE FOR UR SPRITE COMICS OKAY ?!???

[laserghost]

Here's an old attempt at environment modeling. Probably from 2004 or 2005. I'm still not much of an environment modeler (I do mainly animation), but I'm pretty sure I've improved from this.

[Jared C]

This some 2009 shit, I guess I was about 14.

[Hawt Koffee]

OLD STYLES




NEW STYLES





thank GOD for all the improvement over the course of 2 years

[ANtY]

@Jared C: I'm impressed that u were able to draw so well at the age of 14 

@Hawft Koffee: I just love your style, do you sketch ur works first or just paint it from the start?

[Hawt Koffee]

Sometimes I sketch, sometimes I just go at it.