the post your First Drawings Thread

[Green-fire]

Well
Just post your first Drawings
please do not make fun of others
I just want to start a cool thread

[dashinvaine]

I found my earliest painting that I still have recently, I will post that soon for a laugh. It's actually the same composition used in my recent 'Restoration Couple' piece, the progresssion over the last eleven years should hopefully be remarkable.

[Green-fire]

Coolness
I will post mine too I just need to figure out how to post pictures on here
i am sure i will find a sticky somewhere...

[dashinvaine]

Actually it hapens that two of my most recent paintings are reworkings of two of my very earliest, from 11 years or so ago when I was a teenager. (I must have got nostalgic). The other one is a vampire lady on some stairs. God I cringe when I see these oldies.

Edit. I notice my camera was on anti red-eye again, hence the lips have turned black on the old vampire female. Mystery solved regarding 'the fall of Sophia'.

[dashinvaine]

Coolness
I will post mine too I just need to figure out how to post pictures on here
i am sure i will find a sticky somewhere...

You attach them with the paperclip icon above, between the smiley and the arrows.

[Green-fire]

ok cool thanks
TIME TO SCAN PICTURES!

[FlipMcgee]

My first game concept art :bashful: It was for a mini game in Jade Empire. Actually it's another idea that I drew that got included. If you've ever played this game and remember seeing umbrella or parasol mines appearing in the flyer shooter mini-game, it was me who thought of that.

But it went uncredited. Boooo! >:|

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[Green-fire]

are you guys kidding
ugh
your guys' first drawings are SOOOOOOOOOOOo much better than mine
haha coincidentally I love Jade Empire
and I love that mini-game haha

[Jason Rainville]

First as in, fisrt post on this site, first time we ever put pencil to paper, first time we did a serious drawing?

[ChaoticKnight]

First Oil Painting, done when I was 15:
http://community.conceptart.org/gallery/I/2005/01/01/7299.jpg
I have other firsts, just not with me at the moment. I have a drawing on the enveloping that has my birth certificate in it of a dinosaur from when I was 3 haha. Maybe I'll post that.

[Green-fire]

eh
I dont really mind all of those are good so post:
your first serious drawing, your first drawing or first post on this site
all are your firsts I guess haha

[dashinvaine]

This might be a more meaningful thread if people post their earliest and latest pictures together so we can see the progress they have made.

[Jason Rainville]

Christ Chaoticknight, thanks for ruining my last shred of self-confidence, (:P)since when I was around 15 I was doing shit like this:
http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/9034/10f859cl8.jpg
That's also the earliest pic I have on the net, readily available to me online.

Here's my first posted image on this site (january 2006):
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b199/Rhineville/Art/galad2.jpg

The first (and last) time I really got into a pic, took it to finish and was generally satisfied. This was the absolute best I could do, had thumbs, prelims, all sorts of reference etc. (spring, 2006, I dont have the final up for some reason):
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b199/Rhineville/Picture005.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b199/Rhineville/fdgh.jpg

and my latest little piece of poop, Willie, done a few days ago:
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/8276/attachmentin0.jpg

[dashinvaine]

Best thing to do with monkeys... hate those things! Nice work.

[Stark]

It looks like your ripped the monkey out of the ass of another monkey in that last one... :|

[Costau D]

This is all I have on hand. But i have a lot of old stuff going back as far as my elementary school days. :er: God these ideas were so corny. A kamikaze (Sp?) T Rex and a orc like creature riding a eel?? Jesus Christ!

Then

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Now


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[Green-fire]

wow
nice job you guys this thread is going to really cool when some more people post up thier work!

[Jason Rainville]

It looks like your ripped the monkey out of the ass of another monkey in that last one... :|

Heh yeah, I figured this way it would be easier to show the monkeys face... plus if I was twisting a monkey apart I'd do the ol one hand on top of each other way;

0o
o0

Rather than what appears to be the 'hands together in front' way;

0o o0

therefore instead of him facing away from his rear he'd be looking at it.

Ahh, the science of monkey mutilation ..... :teeth:

[Mr Man]

Early Ca posts over 3 years ago.

http://img21.photobucket.com/albums/v63/mrswoman/demon.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v63/mrswoman/oldpic.jpg

Recent I still got a looooooong way to go!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v63/mrswoman/Clown.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v63/mrswoman/Pyroman.jpg

[Costau D]

Mr. Man: :404sign:

[dierat]

SA-weeeet! I love my HS drawings! They're always good for a laugh ;D

These were some of the first drawings I really tried on, I think. Posted them on Elfwood back in the day; always got a lot of nasty, but funny, comments, like "Is that a girl or a giraffe?!" Sorry sweetie, even I don't know the answer to that, teehee!

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For comparison, this is some stuff I did in college, only a couple of years later.

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[Kamikazebob]

Did these round 04 some time, when I was 14/15

Sad part is I haven't gotten much better

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[DIMAGYAN]

this is a good topic.
is very educational watch the progress of someone.

i don't know where is my first drawing or my first "serious" drawing but i find old stuff that could fit in the topic(i guess)

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when i was 13 yrs old

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2003

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2004

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first post in ca.org!(well actually third, but was the first in the sketchbook section)

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and now(several moths ago)

[Green-fire]

Wow dierat that one of the smirf made we laugh for awhile
And I really like the one of the woman lying on her bed The shading on it is Really good
Apparently you have all Improved much
thanks for posting on here
its pretty inspiring to a 14 year-old wannabe artist
by the way...
Please no Anime on here
I cant stand it...

[Kamikazebob]

This is CONCEPTART! *kicks*

This is not DA do not fear.

[Jason Rainville]

You're right space chimp, I'm just tired and cranky is all :P post edited. :teeth:

[Costau D]

RED ALERT
Stay on topic. For the good of man kind, and whatever that is holy.

[wiggum]

This is the oldest stuff I have on my computer. I never picked up a pencil with intent to draw until eigth grade, most of this stuff is from high school about six years ago.

[dierat]

Wow dierat that one of the smirf made we laugh for awhile

Huh? No kudos for my decapitated head drawing? That was supposed to be a self-portrait! (Oh, and, so was the smurf drawing, mwahaha)

[TheDonut]

I posted some of my old drawings in my sketchbook :) Here's a few of them -

The first is the first drawing I have on my computer.. on the back, it says I did it when I was 3.. the soldier was done in 2000ish when I was 11. The angel woman thing was in 2005ish.. the last one is something I'm working on currently :)

[Rudeone]

awesome! :tihi:

These are the oldest character concepts I could find on my computer. I remember the first being one of the main characters for a UT mod schoolproject.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v300/rudeone/beh.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v300/rudeone/ch002.jpg

First post on CGTalk, first time I ever posted something on the internet
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v300/rudeone/esmeralda.jpg

Recent
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v300/rudeone/Were-having-freaky-weather.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v300/rudeone/Robot-Love.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v300/rudeone/023.jpg

[Yiako]

This is the oldest drawing I could find. I was 5 years old and it's supposed to be my school
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And this was my first "concept" drawing. I was 13 back then... ahh.
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[Dizon]

Man....I wish I could post mine, but they're freakin gone...

[Farvus]

I decided to post some small retrospective of my journey. The biggest mistake was not putting any dates on my drawings. I had to do a lot of investigation and guessing to figure out when I was doing all these drawings. Here is rough estimation and lots of "firsts". Hope you like it.

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[Alex Baer]

this thread is awesome! it's funny how were all pretty much still drawing the same subject matter that we did when we were younger.

these first three were from the early or mid 1990's, maybe when i was in the 3rd or 4th grade,the 4th piece is when my drawings took a violent turn in the 7th grade, lol,and the final two are from this year and last (note that the character croosure crusher, or whatever the hell i called him back then is the same character in the last two hehehe, and the middle picture is the stay puft marshmallow man on fire :} ).

[Jason Rainville]

This is the most hilarious thing I've seen :D

"Staypuff, nooooo!"

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=195519&stc=1&d=1188653913

[Mr Man]

Mr. Man: :404sign:

Think I fixed it now.

[Green-fire]

This IS the Best thread I have seen/made :D
It makes me feel alot better about myself when I see other peoples Drawings at my age

[Mr Man]

This IS the Best thread I have seen/made :D
It makes me feel alot better about myself when I see other peoples Drawings at my age

Don't just be satisfied with people the same age as you having equal drawing ability. You should always aim higher :)

[Costau D]

You know what. I got a self realization from all this. I tend to be lax with my drawing, and cartoony. Not because it's "the style I like" but just because it's what I'm use too, and I'm sarcastic. I think I'm gonna switch it up a bit and become more serious with it. Bring studies to a further level. Really try and draw the viewer in. Thanks for the thread.

Don't just be satisfied with people the same age as you having equal drawing ability. You should always aim higher :)

Yeah, because no one likes nut shots.

[DIMAGYAN]

by the way...
Please no Anime on here
I cant stand it...

you say that for what i post? (i ask because is the post above your comment)
i don't see it as "anime", but anyway if you want i can delete the post.

[Dile_]

This and the retrospective thread is the most depressing and motivating threads at the same time ... :(

[CGMonkey]

I don't know, I guess something a bit like this..

http://cgmonkey.u42.surftown.se/2years.jpg

[Green-fire]

I dont know how to quote people but to answer your question Dimagyan
I didnt really see yours as Anime
I just posted that
I should've posted that when I first started this thread
Sorry If i hurt your feelings :D

[DIMAGYAN]

Green-fire: don't worry not harm done. i ask just to be sure(i don't want to post something in a thread where is not welcome what i do) anyway nice idea with the thread.

to answer your question, you just have to click in the quote button of the message you want to quote and then selet the text.

[Green-fire]

anyway nice idea with the thread.



Thanks
It feels nice to be accepted into an Artistic commmunity XD

[alesoun]

LOL! Great thread!!!

A mother's day card I just found,- think I was 6 or 7 when I did it....
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And the last 2 female images I made...

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[life on the sofa]

edit j

[alesoun]

edit j


Huh? Hmmm.....

[Jushra]

this is an interesting thread. while going through my stuff (i'm moving soon), i found some of my stuff from high school (1997-2000). i almost think some of it has more appeal than my current work... maybe...

[Stephen Lo Piano]

My very first drawings from back around 1967 are long gone.

Still I have my first digital artwork created with Art Rage 1 back around 2004.
Did this one with a mouse, did not have a tablet for this one.

[Flake]

Being an old fart, I don't have any ancient drawings to post, but to contribute here's a terrible video I made with some mates 10-ish years ago.

This is what happens when art students and computer programming students suddenly gain access to an SVHS cam, a Powermac, a souped up Amiga, lots of beer and bad drugs and an obsolete editing deck.

Study it closely, then do the opposite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qOWMZRyAjc

[Ilaekae]

Flake, if I wake up tonight with sweaty flashbacks, I'm going to really hurt you...

[Flake]

But dude, it's "Groovy"..:D

[SeB C BiEn]

That video is eye-popping... It's like lights were flashing all over me when I finished watching it :dead:

EDIT: and to not just post a stupid comment, here is the first drawing I posted here, think it was for the DSG (I had another account at that time), and one of the last I posted.

[JL.Alfaro]

oh man, this is a great thread...

1.my first photoshop painting ever- with a mouse. Complete with shits loads of filters and sparkling lens flares. :nohope:
2.The only drawing I got left from my younger years, I was about 16 (1990's)when I made that- just before I quit art. (I started getting serious about it in late 04)

[GriNGo]

jlalfaro that's fucking kick ass! buena compatriota!

[JL.Alfaro]

thanks man

[Green-fire]

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
i dont want this thread to die
POST MORE!!!

[Flake]

Post yours then.

[Green-fire]

bump
wow
long time no see :D

[CatConvention]

my first digital painting eeeewww
worst face anatomy ever.
http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/7563/nonmt6.jpg

saddely i haven't gotten better
recent one about 1 month ago
http://a782.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/90/l_a093a609ddddffc80308110c762bf7cd.jpg

[0kelvin]

1986-ish
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2005-ish
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I've thought recently about redoing an entire sketchbook. I have one sketchbook that I originally did in 93 or so, then redrew a bunch of pictures from in 97, so it would be cool to do a third progression of all those old drawings.


Eric

[Green-fire]

[QUOTE=xxzxczx_me;1517595]

saddely i haven't gotten better
recent one about 1 month ago




well you need to learn traditional media first
or so ive heard... :dur:

[Ampersand]

Ooh, this is a great thread. :D

I'd done a compilation of my old work before, so here it is, starting when I was seven. My various influences were Beatrix Potter, The Animals of Farthing Wood, Watership Down, Monster Rancher and Redwall in roughly that order. Argh. :bashful:

It's a bit sad seeing where I retarded somewhat instead of improving, around '03. I call that The Freaking Big Eyes Phase. And I didn't get a tablet until '06, so my digital work before that is also quite a laugh. :nohope:

http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/9458/development1998to2007byow0.jpg

This is right up to date though, my last finished(ish) picture. :)

http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/9645/currentcn8.jpg

[deep_in_food]

I started really late...

Before my year-12 year ends, I already know that what I study doesn't really give me any great interest after all. So, by chance, since I'm going to go to university, I picked a course that even my parents won't even think that I will pick it. They warned me that I will need to do serious art design and project stuff. Silly me never thought about it, and I just said, that I would give it a try. When I went to university, I was around 19 years old, with no art experience.

I still do computer programming and math, but at the same time I also do multimedia, which the standard is way higher than I thought. It really didn't make much sense to me that I came in with zero art background, and ended up doing something that looks reasonable at the end.

When the holiday strikes, I started to pick up drawing. My first piece wasn't anything that I am happy about. In fact when I see back it looks all twisted.

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anyways,
http://jsiu123.deviantart.com/art/Christmas-ecard-53255194
my first art project ... This project did not have much bumps so far, although it can be far better. Got 75% for it, which just sits on a distinctions :D. I was like wow

http://jsiu123.deviantart.com/art/Website-for-Handworks-55912857
This website project...
it was an absolute DISASTER
I redid this around 2 times. First my tutor said that the things didn't align..
and that photoshop effect sucks. Ok I had to redo the whole thing again, going through colour themes and such. I went back and showed to him again, and he said the colour looks like mens wear... :S Ok I'll try again, it's 2 weeks before the project is due already :S

Finally, in the last class I got it right, but unfortunately my math stinks badly too, and I had to work on it before exam strikes, so I had to stop there. I got 70% for this work, which I'm happy about it already. It's a credit at least XD

[Alexandr Pascenko]

nice thread

i did this 2 with a mouse , 5 years ago in paint :^^;: ... still no there where i want to be with my skills though 5 years passed already . however the saga continues.

[Serpian]

Hahahaha, that spawn pic RULES!!!:D

[Green-fire]

sweet work.
I cant believe you did that in Ms paint...

[Dave Kendall]

Not my first work but, this is probably the most mature and most powerful strip I've ever done, and may ever do.

This was done when I was 17-18. about 17 years ago. Shit that makes me feel old. At the time I was reading a lot about the Holocaust, and this true story was directly from Martin Gilberts amazing book of the same name. Still makes me sad to read it now. I did do it as a competition entry for a political comic called CRISIS here in the UK. Once I started however it took on a life of it's own beyond the comp.

Severe limitations in the art. Looking at it I don't think it would be better served with my style now. The primitive style seems to underline the story. I didn't really like leaving this strip to gather dust in my drawers, however ropey it is in execution. It's not an enjoyable story and I hope you can read my handwritten text.

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[Green-fire]

wow...
thats pretty emotional
thanks for sharing :]

[ccmon]

WOOOW~~ SOOOOOOOOOOOo much better than mine

[Green-fire]

Bump,
haha wow
I forgot about this thread
this Time I will add my First Drawings...
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and this is my most recent hand studies...
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[Digital_Blacksmith]

PAST
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v339/Raverunner/Art/DevitoBlue.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v339/Raverunner/Art/RandomFace.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v339/Raverunner/Weapons/ironwhip.jpg

NOW
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v339/Raverunner/Cleaver.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v339/Raverunner/ShinobiCompleted-1.jpg

[Maestro Andres]

This is a very enjoyable thread. So cool to see where some people started.
These were done when I was about 12. Around that time, TMNT got me started into drawing in the first place. Too bad I don't have the sketches of those characters, but here's my attempt of making my own TMNT type heroes among other stuff.
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[Green-fire]

wow.
pretty good for age 12

[Jacob Kobryn]

My first true fire attempt (I threw away my first airbrushed art because it was ridiculously bad so this is as far back as it gets) I did this in October 2006, I was 13:
http://www.airbrush.com/forums/upfiles/4889/A67011D57B79484D89DEBCE090187BB4.jpg

And my best fire to date done in April 2007, age 14.
http://kobrinkustoms.com/Blu%20Fire%20Snowboard%20hi%20rez.jpg

My first piece of digital art, 14:
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=155783&stc=1&d=1182235436

My most recent piece of digital art, also 14:
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2893/darkgodofleavesfinalra6.jpg

I'll also post up a pencil comparison when I get the time.

[Sadetar]

Here's some of my works.

This is the oldest one I could find. I did it when I was 13-year-old (nearly 14 I have to admit that). Horrible, isn't it.
http://uta.fi/~vj78186/lohikaarmetytto.jpg

My first watercolour work ever. From ref of course. I still kinda like it. Made when I was fourteen.
http://uta.fi/~vj78186/zora.jpg

One of my first watercolours without ref. I was seventeen I think.
http://uta.fi/~vj78186/viikatemies.jpg

Watercolour, done when I was 18.
http://uta.fi/~vl82277/romani.jpg

And this is something I'm working now. A sketch to my coming watercolour pic. I'm 22 now.
http://uta.fi/~vj78186/katse.jpg

[FlameDragon]

Jeez, some of these first drawings are better than my current work

[guggemmaneuver]

...but not nearly as dusty as this double-sided, mouldering piece of crayon-scrawled manilla paper that dates from the early 1980s...
i found these while i was moving, spirits rejoice. :geekg:


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[armando]

People who post recent work are lame.

[dkounios]

this thread rocks. i especially love the 'my bear is funny'.
when I go back home this weekend, I shall post some stuff I hope to find,
AND
a rejection letter from marvel back in 1994(?) still in good condition. a little yellowed and worn... but its kind of an inspiration deal thing. thus why I kept it. I'll also try to find the corresponding art work I sent them entitled 'Acid Man'. :D

[Thunderrobot]

I would say that all of these are from 2004-2005.

[mcmatz]

This is the earliest stuff and they're only ballpoint pen stuff - paintings seem to have evaporated.

The first one with the dragon and the dwarf was done when I was 17 yo on layout bond.

The second one was done when I was 19 yo for an illustration class as a two page spread. The area for the text in the lower sections of the pages were originally blank but I filled them in later.

The last I did when I was 15 yo on manilla paper!

They are all very old. The paper and ballpoint pen ink have changed colors over the years.

[Lone Wolf]

It's great to see people's progress. Keep posting guys.

Around 2000. This was my first digital painting, when I got my first wacom. Abbadon from W40K

http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/7870/abaddoncolorwebtm9.jpg

2008

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/8175/seacreaturefinalwebii1.jpg

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/4562/garagathwebim6.jpg

[VulgarDragon]

I went and dug out some of my old drawings from when I was in high school. Not the best of the bunch, but at least they show my developing "ideation" skills.

[Jtho]

:uzi: :uzi2: :patriot:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/Scosglen/war-1.jpg

[Jacob Kobryn]

:uzi: :uzi2: :patriot:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/Scosglen/war-1.jpg

Dude! I used to draw stuff like that... only not WWII. They were really random... like slugs with uber crazy weaponry.

[guggemmaneuver]

another oldie...

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:)

[Blastsniper]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/neo_blast1000/DSC00662.jpg

I was 5-6 years old.

[Merlin]

:uzi: :uzi2: :patriot:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/Scosglen/war-1.jpg

Haha this is so cool. I would also draw stuff like this when I was little. Almost no difference. Maybe I drew some bigger jet fighters. Awesome.

[Rist]

Haha this is so cool. I would also draw stuff like this when I was little. Almost no difference. Maybe I drew some bigger jet fighters. Awesome.


And me! They would be throw aways so I have none to show.

[Pavel Sokov]

This is the oldest drawing I could find. I was 5 years old and it's supposed to be my school
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And this was my first "concept" drawing. I was 13 back then... ahh.
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dude, are you sure you were 13? that last one is actualy pro, like i seriously enjoy it. do you have a bigger scan?

its kinda unbelivable man, it's so detailed, and the cartoony characters are really well done. it reminds me of where's waldo style art, but better.


JTHO:
one of your american soldiers is shooting the wrong hahaha.

and i love one of the swastikas, u started drawing it, but fucked up drew too many sticks, it's awesome. i actualy like looking at kid's art, it's fun.

[Pavel Sokov]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/neo_blast1000/DSC00662.jpg

I was 5-6 years old.

That looks like a lot of real modern art I have seen in museums, which were sometimes much worse, and this just goes to show that if a 5 year old can do a good job at it, then modern art isn't deep or difficult in any way haha.

Gosh, I hate those modern art museum paintings done by adults in their 40s that still cant draw anything but squares.

[Boolean]

I only put pencil to paper about, mmm, 2 years ago I guess, so my first drawing is really embarrassing considering how old I was like 23 when I did it :bashful:. I was keeping a daily updated journal over at sheezyart for about a year before I started updating with good entries only. It's great to have a timeline that I can look back at :)

My first entry:
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/2528/learningtodrawday0byboohb4.jpg

My first attempt at faces...
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/7025/learningtodrawday2byboonv4.jpg


Here are some of my updates over the last few weeks:
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/385/paintingforseventhsanctid4.jpg
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/9109/cowgirlbybooleansspm3.jpg

Not perfect, but I'm learning a lot around here :D

[Green-fire]

Damn you guys,
I havent been on this sight for like 2 months, and I come back and someone revived this thread,
Sweet.
Nice new drawings we got here!