The N00b art thread.

[Mitchell]

oh come on, you know what I'm talking about... We come to CA.org everyday and get blown away by the massive amount of good art! and rightfully so. But what about those "golden" days of art, where you would draw ninja turtles and sell them for a quarter each to all of your friends. Or the days when you would draw straight from your head and you could care less wether you knew where the rectus pemoris, trapezius, or the latissimus dorsi were placed on the figure. (much less knew what they were.) In other words, the days you try to forget about. The beginning days of your art! We all had to start somewhere...

I thought this could be a fun and light-hearted thread where we could post such drawings/paintings/sculpture/etc.. a little bit of nostalgia for us all and providing some good laughs. Maybe provide some inspiration/assurance for those that are starting out. It would be great to see some professionals join in on this just for fun sake. I searched CA for a thread like this, but unfortuneatly I didn't find anything. If it's against the rules, I suppose just delete this, mods.

Some rules:
- please post only your OWN art.
- it would be nice to know the age you were at the time you finished it.
- Please no critiquing, bashing, rude comments, muffin baking...
- If you were able to paint the Sistine Chapel at the age of 7, please don't post it.
- you don't have to post if you don't want to...duh.
- don't make images too big (I doubt there will be that much detail that we have to see..)
- you don't have to post a big ol' dump of work...we get the idea...
- I wanna see some crude, unknowledgable, disproportioned, juicy art!


SO to be fair, i'll go ahead and start this off with some masterpeices from my early days of art:

Awesome skeleton man, 14yrs old:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/xLOVELIFEx/skele.jpg

Sweet-ass army space man, oh the humanity! 14yrs:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/xLOVELIFEx/armyspaceman.jpg

hand studies, 15 yrs (no ref hahaha):
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/xLOVELIFEx/sweethands.jpg

and a horrible portrait, one of my first. 15/16 yrs:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/xLOVELIFEx/horribleportrait.jpg


Cool, so let's see 'em guys and gals!

[blog]

ooh oooh, this should be a good thread, yay!

[j a k e]

I have a present for you!
I'll scan more in later maybe,
but here is two SB pages from january/febuary this year 2006.
lots of visible improvement huh?

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l181/skywhale/crap12k6.jpg

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l181/skywhale/crap12k6001.jpg

[blog]

haha I like the way you put 'lots of improvement huh?' you sick little fuck! thats amazing!

[Mitchell]

I have a present for you!
I'll scan more in later maybe,
but here is two SB pages from january/febuary this year 2006.
lots of visible improvement huh?


awesome Jake, that's what I'm talking about. The good ol' days. It's amazing how one can improve in less than a year with lots of studying.

[Justin.]

Fourteen :x

[paberu]

Hahaha awsome thread!

This is me when I was 16/17 - 2004 (decided to take up art).

[asoir]

back in MARCH.
oh god.
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138476/2.jpg

[SirGreenSock]

Jeez you guys rocked, wish i had drawings done at fourteen :( Skeiff that self portrait was a good sign of things to come!

Here's my mediocre contribution, first digital colourjob, 2 years ago...


Edit: And for comparisons sake, here's my most recent upload beside it (still in progress)...haha both were done with the same tablet. :P

[blog]

lol I thought you meant you were 2 years old when you did that for a moment there :D

[vigostar]

this has been done before but, its a goodie.... what you should do is post the old and something new to see the improvement side by side.. hopefully you improved...

Oldest I could find.. From my first TD.. Warewolves vs. Vampires..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v402/vigostar/vampires-1.jpg


Newest finished work Ive posted...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v402/vigostar/ultimateweapon.jpg

[TheGnoll]

hehehe, nothing exactly original from me, but here's my contribution.
gnoll summer 2004(age 16), gnoll autumn 2006(age 18).

ciao

[Carnifex]

lesse...can't for the life of me remember when these were done,but i guess around age 14/15? something like that.
newer ones are about a month old,and yesterday.

[asoir]

hehehe, nothing exactly original from me, but here's my contribution.
gnoll summer 2004(age 16), gnoll autumn 2006(age 18).

ciao
you really like gnolls huh :P

[Mitchell]

Skeiff that self portrait was a good sign of things to come!



thanks! haha

Damn, all you guys were pretty good at 14-15. at least a lot better than me haha. I didn't get serious til around 16/17. Kool stuff.

this has been done before but, its a goodie.... what you should do is post the old and something new to see the improvement side by side.. hopefully you improved...


[/IMG]

damn, you were a crazy pen master from the get go. Good stuff vigo!

[Texahol]

9 years old:
http://www.texahol.com/images/grade4.jpg

[Justin.]

LOOK AT THAT FORESHORTENING! There is even perspective on the crossbar of the sail! That is Amazing!!!

[Ryn]

You've come a tremendously long way, Justin :3

These aren't my oldest by any stretch but they're the oldest I have available. I'm 17 now.

I was 13 for this one. HAY GUYS HE HAS A SORD AND A GUN HOW KEWL IS TAHT
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/7209/stormcolthz3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Oh god, this was less than 3 years ago, and it thought I was the shit after finishing this one. "WAHT DOES 'COLUR DOGE' DO?! LOLZ" :nohope:
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/782/dalemetroscolorwg9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[minaa]

First picture: Done when I was 12. Took me hours... and hours.

Second picture: Took me about 30 minutes on an online drawing java applet (paintchat). Done this year; I'm 18. I couldn't find anything that was work-safe to post other than this that's really recent. :\

[Jason Rainville]

Akk, earliest one I could find (march of 2005)... suprisingly little progress made since then :nohope:

But I DO have some absolutely hilarious attempts at some karate guys just lying at home from my old highschool days, and come christmas holidays I'll be digging them out for you all to laugh at :)

[rblitz7]

haha I recently found these...im 17 now.
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/7852/halloweengw2.jpg
http://img287.imageshack.us/img287/6900/dude8ht.jpg
funny huh?

[bunny]

Something I did in '03. I was 14 or something.
Something a did a year later, when I was 15... ish.
Something I did a few days ago. I'm 17 now.

I had an anime phase, a goth/anime phase, and now I'm onto my "weird shit" phase.

[max xiantu]

haha. This thread is great. and so timely, my mother just mailed me this.
Michael Jordan as a rabbit character. Age 10 -- 16 years ago. Before I got into music and forgot about art until a few months ago.

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q111/maxxiantu/spunkyJordan_91.jpg

[asoir]

haha that kicks ass for ten!

[Dile_]

SHIT One of the most inspiring threads i've ever seen!!!
Thanks for comeing up with sucha a great idea Skeiff!

Edit* I was 13 when i did the first two, and im 14 now.

My best picture from my first sketchbook, bought it to do concept art to my
3d stuff last year in september :)
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p254/Dile_/dile13Medium.jpg
Heres some new found pictures (therefore there are wrinkles and stuff) and the first picture in that sketchbook mentioned above (the car) aka my first picture ever where I focused on something related to be an "artist"
lolz..
ITS CONCEPT ART DAMNIT ;)
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p254/Dile_/dile_sept_2005.jpg

and heres what I did past this week.
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p254/Dile_/Value_Study.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p254/Dile_/lifedrawing_02.jpg

[jadefoodog]

haha I recently found these...im 17 now.
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/7852/halloweengw2.jpg
http://img287.imageshack.us/img287/6900/dude8ht.jpg
funny huh?


hey now remember your suposed to post your own work everyone knows i did that first drawing yesterday for the chow forums. haha jk nice i wish i had my 7 year old stuff yours looks alot better than mine would

[ah.heng]

1st one was done half a year ago.
2nd one sometime between then and now.
last one done last night after watching marko's dvd.

[AyaXiac]

Haha, fun thread. I dont have a scanner so I cant scan my really really old art. Oldest one I got scanned would be this one.... I made it a few years ago, i think I was about 15...? I dont really remember haha. This is what I get for not signing old works D: Ah well, im 18 now, so its a tad bit old.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a107/kalilith/oldman.jpg

[Noë]

ah.. I went to take a look at my drawings from the age of 14.. And they were actually pretty good! :S
I'm editing this post after what Dtile posted about posting your best work from when you just started, and posting your best work now.

So here are two of my best works from when I just started, I was about 14,5 I think. Right now I'm almost 17 and I don't feel I've improved a lot looking back to it. The only thing I can find is that it's taking me a lot less time to draw things "the right way".
Oh also note that at this time (age 14-15) I was depressed and stayed awake all night trying to sleep or drawing sad stuff ^^
http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL655/2419646/5427197/75862720.jpg http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL655/2419646/5427197/76711269.jpg

Here are four things I found in the very beginning of my sketchbook from when I was about 15,5.. This was at the beginning of when I started actually practicing a few times a week to get better;
http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL655/2419646/5277014/100000944.jpg http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL655/2419646/5277014/105061870.jpg http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL655/2419646/5277014/109715931.jpg http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL655/2419646/5277014/122591484.jpg

So now I'm almost 17 and the best thing I could find at the end of my sketchbook was this;

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love
Marleen

[magicgoo]

Awww, this thread is sooo cute!

Tex, that's so violent and cool! :} Rblitz7, love the "goodbye" to the witch.

Here are some that I had already scanned. The painting doesn't count, because my dad drew it and then I just painted it. It is technically my first oil painting though :P

2 years old:
http://everythinggoodwastaken.com/oldskool/me03b.jpg

3 years old:
http://everythinggoodwastaken.com/oldskool/me04a.jpg

Almost 4:
http://everythinggoodwastaken.com/oldskool/art01.jpghttp://everythinggoodwastaken.com/oldskool/art02.jpg

[Dile_]

hm, I just thought I should say before this turn into a ego-thingy thread like
"ohh watch me , I did improved alot didnt I ??"

The thing I wanted to say , is that, please , dont post the worst stuff of yours
that you did at the time, post your best , I assume you wouldnt put
your worst stuff in a portfolio ??
(if you where crazy and really thought your art at the time was good enough for a portfolio heh ?) That was just an example.. but to really see your true
Improvement, please post your BEST stuff at the TIME and compare that to your BEST stuff RIGHT NOW! or if not, PLEASE do not post crappy doddles
or this thread would turn out wrong..
As I stated, its very inspiring and motivating to see peoples progress, but
its even MORE inspiring to see peoples TRUE progress! :)

Alright, just my two sentc ;)

now keep post!

ps.
Ursula: Thats sooooo awesome :D wish I wanted to draw at the time I was
so little :P thats really cute!

Keep it up everyone!

~Dile

[Mitchell]

haha wow magicgoo, you really went to way back in the days. I love those little dinosaur creatures! I'll upload some drawings of mine when I was 4-5 soon.

[Carnifex]

heh,yeah,i gotta check for that too.

[voraz]

I'm going to join this too:

around 14-16:
http://img327.imageshack.us/img327/8576/sketchant006dd4.jpg
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/6732/sktbook028d1he3.jpg
http://img327.imageshack.us/img327/8365/sketchant005vz7.jpg

17 (1995):
http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/7656/ribeira0if3.jpg

19-20:
http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/9285/sktbook022carvaorf8.jpg

[Dile_]

woooow :bow:
Voraz!! thats a stabilized improvement all over!!
*off to draw*

[Noë]

@Dile; I edited my post, you made a good point..
I'm not going to post anything from before I was 14 because before that I always hated having to draw things (I was like; why draw when you can read? :P) so I wasn't ever serious about drawing stuff.

Love
Marleen

[voraz]

Hei, Dtemp, thanks, back then I used to draw all the time, ever since I was a little kid, after that I went to University to study sciences and I kept drawing but didn't have much time for that, so I guess I haven't improved much from that time...

I think your progress is much more evident. (and I think we have similar scanners... :blah: )

[Ryn]

haha, magicgoo! I see I wasn't the only 4 year old girl who drew scary dinosaurs. I remember I used to take whole stacks of paper and draw hundreds of different dinosaurs, each with a backstory. Good times.

[SirGreenSock]

I love you guys! Every single one of you here is that kid over whose shoulder i kept staring at in primary school trying to figure out how to make magic on paper years before trying it for myself. :)
This thread is real inspirational.
Magicgoo those photos rock! Painting (with oils even) within the lines at age 4 is damned impressive (I still have trouble with this particular concept :P).

[Zweit]

ha ha, what a great idea for a thread. :D

age 12, apparently. good thing i had the foresight to bother writing the year down next to my age.:P
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/Zweit/art/6th_grade.jpg

~13-ish. at the very tip of my love affair with all manner of giant robots.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/Zweit/art/7th_grade_robo.jpg

~14-15-ish. maybe, my memory's pretty fuzzy.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/Zweit/art/chopper.gif

/m\ \w/

[IILooney]

:eyeloss: :skull: :xpld: :dead: :vodkamachine: :bs: :frustrated: :moon: .

This post is so wrong. It should be deleted. Only the blind should be subject to this torture.

[ColdKodiak]

amazing crappiness of age... 15.. I think.

http://www.coldconcept.net/crayasmall.jpg
http://www.coldconcept.net/verifmurals.jpg

just... terrible.

[Jason Snair]

cool idea.

Here's mine. My parents just moved out of the house that I grew up in. When I went over to help them move my Dad pulled out a box of drawings that I had done when I was little. He saved them all!

Superman: I'd say about age 4-5. (I never included my age on any of them)
Spiderman: Same. (I've got a few of him with ice-man too. Apparently I was really into Amazing Friends!)
Comic page: Age 15 - Splash page from one of my high school comics)
St. Patty's Day Promo: Age 22 - First Promotional piece right after college.

[blanquish]

some pretty gosh darn cool stuff here!
I would love to see wes' stuff as a teen lol,

anyway the first one was done at 14, when I decided I wanted to be an artist
this was march of this year
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/1871/boyonswords2ko.jpg

the latest on is about a week old, now 15 yrs old lol

[Act.Appalled]

haha this thread is great...here are a couple of mine

the first three were when i was 11 drawing from a "how to draw" book, haha sperm whale =p

the next one is one from about two years ago, i was 18? total poo...i was better when i was 11 compared to these..

most recent painting is from today, at 20....my line control/confidence was still better when i was 11....i need that back! haha

[bunny]

Hahahha.
more EMO stuff.
Oh man... have to go look for stuff from when I was 6 years old now. You guys are awsome.

[asoir]

jason- i'd come up with a joke relating to the crotch but i dont have it in me :P

[magicgoo]

Hahhaha! Jason Snair, you've given spidey a HUGE FRUIT BASKET!!! :O http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=63576&stc=1&d=1166192436

Here's one more piece of crap from my copying-photos stage. 17 years old. Barf. I hate the Doors now. And, I hate copying photos :nohope:

http://www.everythinggoodwastaken.com/resume/pencil02.jpg

[Jason Snair]

just as it was on the tv show. it's accurate, i swear.

[Goog]

i found this gem from about a year and a half ago-when I started drawing..

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b250/Googprod/scan0001-1.jpg

my stuff now is *ahem* different :).

[dfacto]

These four are from back in 4th grade when I first got smacked in the face by anime.

This one was inspired by BGC
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/dfunkt/ADPoliceAncient.jpg

This one was inspired by a Gundam (Gaia Gear) Pic in the back of Newtype magazine
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/dfunkt/KingTigerAncient.jpg


This one was inspired by Ronin Warriors, which was on TV at the time
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/dfunkt/RoninWarriorsAncient.jpg

This is the shameful result of me trying to be original
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/dfunkt/WTFAncient.jpg

My first digital work from 3 years ago.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/dfacto/suithead.jpg