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Published: 2008-07-02 04:12:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 5866; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 203
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Really? There's no category called, "Crap?"Alllllright, lemme start by explaining what is IS that you're seeing.
Picture on the Left - Literally, the FIRST thing I ever colored in photoshop. This thing is so old that I don't have the digital file anymore cause I THREW AWAY the FLOPPY DISC I saved it on. But somehow, in my binder of "oh-so-bad" art, I found a really crappy print out of it.
So I scanned it in.
Notice it's from 1998, that's right, 10 years ago. My friend gave me a bootleg of photoshop 3 and made me color something with my mouse. I didn't know how to use layers so the line art was jacked up in the process, I didn't know how to use the lasso tool and barely understood the wand... I mean, the list goes on and on and on.
So yeah, I did like 10 digital pieces while in highschool, cause I hated it. The mouse pissed me off and I just didn't get it. Plus I had a black and white printer so I couldn't even print anything so I was like, WHAT'S THE POINT. I stuck with my markers and color pencils and screen tones.
The piece on the right is a piece I did a year later, one of my last highschool pieces.
SO FOR YOU TRUE BELIEVERS OUT THERE, FRET NOT, YOU TOO CAN COLOR IF MY SORRY ASS CAN. AIN'T NUTHIN TO IT.
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i see you also did the whole "finger blob" thing when drawing a hand grasping something and then putting in a little triangle to park the pointer finger from the rest of the mass... good times, good times.
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I love seeing old stuff like this compared to the works they do now. And I'm glad artist post stuff like this giving people like me inspiration. Thank you.
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Thanks for the encouragement. Hard work and determination never fails as long you have the tools.
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well, said! if only i had the time...xD
i only have time to draw inside classes, no time at home. cant wait to get rid of school.. *counts the years left*
im im studying arts and want to master drawing and make my own comics... but it's hard in portugal. i really love your painting style.
one day...
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there is a cat called crap. only it's hiddenby s's. in sCRAPs, see? on the other hand, if you put something like this here, no one would see it, and it is rather inspirational to someone trying to get into colouring seeing where you began, and where you've come.
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Ho man if you think this is shit, you should see mine,... which I'll upload soon, cuz there's just a box full of crap waiting to show from 6 years ago for me xD
Truth be told, I guess a lot of digital artists loved to draw and colour anime styled stuff before they found out a bit more about their personal style. Even though your picture here is pretty crap compared to what you do now, looking at your present caliber sure has made us think: wow... guess anyone can truly become much, much more if they are persistent and dedicated, like you!
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I seriously love this. It's inspirational in the way that it can give people hope (and give me LOTS of hope) that someday I might be reallygood at coloring and shading and stuff. XD You're a very talented artist. I admire you for posting this up. I know a few people who wouldnt do stuff like this, or take down their really old stuff because they're embarrassed by it. But not you! X3 (I still have my old crap up here on dA too. XD)
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Yeah, I mean, I think it's important to show people where you start. I mean, I know some people start out amazing, but I sure didn't, and I think a lot of people get this impression that you're either talented or not and that's just not true. A lot of hard work goes into art, and I don't think there's any shame in showing that work.
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I totally agree with you!
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It seems on par with a lot of DeviantArt. But hey, everyone's gotta start someplace(you'll actually see my first photoshop colored pieces in my gallery.)
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but it's so good to keep that stuff to look back and laugh, the longer it becomes, the harder you laugh!
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damn, i wish I could have progressed with the coloring like you did.... want to see my stuff from 98? the site is still up oddly enough.....
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you first thing you ever colored on photoshop is still 100 times better than my photoshop skills
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nice job on those... you have improved very muchly
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omg....still better then what i could do in 04 when i first started lol
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I admire the courage you have showing the first thing you ever painted... I couldn't show mine, it's too embarrasing. But if your first attempt was as sweet as this one, you surely had future in the business... and now you can look back laughing at it and being proud of what you do now.
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Oh my god. You're the most amazing colorist in the world. I really wish I could draw this well. You're so talented! No wonder you work for Marvel!
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Lick my balls.
Slowly.
Taste the sweat of all the hard work that went into those pieces.
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Why didn't you post this sooner?! This is some of your best work!!!
I've only been coloring for a little under a year now, but I can see mega improvements in even what I've done (compared to when I started of course). If I can find the file I'll post it someday. I thought I was the shit when I finished it too. I have it as a print on my wall though, right in front of my computer, to remind me what I started at. It's always a good way to give myself encouragement whenever I feel like I suck at something. I just look at it and go, "Hey at least I don't color like that guy!"
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Nice.
I create a bunch of art about 16 years ago on Windows 3.1 in Paintbrush. Technically it was pixel art but I didn't know that when I made them and they were quite photographic despite only being 16 colours.
A few of them I uploaded a few years later to a Geocities account and since then I've lost all of them. I've spent hours and hours in hopes that I might have been able to find the geocities account again.
I'll always regret losing them. I think even this many years later with all the great tools I now have, the work I created as young teen with Paintbrush was my most impressive work.
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Consistent light source. Definitive textures throughout. I see potential.
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that first piece, the light is coming from the right for the clothing and I have an over pronounced highlight on the left side of the hair AND the skin is lit from all over the place. No good. XD
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still better-er than the first thing *I* ever coloured in photoshop... and I still have a copy of it! (I may post it... dunno yet)
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Wow thats your first you where so born with great talent. pls keep at it.
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Omg, I've been there...i can't even look at my first PS stuff...it burns the eyes!! I was such a noob! I didn't start using layers until early this year...I've been photoshoping since like, 9th grade...Yikes.
Anyway, it makes me so happy to see artists posting things like this. You're not shy to show people this! You had to practice just like everybody else- makes everyone feel human instead of just another insignificant artist on DA.
Not to mention it's really fun to see old art like this, and then see where you are now, defiantly gives the artist pride huh? You're wonderful!
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you know, being that this was the first thing you ever colored digitally, i'm pretty impressed. it shows you had insane talent right from the get-go.
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Yep! I'm the first one to download this post so I could take a closer look!
Your immense talent shined though even in the not so long ago early days!
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Nahhhh, I don't wanna embarrrrrrrrASS you.
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Holy crap, your proportions were a little wacky back then, weren't they?
I've got a couple of your other pieces from around that time, y'know. >
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Your ass is FAST on the draw. O_O
I know, I still can't do proportions right. Go figure. XD
I'M SAVING THOSE FOR LATER.
Needs some of that lens flare actionz.
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Of course. I can smell old CeeCee art from a mile away. You clicked the post button and I was like "omg, she's linking old art on the internet!"
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hahahahaha, I love that you have the best blackmail material EVER over me.
Well, you and Jean. XD
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Wow. I'll say youve come a long way haha. I cant even stand to look at the first things I colored digitally, so kudos to you for having the breavery to post this. You'll always be my hero Christina!
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I love these so hard. They're so ugly.
And they're ALLLL MINE.
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I remember when I first discovered Photoshop, and I thought that the Lens Flare instantly made every picture better... Only now to realize that its the corniest effect on the planet haha.
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Dude you were not the only one.
Guess what I used on the SECOND thing I ever colored...
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Hmm, Im trying to think of the second corniest effect after lens flare. For me, it was the plastic wrap filter to make things look like leather lol.
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canvas texture. XD
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Paint Shop Pro? Prisma Markers? Crayola?
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copic markers, karat watercolor pencils, and MS PAINT. XD
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YES! Oh my god, I remember MS Paint... Oh the memories. To think digital art went back that far... I remember drawing stuff with crayola color pencils... I cant even speak of them, they are atrocities against art.
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