SHOW ME YOUR ROOTS (where you began)!!!

**klinesmoker** · January 2nd, 2005, 12:23 AM

This forum I would like to dedicate purely to the beginnings of every artist here. Post something from your "old school," back when you were just getting started. I think it'll help people here get an idea of how to grow and develop as individual artists. I'm running home now to grab some of my old pieces. They'll be up soon! But hurry everyone! SHOW ME YOUR ROOTS!

**Interceptor** · January 3rd, 2005, 08:34 AM

hehehe. I'm killing myself from alughing at these at my office.

**Chris Beatrice** · January 3rd, 2005, 10:28 AM

Ok, here are a couple old jewelry pieces from me:

Crazed (pin)
brass, silver and enamel

Leaf Master (pin)
copper, silver

and an old pencil drawing:
Fingolfin (pin)

Don't laugh

**cartoonfox** · January 3rd, 2005, 10:33 AM

... wasnt this allready done?

bleh! why not ^-^

all of them were done about a year ago, i dont really have anything before then, its all crap from highschool! i didnt keep it ^-^

peace

**klinesmoker** · January 3rd, 2005, 08:15 PM

Keep em coming!

**klinesmoker** · January 5th, 2005, 10:30 PM

Sorry guys, having a hard time uploading on my comp right now

But please keep those pics coming!

**klinesmoker** · January 21st, 2005, 03:16 PM

Crazy, my scanner has gone hay-wire on me! Sorry folks, I'll post my oldies here soon!!!!!!!

**vigostar** · January 21st, 2005, 03:37 PM

I wanted to do this with the original thread a while back but, couldnt get it going.. here it is...

old- about three years ago.

New- about two weeks old. its a bad scan but, you guys could get the idea.

**M.D.Kroen** · January 21st, 2005, 03:46 PM

these two i did on my way out of highschool befor i came up to SF

**stilts** · January 22nd, 2005, 12:28 AM

lol i started drawing when i was about 6 or 7......I dont think i have anything saved from that time but ill see if i can find my oldest piece somewhere here.

**stilts** · January 22nd, 2005, 12:32 AM

haha, sadly this is the oldest thing i could find:

**max-cant** · January 22nd, 2005, 06:29 AM

great idea for a thread - i was gonna start one for getting a picture you did as a kid - then re-working the basic design as best you could now - haha -

heres my stab at what i can only assume is an A.T.A.T.
i seem to have forgotten a leg at the front - check out the
testicle gunner - good job he must have -
this picture kicks ass and is better than attack of the clones could ever hope to be.i was 5 i think?
i have ALL the drawings ive ever done for some reason my dad brought them all round last week by chance.

dont bother C+Cing it - its perfect.

this is odd -I think its a war in a forrest - the figure although a bad scan seems to be a lizard warrior breathing steam and the robot judging by the leg configuration seems to be based on the bosk's walker 'minirigs' starwars toy.
i think its the best one of the three - im in talks with universal studios to sell the film rites to this picture as the new RIDDICK movie - no reply from them yet.

this is a tripod from the most expensive bbc series ever (at the time - it must have cost at least 200 quid to make).
its only fanart and could never be as cool as the show was.
i swear man - when we were driving someplace in the car i could see these fuckin things in the trees (looking back they could have been electricity pylons and i could have been full of shit )

i wanted to find a drawing of a caveman and a woodlouse id done but i think i might have eaten it or put it up a tree as a kid.
sorry-
this is such a good idea for a thread...........keep it live

heres martin bowers site - he made all the best models for everything ever - people should build a 5000 feet high statue of this man attop everest as a thankyou for inspiring people like me to follow art and CA stuff.........

http://www.martinbowersmodelworld.com/

max

**jacobsteel** · January 22nd, 2005, 02:18 PM

Haha... what a great idea! Here are two really old from me:

(warning, slight nudity... )

(did it the first week after I got my first Badger airbrush... should've spent more time drawing and sketching.. ;-) )

more on the hompage

**klinesmoker** · January 25th, 2005, 12:30 AM

The earliest piece I have. Don't even remember doing this.

**AdamBlack** · January 25th, 2005, 01:27 PM

max-cant: Those pictures are awesome! I was having flashbacks to the fourth grade while looking at those. I sure wish I'd kept mine.

**ColdKodiak** · January 25th, 2005, 02:27 PM

Originally Posted by max-cant

dont bother C+Cing it - its perfect.

Looks like episode 2. Funny how as kids we're not so far on what we're going for on content. hahaha. Good stuff.

**klinesmoker** · January 26th, 2005, 01:33 PM

Man, that's just crazy. I remember having drawings JUST LIKE those Max! I have an old bag of papers I kept from when I was a kid I'm going to dig through here in a few. Let's hope I have some left

**klinesmoker** · January 26th, 2005, 04:24 PM

Simply spectacular photos man!

**klinesmoker** · January 26th, 2005, 06:18 PM

I remade this one recently, but here is the original piece I made YEARS ago.

**Forge** · January 27th, 2005, 05:08 AM

one year ago :

2 weeks old :

**hopeless shade** · January 27th, 2005, 08:55 AM

early CG:

later CG:

the comparison is amusing, even though that last one isnt my best

**Kresh** · January 27th, 2005, 09:10 AM

My very first post on CA. God I thought this was amazing when I did this LoL.

**Xaya** · January 27th, 2005, 10:18 AM

This i done 2 years ago,
it was a school task ; theme: nightmare

i still like the composition and the idea,
but the anatomy was more guessed than known...

**Oblio** · January 27th, 2005, 11:27 AM

JUST FOLLOW THE LINK (MCM - you should be next

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**brokencow** · January 27th, 2005, 12:20 PM

you guys can do worse then this?

**vigostar** · January 28th, 2005, 10:50 AM

Hey, brokencow.. To answer your question.. Have you seen my work>!?

Anyways, that lady is dope.. Def. ground worx for the type of work your creating now..

**enigma** · January 28th, 2005, 02:16 PM

ahhh yes the old days *tears up*

heres some bitmap imaging and free scanner photo manip program results for ya...used the hell outta filters and the smudge tool
...god bless anime