Tagged - Old Art Meme

Apr 27, 201516 min read

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Published: Apr 27, 2015

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Rules are:
-Show a few (about five) of your oldest arts... and when I say oldest, ADD THE VERY FIRST ONE TOO PLEASE
-Then show three of your newest which you personally like the most :3
-Tag at least three people

First I'm gonna go and dig up the oldest thing I can find, which is posted up in my room because it's very special to me.

That's my very first picture of Dr. W. It's not the oldest of my drawings, but if you want my REALLY old drawings then I'd have to go into the basement and look through the billions of boxes for my old junk. Not happening.
It's old enough, at least. It's from way back before I discovered the magic of digital art.

Then, I discovered the magic of MS paint.

Eugh. I barely knew anything about digital art back then, so this is an even cruder era than when I was only doing pencil drawings. :'D
It was a mess. I began posting my stuff to facebook and an Invader Zim forum, and I started to learn about RPing and made a lot of friends that I still have today. The idea that people became interested in my suuuuper underdeveloped OCs back then still baffles me, though.

Then, my dad got me my first tablet. We were in the car driving somewhere when I expressed my interest in getting one, so he just drove into an electronics store and bought me one right there. It was pretty rad. It came with photoshop, so I left paint behind and started using that instead. Idk where my first photoshop picture is. It was trash anyway.
This is the first one I uploaded, though;

Ellie- Digitally Coloured by theStupidButterfly

Bonus: I proceeded to re-use and re-colour this picture twice more. True art

Then I made Willy. Small nerd baby included here so

doesn't tear me a new one

Another milestone after that is the first appearance of W's personalities. When I first drew them, they were just meant to be me dressing W up as different things (apart from Hyde, who had already existed as a disgustingly bad alternate personality before them).

Ringmaster William Coloured by theStupidButterfly

Dr. W vs Breakdown Dr. W by theStupidButterfly

They didn't become personalities until I created Spider; I liked all of these designs so much that I decided I wanted an excuse to use them as characters. My very first picture of Spider also happened to be my first picture when I started using SAI!

Then W's lab coat changed to his current black one:

This was a good year for weird crack RPs too.

Skip ahead a little, and I began experimenting with drawing better heads, along with necks and eyebrows (I still really like this picture. His expression is neat)

Playing With My Style A Bit by theStupidButterfly

Also, Remind me to re-draw this picture. The shading is weirdly good for that year; I still adore this one too.

Dr. W, Plague Doctor by theStupidButterfly

My earliest Speedpaint that I can find at this time. I don't know what prompted me to start doing them, but i'm happy I did. They're really fun.

Wolf Hunt Speedpaint Link by theStupidButterfly

Another Speedpaint that turned out REALLY well. Again, it's old, but I still treasure it. Gotta re-draw this one too.

Neon Speedpaint Link by theStupidButterfly

THE CREATION OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR BULKY BEE. CAN YOU FIND HIM? THIS, BEING A SPEEDPAINT ALSO, CAPTURED THE VERY FIRST DRAWING OF OUR MESSIAH ON FILM. FANTASTIC.

Other-W Speedpaint Link by theStupidButterfly

There's a lot more that I really like, but I'm gonna speed up a little bit because I've gone on long enough. :'D
I started using FireAlpaca because SAI stopped working for me. Since I depended on the lineart tool, drawing freehand was a pain in the ass. I really hated it. Luckily, I was forced to continue doing it, and I eventually got used to it. My stuff looks a lot better as a result.

FBOCTA PG2- The Incredible Shape-shifting Dumpster by theStupidButterfly

Spider in a tutu is incredibly important

This picture here is where I really felt like I was getting somewhere I wanted to be in terms of my skill. I really loved how the lighting came out. Although, I still wasn't a huge fan of my style.

Radioactive Background by theStupidButterfly

Now, we skip ahead to my much more recent stuff. This picture is where I legitimately started to feel really, really good about my art. My recent stuff from late 2014 to now is stuff that I have been feeling truly confident in.