RIP My Digital Art

I was going to look for some of my digital art from when I was younger, but it seems that it has all been deleted. When I was 7 to when I was about 14, I used two online drawing websites called Sketchfu and Ratemydrawings. Sketchfu was more basic while Ratemydrawings had more advanced tools. Sketchfu was more like a social media for artists, so I ended up using that one more so I could talk and interact with my friends.

I couldn’t tell you how many drawings I created on Sketchfu, thousands probably. Most of them were really bad fanart drawings from a children’s book series called Warriors, but I remember that some were actually pretty good. I had created my own original characters. There was Princess Noodles, Hayley the girl with cat ears, a family of cute dragons, Naomi the girl with fire powers, and many more. I didn’t log on to Sketchfu for a couple of years, and when I went back it was gone. The site shut down some time around 2014. I’ve tried to see if there is an online archive or cache somewhere, but as far as I know all my art is dead. I remember printing out some of my digital art when I was younger, so I’m sure that a file of it exists somewhere, but unfortunately my childhood computer also died some time around 2013. That was before I understood how to back up a file. Maybe somewhere in the blackhole that is my email account I had when I was 10, or in a Facebook messaging chat from when I was 13, there is an image of some of my digital art, but for now I’m just going to assume that it’s lost forever, and I’m pissed

As for Ratemydrawings, I tried to log on today and all I got was a message saying that the site is down for maintenance. I looked up a cache of the site from two days ago, and it also said it was down for maintenance. I’m just going to assume that it is permanently down for maintenance. I only had around 40 drawings on that site, but they were all pretty quality. I’m also pissed about that.

 

 

So what is the moral of this story? People will tell you that the internet lasts forever, but it doesn’t. Pro Tip: Don’t trust any website to save your drawings. Back them up onto a flash drive or at least print them out and store them in a folder somewhere.