This is an update to this post
On my last post about my digital art, I said that a website I had used called RateMyDrawings.com looked like it was no longer running, but I recently tried to log on again and it looks like it is at least partially working.
If I tried to click on the link of my old art to see it full size, it would just give me a blank image and say:
The thumbnails of the art are still available though, but the quality is not the best because the images are so small. Let’s start with some of my earliest digital art. Because of how Ratemydrawings is set up, the more recent art is at the top left and the earliest ones are towards the bottom right. The first art featured here was created on Jun 06, 2009 and the last was created on Mar 31, 2007:
Okay, so there is A LOT happening here. I shouldn’t be to hard on myself since I was only 7-9 years old at the time when I made these, but wow. First off, some of the drawing thumbnails won’t load, which is a blessing. I’m sure my Icarly fan art wasn’t something anyone wants to see. Also it’s pretty obvious that I got a lot of my drawing inspiration from an online game called Poptropica that was popular at the time:
Oval heads and giant eyes were my aesthetic at the time I guess. Although I’m being a bit hard on myself, I do have to admit that two of these drawings are actually pretty impressive for my age at the time:
I definitely wasn’t a child prodigy, but that first image definitely looks like a flower and the second one looks like Kirby, so I guess I wasn’t doing too bad. Apparently other people thought so too. Here are a few comments from the flower drawing:
Genericusername really has a way with words.
This next set of drawings are all from 2010, when I was 10 years old:
So I went from Poptroica inspired art to weird anime characters. In case you were wondering, in “PLease Help!” I was asking for help in raising my rank on the site because I thought I deserved better than #5,000. Nope, I still kinda sucked. Again, two drawings stand out to me as not being completely terrible:
I like the first one because it obviously looks like a witch, and in all it isn’t a bad drawing. The second one isn’t that great as a whole, but there are some good shading techniques in the tree and the fire that show that I was improving a bit as an artist. All of these drawings have been from my first account, Lovemonkey714.
These next drawings were from my account called Flyinggiraffes. Okay, so I was in elementary school when I made those last few drawings so there isn’t a lot I can be critical about. Let’s look at some drawings that were created when I was a bit older. Here is some of my old digital art from 2012:
Adventure Time fan art, Minecraft fan art, and an anime girl. I obviously was in middle school. All of these are pretty decent drawings. There is some good shading, the outlines don’t look bad, and they all are the basic shape of what they are supposed to be.
Next we have some art from 2012-2013:
More Minecraft, a pokemon, a drawing of a girl for a contest I entered (that I did not win), and an octopus. These are only slightly less cringey. At least I only have one Minecraft related drawing this time. Hopefully I won’t make any more of those…
… And we are back to more Minecraft with these drawings that I made in 2014.
I guess my old digital art is not nearly as good as I thought it was. That makes me a little less upset that most of it has been deleted forever. Ratemydrawings was only a side drawing website for me. I mainly used a website called Sketchfu, but that site sadly no longer exists so I don’t believe there is any way to see most of my old art. That being said, it was nice to look back at my beginnings and see how I’ve improved. (I might not be the best but at least I don’t draw Minecraft art anymore.)
A table of contents? What on Earth could that be for?
