So getting the Christmas deccies down from the loft I stumbled across some old drawings I did wayyyy back in the mists of time. After coming down and putting the tree etc up I couldn't quite get them out my head so popped back up and pulled a few out as they gave me a good idea for a thread.
Why not share some pictures you drew in the past here... if you don't this is all going to become a bit self absorbed as I have quite a few I fancy popping up, so come on join the fun.
First up my love for Bisley these days is low. I really don't get on as well with his work as many. Even his great works. But back in the day... I think I did this when I was in sixth form...
(https://i.imgur.com/7em5EYh.jpg)
Alas the colour Joe Pineapples I did was used to front a folder at school and hasn't survived. And a Deadlock as I recall... man I used to slavishly copy Bisley's stuff.
Am I the only fecker on here that can't draw for shit.
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 12 December, 2020, 02:57:36 PM
Why not share some pictures you drew in the past here... if you don't this is all going to become a bit self absorbed as I have quite a few I fancy popping up, so come on join the fun.
First up my love for Bisley these days is low. I really don't get on as well with his work as many. Even his great works. But back in the day... I think I did this when I was in sixth form...
(https://i.imgur.com/7em5EYh.jpg)
Alas the colour Joe Pineapples I did was used to front a folder at school and hasn't survived. And a Deadlock as I recall... man I used to slavishly copy Bisley's stuff.
That is some epic stuff!
I have this photo bouncing around my folders of my skateboard from when I was about 15 or 16 maybe. I copied this from a Bolland summer special cover - sanded the board, drew in the sketch in permanent marker, and then painted over it with enamel, using the cover as reference. It took a solid week to dry! That was before I discovered the joys of quick-drying acrylics and varnish.
(https://i.imgur.com/1LpOwEX.jpg)
I wish I'd taken a better pic of it now. Still, in hindsight I think not bad for a spotty wee teenager!
Wow that Bolland Board is fantastic.
Quote from: TordelBack on 12 December, 2020, 03:55:00 PM
Am I the only fecker on here that can't draw for shit.
(https://i.imgur.com/9ZgYz05.png)
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 12 December, 2020, 02:57:36 PM
So getting the Christmas deccies down from the loft I stumbled across some old drawings I did wayyyy back in the mists of time. After coming down and putting the tree etc up I couldn't quite get them out my head so popped back up and pulled a few out as they gave me a good idea for a thread.
Why not share some pictures you drew in the past here... if you don't this is all going to become a bit self absorbed as I have quite a few I fancy popping up, so come on join the fun.
First up my love for Bisley these days is low. I really don't get on as well with his work as many. Even his great works. But back in the day... I think I did this when I was in sixth form...
(https://i.imgur.com/7em5EYh.jpg)
Alas the colour Joe Pineapples I did was used to front a folder at school and hasn't survived. And a Deadlock as I recall... man I used to slavishly copy Bisley's stuff.
Cracking stuff now tell us that you didn't even take art at High School and it you just knocked that out on a free period one Friday near end of term.
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 12 December, 2020, 04:18:18 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 12 December, 2020, 02:57:36 PM
That is some epic stuff!
I have this photo bouncing around my folders of my skateboard from when I was about 15 or 16 maybe. I copied this from a Bolland summer special cover - sanded the board, drew in the sketch in permanent marker, and then painted over it with enamel, using the cover as reference. It took a solid week to dry! That was before I discovered the joys of quick-drying acrylics and varnish.
(https://i.imgur.com/1LpOwEX.jpg)
I wish I'd taken a better pic of it now. Still, in hindsight I think not bad for a spotty wee teenager!
Superb Shoalin
What happened to the skateboard?
A couple of biro copies from when I was at uni - We copied the same Deadlock picture! Note how I helpfully signed and dated them for the convenience of future historians and biographers
(https://i.imgur.com/FOuvAaf.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/vO3W2dx.jpg)
I do wonder how many folks copied those images from ABC Warriors Dandontdare. Also very confident signature you had there.
So something a bit different from me next. I played TSR Marvel Superheroes Role Playing Game a LOT in my youth and we - my friends and I - had our own band of heroes The League of Strangers who inhabited an alternative Marvel Universe. I have loads of character designs but a couple struck me. Can you guess which two 2000d characters and artists I copied for this two?
First up Gazelle (super speedster from 'The Battle Planet... don't ask)
(https://i.imgur.com/Ah0mc1x.jpg)
Quartz - manifestation of Mastermind (the computer under Captain Britain's mansion)
(https://i.imgur.com/m1aiap4.jpg)
Guys these are all pretty good did any of you or other board members ever send in pics to Thrag for one of his many comps for young earthlets over the years.
More so did anyone get published?
Recently been paging through some 80s annuals and none were the standard above.
I'm absolutely loving these! DDD's Kano is so moody and atmospheric, and Colin's Halo is a great take on the character!
I must see if I can dig some more of my old 2000AD art stuff out, but TBH most art from my youth was lost over dozens of house moves over the years.
Quote from: Trooper McFad on 12 December, 2020, 11:13:30 PM
Superb Shoalin
What happened to the skateboard?
I used it to death and eventually had to replace the board itself. I painted the subsequent board with a freestyle non-copied Dredd, which wasn't very good. I think I then painted over that with a rendition of my Blood Bowl team, Dai Spike's All Blues.
I still have the skateboard, though the wheels are badly coned, and the rubber in the truck joints has largely perished. I last used it about four years ago. I gave my other more modern skateboards to the kids, and my daughter has taken up the mantle of family skateboarder.
Here we go, found some more stuff, all done around the time of the skateboard:
Dredd Citadel Miniature - I still have this carefully wrapped up in a tub alongside a painted Rogue Trooper from that board game, plus my Blood Bowl team:
(https://i.imgur.com/LlJMB68.jpg)
Actually, this must have been done just after my skateboard as it looks like one of my first forays into using acrylics. As you can see, I was a huge fan of Dillon:
(https://i.imgur.com/Jx7AnF3.jpg)
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 13 December, 2020, 11:45:01 AM
Actually, this must have been done just after my skateboard as it looks like one of my first forays into using acrylics. As you can see, I was a huge fan of Dillon:
(https://i.imgur.com/Jx7AnF3.jpg)
These are great I especially like you still put speech bubbles and the "droid box" in the top corner is a great wee touch.
Quote from: TordelBack on 12 December, 2020, 03:55:00 PM
Am I the only fecker on here that can't draw for shit.
It's the self-deprecation that makes it worse. "Oh this was just something I copied.." Yes Coliln. Yes Dan. We all know exacly where you copied it from. Only thing is, when I try to copy a Bisley ABC Warrior it comes out more like this:
(https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/styles/open_graph/public/migration/PriMigrationsVivvoFilesImagesMigration/pri.org/files/Jesus_PaintingNEW_293150090.jpeg?itok=dkZ5Q2-C)
Great stuff all round.
Adore those acyrlic Dillons Shaolin Monkey and Cosh I'll indulge your call to be less self deprecating as I've actually got some none 2000ad pictures I've always been a bit proud of - though I do see LOADS of faults. I did these over the X-Mas and Easter holidays of my first year at University, so I was 21 in 1993 into 1994 and just about the stop reading comics. As a final tribute it seems I draw youthful YNWA with some of his best comic pals - at this stage you'll note the lack of Tharg's army...
(https://i.imgur.com/HYEKSQZ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/4aThFPE.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/agTBw7u.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/PeWrt9v.jpg)
There's a few more of these I'll pop up another time. They are on card backed by tackyback to protect them as they spent years on the wall of various bedrooms! It made me look sooooo cool... ahem...
That Cerebus/Jaka is fantastic. And the Bacchus!
Few final pictures of me with my nerd friends from (gulp) over 25 years ago...
(https://i.imgur.com/8TvSsFD.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/SWJ2HXU.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Nqwhupf.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/FjnC5ah.jpg)
Absolutely love the Calvin & Hobbes one. I went through a stage at work many many years ago trying to draw/ doodle that lovable duo during tea breaks. I could only dream of getting half as good as that never mind adding in a self portrait.
They are fab! And I too love the C&H one. Isn't it great how many forumites seem to have been influenced by a wee lad and his tiger?
You're a talent, Mr. YNWA. I always thought your brilliant C&H homages were just really clever, very carefully-done, re-workings, but it turns out that's just the tip of the artberg.
Great to see these! Here's a few examples of a limited amount of old stuff I still have kicking about the place (I did these aged about 17 or so I think). All done with trusty Rotring pens - which I still love but rarely use these days*. Not sure why I never got round to finishing some of these; probably just moved on to something else. I remember recreating some O'Neill Nemesis and some Fabry Slaine but those seem to have vanished; have a few other pieces, mostly copies of stuff by the same few artists - Cam (Rogue), Bryan Talbot (melty-face Gothic Empire Torquemada), Bisley ABCs and some more McCarthy.
Bisley
(https://i.imgur.com/jDFFYFp.jpg)
Fabry
(https://i.imgur.com/7BBf2PM.jpg)
Cam
(https://i.imgur.com/grzT4Rk.jpg)
McCarthy (from Freakwave)
(https://i.imgur.com/dZqgP6A.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/pwSFno7.jpg)
* I started doing linocuts about a year ago and I think it's become clear that it's the process of art I like, more than the end result (at least when I'm doing it). I've spent many hours turning an idea into a doodle into a refined image and then producing a linocut, only to print it and only see the errors, before moving onto the next idea.
Really like your inking Ming. Especially on Torque and that masked fella at the end.
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 17 December, 2020, 11:45:41 AM
Really like your inking Ming. Especially on Torque and that masked fella at the end.
Thanks, Colin - it's a looooong time since I copied anything but I could (maybe) do a slightly better job of it now; these are a bit clunky and the component parts of the images don't flow very well, but as a kid with a set of Rotring pens and no idea what I was doing, they're okay.
Quote from: ming on 17 December, 2020, 11:39:10 AM
Great to see these! Here's a few examples of a limited amount of old stuff I still have kicking about the place (I did these aged about 17 or so I think). All done with trusty Rotring pens - which I still love but rarely use these days*. Not sure why I never got round to finishing some of these; probably just moved on to something else. I remember recreating some O'Neill Nemesis and some Fabry Slaine but those seem to have vanished; have a few other pieces, mostly copies of stuff by the same few artists - Cam (Rogue), Bryan Talbot (melty-face Gothic Empire Torquemada), Bisley ABCs and some more McCarthy.
Bisley
(https://i.imgur.com/jDFFYFp.jpg)
Fabry
(https://i.imgur.com/7BBf2PM.jpg)
Cam
(https://i.imgur.com/grzT4Rk.jpg)
McCarthy (from Freakwave)
(https://i.imgur.com/dZqgP6A.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/pwSFno7.jpg)
* I started doing linocuts about a year ago and I think it's become clear that it's the process of art I like, more than the end result (at least when I'm doing it). I've spent many hours turning an idea into a doodle into a refined image and then producing a linocut, only to print it and only see the errors, before moving onto the next idea.
Those are great Ming ever tempted to finish the inks on the bottom 3?
Pity you've misplaced the Rogue one 🙁 (he's ma favourite ❤️)
Quote from: Trooper McFad on 17 December, 2020, 11:51:00 AM
Those are great Ming ever tempted to finish the inks on the bottom 3?
Pity you've misplaced the Rogue one 🙁 (he's ma favourite ❤️)
Not really considered finishing those off; they're only copies of stuff (stuff I still love, admittedly) and they are what they are, nothing I'm very bothered about seeing finished.
I have a couple of Rogue pieces but they're pretty shonky (and the lighting on the pic doesn't help); here's one:
(https://i.imgur.com/wWqEaaU.jpg)
Quote from: ming on 17 December, 2020, 11:58:15 AM
Quote from: Trooper McFad on 17 December, 2020, 11:51:00 AM
Those are great Ming ever tempted to finish the inks on the bottom 3?
Pity you've misplaced the Rogue one 🙁 (he's ma favourite ❤️)
Not really considered finishing those off; they're only copies of stuff (stuff I still love, admittedly) and they are what they are, nothing I'm very bothered about seeing finished.
I have a couple of Rogue pieces but they're pretty shonky (and the lighting on the pic doesn't help); here's one:
(https://i.imgur.com/wWqEaaU.jpg)
Thanks for the request 👍🏻 I like his face he looks pissed off and about to do some norty some damage 😁
Bloody brilliant!