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Game Maker's Garage => Trash Talk => Topic started by: EqwanoX on December 25, 2011, 09:20:29 AM

Title: old drawings
Post by: EqwanoX on December 25, 2011, 09:20:29 AM

i found one of those pocket sized composition books with some drawings i did when i was 9 years old. its funny cause i still draw the same stuff. from the muscle bound enemies in enforcers rpg to the ninja vs samurai iphone project :o
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/drawingsfrom3rdgrade.jpg

ninja turtles old vs new
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/donatello.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/turtle.png

Title: Re: old drawings
Post by: Gan on December 25, 2011, 10:25:32 AM

:D Haha, you drew Luigi and Mario super buff...
Your 9 year old self was a much better artist than me now. You've improved so much!
Epic ninja turtle.

Title: Re: old drawings
Post by: Circuit on December 25, 2011, 05:31:19 PM

It's amazing how well you've honed your drawing skills Eqwanox.  My drawings looked like that when I was 9, but they didn't get better!  Lengths and distances and proportions are difficult for me to estimate, and forget about coloring and shading.

Title: Re: old drawings
Post by: Connors on December 25, 2011, 07:41:17 PM

I got this cool book, it's called Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, it's about drawing what you see and goes over perspective, proportions on the head and portraits. I really like the way it explains that drawing isn't just a natural talent and it CAN be taught, if you take the time. It gets you to think about it in a different way...
Oh and I may have to post some of my old VS new stuff I saved quite a few drawings.

Title: Re: old drawings
Post by: EqwanoX on December 26, 2011, 08:18:34 AM

my drawing got better but not my spelling. "mareo", "bulits"?  ;D

Title: Re: old drawings
Post by: Silverwind on December 27, 2011, 05:33:55 PM

There's no shame in not being able to spell very well using a silly language like English. I'm convinced that it's among the most absurd written languages in the world! We hardly ever stick to any grammatical rules, so you might as well spell things the way they sound. That's how we ended up with half of the spellings we have nowadays anyway. ::)

Oh, loving the art btw! :D

Title: Re: old drawings
Post by: Connors on December 27, 2011, 06:53:34 PM

I'm learning Japanese and the writing system requires you to spell things phonetically. And the grammar makes perfect sense!
IN ENGLISH you say "That is a pencil".
To make a question, switch words around: "Is that a pencil?". I don't really know why.

IN JAPANESE, to make such a sentence a question, just add "Ka".
That is a pencil:
"kore wa enpitsu desu".
Is that a pencil?
"kore wa enpitsu desu ka".

Title: Re: old drawings
Post by: Silverwind on December 27, 2011, 07:48:36 PM

Yeah, Japanese is well cool. I learnt the basics awhile back and found it very interesting. :)

Title: Re: old drawings
Post by: Gan on December 27, 2011, 08:05:17 PM

Sounds to me like "ka" is the english equivalent of ", right?".

That is a pencil.
That is a pencil, right?

Title: Re: old drawings
Post by: Gnome on December 28, 2011, 02:08:25 AM

Here is a picture i found of Eq when he was 9.

(http://www.mundodeodio.es/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/rad-kid-is-rad.jpg)


He was quite the "Rad" kid.

haha, kidding of course, I just see Nintendo was big for you when you were a kid.

Title: Re: old drawings
Post by: Silverwind on December 28, 2011, 06:58:04 AM

Didn't they pass a law against those outrageously distracting trousers?

Title: Re: old drawings
Post by: EqwanoX on December 28, 2011, 07:13:46 AM

lol, that pic owns, so 90's

Title: Re: old drawings
Post by: Gan on December 28, 2011, 10:13:31 AM

Rockin the mullet...

Title: Re: old drawings
Post by: EqwanoX on December 29, 2011, 07:58:02 AM

and the hot-pink shirt... and the stone-wash jeans... and the old high-tops. i had the reebok pumps

Title: Re: old drawings
Post by: Charlo on January 03, 2012, 02:50:34 PM

My drawings from that age were all mazes.  I was obsessed with mazes.  I never drew big muscly dudes with guns.   :'(

Title: Re: old drawings
Post by: Connors on January 03, 2012, 02:52:28 PM

I had one of the Mario Bros but like zombies because my drawings tend to be kind of insane but it's gone. XD

Title: Re: old drawings
Post by: EqwanoX on January 10, 2012, 02:22:58 PM

wow, i found some more old drawings from 8th grade, its so fun to look at, i had to share this

the beggining of enforcers? theres so many of these drawings, theyre so repetative, im only gonna post a few, its always a guy with a shotgun shooting a guy with a handgun
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/old%20drawings/7.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/old%20drawings/1.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/old%20drawings/2.jpg
i had this obsession with Chin from double dragon for some reason, i thought he was cool with his parachute pants in the nes version.
heres a reference from my childhood
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/fighters/doubledragon-1.png
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/fighters/doubledragon-5.png

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/old%20drawings/2-1.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/old%20drawings/6-1.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/old%20drawings/4.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/old%20drawings/7-1.jpg

around this time my friend got MegaMan X3 for snes and i became obsessed with that also and made my own character GigaMan
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/old%20drawings/3-1.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/old%20drawings/4-1.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/old%20drawings/11-1.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/old%20drawings/10-1.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/old%20drawings/5-1.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/old%20drawings/13-1.jpg

other miscellanious things
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/old%20drawings/20.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/old%20drawings/24.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/old%20drawings/23.jpg

theres always explosions
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/old%20drawings/8.jpg

more class work, great to draw on
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/old%20drawings/6.jpg

the whole album
http://s40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/eqwanoxgames/old%20drawings/?start=all

Title: Re: old drawings
Post by: Gan on January 10, 2012, 02:28:14 PM

Wow! Those are really good! (Why not wrap them in img tags?)

Title: Re: old drawings
Post by: Silverwind on January 10, 2012, 07:19:01 PM

Aww, blast from the past! Loving the sketches! I tried to preserve all my old artwork, but some of it's gone missing over the years. Still got loads of textbooks with doodles in them though. :)

You had some serious stuff working through your fingers even at that age Eq; your grasp of depth and perspective is incredible and you used the old "skipping the contact frame" technique to increase the impact of gun shots and punches. Who taught you art at that age?

Title: Re: old drawings
Post by: Connors on January 10, 2012, 10:16:04 PM

Quote from: Silverwind-san on January 10, 2012, 07:19:01 PM

and you used the old "skipping the contact frame" technique to increase the impact of gun shots

  What is it you're referring to with that? You got me curious. Skipping the contact frame? I think I could guess but I'd like to know more...
 You mean the still frames of just after the bullet was fired?

Oh and I fully agree, that already-graded old math assignments make EXCELLENT drawing paper. Especially when you've got into that mindset of staring at a blank piece of paper until it seems... intimidating (Art Block it's called).

PS: Google brought up something entirely different and unrelated but still very interesting. ::) This post explains some basic ideas behind collision detection and why it's so strange sometimes.
http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/dirty-collision-detection-trickery-in.html