Biography via art
While looking for "old but good" stuff for this, I ended up making a bit of a retrospective on what is somehow decades of art.
Testing putting big images into links.
The earlist thing I remember drawing was fish, we had an aquarium and I had an obsession with drawing it and putting the pictures all around the tank. But I only remember this because we lived in a house with roaches (they love pecan trees which were around the house) and my dad would smash the roaches on them. Cue psychologists taking notes. But in elementary school we had this writing class where my other obsession was "spooky" stories which were, uh, childish. I found this when I was digging around looking for something else. (1988)
I goofed off too much in high school art class so I still had half a sketchbook empty, and did a lot of fantasy landscape sketches in my free time. (1998?)
When I first got on DeviantArt I had a brief mania for Ancient Egypt, yeah IDK how that makes sense but I got a nice copy of the Book of the Dead and of course a Bennu bird. (2005?)
2007! I'd been on DeviantArt and in college a couple years, working on my social skills, making friends online, and one of them was a random nerd known as Seel Kaiser. We'd chat about video games here and there and one day she had this cool dragon [that is no longer on DA] that I laboriously colored in Photoshop Elements because it came free with my tablet, lol. It took me forever to realize I should save as PSD and not JPG while working on it. Anyways yeah I guess this is rare now.
OpenCanvas was a program that let you draw with friends online back in ye olde days of dialup (2010). I only had like two friends to draw with but it was still fun! It was mostly silly doodles but some people could do some cool stuff, even if the tools were rudimentary.
Pottery wasps make tiny mud nests outside my bedroom window, in between the bricks, of course not like this but it seemed funny at the time. (2012)
I'm not sure what an owl deer is or why I drew it (2013).
Zelda (2014). Just doing some fanart I guess even tho I've barely played any of the games, I'm terrible I know.
I can't remember, this must have been a sketch prompt for the subreddit "sketchdaily", but this is some sort of sun god thing (2014)
some feathered serpent idea (2015)
I did some Game of Thrones art after reading a fan theory the unicorns are wooly rhinos (2015)
One of my early serious attempts at color theory and junk (2016). I think I was in the telegram group chat for furry artists then.
I was working on some scifi story ideas, space fish was a fun subject (2016)
A flying squirrel character idea after one got in my house. Don't worry it managed to escape. (2017)
This is why references are important. I think I did this because of the art chat talking about using references. (2017)
Following along with this Bob Ross video lol (2017)
Was impatient thinking about a Spyro remake, so decided to make my own dragon game characters (2018)
It was sketchtober before the drama or whatever, so I tried inking a spooky scary treehouse (2018)
Yata in a witchy costume. I don't do lots of costume design so it was rough to fiddle with details and colors. (2018)
IDK it seemed like a fun idea in the last days before COVID (2020)
During lockdown when Twitter was still Twitter there was an art project thing where you could color line art and I colored this (2020)
Obligatory Renamon (2020)
Garden chat was offended by terrible AI slop, so I drew a proper mushroom couch, 2023
Ben Benn and Bennu. It's fun practice to put your characters in different styles, this time Ed Edd and Eddy (2025). Guess this was nostalgia, I was in college when it was on TV but I'd hang with one friend between classes and if we weren't playing games the TV was on Cartoon Network. Homework!? Why would I do that!?
A theme is useful to draw all the neglected side characters, this time it was Robin Hood (2025). I'm not great at colored pencils but it was fun at least.
I have a whole big book called JRR Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator and was inspired by one dragon doodle, made it into an ATC so this is close to IRL size (2025)
I was playing through Final Fantasy games, anyways here's cactuar. (2025)
Here's a screenshot from that Ink-ognito drawing game! My first try! (2025)
And there is always my old archive on Tumblr -at least until it finally dies completely.