March 4th, 2014: Blast from the past, Old drawing edition

Sometimes you find things when you least expect it. I was looking for my smaller sketch pad to help draw out and visualize some ideas I've been thinking about to help our kitchen be more functional.  I came across a bunch of old sketches and drawings I did ages ago in the process of searching. They are pretty terrible but I feel like sharing them. So, I warn you now, if you don't want to see a bunch of old drawings and listen to my reminiscing then you should probably stop reading now.

Many of them are unfinished and never will be finished. I used to draw from reference images so I would have to find the image that I was using in order to finish them.  Others are inspired by pictures I've seen and face the same issue of me not having those pictures anymore.

Some of the things in my sketch pad I have no idea what they are or why I put them in there, but I did.  For example this phrase I wrote in it. I'm not sure if this is something I made up or got from somewhere but it is a rather interesting sentence, no?

"Flesh is merely flesh until severely seared away by the sun." (Yes I realize the written version has spelling errors but I fixed it now.)

I really feel like this must have come from something. I think I'm going to google this while blogging. *Insert googling noises hear* (Googling noises oddly sound like dial up sounds. Google it if you don't know what dial up sounds like...youngsters...) I'm not finding any hits with the quote.  If anyone who reads this knows what that is from or not let me know. Until told differently I'm going to assume I made it up! (Even though I'm sure I didn't...)

My next pictures are going to come from the way back machine. These are a few of my first drawings in this sketch pad. It comes from back from the days when I watched more anime and read manga more than I do now. I'm sure you'll be able to see the influence from anime in them. 

I also seemed to have some sort of an eye patch thing going for me. I'm pretty sure it was because I would screw up an eye and just use an eye patch to cover the evidence. Pretty clever, right?

Eye patch girl is probably one of my favorite drawings I ever did. Her and another girl I drew are the ones I hope I never lose. They both remind me of what I could do and what I can do now. The mother of dark haired girl was a drawing I did only from my mind. All the ones so far have used a picture to help inspire the person.

Here is the mother character I was talking about that I created without any reference.

The animal looking thing below is a character from an anime I read back in high school. It was called Love Hina. This was an adorable stuffed animal the didn't really have much of a part in the anime but the few times I saw it I thought it was the cutest thing and had to draw it.

Here are some characters people who play animal crossing might recognize. I think I had to pause the screen a certain way just to see him clear enough to draw him. 

Here are some unfinished male characters from different manga that I read. I think some might be from Love Hina, and I'm pretty sure the crown like thing is from Saiyuki.

Hopefully you were not too bored by my post of old drawings. I don't draw very often but it is always interesting to look through old stuff when you find it. You should try looking through something that brings back old memories for you. It's kind of fun to get back to a time when things were so different.

Have a great day!