Let's party like it's 1999
Okay so pirate_yoyo just made an entry full of her embarrassing art from 1999. It was hilarious and I was all "OH MAN I WISH I WAS HOME SO I COULD FIND AND SCAN ALL OF MY CRAPPY ART."
But luckily (unluckily?) for me, when I first arrived on the internet in good old 1998/1999 I started posting art nearly immediately. So I have all this crap-tastic shit on my harddrive just to remind me of how lame I really was. I've got stuff ranging here from 1999-2001, and because that crap is nearing an entire decade old, I don't really feel embarrassed by it anymore (except for all my old Los Paranoias art. I am not showing ya'll that crap. If I succeeded in my goal I have erradicated all traces of that art from the internet.)
Greg and Merial, ages 16 or 17 (whenever I decided to place the comic). Greg is sans facial hair (and slightly smaller horns, awww, they haven't started their second curve yet) and Merial with short hair. I already love this comic.
It takes place in autumn so we have Greg modeling his autumn outfit here. Ben looked at it and asked if he was glam rock, what with the flowery scarf and army jacket, but the truth of the matter is Greg is poor as hell and wears whatever he finds, including his grandmother's scarf and his grandfather's jacket. Also he's wearing an Elephant 6 shirt. No, Greg, you're the coolest.
And the first page! There's words on the first and last panel but I haven't put them on yet. I haven't decided how to finish these pages, since they're going to be printed in black and white. Flat black and white? Grayscale?
ENOUGH OF SERIOUS ART. THIS SHIT IS WHAT YOU CAME FOR, RIGHT?
OH MAN GUYS. THESE ARE THE VERY FIRST THINGS I EVER HAD ONLINE. I KNOW, RITE? Espia and Mono. I can't remember the super long complicated name I had for Espia (this was the time period when I named things by taking their scientific names and splicing them together), but Mono's full name was Monopordaie Pikna Haridna. They're Sonic Freedom Fighters, and Espia is just basically Espio from the Chaotix with two thumbs (BECAUSE CHAMELEONS HAVE TWO THUMBS YOU KNOW). I think in her backstory she was originally from earth or some such crap?
Mono is half echidna and half rabbit (he started off life as the son of Knuckles and Bunnie Rabbot I KNOW, RITE? And oh god I used to love him dearly. I liked him so much that I kept reinventing him as I got older and he split off into Jack of the Four Horsemen and Bloodcarver. I KNOW. HONESTLY I'M NOT MAKING THAT UP. BLOODCARVER. Espia died off into obscurity. BUT THESE TWO WERE MY MAIN SQUEEZE FOREVER.
I used to have "evil" versions of the entire Sonic the Hedgehog cast, but I dont' think I ever scanned them. I just drew them, cut them out, and hung them all over my walls. My favorites were Speed the Hedgehog (he was half robot) and Crystal (Princess Sally who was half crystal. I was reading the comics heavily at this time, mind you.) Also there was Sliat, who was a...non anthro two tailed fox with a goatee? OH AND LOLA RABBOT. LOLA BUNNY FROM SPACE JAM WITH MECHANICAL ARM AND LEGS LIKE BUNNIE RABBOT. God damn, I had an awesome childhood. My Charmy the Bee rip-off was named Sting and eventually turned into our man Bhadraksh.
THIS IS MY VERY ORIGINAL GARGOYLE NAMED BROOK. HE WEARS PANTS. UNLIKE BROOKLYN. THEY ARE DIFFERENT.
Other Gargoyle characters included Halfhorn (Brooklyn with a horn broken off), Oakbrook (a Bronx-type Brooklyn), and Diana (Brooklyn and Angela's daughter). Feeling the theme here? This was before I could draw anything that didn't have some sort of muzzle for a face, so all the Gargoyles stuff I did had a Brooklyn head.
We even have Cassie from Animorphs as a wolf? OH SNAP I JUST REMEMBERED THE ORIGIN OF TOBIAS FINN'S NAME. IT WAS BECAUSE I DREW TOBIAS FROM ANIMORPHS AS AN ANTHRO HAWK. AND THEN I MADE HIM A GRYPHON LIKE GRIFF FROM GARGOYLES. OH GOD ALL THESE REPRESSED MEMORIES WHERE WERE YOU HIDDEN? SUPER SEECRIT ORIGIN OF THE FINN FAMILY (Griff + Finn = Griffen. I KNOW)
OH CRAP IT'S BOOKER. Look at her, wearin' her JNCO jeans and shirt. Being all me as a kangaroo. I have so many drawings of this chick all over the place man. I tell you what. ALL. OVER.
One time she had three different forms. Air (bat), Land (kangaroo), and water (hippocampus) and also a super awesome form that was all three of them together. MAN. KORY. I'M GLAD YOU GOT YOUR OWN UNIVERSE TO DWELL ON INSTEAD OF THIS WEIRD SHIT. How did my parents look at me and not worry about what their daughter was doing on the internet? Seriously now they never said a WORD about all of this crap.
My super original pokemon, chibichu. It's like if a Mankey was a flying squirrel? I wish I could find drawings of my Booker pokemon, canguru. I made Booker into everything, I swear to god.
No embarrassing art post is complete without a pokemorph. Eevee was my homegirl.
ME AS A SAIYAN. YES. I KNOW. Wearing pajamas? WHY THE HELL NOT.
THIS IS THE MAIN EVENT. LEENA L'MUR. MARY SUE ROYALLE.
Leena L'Mur is a Mobian lemur (Mobius is Sonic's planet, you see). She's the guardian of the rainforest. She has elemental powers and magic acorns. She's also half Saiyan. Goku's father is also her father. She has the super secret magic 8th Dragon Ball (it heals anything). She's the Sailor Scout for Planet Vegeta. She's a padawan learner (her lightsabre is green). She's a pokemaster. She owns a Slog (like the monsters from the Oddworld Games) named Fluffy. I RP'ed the CRAP out of her.
IN CASE YOU THOUGHT I WAS KIDDING ABOUT THE SAILOR SCOUT PART.
This gal's name is Thermos Boxx. I KNOW. She's like if Booker and Freiza merged together. I think this was Booker's special 5th form for going out into space? God, hell if I know. What the hell was I smoking back then?
And in case you thought I wasn't super gay for Kangaroos, I apparently thought that I had to have a boy kangaroo as well, who I ripped right off from Trunks, named Joe Boxer, and gave green hair. THIS CHARACTER TURNED INTO SOMEBODY SPECIAL. CAN YOU GUESS WHO?
THAT'S RIGHT. JIM.
Oh look, it's Greg! The first drawing? Maybe? Skin Deep was beginning just as I started feeling like I should learn how to draw humans. Super secret: Nobody has human ears or hands because fuck that I couldn't draw human ears or hands. You're lucky he doesn't have a goat face.
Oh, Merial McGonagall, you are my favorite genetic biologist-who-accidentally-turned-herself-into-a-mermaid-and-gets-around-with-a-wheelchair. Who-is-also-named-after-harry-potter. True story: i made her up after reading some story on the internet where a girl gets turned into a mermaid after getting into an accident where she lost her legs and the doctors turned her into a mermaid. Yes. I did that. I read horrible amateur fiction about people turning into things. I was one of those people.
Awww, Original!Design Colin. You remained nearly exactly the same as I when I original created you untill I gave you ears a few years back.
Once upon a time there was a robotic afghan hound named Elise Afghan. Once she used to be totally ripped off from an issue of Gargoyles the Comic I had (I think Demona wore that armor?). Then she became the drummer for the Ellipsis. Then I made Skin Deep and realized that the mythical world has no place for robotic dogs and made her a Pegasus. YES IT IS THAT ELISE. I KNOW.
But luckily (unluckily?) for me, when I first arrived on the internet in good old 1998/1999 I started posting art nearly immediately. So I have all this crap-tastic shit on my harddrive just to remind me of how lame I really was. I've got stuff ranging here from 1999-2001, and because that crap is nearing an entire decade old, I don't really feel embarrassed by it anymore (except for all my old Los Paranoias art. I am not showing ya'll that crap. If I succeeded in my goal I have erradicated all traces of that art from the internet.)
Greg and Merial, ages 16 or 17 (whenever I decided to place the comic). Greg is sans facial hair (and slightly smaller horns, awww, they haven't started their second curve yet) and Merial with short hair. I already love this comic.
It takes place in autumn so we have Greg modeling his autumn outfit here. Ben looked at it and asked if he was glam rock, what with the flowery scarf and army jacket, but the truth of the matter is Greg is poor as hell and wears whatever he finds, including his grandmother's scarf and his grandfather's jacket. Also he's wearing an Elephant 6 shirt. No, Greg, you're the coolest.
And the first page! There's words on the first and last panel but I haven't put them on yet. I haven't decided how to finish these pages, since they're going to be printed in black and white. Flat black and white? Grayscale?
ENOUGH OF SERIOUS ART. THIS SHIT IS WHAT YOU CAME FOR, RIGHT?
OH MAN GUYS. THESE ARE THE VERY FIRST THINGS I EVER HAD ONLINE. I KNOW, RITE? Espia and Mono. I can't remember the super long complicated name I had for Espia (this was the time period when I named things by taking their scientific names and splicing them together), but Mono's full name was Monopordaie Pikna Haridna. They're Sonic Freedom Fighters, and Espia is just basically Espio from the Chaotix with two thumbs (BECAUSE CHAMELEONS HAVE TWO THUMBS YOU KNOW). I think in her backstory she was originally from earth or some such crap?
Mono is half echidna and half rabbit (he started off life as the son of Knuckles and Bunnie Rabbot I KNOW, RITE? And oh god I used to love him dearly. I liked him so much that I kept reinventing him as I got older and he split off into Jack of the Four Horsemen and Bloodcarver. I KNOW. HONESTLY I'M NOT MAKING THAT UP. BLOODCARVER. Espia died off into obscurity. BUT THESE TWO WERE MY MAIN SQUEEZE FOREVER.
I used to have "evil" versions of the entire Sonic the Hedgehog cast, but I dont' think I ever scanned them. I just drew them, cut them out, and hung them all over my walls. My favorites were Speed the Hedgehog (he was half robot) and Crystal (Princess Sally who was half crystal. I was reading the comics heavily at this time, mind you.) Also there was Sliat, who was a...non anthro two tailed fox with a goatee? OH AND LOLA RABBOT. LOLA BUNNY FROM SPACE JAM WITH MECHANICAL ARM AND LEGS LIKE BUNNIE RABBOT. God damn, I had an awesome childhood. My Charmy the Bee rip-off was named Sting and eventually turned into our man Bhadraksh.
THIS IS MY VERY ORIGINAL GARGOYLE NAMED BROOK. HE WEARS PANTS. UNLIKE BROOKLYN. THEY ARE DIFFERENT.
Other Gargoyle characters included Halfhorn (Brooklyn with a horn broken off), Oakbrook (a Bronx-type Brooklyn), and Diana (Brooklyn and Angela's daughter). Feeling the theme here? This was before I could draw anything that didn't have some sort of muzzle for a face, so all the Gargoyles stuff I did had a Brooklyn head.
We even have Cassie from Animorphs as a wolf? OH SNAP I JUST REMEMBERED THE ORIGIN OF TOBIAS FINN'S NAME. IT WAS BECAUSE I DREW TOBIAS FROM ANIMORPHS AS AN ANTHRO HAWK. AND THEN I MADE HIM A GRYPHON LIKE GRIFF FROM GARGOYLES. OH GOD ALL THESE REPRESSED MEMORIES WHERE WERE YOU HIDDEN? SUPER SEECRIT ORIGIN OF THE FINN FAMILY (Griff + Finn = Griffen. I KNOW)
OH CRAP IT'S BOOKER. Look at her, wearin' her JNCO jeans and shirt. Being all me as a kangaroo. I have so many drawings of this chick all over the place man. I tell you what. ALL. OVER.
One time she had three different forms. Air (bat), Land (kangaroo), and water (hippocampus) and also a super awesome form that was all three of them together. MAN. KORY. I'M GLAD YOU GOT YOUR OWN UNIVERSE TO DWELL ON INSTEAD OF THIS WEIRD SHIT. How did my parents look at me and not worry about what their daughter was doing on the internet? Seriously now they never said a WORD about all of this crap.
My super original pokemon, chibichu. It's like if a Mankey was a flying squirrel? I wish I could find drawings of my Booker pokemon, canguru. I made Booker into everything, I swear to god.
No embarrassing art post is complete without a pokemorph. Eevee was my homegirl.
ME AS A SAIYAN. YES. I KNOW. Wearing pajamas? WHY THE HELL NOT.
THIS IS THE MAIN EVENT. LEENA L'MUR. MARY SUE ROYALLE.
Leena L'Mur is a Mobian lemur (Mobius is Sonic's planet, you see). She's the guardian of the rainforest. She has elemental powers and magic acorns. She's also half Saiyan. Goku's father is also her father. She has the super secret magic 8th Dragon Ball (it heals anything). She's the Sailor Scout for Planet Vegeta. She's a padawan learner (her lightsabre is green). She's a pokemaster. She owns a Slog (like the monsters from the Oddworld Games) named Fluffy. I RP'ed the CRAP out of her.
IN CASE YOU THOUGHT I WAS KIDDING ABOUT THE SAILOR SCOUT PART.
This gal's name is Thermos Boxx. I KNOW. She's like if Booker and Freiza merged together. I think this was Booker's special 5th form for going out into space? God, hell if I know. What the hell was I smoking back then?
And in case you thought I wasn't super gay for Kangaroos, I apparently thought that I had to have a boy kangaroo as well, who I ripped right off from Trunks, named Joe Boxer, and gave green hair. THIS CHARACTER TURNED INTO SOMEBODY SPECIAL. CAN YOU GUESS WHO?
THAT'S RIGHT. JIM.
Oh look, it's Greg! The first drawing? Maybe? Skin Deep was beginning just as I started feeling like I should learn how to draw humans. Super secret: Nobody has human ears or hands because fuck that I couldn't draw human ears or hands. You're lucky he doesn't have a goat face.
Oh, Merial McGonagall, you are my favorite genetic biologist-who-accidentally-turned-herself-into-a-mermaid-and-gets-around-with-a-wheelchair. Who-is-also-named-after-harry-potter. True story: i made her up after reading some story on the internet where a girl gets turned into a mermaid after getting into an accident where she lost her legs and the doctors turned her into a mermaid. Yes. I did that. I read horrible amateur fiction about people turning into things. I was one of those people.
Awww, Original!Design Colin. You remained nearly exactly the same as I when I original created you untill I gave you ears a few years back.
Once upon a time there was a robotic afghan hound named Elise Afghan. Once she used to be totally ripped off from an issue of Gargoyles the Comic I had (I think Demona wore that armor?). Then she became the drummer for the Ellipsis. Then I made Skin Deep and realized that the mythical world has no place for robotic dogs and made her a Pegasus. YES IT IS THAT ELISE. I KNOW.