I Warned You I'd Do This!
As threatened, here are the first scans from my sketch book from when I was a kid. I originally got the book for Christmas of 1985, and at first tried to keep it as an art-diary of sorts, but then... I got lazy. But anyway, if the pictures in it look like what a little kid would draw, well, they were. I have the book dated 1985-1988. Most of the earlier pages have individual dates on them, but I eventually got too lazy even for that. Either way, my own personal age range on these masterpieces was nine to twelve.
Some of the pages have words on them that don't always make much sense, because at some point I decided my book needed chapters and the logic of how I grouped the pictures was, at times, ill-defined at best. Also, many of the pages are damaged because at another point in time I decided it would be a fine idea for my sketch book to double as a photo album, and I went through and just glued photos to the backside of art.
BRILLIANT.
First we have the cover, complete with stickers. I'm pretty sure that the heart one was, at some point, a scratch-and-sniff sticker, but any scent is long gone.
As I said, I got this book for Christmas in 1985, and I decided to treat it as a sketch diary of sorts, so the first several pages tended to focus around toys. Because that's what a nine year old girl is thinking about right after Christmas. So here we have a Christmas tree, a stuffed dog (the one with floppy ears; I believe that was 'Old Dog,' who was not a new gift but a stuffed animal I've had since I was born), another dog (he was new, and since I had Old Dog, I named him New Puppy. I were smrt!), the head of the Cookie Monster (I had received a stuffed Cookie Monster, but apparently I wasn't interested in drawing the body), a Shy Violet doll from the Rainbow Bright series, and what I believe is supposed to represent a Chinese Checkers set. Cookie Monster and Shy Violet may qualify as my first ever fanart. Art appears to be done in pencil, crayon, marker, and possibly water color.
26Dec85. This was done in pencil and then paint, definitely. I hope that's supposed to be paint spattering a page, but who knows? I have no idea why I did that. I'm pretty sure I blew the spatters with a straw, though.
27Dec85. Pencil and crayon. I'm pretty sure this was supposed to represent some sort of timed matching game, where if you didn't get the little shapes into the correct holes in time, they all popped up and made a huge mess. Then they got left all over the floor to serve as caltrops against your parents. :D
28Dec85. Pencil and crayon. This is Golden Girl and Rubee! So now I can tell you the exact day and year when I got my original Golden Girl and Rubee dolls. I would have gotten them at Christmas, but I waited a few days before drawing them, resulting in my second ever fanart. I have no idea what's going on with the shamrock or the big blue triangle. Either I drew something that I decided later on sucked, or someone else drew in my book (that happened a lot) and I decided to color over it.
29Dec85. Pencil and crayon. I may be wrong, but I think each grouping consisted of the stuffed animals received by a different one of the three of us (me, my brother, and my sister) that Christmas. My brother's is at top, with a brown bear, a polar bear, and Kermit the Frog. I think the brown bear was named Winston. Mine is the bottom left, with Cookie Monster, Shy Violet, Old Dog (who was, as explained before, not new, but it was my picture so I could draw what I wanted), and New Puppy. I'm not sure whether my sister had her own Kermit, or if I had just decided to pose Paul's Kermit twice, but that's definitely her Oscar, a Rainbow Bright, and... little white mouse? I don't know. I believe they were posed with pom-poms (a word I have probably just misused, but am too tired to look up the correct word for).
And just think! More crap tomorrow! XD
Some of the pages have words on them that don't always make much sense, because at some point I decided my book needed chapters and the logic of how I grouped the pictures was, at times, ill-defined at best. Also, many of the pages are damaged because at another point in time I decided it would be a fine idea for my sketch book to double as a photo album, and I went through and just glued photos to the backside of art.
BRILLIANT.
First we have the cover, complete with stickers. I'm pretty sure that the heart one was, at some point, a scratch-and-sniff sticker, but any scent is long gone.
As I said, I got this book for Christmas in 1985, and I decided to treat it as a sketch diary of sorts, so the first several pages tended to focus around toys. Because that's what a nine year old girl is thinking about right after Christmas. So here we have a Christmas tree, a stuffed dog (the one with floppy ears; I believe that was 'Old Dog,' who was not a new gift but a stuffed animal I've had since I was born), another dog (he was new, and since I had Old Dog, I named him New Puppy. I were smrt!), the head of the Cookie Monster (I had received a stuffed Cookie Monster, but apparently I wasn't interested in drawing the body), a Shy Violet doll from the Rainbow Bright series, and what I believe is supposed to represent a Chinese Checkers set. Cookie Monster and Shy Violet may qualify as my first ever fanart. Art appears to be done in pencil, crayon, marker, and possibly water color.
26Dec85. This was done in pencil and then paint, definitely. I hope that's supposed to be paint spattering a page, but who knows? I have no idea why I did that. I'm pretty sure I blew the spatters with a straw, though.
27Dec85. Pencil and crayon. I'm pretty sure this was supposed to represent some sort of timed matching game, where if you didn't get the little shapes into the correct holes in time, they all popped up and made a huge mess. Then they got left all over the floor to serve as caltrops against your parents. :D
28Dec85. Pencil and crayon. This is Golden Girl and Rubee! So now I can tell you the exact day and year when I got my original Golden Girl and Rubee dolls. I would have gotten them at Christmas, but I waited a few days before drawing them, resulting in my second ever fanart. I have no idea what's going on with the shamrock or the big blue triangle. Either I drew something that I decided later on sucked, or someone else drew in my book (that happened a lot) and I decided to color over it.
29Dec85. Pencil and crayon. I may be wrong, but I think each grouping consisted of the stuffed animals received by a different one of the three of us (me, my brother, and my sister) that Christmas. My brother's is at top, with a brown bear, a polar bear, and Kermit the Frog. I think the brown bear was named Winston. Mine is the bottom left, with Cookie Monster, Shy Violet, Old Dog (who was, as explained before, not new, but it was my picture so I could draw what I wanted), and New Puppy. I'm not sure whether my sister had her own Kermit, or if I had just decided to pose Paul's Kermit twice, but that's definitely her Oscar, a Rainbow Bright, and... little white mouse? I don't know. I believe they were posed with pom-poms (a word I have probably just misused, but am too tired to look up the correct word for).
And just think! More crap tomorrow! XD