Lets be Nostalgic...

[Shiny]

Okay kids... here is the deal.

 

I'm going to post my first two or three signatures, my last made signature and a signature I liked and one no one else liked, and some others along the way as a tag maker.

 

I want to see how much all of you have improved over time and stuff? Sounds good? I'll go....

 

My first tag ever, with my old runescape name. I love the brushes.

 

My third try, on the same day I believe as the one above.

 

I always liked this tag, even though the text and border and crop aren't great. No one else liked it :P

 

This was the point where I started to really develop I think

 

And my last made tag. Rangers for teh lolz. C/C?

 

Anyone else, what has your tag journey been like? I'd be especially keen to see yours, Littleboy.

[Nadril]

Lets see what I can find:

 

Submitted: December 16, 2003

 

Back when I first started to learn how to use brushes. Back then it was taboo to use premade brushes so I used the defaults in photoshop instead.

 

 

Submitted: January 7, 2004

 

I think this was my big turning point as an artist. Before than I had really been struggling and just could not get out of my slump I was in. It didn't help that I still wasn't liked that much back then by a lot of the really good artists (due to my first couple of signatures and not understanding various "rules"). Still it was a 3D render I did in bryce and edited with PS7.

 

 

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Submitted: February 22, 2004

 

One of my early attempts of Terragen. This was back when I felt every thing needed a title card on it and I loved duplicate layer > Guassian blur > overlay on everything.

 

 

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Submitted: May 31, 2004

 

My first real attempt at photography.

 

 

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Submitted: June 13, 2004

 

An early attempt at a "terraspace" scene. This and a few other images got me into a lot of trouble with "MrFrenzy" on dA back in the day due to using his stock planets without giving credit. Later on though we became pretty good friends.

 

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Submitted: June 27, 2004

 

Wallpaper when I found out how to make the cool "orb-ish" effect. DId a ton of emotes. Also the slight jab at a TIF user who hated the :roll: emote.

 

 

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Submitted: July 31, 2005

 

This is my real big "turn around" piece for terragen by far. Started to sharpen the image which produced a much better look. (Heh man, this was almost 5 years ago)

 

 

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Submitted: November 13, 2005

 

First real attempt in doing some sort of 3D modeling from scratch. Lol.

 

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Submitted: September 18, 2009

 

And, of course, my most recent Terragen (2) render just to put it into perspective.

 

 

 

All and all I've been going about this thing for over 8 years now. Sadly I don't really have any signatures from my first year or so but they were really awful lol. It's also kind of funny that I did and learned so many different "styles" of digital art throughout the years.

[tripsis]

Quite an improvement! :thumbsup: Can I do this with digital paintings?? :P

 

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Not my FIRST FIRST, but close to it. These are the earliest I have saved on deviantART.

 

September 29, 2003

 

October 11, 2003

 

February 24, 2004

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March 7, 2010

 

March 2, 2010

 

December 12, 2009

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[Nadril]

Dude did you show off that TF2 one before? It's awesome.

[tripsis]

Dude did you show off that TF2 one before? It's awesome.

Not in The Gallery :P Thanks!

[dsavi]

Oh wow. There is so much junk in my images folder, a lot of stuff that I haven't showed anyone. I think I'll post some of it here.

 

 

Ehh. Hmm. I liked the Foo Fighters I guess.

I'm not sure with whom I collab'd, but the outcome was... Different.

This I still like. I made a crappy smudge sig and DH made it awesome.

Not sure where this came from. Those are some of the 2485489340 brushes I downloaded from dA.

This was done in Blender, it was New Year's Eve, I was bored. I'm not much of a party animal.

Everything you see here I did myself, which isn't saying much. Blender as usual.

This was a draft of TIFBlack v2. I'm actually pretty happy with it.

"Frost_energy"- i.e. I thought it sounded somewhat cool and abstract enough to slap on.

:uhh:

I found this in my Windows Pictures folder, as "inconventional.png". Just like the spelling suggests, it's not what you'd normally see. Or want to see.

I made this for my brother. All brushes, of course. That's all I knew.

This one I did while doing a report on Jainism. You might say that it represents my brain exploding, trying to understand the Wikipedia article late at night. One of the only I made in PS.

My very first sig, made in GIMP. :|

Moar brushes!

Only smudge sig I've made in PS.

 

 

 

Note: I made a script to add [ img] tags to the URL of each picture faster than I uploaded them lol. Here's the script:

 

 

<?php  $messedup = "http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/625/c4dsig1.png
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/9036/collabsig.png http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/5927/dsavidhcollab.png
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/2856/dsavix42.png
http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/1950/first3drender.png
http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/7586/firstrender.png
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/2328/forumstyle.png
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/98/frostenergy.png
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/7446/grunge2.png
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/1002/inconventional.png
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/5082/n1h0k3r.png
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/7403/sig1v4copy1.png
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/8468/siggy52211.png
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/7955/superdraft.png"; 
$notmessedup = explode("\n", $messedup);
foreach ($notmessedup as $key => $value)
{
	echo "[img=" . $value . "]\n"; 
}

 

[Soa]

 

2007

 

2008

 

2009

 

 

Just cycle through my dA to see recent stuff.

[DementedHero]

I wish I still had my oldest sigs, back from the start of the previous version of this forum, Scapeboard.

 

Found what might be my starting point in vector art/illustration:

 

(this was from some book I think, I tried to redraw a picture from it)

 

 

Then a bit later, this came:

 

 

 

And it eventually turned into stuff like this:

 

 

[Sam]

Can't actually remember when I made most of my stuff, but I'll post the oldest I can find to the newest.

 

Older

 

 

moving on a bit;

 

 

and a few more :P

 

 

I might post some photography later, too.

[dsavi]

You people still hang out on MSN, or have you moved on to better things?

[Soa]

I still use MSN.:)

[dsavi]

I have hardly touched it for nearly a year now.

[Pirate_Felix]

Still MSN here too

Also.

 

And:

[Skully]

Soa i actually like your older stuff. :thumbup:

[Pirate_Felix]

Soas stuff has always been awesome <3:

[Solartide]

First:

 

 

Lawlz.

 

Third:

 

 

Some time in the middle, someone wanted a banner for their website made:

 

 

And I haven't seriously tried to make any signatures lately.

[Skully]

Hmm, I haven't really improved much compared to most of you guys.

 

Firsts:

 

 

(Bou if you read this, I still hate you for still using that)

 

 

Here are where I improved a little bit, started to get somewhere.

 

 

 

 

My most recent/better sigs, haven't been so active lately so they may seem old.

 

 

 

 

 

Oh and my few LPs, from oldest to newest.

 

 

 

 

[Nadril]

I wish I still had my oldest sigs, back from the start of the previous version of this forum, Scapeboard.

 

I could recreate some of them if you wanted.

 

Copy "3D Render" > Paste

Duplicate Layer

Flip Horizontal

Overlay/screen/something

 

 

=P.

[dsavi]

Seriously people use hide tags. It takes forever to get to the bottom of this page, even on an 800kbps connection.

[stevepole]

I don't have any of my older stuff to share. Just kind of lost it all over the years switching from a PC to a Mac then just recently cleaning pictures folder got rid of the last of my old work. Barely have any of my recent stuff to, its kind of a shame to be honest. I'll try digging around to see what I can find.

 

ps. I put a couple of your guys stuff in hide tags

 

 

edit: Found some searching these forums.

 

 

2004

2005

 

[DementedHero]

I wish I still had my oldest sigs, back from the start of the previous version of this forum, Scapeboard.

 

I could recreate some of them if you wanted.

 

Copy "3D Render" > Paste

Duplicate Layer

Flip Horizontal

Overlay/screen/something

 

 

=P.

 

Nah even before those man xD Even before I did the whole brushpile thing with the same brushes over and over again, and sell em for 50k xD

[Nadril]

I wish I still had my oldest sigs, back from the start of the previous version of this forum, Scapeboard.

 

I could recreate some of them if you wanted.

 

Copy "3D Render" > Paste

Duplicate Layer

Flip Horizontal

Overlay/screen/something

 

 

=P.

 

Nah even before those man xD Even before I did the whole brushpile thing with the same brushes over and over again, and sell em for 50k xD

 

Lol yeah. I just remember your 3D ones the most, so iconic of your old style.

[Star.]

Lol, wtf is this:

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Can't find any of my crappy graphics signatures.

 

But here are some latest ones:

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Meh, not serious skills, I'm still learning.

[Shiny]

Usually I hate anime (I have my reasons) but I really like this tag -

 

[Skull]

For funsies I'll give you guys a look at some of my old pixels. Just remember that these are actually some of the latest ones I did. I don't have my old ones on this computer.

 

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Older to newer. Mostly unfinished.