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Blog #9: My Old Artistic Mastapeeces
Warning: The following contains a long story of me explaining art related stuff, prepared to get bored at your own discretion.
It’s been quite a while since I did blogs. They’re really fun. Nevertheless I dug up the old art I promised to show everyone—-here it is.
I started this around 3. I was the special kid, quite popular all around. I fondly remember the time my mom read that oddly satisfying children’s book of owls to the whole class. While much memory has been gone, the art never left.
It was the time when I started to think of superheroes, of plots, lots of insane sci fi stuff. I was obsessed with comics, Star Wars, anything you could ever imagine. I found lots of solitude in there despite having a great life as a kid, and considered myself to be one of the crazy people who drew lots of stuff from what I saw from every form of entertainment possible, from Three Kingdoms to horribly drawn Batman comics, to cliched rip-offs.
Soon I watched even more cartoons and anime (around 7 or 8), and that got me. I pretended I had such a fans (probably talking to my stuffed animals and some of my friends XD). My understanding of English was pretty good at that time so I was able know what was going on. Maybe it was my naive, young mind, but I didn’t know that I created a mess that I realised today. I did make a lot of sci fi and related superhero stuff, and I didn’t know my drawings were basically all the same, generic recycled stuff. Take for example, I used a military sci fi action title, named “G.H.O.S.T” (which sounds a lot like Ghost Recon), and I even gave the characters profiles based on myself and my friends. I even wrote them episodes like how I would write it on Wikipedia, or a FANDOM article. I had lots of awesome dreams and the next day or a random day I would wake up or daydreaming (yes, I daydreamed a lot as a kid) and quickly turn them into ideas.
What’s even interesting is that I “used” and “borrowed” ideas to draw, from movies like 9 (2009), Bionicle, and used me, my cousins and my friends as the protagonists and some as the antagonists. I even used video games and novels as a launching point (e.g. Gears of War, Tom Clancy, Harry Potter etc). Lots of themes even expanded into thriller, fantasy, psychological dramas and etc.
By then in secondary school I exploded into much more ideas. Secondary school was a period that made me lost, I doodled stuff in class because I didn’t like anything. I didn’t even have a lot friends, except for one who believed and trusted me. We soon got into doodling, and we based it on the teachers who I talked to and liked as superheroes, and I made a knockoff, ripoff named the Fanstatic Four (an obvious spoof of Marvel’s Fantastic Four). He who agreed with me and liked those teachers as well, and we joked a lot about it, he was good at maps and making fake bills and etc. The amount we made on Fanstatic Four was on the level of merchandise selling numbers.
I worked on it a bit more, for at least a year until my friend got bored and wanted out. Then I kept drawing on my own, then I got bored. By the time passed away, I got tired of drawing (also the same year I started a Flickr account, October 2014). I drew less and less and was more into Lego, video games and other stuff.
2 years and nothing happened. I didn’t draw anymore because I couldn’t feel like drawing, the mood was gone, the trashy and recycled, very unoriginal, had lots of boring stuff, and really terrible (probably the main reasons I quit drawing). But then in 2017, my hope reinvigorated and it came back....
When I revisited everything back before (saw the other half of my stuff I drew previously in 1 hour) is awesome yet a little cringy at the same time. Soon I’ll be getting ideas using the old ones, for my future projects. Despite being bad, I didn’t realise it would actually help me today—-things I thought up of in the past, like G.H.O.S.T., would come to my mind and is actually the basis for my current and upcoming sci fi series in development.
Stay tuned folks.
Blog #9: My Old Artistic Mastapeeces
Warning: The following contains a long story of me explaining art related stuff, prepared to get bored at your own discretion.
It’s been quite a while since I did blogs. They’re really fun. Nevertheless I dug up the old art I promised to show everyone—-here it is.
I started this around 3. I was the special kid, quite popular all around. I fondly remember the time my mom read that oddly satisfying children’s book of owls to the whole class. While much memory has been gone, the art never left.
It was the time when I started to think of superheroes, of plots, lots of insane sci fi stuff. I was obsessed with comics, Star Wars, anything you could ever imagine. I found lots of solitude in there despite having a great life as a kid, and considered myself to be one of the crazy people who drew lots of stuff from what I saw from every form of entertainment possible, from Three Kingdoms to horribly drawn Batman comics, to cliched rip-offs.
Soon I watched even more cartoons and anime (around 7 or 8), and that got me. I pretended I had such a fans (probably talking to my stuffed animals and some of my friends XD). My understanding of English was pretty good at that time so I was able know what was going on. Maybe it was my naive, young mind, but I didn’t know that I created a mess that I realised today. I did make a lot of sci fi and related superhero stuff, and I didn’t know my drawings were basically all the same, generic recycled stuff. Take for example, I used a military sci fi action title, named “G.H.O.S.T” (which sounds a lot like Ghost Recon), and I even gave the characters profiles based on myself and my friends. I even wrote them episodes like how I would write it on Wikipedia, or a FANDOM article. I had lots of awesome dreams and the next day or a random day I would wake up or daydreaming (yes, I daydreamed a lot as a kid) and quickly turn them into ideas.
What’s even interesting is that I “used” and “borrowed” ideas to draw, from movies like 9 (2009), Bionicle, and used me, my cousins and my friends as the protagonists and some as the antagonists. I even used video games and novels as a launching point (e.g. Gears of War, Tom Clancy, Harry Potter etc). Lots of themes even expanded into thriller, fantasy, psychological dramas and etc.
By then in secondary school I exploded into much more ideas. Secondary school was a period that made me lost, I doodled stuff in class because I didn’t like anything. I didn’t even have a lot friends, except for one who believed and trusted me. We soon got into doodling, and we based it on the teachers who I talked to and liked as superheroes, and I made a knockoff, ripoff named the Fanstatic Four (an obvious spoof of Marvel’s Fantastic Four). He who agreed with me and liked those teachers as well, and we joked a lot about it, he was good at maps and making fake bills and etc. The amount we made on Fanstatic Four was on the level of merchandise selling numbers.
I worked on it a bit more, for at least a year until my friend got bored and wanted out. Then I kept drawing on my own, then I got bored. By the time passed away, I got tired of drawing (also the same year I started a Flickr account, October 2014). I drew less and less and was more into Lego, video games and other stuff.
2 years and nothing happened. I didn’t draw anymore because I couldn’t feel like drawing, the mood was gone, the trashy and recycled, very unoriginal, had lots of boring stuff, and really terrible (probably the main reasons I quit drawing). But then in 2017, my hope reinvigorated and it came back....
When I revisited everything back before (saw the other half of my stuff I drew previously in 1 hour) is awesome yet a little cringy at the same time. Soon I’ll be getting ideas using the old ones, for my future projects. Despite being bad, I didn’t realise it would actually help me today—-things I thought up of in the past, like G.H.O.S.T., would come to my mind and is actually the basis for my current and upcoming sci fi series in development.
Stay tuned folks.