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10 Years of Uploads
14 years ago
In the year 2000, I signed up with the local cable operator to get better, faster and more reliable internet than one could get via the dial up. I already had an substantial consumption of bandwidth, as I was consuming a lot of pictures on the world wide web - TLK Fandom for instance, or stock and press photo galleries for reference...
I started to tinker round on the web, join web lists, yahoo groups and forae, subscribe to gallery archives and so on. That is when the Lion King Afficianado and Allison Uttley Reader fully became aware of this Furry phenomenon. I subscribed to VCL in late 2001, because I wanted to have a place where I could dish out my Lion King-esque pictures, which I was discouraged of showing round at the school of art. So, on Christmas Day 2001, Blue_Panther uploaded his first pictures to the Internet, baring his Avatar Signature and Name.
To commemorate, I have redrawn one of the pictures within my first VCL uploads, befitting the time of the year with all our dinners and meals and stuff. The original piece was drawn sometime in 2000 for a "Thank you" card, answering a dinner invitation and uploaded on Christmas 2011. It is very interesting to see the comparison from there to now: The shoe box lion snout is still there, as is the scrawly fluffy pelt. Techniques and medias have changed a lot. Moving away from traditional media, I have become very digi-savy with my illustrations.
Read more and in depth: http://blue-panther.livejournal.com/
I started to tinker round on the web, join web lists, yahoo groups and forae, subscribe to gallery archives and so on. That is when the Lion King Afficianado and Allison Uttley Reader fully became aware of this Furry phenomenon. I subscribed to VCL in late 2001, because I wanted to have a place where I could dish out my Lion King-esque pictures, which I was discouraged of showing round at the school of art. So, on Christmas Day 2001, Blue_Panther uploaded his first pictures to the Internet, baring his Avatar Signature and Name.
To commemorate, I have redrawn one of the pictures within my first VCL uploads, befitting the time of the year with all our dinners and meals and stuff. The original piece was drawn sometime in 2000 for a "Thank you" card, answering a dinner invitation and uploaded on Christmas 2011. It is very interesting to see the comparison from there to now: The shoe box lion snout is still there, as is the scrawly fluffy pelt. Techniques and medias have changed a lot. Moving away from traditional media, I have become very digi-savy with my illustrations.
Read more and in depth: http://blue-panther.livejournal.com/
