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5 years ago
A wonderful thing has happened! As of Saturday the 7th, I have come into possession of a large collection of files from my mid-20's, including backups of my art, music, stories and website designs! I found things I thought I would never see again, and some things I had completely forgotten ever existed. For the past decade, I have been carrying around a box of IDE hard drives from my early-mid 20's. Somewhere between 15 and 20. A friend of mine offered to go through them and recover what he could. On Saturday I got them back, and I sorted through them at length.
Seeing these drawings 2004 and earlier made me realize that I did in fact have a pretty good style back then. There are art seeds I sowed back then that, if my life had not gone the way it did, might have flowered and borne fruit. There was, for example, a whole directory named "post-this" full of art I meant to post but didn't have a chance to, because of an apartment fire that happened.
I will be sharing these drawings from bygone days, but I have a question first. How should I upload them so that they don't block all of the newer pictures from my gallery? If I post all of the older art, then the first few pages of my gallery will be full of it, and the new stuff will be stuck at the back. Is there any way to avoid this?
Seeing these drawings 2004 and earlier made me realize that I did in fact have a pretty good style back then. There are art seeds I sowed back then that, if my life had not gone the way it did, might have flowered and borne fruit. There was, for example, a whole directory named "post-this" full of art I meant to post but didn't have a chance to, because of an apartment fire that happened.
I will be sharing these drawings from bygone days, but I have a question first. How should I upload them so that they don't block all of the newer pictures from my gallery? If I post all of the older art, then the first few pages of my gallery will be full of it, and the new stuff will be stuck at the back. Is there any way to avoid this?
Never delete your early art, kids, you're gonna regret it 20 years later \o/
Definitely must have a drawing from you in your old style now! :D
I had a similar change to my art after taking several years off. It's as if all of our skills tighten up while we're away, and when we come back to it, we do so with a renewed focus and freshness. I'd be interested to see your older stuff too, it reveals how you got to where you are.
But as others may have suggested already, why don't you upload the bulk of your stuff into the scraps so you can have it posted but not overshadowing your main gallery.
Better put these older files on a number of various backup storage devices, maybe even just for security reason burn them on a DVD, where they cannot be deleted from.