Clearly you've had a lot of practice in your time, eh?

That's.....amazing. Love the dragons too ^^

OMG! BLoods everywhere! ><

thanks for sharing =D it is always interesting to see the progress one makes =D

Found a few of my old pictures a while back as well.

It's one of those amazing things where you look back and go "Wow... to think how much has changed since then"

Really makes you treasure your talent.

after all the homes I've lived in... I think the only thing I have from my child hood is 2 photos of me, and I can barely remember the things I used to draw.
anyways, it's always cool to be able to look back on your past works, even when you were 4! :D

:o tiger>

the bottom middle and bottom left are really good

arghhh I love your handwriting!

teehee ^^ its seems to me that even those these are from so long ago, your poses were good even back then

You can literally watch your talent blooming, even back then you had talent!

It's amazing how much we grow up over the years, isn't it? I've got a big old memory box that I keep a collection of things from over the years, and it's so much fun to go back and look through it =3

hehe, iIdrew some wolves attacking a moose that was all bloody when I was in 1st grade :D

My mom got pulled aside for Parent Teacher Conference because I never drew happy things. (My mom still has that drawing and some other things)

D: D: Everything is so violent. :D I mean D:

Even then you were a great artist :)

And just look at you now. Who know that those...humm..."animal"(3-4 yrold) drawnings would turn out to be such good art.

I see a liiiiiittle bit of improvement here. Not too much though. :P

Your avi rules. and I hope that was a joke. :P
^_^

The wolves top left are cute :)

Wow, allot of blood and killing for a 10-12 year old. 0_o;
Haha, nice work for being so little, though. ^-^;

Oh god, and it's still better than my current filth~

ALL HOPE IS LOST

Bwuahahah, thanks for sharing this with us.

I actually got a great big box of old keepsakes a few months back; this reminds me to try and get a few put up, too.

Heheh... wow, Blotch before they were gods. Even back then, it seems you were very conscious of things like fur and scales. Cool, cool.

dawwwww reminds me of when i used to draw as a kid, mine was a mix of tails and sonic being decapertated :S

Wow, you were a furry back then too?

I suppose at heart. ;]
I didn't actually find the furry fandom for many years later, though. :]

Isn't that the same for basically every furry? ^_^
Well, I'm glad the two of you did find the fandom. You two are one of the main reasons I joined.
By the way, out of curiosity, do you both use that FA account? Or is it only one of you. If so, who are you? (Wow, re-reading that, god that sounds wierd...)

I've got a Weizenbier says it's Teagan.

the Freudian thing gives it away

Different situation, EXACTLY the same reaction!! XD

Best tiger drawing EVAH! *clink* XD

hee dang though wish i drew like that when i was 10 thoght :P maybe not so much wolves stabbing eachother though.

That explains a lot. 10 years to master a given field, eh? Disheartening to those of us starting at age 20 though xD

Kids don't really try to improve though, they just keep drawing :P

More proof that its just something you learn to do by doing it for a while x3

haha awesome! Bring back Dark Savage! :)

Love the tiger! xD

Haha, this made me smile :)
FAV

* LOL - checker'd horsie ?

I see you did draw alot of wuffies -but why don't be see many dragons anymore *pokies

I don't really see people stabbing people, more like somebody mourning a fallen comrade or lover. Guessin you were into high fantasy, when you were a kid; I had some scenarios play out in my head similar lol

Cool that you guys actually did something like that. It's inspiring to those that're growing artists. You then and you now, shows that it's possible with time and patience.

Nice, you guys were great even at that age.
When I was that age I was drawing weapons and tools of war,I didn't find the fandom until the age of sixteen. :]

You was even better than when I was 10 XD I see ya likes dragons as well when you was a kitten? :3

I had dragons killing each other, stabbing each other or influencing dreams.

*shrugs*

When the Counselors at my school in their wisdom asked me why, I told them it was better to put the aggression on paper where it did no one harm and my art skills benefited instead. They left it alone after that. ;)

thanks for sharing this insight of progress.. you´ve done well for a long time and im proud to know your current splendor

yay, lil tiger!

This reminds me a great deal of my own art at that age! Shame that your talent has progressed so much more than mine though. :p

Your 3-4 year old art looks like my 10-12 year old art. :P I'd love to see you do a dragon again sometime. It looks really good!

the wolf with two blades at the top ^ you were as good as i am now when you were 12! =)

Wow you drew 100X better then me when i was 10 years old. your awesome

i can see a little similarity in your art back then and your art now hehe

This is excellent. I love seeing artist's old work from when they were kids. It gives me a look at how much they have progressed. Thank you for sharing with us!

Hehe ^_^ cool

ZOMG! A Tigersaurus Rex! :D Nice to have a chance to see your older work and inner workings...es :)

LOL unexpected well some how I hope I can turn out like you one day :)

Awesome. I love seeing old art like this. Thanks for sharing :)
I particularly love the checkered horse.

Heheh! "Dark Savage vs. Devil Savage"

Ohnoes, are they brothers?! D= Whole new level to sibling rivalry.

T.T now i feel bad,... my stuff looked like this 4 years ago and im 20,.... ehh,.. i surely care enough to catch the stars i aim for

O wow that some snice stuff from 10-12 XD even your 3-4 year old stuff is advanced i was doign circle poepel at that age! XD

the lower left one reminds me of dragonheart^^

lol.. you were born a fur. =P

The tiger is my fav.

Tiger.... mweow |3

You should draw more wolfies now, too!

Thats like my style atm lol
I wish l could get better at it ^_^

Born, born, born to be a fur

Born to be wild?

'Born to Be Alive', actually.

At that age, I drew only machinery--engineering drawings, schematics, architecture. It took many years to become human. Er, as much as I can lay claim to, at least.

Hahah, I love looking at stuff like this -- it lets you truly see just how far you've come~
such simple yet enthusiastic marker-scribbles, working all the way up to hand-painted masterpeices~ l3

It certainly makes me wish I would have begun many years ago as well. l3

Oh man, I LOVE the 4 year old tiger. He looks like a fat stripey Trex and he's adorable.

Awesome tiger from age 3-4, I can only draw slightly better then that.

Those were the seeds of the GREAT artist you became, Blotch you are the BEST!

Middle right = Prequel to your work Bockjagd?

Your art at age twelve is about equal to mine right now at 18..

..Gotta keep practicing..

It takes a lot of confidence as an artist to show work from adolescent years, But from the caliber of your other work its apparent that you are quite confident. My ex girlfriend is an artist and she swears if I ever show our friends her old work that she would reacquaint my head with a tire iron. Lolz.

The dragons actually look pretty good xD

Haha, oh wow. I wish I were that hardcore when I was 12. Those dragons are super impressive! And that Tiger from when you were really little is bitchin'. He kinda looks like a dinosaur 8D

Dark savage vs Devil Savage.

I guess everyone was 10 once. :3

Adorable. Those are still better than what I could do now x3

It seems that you always had the gift.

Jeese, you were crap. When you were 10 or 12, anyway.

It's been one of the heartening things over the years, to see how marvellously you've improved. From the perspective of this fandom, some artists just seem to spring into existence able to draw beautifully, as though from the forehead of Zeus (but with less brainy splattering). It's really nice to be able to watch the development of someone's talent, especially with bits of history like this.

I think I shall +fav this one just for the pleasing context it provides.

One fire in the apartment building pretty much destroyed everything i had ever done, including the pictures of my California Christmas stuff. All i have is the ones i did in Michigan, but i'd learned to paint by then.

Even so i used to paint a lot of clipper ships or landscapes, odd how things change in your life. I used to try and draw such nice happy things - peaceful.

Maybe i should have dawn all of them as wolves stabbing each other

haha dude your art from when you were 10-12 is better than some of the crap around on FA by 20 year olds.

Also, you're like me, I don't remember not drawing anthros and animals. Isn't it weird?

i like how u draw/drew your dragons

The dog and deer picture on the right is similar tooooo

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/837301/ <--This

I guess some drawings never get old

Not quite as violent as my childhood drawings.

Apparently, I went through alot of black crayons making nothing but angry jagged scribbles. >.>;

wow that's awesome man, love the tiger for 3-4

It's always interesting to see how artists have progressed. Your drawings are very good for a 10-12 year old there!

Clearly you were destined for furry greatness! :P

I can see a slight improvment :P

A lot of grr kind of things, where as now it has "mellowed" to friendlier scenes or romance of sorts. It's neat to see the difference from child to adult :)

Puberty and beer?

I second the vote for prints.

Hmm... it seems that although its nature changes, the penetration of canids is a constant of Blotch work.

haha you were better than me now at 3, and people say talent doesn't matter haha I gotta link this as proof to anyone who thinks if they work hard enough at it they can be as good as anyone else. Natural Talent is what matters and this is pure proof of it you were better than everyone right from the start...

You know, you should make the 3 art an avatar.

Interesting. I drew very similarly at ages 10-12

lol this looks a littlebit like mine art when I was 12 o.O So I think I can get better than I am now :D lol ^^ the one in the right corner at the top.... how this i done .. specialy the paws looks liek I drew a few years ago oO... strange thing

And look where you are now... we all had to start somewhere

You were better at drawing animals, and anthros then than most people are now. xD Shoulda seen some of the crappy Ninja Turtles, and Sonic the Hedgehogs I drew. Hoo boy...

I think it's very encouraging for people to see where people's art started. A lot of times when looking at all this nice art here it seems like it's so far removed from the scribbles everyone starts out drawing.

Man, started real young. Some people have talent early. ;)

Wow, its amazing when you look back at art you did as a kid compared to today! Even at 10 yrs old u were good ^^ And I agree with odious, because when you look at stuff from when you either first started or when u were really young, it helps to kow you've gotten better, and it's always nice to see where a really well known artist had started off.

Btw, I love that tiger drawing XD made me Lol.

Your tiger looks like a T-Rex. XD

Freudian indeed! Thanks so much for sharing this, Blotch. It always inspired me greatly to see when fantastic artists started out.

Wesley is right.
at this point, I don't think the artist was striving to improve,
nor did she take it as seriously as today.
Besides, Blotch is 2 artists working together, you can't really
gauge your own talent against that :P

was meant to reply to arcy @_@

For being 10-12, that's not bad at all.

It's inspiring for all to see so graphically how years of practice will eventually lead to perfection, it works for everything in life - that I can guarantee.

Fair play, I'd have to have an injection of steel directly into both my balls to submit some of the stuff I was doing even a few months back let alone stuff from 25 years ago!

Some of those are pretty good for a 10-12 yr old. Hehe the poses of the wolves attacking the elk reminds me of one of your adult pics with the hounds/deer.

xDDD NATURE. That's funny.. New drawing meme!

BOY BOY SEX NAME. xDD

Very awesome. ^__^ I'm a huge packrat, so I've got a couple boxes of my own of artwork I've kept from my Kindergarten, up to my High school years. It's very neat to see the progression of one's art style over the years. :)

God damn you Blotch! Why did you ever have to get utterly fantastic?! Now maybe I just think this because of the fact that I find reality a hideous place of ultimate horrors (hence my preference for cartoons), but I think that these are so much more interesting than most of your "good" art!

....But maybe it's just my contempt for shading....

She IS human after all! :3 I wish more artists posted stuff like this just to inspire people at these points of drawing to think they could be as good as you too one day with alot of practice!

That's exactly what I was thinking! I couldn't have put it more efficiently myself (just look at my previous comment on this page.)

my older was drawing since she was a little girl and when she was 10-12 and younger she was drawing complicated drawings and i'm still not as good as her yet.. the only good one i have so far is of Bolt from the movie

wow, you sure made a lot of improove withing these years now.

It seems as though you've always had a very good concept of anthro and feral anatomy. Kudos to you :3

That wolf in the top middle is still pretty good. It's interesting to see how animation and stuff helped make your art more dynamic, though you were clearly already doing so when you were 12!

wow, you drew really well at 3 o.o i didn't start til i was 10. i like the cat with the bow, it looks redwall-esque

That tiger needs to be turned into a plushie.

*puts it on the to-do-one-day list* :)

Wow....niiiiice.

WOW! you were fantastic even then!:)

XD ummm that looks like how i draw imo ... i really need to practice >.>

My god, a violent little child you were, weren't you?!

Hahaha! Your early works look like masterpieces compared to the stuff I used to draw at that time. XD

Wow... I was still drawing stick figures when I was 12! ...these look like my drawings at age 20!

The stuff from 10-12 at the top corner made me kinda sad that Im 18 and could barely pull that off if you gave me an entire day >_>

But the 3-4 one with the tiger made me start laughing because of the label

Strangely enough, I love that tiger from back when you were four. It's cute. xDD

BTW. Personal fav: The checkered horse above the the red dragon. That is -tight-!

Hahaha! You were still good when you were 12! Except I have to say that the subject matter is very...intresting. Man you were violent! Somebody had some issues growing up didn't they? XD

Wow dude! And I though *I* was a pack rat by keeping every little scrap of writing from way back when I was an angry little brat.

This might sound rude so please excuse me for that,
But this is awsome, not in the way that I think the art looks incredibly awsome (such a rude thig to say eh?) but in a way that remind me (and probably others too), that everyone starts somewhere, and no-one start completely awsome!
Thus with good practise people can get better over time, A thing I like to remind myself too ^^ (there is hope for me yet, hah)

Thanks for sharing!

Looks like you haven't improved much.....

Thanks for posting this, it gives me a sense of hope knowing that it really comes down to practice practice practice =3

a furry artist at blood, he was good then and great now

I love progression works. Inspiring to see what time does to an artist, although slightly disheartening to those who are still doodling in notebook margins, wondering about the greater concepts of anatomy.

Thanks for sharing this!

WOW, you were better at drawing when you were 10 than I am now.
Also, the whole stabbing thing kinda bothers me, but only 'cause you were 10 when it was drawn.
In addition, I like seeing the progress one makes over the years, thank you for sharing.

This is great stuff, I bet when you were a kid everybody told you how good you were.

This is great stuff to look back on. Time capsule!

Dear god D: I wish I had even this much talent XD

still has the same characteristic curvatures of the faces, eyes, and head ;3 amazing how that is invariant over time.

That tiger looks kinda like a dinosaur c.c

and that's one epic struggle in the middle there.

Thank you so much for sharing these! Not only are they adorable, but I think it really inspires other artists to see how far someone has come in their artistic endeavors.

It's funny, but I hoped that one day you'll show you really old arts. When I look at my papers from last year and recent I can say I made some progress... But these are much, much more funny^^ I wish I could find MY old stuff ^^

About the deer and wolves attackin' him - very similar to your yiff art from... last year? :P

And here I thought you were bashful about your old art when I visited =P

The history of how your art became to be. I love it! ^^

I'm favoriting this ^^

neat sketchies

By technicality. You *still* draw a lot of wolf people stabbing each other. XD

The top left, with the sunset... though drawn at 10-12 years old it is impressive that a 10-12 year old would put some sunset color touching the mountain. I love looking at older art and noticing things like that.

Dang we were about the same skill level at those ages :D
My problem was that I didn't dedicate myself to 2D I went straight to Sculpture with a little bit of drawing every few months. Which explains why your 2D art is Absolutely Freaking Amazing and why I watch you and hope for new things every day XD

shit. my stuff still looks like your 3-4 drawings. I have a long way to go.

I do love seeing artists work from a few to many years back. helps believe the whole practice makes perfect saying.

Wow, you've really progressed a lot XD

Um... Beginning to regret not having been trained in drawing. The crappy things I draw now cannot even compete with what you did in kindergarten
Maybe I'll take Gongbi training in the future to compete with your watercolor skills. (Of course it'll take me years to achieve that goal! ;p)

The Dino-head Tiger on the middle-left looks cute. :D
The pic on middle-right... Is that the prototype of your earlier piece "Bockjagd"? Looks quite similar.

As for blood... Mmmm, did you tell your friends to cover their eyes? XD

Thanks for sharing this! I really like it!

I can see that you were a great artist already at the age of 10-12

This is lolsome.

Thank you :)

YES

Oh!
Very interesting!

diggin the tiger, possibely one of your best works ever

Wow, pretty violent stuff. I like it. I always enjoy looking at my old art and see how much I've improved. xD

you did draw better at age 10 than most people here at age 33 >.>

LOL I guess anthro hit you before you really knew it xDD ages 3 and 4?? xD that's amazing

this just proves that after 4 years old you bacame awsome

o agree with foxboy5692 above;

you have achieved greatness.

You still draw wolf-people stabbing each other! Though now it's with a different weapon, and it's inserted into an already-provided orifice...

Seeing this made me smile. Proof that everyone can become a great artist if they just keep drawing.

Whoa.. you draw pretty good.. and you improved so much. O=

Great. I have the art skills of a talented 10 years old. How fantastic I feel now.

By contrast, I think I was a lot better than I am now, back when I was 10-12...

Good on ya, mate, for being able to keep all that stuff from your yesteryears! I've moved around so much, I don't have much that's older than twenty years... My mother kept a lot of my early efforts, though... Even at three, you were showing talent- sweet!

Always cool to see where we all started, hey? Gee, looking this over, I realize I drew a lot of the same kind of stuff when I was 12 or 13... must be architypal or some such.

Wow. You HAVE been drawing furry for a long time!

:o
rofl

u had strange and ...brutal things in your head at the age of 10 OO

Faving this to try to motivate myself to learn to draw better than a 4 year old. >_>

this is kinda inspirational or something like that^.^
shows that even great artists didn't just start out great, shows what sticking with it can do^^
Thanks for posting this:)

Also, this is quite good for a 12 year old. ...Or rather, a 6 year old. But, if you notice, in the top center, there is a cat with a bow. That is talent for a 12 year old. This is not one of those success stories about the disabled kid and how he became the best driver ever. No, this it what being born with talent looks like. She obviously never cared to finalize the majority of her drawings, based on the differences composed between the cat and the.... erm... rest. Some people are, most people aren't. Blotch was lucky.

Oh, jeez. This is so cute!

This is very inspiring!