What is the first piece of art you made and uploaded somewhere?

[BoiledMilkz]

What's the first piece of art you uploaded somewhere, or if you can't find it, the earliest uploaded art you know.

This could also be a way to look back on how you've improved!

[SourCherryJack]

It is always preferred that you begin a thread like this with your own example.

Anyway I think the first Art I ever posted to the internet was on the Resistance Fall of Man Forums, but beyond that the second earliest stuff can be found in my Art thread This one being the first post of that:

then my most recent full piece is probably this one:

Then in 2020 I made a video documenting all the art I’ve posted in the forums and in the Art portal for 10 years to show how artistic growth actually works. This was when one of those art memes where they post their first drawings and then their most recent drawings was going around on social media

https://youtu.be/cG0Gdn7GmRk?si=3-TLLn4KOc6Xgha1

[StevSteelEn]

I will always remember my first drawing and uploaded. I was just starting out and only drew in rayman style because i was lazy to practice limbs

My first uploaded art on newgrounds specifically was

It feels nice to look back on your old stuff and comparing to your more recent pieces like this

[Oddlem]

my first upload was in 2009, I was 9... and I drew cats 😔

I shouldn't have been allowed on the internet

this was my most recent, did it a week or two ago!

[smashbrethren]

At 11/17/23 05:14 PM, BoiledMilkz wrote: What's the first piece of art you uploaded somewhere, or if you can't find it, the earliest uploaded art you know.

This could also be a way to look back on how you've improved!

lol my time as a digital artist began in like 2014, managed to find my very first tablet drawing featuring an old oc. yikes

vs what i can do now, almost 10 years and unfortunately im not exactly where i wanna be, but hey progress is progress!

[Tenebrare]

Oh c'moooooon do not make me post that !

I do not know what was 1st, but earliest work I have in Deviantart (which is the oldest surviving and still working website that has my work and has not purged any old files, nor have I).

This was opening of my website at time and I had uploaded the screenshot of that in Deviant-art. It includes a pencil drawing of mine. Surely it is not the 1st thing I ever loaded, but is the oldest that is still accessible online for me.

And how I have improved? If at all ? This same character as I did draw for laughs this year with Hellraiser twist (a wip doodle)

At time 'phantom of the opera' was my signature alter ego, as I was nicknamed the 'ghost' in real life and I used opera web browser, so I became ghost of opera, - and later it was associated with the 'phantom of the opera' book, so on olden days I did a lot of references to that character due that.

[AlexToolStudio]

Good old DA https://www.deviantart.com/thealextoolstudio/art/Old-FIFA-19-cover-art-2019-882556304

[bappledilk]

Oh boy... well, I didn't know where to post my art as a kid on the internet, so instead, I posted animations to YouTube (before discovering deviantART some months later). So I guess my answer would be... this video. This ancient artifact. A true product of its time.

Some years ago, I never would've shown anyone this video. I would've tried to push it down into the deepest darkest depths of my mind, lest I implode from the cringe it would impose upon both myself and others.

But now, I am proud of it. It's a true sign of how far I've come... not just as an artist but also, a creator.

[Eldritchsaxes]

Made this in 2019 was my first ever drawing uploaded online. Even back then I wanted to draw monsters and creatures

These 2 are my most recent pieces here and they were for the Pixel art Hex Collab

[Waterina]

This was the first league of legends champion i drew and uploaded here(2019)

Then the latest league of legends champion drawing that i uploaded(2023)

[VanVeleca]

I cannot for the life of me remember the very first one, it's likely lost forever anyhow

However the first one I posted as VanVeleca was this

[Drazah]

Pfff, I have no clue, and I rather not look at my old art from a decade ago...

[Pammeenevaeh]

Most of my really, really old art was posted on a now-defunct art site around 2016-2017 and is completely lost to time. Now, the oldest stuff I can find dates back to around 2018--2020 when I had a furry phase and was active on sites like amino. Below the collage (which was taken from my Instagram archives) is a piece from last month:

[Tenebrare]

At 11/18/23 05:53 AM, Drazah wrote: Pfff, I have no clue, and I rather not look at my old art from a decade ago...

I posted something I had loaded on DA in 2003. Do not be scared!

[RepriseAgain]

I originally shared this on an old Twitter account back in February, but can't find the link rn.

I just traced and manipulated a bunch of symbols from the Flash files and made this relatively obscure parallel between Ray and Tommy Vercetti. Nothing groundbreaking.

Update: just needed to go listen to Out of Touch for the 1000000th time.

[vlsrb]

Oh wow, this was tricky to remember. I think the first art thing I ever uploaded to the internet was this:

It's the first page of a Pokémon comic I was working on back in 2009, posted on my DeviantArt profile which I made explicitly to share said comic. Looking back on it, I can spot a lot that's wrong and it makes me cringe, but back then of course I was incredibly proud of it.

[colorsCrimsonTears]

This sounds like a fun thread idea lol

Here's the earliest one I can find.

[pointlessfield]

this is the first time i ever tried to be serious about art,and also the first thing i've posted..

thank God the reception was welcoming and positive

[MercKaiju]

I started sharing my art online for the very first time in 2020. My first post was a piece of Mechgodzilla fanart that I had made back in 2018. I remember being kinda proud of it at the time. I don't think it's that great anymore, but I do still have a soft spot for it.

I've learned a lot since then. Here's a newer piece for comparison.

[MondoBilby]

I've only started uploading my art online very recently, so it's not a very good comparison with my most recent stuff. Instead, here's the earliest drawing I have that I made on FlipaClip back in 2018

Compared to my most recent drawing

[BoiledMilkz]

I'm gonna throw mine in as well.

This was the first thing I uploaded onto Newgrounds.

Compared to my recent art.

[Fleeceworm]

At 11/17/23 05:14 PM, BoiledMilkz wrote: What's the first piece of art you uploaded somewhere, or if you can't find it, the earliest uploaded art you know.

This could also be a way to look back on how you've improved!

Mine was a giant cyst that blows up if you get too close.

its brain makes up for the shrapnel, because it has literally no other organs aside from that.

[humblemaniac]

My first uploaded artwork:

Compared to my recent drawn:

[Eldritchsaxes]

At 11/25/23 07:53 PM, humblemaniac wrote: My first uploaded artwork:
Compared to my recent drawn:

WOAH! I really love what you did with the background in the 2nd image. God the crosshatching is really good too! Gives me major Metal album vibes

[TheGarbager619]

While I uploaded a lot of stuff on my personal facebook while using Colors 3D on my 3DS. The first time I got a graphic tablet and made myself a DeviantArt account was this one.

I was into They Bleed Pixels and I loved playing it as well as Super Meat Boy. So I wanted to draw the girl from that game. I do believe that, while simple it is still charming. Years after, I redrew it, but it got lost in time since I honestly don't remember where I uploaded it and the hard drive of that computer died.

A redraw is in order, I guess.

[Morpherence]

For saved oldest is Necron art 2012 summer

I remember i drew in 2014 on deviantart i posted is pokemon Victini failied flying, but i delete and become lost media.

So instead probably this pic.

both pics i redraw.

[humblemaniac]

At 11/25/23 10:57 PM, Eldritchsaxes wrote:

At 11/25/23 07:53 PM, humblemaniac wrote: My first uploaded artwork:
Compared to my recent drawn:

WOAH! I really love what you did with the background in the 2nd image. God the crosshatching is really good too! Gives me major Metal album vibes

Thank you! Now I think I am not the only one who thinks my style could be suitable for music album covers. 

[SebastianAriza]

I've been drawing since I was like 2-3 but mostly kept it to myself and my irl friends until one of them suggested I should post them online. This is my earliest post from march 2019, based on the final battle of Ready Player One (the book):

It's on Instagram

I started drawing digitally a few months later with a mouse using vectors, I only started using a tablet a little over a year ago. Here's my most recent drawing, a self portrait of the raid meme: