Wow, you guys keep all your old stuff? Mine's been gone for years with all the computers I've had

The first stuff I ever did was little digimon-like characters -- 1 bit.
I remember the first thing I posted to Pixelation (like, a year or two later, August 2002) was a little animated woman with a shotgun of some kind for a sidescroller project I made.
The oldest thing I still have lying around is this guy, from February 2003. First real dithering and AA I ever did.

It was followed in about a month by this, which sorta sparked an art style I've been toying with in some form or other from then on: (only now, I'm using conte crayons and charcoals, which is why you don't see much pixel from me anymore

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And yes, that fad was mine. I did the lineart for it. I remember, since it was one of my chibis and a lot of people got mad at me for screwing up the chest. But by the time I'd have gone back and fixed it, 40 people had already cloned the little sucker, so I didn't bother.
(btw, freaking LOVE the new emoticons.

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