Pictures from the Past

A few nights ago, I was thinking about what to post next; soon after, my mom came into my room and plopped a stack of huge presentation posters on the table. They were the pages from a presentation I did for 4-H when I was 14 (possibly 13).

When I was in 4-H, every year, we kids created and gave informative presentations on topics of our choice to develop public speaking skills. My 4-H club was very horse-focused, so most of the kids did horse- or farm-related presentations, but anyone could pick whatever topic he or she wanted. First, presenters spoke at their own 4-H clubs, then before a panel of judges at a county-level competition, and then, if presenters placed high enough, at the state level. (There might have been a regional/district level,  too. Or maybe the county level was actually a district level. I do know I earned gold at one level and silver at the next.) The first year I did a presentation, I did it on cat senses.

You may be wondering, “What does this have to do with your art blog?”

The second year, I did one on anime. smile1

I remember that I wanted to do something that would fall into the “other” category and research to learn more about something I already like. And, you know, getting to draw was a perk.

So just for fun, I’m posting photos of some of the art I drew about a decade ago. (No fancy photo editing–just havin’ fun this time.)

4H-coverCover page. Rocking the rainbow gradient and Comic Sans (to the dismay of every professional graphic designer.) Click to enlarge.

4H-YuYuMageI drew the elf mage; the other is a print-out from Yu Yu Hakusho. This was on a page explaining different genres (shounen, shoujo, mecha, etc.) If you look closely, you can see that I actually have 2 copies of that image, one pasted on top of the other. That’s because water dripped on the first one, and I didn’t want water spots to show up on my presentation: that would be shabby! Time has now peeled my secret away. I also did a black & white re-drawing of that picture in my sketchbook, eliminating the 2 figures in the middle.

4H-eyes2

4H-eyes

Sample expression & eyes

4H-LIBP

Little Indian Bomb Psycho (original character whose major appearances were on the corners of looseleaf notes)

4H-Pikachu

Pikachu! (‘Twould be near blasphemy to do an anime presentation and not mention Pokemon.)

4H-Chichiri

A good word to end on.