Topic: [Challenge] Unforgotten Past (Read 69729 times)

Foxeye · « **on:** September 26, 2009, 01:28:57 PM »

Unforgotten Past

This site is new, but the community is not. Many of us were here all the way back to when the original EQ Fan Art site was a yahoo group. Or further back to the Elfwood-crawling days. Or even further back to our own fanzines and holts, sharing our fan drawings through the magic of the photocopier and stamps. And even further back, to those solitary attempts to color in wendy's art, or try to draw her elves ourselves, before we even knew there was a community of other elfquest fans to share them with.

So, for the first ElfQuestFanArt.com challenge, I thought it would be fun to pay tribute to the old eqfanart.com site, to our old holts/communities, and to our own personal histories.

The Challenge: Find your oldest (or one of your oldest) pieces of ElfQuest fan art and redraw it. Upload both pictures to the challenge gallery, or put them side-by-side in the same image.

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aurianfae · « **Reply #1 on:** September 26, 2009, 03:03:52 PM »

Good lord, I don't know where my sketchbooks from when I was eight years old went! :O

Foxeye · « **Reply #2 on:** September 26, 2009, 03:23:33 PM »

Hahaha, yeah, I'm not sure either if I'll be able to find that drawing I made on yellow-lined paper and hung proudly on my wall either. But it'll be fun trying to look. ^_^

Afke · « **Reply #3 on:** September 27, 2009, 01:59:04 AM »

Oh, great idea!!

Wildfire · « **Reply #4 on:** September 27, 2009, 05:35:43 AM »

Ohh, that's a really cool idea!

Wildfire · « **Reply #5 on:** September 27, 2009, 10:15:53 AM »

Btw, is there a deadline?

Foxeye · « **Reply #6 on:** September 27, 2009, 10:30:07 AM »

Newp. Challenges are open-ended. Contests, of course, will have deadlines. We're thinking of doing the first contest some time early next year, after folks have recovered from doing their calendar entries.

aurianfae · « **Reply #7 on:** September 27, 2009, 05:18:01 PM »

The best example I could find of "old work" I think is from 1997, so I might redo that one! >.<

Joyrider1978 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 02, 2009, 04:20:19 PM »

Eh oh! When trying to upload an image to the Challenge folder, I got this message:

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Zero-Sized Reply
The requested URL could not be retrieved

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While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.elfquestfanart.com.alias/index.php?

The web server did not return any data for this request. This typically indicates a bug with the site programming causing the server to abort the request without sending any data in response.

If this message persists, please contact the site operator for assistance. If you are the site operator, please review the relevant FAQ entry for possible causes and solutions.

...meh? Am I dumb and doing it wrong? My file was 899kb and I shrunk it to 316kb, tried again, and still no dice. :-(

Foxeye · « **Reply #9 on:** October 02, 2009, 04:48:50 PM »

Och! Did you put in a lot of text? There's a bug that I can't seem to fix that you can't upload something if the description is too long. Try putting the first part the description into the item, then add the rest as a comment.

And squee! The first entry.

Joyrider1978 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 02, 2009, 04:56:34 PM »

Ahhh yes I was too verbose... here goes!

Joyrider1978 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 02, 2009, 05:03:31 PM »

Hurrah it worked!

And what a fantabulous challenge idea!! Man, while drawing I was just engulfed in memories of my first forays into the world of EQ and just how thrilling and *new* everything was! Sigh. I miss those days.

So much fun, thank you Foxeye! Now everyone else put up stuff, I'm greedy and wanna see!

Foxeye · « **Reply #12 on:** October 02, 2009, 05:13:57 PM »

*bouncing and squeeing* That was a killer first entry. Wow. As they say, "you've come a long way, baby".

Finally decided on which drawing I'm doing. I couldn't find the oldest one I wanted to do *cry*, but this one is quite possibly even better. It has all kinds of stuff that makes me giggle fondly.

Joyrider1978 · « **Reply #13 on:** October 02, 2009, 05:24:59 PM »

Yay I wanna see baby Foxeye-art! I might have even older pics to re-do, too... but they're typical firsties (straight-on face shots, etc) ... at least my weeny Rayek had a *little* bit of an interesting pose!

Seriously, too much fun. I might have to do another!

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As they say, "you've come a long way, baby".

Lordy, I should certainly hope so... I don't even wanna wrap my head around how long ago that was

mischievous_valkyrie · « **Reply #14 on:** October 03, 2009, 06:25:21 PM »

My goodness I'll have to look around and see if I can find some of my older stuff

it probably wont be my oldest stuff goodness knows where those went but I'll try to find one that is suitably aged

dreamweaver · « **Reply #15 on:** October 06, 2009, 12:49:51 PM »

I don't have time to look through the box that I call my archives, but I can do this with some art from Highschool. It was when I really started to grow rapidly as an artist. But, this is something I will really have to look into as I get some time later.

Icemoon · « **Reply #16 on:** October 07, 2009, 10:49:34 AM »

*sigh*
was too young to even know the existence of the EQ fanart calendar ! lol
then won't be able to make an entrie ...

Foxeye · « **Reply #17 on:** October 08, 2009, 11:05:13 AM »

Quote from: Icemoon on October 07, 2009, 10:49:34 AM

*sigh*
was too young to even know the existence of the EQ fanart calendar ! lol
then won't be able to make an entrie ...

I hope you don't think that the challenge is only for people who were part of those particular communities. That is not what I meant to say, and I'm sorry if I gave that impression.

The challenge is for anyone who has artwork from when they were younger.

Icemoon · « **Reply #18 on:** October 08, 2009, 11:58:48 AM »

well ... I discovered the EQfanart calandar this year ! lol
but no worries, I'll be ready for the next challenge

dreamweaver · « **Reply #19 on:** October 09, 2009, 09:43:07 PM »

I just noticed the bit about the fanart calendar... I now have two pictures in my head. Lol

Afke · « **Reply #20 on:** October 11, 2009, 02:49:28 AM »

Where does it say anything about the calendar? Just EQ related art is fine.
It's paying tribute to your old EQ fandays, and for me that was mostly holts and sharing drawings with other fans on sites such as this. Doesn't matter how long ago it was, for some it was a year, for others 5 or 10 or 20...
I'm thinking of redrawing my very first character, if I can find the picture back I made 13 years ago...

Icemoon · « **Reply #21 on:** October 11, 2009, 08:57:41 AM »

Really

YAY !! that's SO Cool !!!!!!! then, I can partcipate !!!!!!!!
*HUG afke !*

Czarine · « **Reply #22 on:** October 22, 2009, 01:27:43 AM »

This sounds interesting. I've been thinking of re-making a certain pic I have..

Faerydae · « **Reply #23 on:** November 02, 2009, 10:45:27 AM »

Oh how fun!!

I actually scanned a bunch of my art from when I was a kid to throw into my Flickr for kicks and giggles ...

My question is though - my first EQ drawings *ever* were totally traced (hey I was like 8! lol) - so the first EQ drawing we ever did *ever-ever-ever* including the recycled traces most of us most likely did, or the first ever drawing from scratch?

Not sure I even remember or have the first one I did alllll on my own, lol.

Foxeye · « **Reply #24 on:** November 02, 2009, 12:02:03 PM »

Quote from: Faerydae on November 02, 2009, 10:45:27 AM

My question is though - my first EQ drawings *ever* were totally traced (hey I was like 8! lol) - so the first EQ drawing we ever did *ever-ever-ever* including the recycled traces most of us most likely did, or the first ever drawing from scratch?

It's up to you, whichever you find the most enjoyable. I'm going for a non-traced one myself just because it has more hilarity value to me.

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