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A.B. Lazer
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Quote A.B. Lazer Replybullet Topic: Show your earliest pixelart/digital art!
    Posted: 01 June 2009 at 8:27am
Show earliest pixelart/digital art of yours you can find! Tell when it was done and comment it somehow.
I'll start.
This one is dated 11.10.1999 and probably my first creation in PaintBrush. I knew about PaintBrush since my first experience with Windows in 1994, but I don't remember that painted anything, at least worth saving. Then in 1996 it was Robotlandia learning package at school which featured program similar to Paint. I remember that I got 5 (highest mark, although it was your essential beginner's MS Paint epic) for painting the picture of robot from TV programme "Cybernet". It was not saved, but I still got sketch that I drew before translating it into program. And then there is VECTOR, which was drawn on computer at parent's work, featuring hero of one of my favourite Sega Mega Drive games.
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Quote skamocore Replybullet Posted: 01 June 2009 at 9:25am
This is the earliest piece of pixel art I can find at the moment (circa 2004)



It was done for some collab over at the old Pixelation.

I know I should have some stuff from at least 10 years back but I just can't find any of it, so this will do for the time being.
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Quote greenraven Replybullet Posted: 01 June 2009 at 11:18am
I like this topic. Too bad I have nothing to show for myself. (My old comp died ages ago.) T_T

But it was a huge drawing with smiley people, kinda like the guy in my sig. It was really huge about 1000 x 1000 pixels. It was a pixelated version of Where's Waldo, just without Waldo. XD
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Quote jalonso Replybullet Posted: 01 June 2009 at 12:11pm

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Quote tuaarita Replybullet Posted: 01 June 2009 at 12:53pm
Mesozoic era?
I'm running in the desert,
running in to the sun,
running out of blood
and I'm going numb.
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Quote jalonso Replybullet Posted: 01 June 2009 at 1:11pm
No, isozoic 
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Quote greenraven Replybullet Posted: 01 June 2009 at 2:00pm

"pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso   
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Quote TheInquisitor Replybullet Posted: 05 June 2009 at 6:05pm


Oh my God, it's so painful. This was genuinely (as far as my memory best serves) my very first effort at pixelling from scratch. At least attempting to pixel seriously. I did have a few hapless goes at it on my old Amiga. I'm amazed I still have it, but I couldn't resist putting it here so it can be admired, respected, complimented and critiqued to your hearts are all content.

In defence of this piece, my monitor of the time was duff and didn't show colours properly. For years I happily carried on working with colours that looked good on that monitor and that monitor alone. It was a horrible shock and disappointment when I got a new one.


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Quote asukicco Replybullet Posted: 10 June 2009 at 8:38am
Actually, this is my first piece, which I called "dance performance for an ageless monster":





I never considered this as my first pixel piece (even if there's something cool like different size pencil stuff and patterned dithering, and stars from good old Apogee games), but well, it is!

Oh, I forgot this sprite:


Funny topic.
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Quote Skull Replybullet Posted: 10 June 2009 at 8:45am
These are the first ones I made, before I actually got into making pixels..








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Quote Reo Replybullet Posted: 10 June 2009 at 9:42am
This is not my first one, but one of the earliest I have one this computor, It's from early 06.
As you can probably see, it relies pretty heavy on PB's old portrait tutorial :P
these two guys both use 16 colors btw.


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Quote jalonso Replybullet Posted: 10 June 2009 at 10:30am



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Quote asukicco Replybullet Posted: 10 June 2009 at 11:23am
@Skull: The robot is pure awesome! Can I use it as a msn avatar?
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Quote JC Denton Replybullet Posted: 17 June 2009 at 9:20am
I'm beginning in space art.

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Quote Tipleloop Replybullet Posted: 21 June 2009 at 12:58am
my first pixel art :)



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Quote Antifarea Replybullet Posted: 02 July 2009 at 10:09pm
lol my first pixel art ever done:



my 2nd one:



and my 3rd one:



I had this obsession with spriting and the first week that I started I spent 8hrs a day just making pixel art... I'm not an expert lol, you can do the math from these personal process sheet to keep up track of my progress... btw, I fixed all my old sprites, an example of these 3 here:






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Quote skamocore Replybullet Posted: 02 July 2009 at 11:19pm
ok, I've dug around some more and this is the earliest piece I can find. It's from June 19 2001 :


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Quote minipuck Replybullet Posted: 02 July 2009 at 11:49pm

and


please click it, otherwise it will die, and it seems special.
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Quote Hatch Replybullet Posted: 05 July 2009 at 7:50pm


That's the oldest thing on this computer. Dated from 06. Shortly after, I did a godawful self portrait which I'm too embarrassed to post. I made a WIP thread for it here if you're really curious. You can also see me acting like a stubborn noobish douchebag. Good fun. Anyhoo, there's even older stuff on my dad's Amiga I made when I was like 10, but I've no way to get it.

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Quote ellie-is Replybullet Posted: 06 July 2009 at 6:37am
http://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4478&KW=
That? :P
Too bad the link to your PB are all broken.
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Quote Hatch Replybullet Posted: 06 July 2009 at 10:49am
Yep, that. Thank goodness for linkrot.
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Quote Psychotic_Carp Replybullet Posted: 07 July 2009 at 6:28pm


I hope im getting better :p
got game?
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Quote Tarenken Replybullet Posted: 07 July 2009 at 7:12pm

My first one that doesn't involve Pokemon rips, at least. :P
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Quote jeremy Replybullet Posted: 08 July 2009 at 12:16am
I think I've got some older stuff on a CD somewhere
 
I might remake this one for a card :D
 
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Quote CrapFactory Replybullet Posted: 13 July 2009 at 9:30pm
My first Sprite:





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