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Hello new followers, and thank you to thenearsightedmonkey for kicking off a flurry of interest! It's about time I posted some more old art so now I'm inspired to get back to scanning. For now here's a quick one that was in the back of one of the Star Wars books I posted earlier.

Age 6, 1977

Dinosaurs

We start off with one of my old favorite dinosaurs, the ankylosaurus and what I'm guessing is what used to be called a brontosaurus.

The big guy is not destined to live long, as he's soon speared in the neck by a happy time traveler. The dino takes it well though, look at his coy reaction.

Lastly I find some space that seemed like it needed words so I added my own lorem ipsum text. Blah blah who needs facts, it's time to make more pictures!

Thanks again for checking out my art, I'm really happy to be able to share it with you.

Age 7, 1978

Zookeeper

It is in the May.

It is outside.

It is about animals.

Pretty scary coiled cobra, right? This is the flipside of my earlier post, The Marvelous Mud Washing Machine.

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Age 11, 1982

Fingerprints fight to the death in space.

With a pen and a little imagination you can make anything into a depiction of war. Note the sweet gun on the left and a War of the Worlds-looking turreted walker thing. The layout seems to come from the videogames I liked at the time, especially sidescrolling space games like Scramble and Moon Patrol.

PS please don't use these prints to make a rubber finger and implicate me at a murder scene.

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Age 11, 1982

SLX4

The SLX4 is somewhere between a secret hideout, waterpark, campground, and the Yellow Submarine.

You can see a major development in my drawing ability here; the stick figures have knees.

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Age 6, 1977

Star Wars book 3

Another tiny book, this one is about 3"x4". Observe the battle between an X-wing and a TIE fighter over the Death Star.

As for the characters, I'm just going to call it and say that's Darth Vader, a Stormtrooper, and Chewbacca.

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Age 11, 1982

Line Backers VS Sweat Hards

Any resemblance to actual football gameplay is purely coincidental.

#comics #illustration #diagram #football #drawing #1980s

Age 6, 1977

Star Wars book 2

This little book is about 4" square. The characters are a little hard to identify since unfortunately I didn't label any of them, but I think I can spot Luke's home on Tatooine, Chewbacca, the Sandcrawler, a couple droids, a landspeeder, and a TIE fighter.

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Age 6, 1977

Star Wars book

May the Force be with you.

The end. Is it bad that my favorite book is one I made when I was 6?

Up next: another Star Wars mini-book!

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Age 6, 1977

Star Wars book

Chewbacca and Han Solo portraits.

C-3PO got majorly dissed here. Chewie is super cute though, what an adorable bandolier.

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Age 6, 1977

Star Wars book

Luke and R2-D2 portraits.

I really like these little end credit pictures at the back of the book. Maybe I should try cleaning up Luke's face a little, he's all smudged with R2 graphite.

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Age 6, 1977

Star Wars

Han’s pirate ship.

Darth Vader chasing Luke through trench.

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Age 6, 1977

Star Wars

A Stormtrooper.

Fight above Death Star.

I like Luke’s awkward X-Wing battling it out with Darth Vader’s TIE fighter. Something about the bent panels on Vader’s ship made it seem extra badass.