A few years back, when I had no exposure to the graphic design community, or Creative Suite, or anything like that, I submitted an album cover for the Russian band 't.A.T.u'. They wanted fans to submit an album cover for the 'released in Japan' version of their album. I drew an outline image of them, scanned it into the computer, and then colored it Windows Paint (ugh!! gross!!!). Now of course, Graphic Design is a never-ending learning process, but knowing the little bit that I do now, it makes me shutter to look at this again. But, hey... I really thought I was doin' it big back then. I was so proud of it.A winner was never announced, and I think the contest was canceled.... oh well...
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About 11 years ago, I had this grand scheme to make a video game. I planned out the whole plot and all the characters. I had no idea how I was going to make it, but I knew exactly what I wanted it to be. I can still remember how excited I was about it. Maybe one day I will try and make this a reality now that I could probably do it in Flash or something if I really tried...
I actually started making opening cut scenes, and battle screen backgrounds in Windows Paint (it's all I had back then), but that is really as far as I ever got. I wonder what it would be like now to revisit this idea older and wiser.
That's pretty good for Paint. I've always wanted to make a manga but never got any further after creating my characters.
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