Back when I was just a little DaedalusKnight (you know, back in the Bronze Age) there weren’t a ton of computers to be had. Oh, sure, there was the occasional IBM-compatible monochrome DOS system that your friend’s rich cousin had, but you rarely got to see it and it wasn’t all that exciting anyway.
Then, one day, came the Commodore 64, and it seemed like everyone could have computers in their own homes. And not only have computers, but computers that had sixteen whole colors in their displays. It took a bit of saving but I finally managed to scrape together enough birthday and holiday money to get one for myself. And one of the first things I could do with the mystical machine (aside from play Archon and such) was to create simple graphics.
Very simple graphics.
Anyway, one of my first ever attempts at a design was an image of a fox I had drawn. It wasn’t very good, to be quite honest, but just seeing my artwork appear on screen (after many hours of trial and error) gave me such a sense of satisfaction that I showed it to everyone I could, including classmates and relatives. That image is long ago lost to a faded floppy disk somewhere (the big, black soft ones that were cutting edge at the time) but when I saw this derby I decided that I’d like to do a whole new fox made up of tiny blocks of color.
I hope you enjoy the result!
Then, one day, came the Commodore 64, and it seemed like everyone could have computers in their own homes. And not only have computers, but computers that has sixteen whole colors in their displays. It took a bit of saving but I finally managed to scrape together enough birthday and holiday money to get one for myself. And one of the first things I could do with the mystical machine (aside from play Archon and such) was to create simple graphics.
Very simple graphics.
Anyway, one of my first ever attempts at a design was an image of a fox I had drawn. It wasn’t very good, to be quite honest, but just seeing my artwork appear on screen (after many hours of trial an error) gave me such a sense of satisfaction that I showed it to everyone I could, including classmates and relatives. That image is long ago lost to a faded floppy disk somewhere (the big, black soft ones that were cutting edge at the time) but when I saw this derby I decided that I’d like to do a whole new fox made up of tiny blocks of color.
I hope you enjoy the result!