My early digital drawings
This page contains some drawings that I created with computers when I was younger. Drawing on a computer used to be more complicated than it is now, as art pads and scanners were not widely available. Instead, pictures had to be created by placing pixels on the screen with a mouse or a joystick.
This picture was done when I was nine. I used a paint program called Screen Designer on my Amstrad CPC 6128 home computer. The picture was drawn by using a joystick. Only four colors were available, as that was the maximum provided by the CPC in 320 × 200 resolution (MODE 1, for those in the know).
Lamp (1987)
I created the pictures below four years later with DeluxePaint II PC. The way I worked was by drawing the outline of the picture with a mouse, then selecting colors from a 256-color palette and applying them to the picture one by one. The colors, including each separate color in gradients, had to be placed manually on the screen one pixel (or one line) at a time. Due to this method, it would take me anywhere from two to four hours to create each picture.
For this presentation, the images have been scaled up by doubling each pixel horizontally and vertically. The aspect ratio is slightly distorted, as the images were originally created in VGA mode 13h.
Clenched fist (1991)
Headphones (1991)
Bust (1991)
Skull (1991)
Around the same time, in the Fall of 1991, I created the following network diagrams for the computer department of a corporation that was headquartered in my hometown. I drew the diagrams by using the Paintbrush application of Windows 3.0. That piece of software was totally unsuited for work like this, but after two days of placing pixels on the screen with a mouse, I managed to complete half a dozen large diagrams, three of which can be seen below.
The images were drawn at at a resolution of 640 × 480 pixels, using the standard 16-color VGA palette. Because I had to create everything from scratch, I tried to add as many details as possible, including manually antialiased number labels in the diagram and the actual position of DIP switches on the front panels of some of the modems. For privacy reasons, I have removed certain text labels from the images available here.
