Thursday Throwback: Oekaki Drawings

I used to frequent oekaki boards as a teenager. What is an oekaki board, you ask? Wikipedia has a page dedicated to it here. Basically, they were message boards but with a drawing application (like Microsoft Paint, but a little more robust). You'd create a small drawing, post it on the boards, and people would comment on it. Back then, comments were fairly benign and along the lines of: "This is really good!" They were fun, especially if you had a Wacom tablet - it's so hard to draw well with a mouse.

I was sifting through some old art files tonight, looking for self-portraits for a project, and I came across some of my old oekakis. Oh, they take me back. :)