Jason Baldwin: Moldy Oldies

My mom recently found an old portfolio of mine from highschool. I was ecstatic! I'd thought all my drawings from that period were lost. It was so much fun digging through the old drawings. There are lots of memories tied up with these, and it's cool to see the drawings transitioning from sucking to... well, sucking slightly less.

It's seen some stuff

My dear old friend Nicole

An adorable mis-application of 3 point perspective. Keep at it buddy, you'll get it.

My old dog "Patchy". A universally loved sweetheart.

I have no idea who this is, but I hope her eyes aren't weird in real life.

Ladies and gentlemen... the tortured artist.

So moody. So misunderstood. So ART!!!

The discovery of the portfolio was bittersweet. In my Senior year I entered a city-wide high-school art competition. I created two horrifically pretentious mixed media pieces for it. They took grand prize and honorable mention respectively. At the time I thought I won due to the quality of the work. In retrospect, it was probably because the concepts were comically obtuse so they seemed like "ART". I was hoping the smaller of the two would be disassembled and crammed in my old portfolio. Unfortunately, it was not. Both were probably discarded during a move or in a fit of "uncluttering". I still have the award ribbons though.

That said, the portfolio did contain some drawings that represented a seminal moment in my life. They'll get their own blog post next week.

Since I'm digging up old stuff, here are some REALLY old drawings I re-discovered a few months back.