This is the most 70s thing I have ever seen. I just found my childhood sketchbook and, fittingly, it is the most 2000s thing I have ever seen. Brilliant stuff! I've actually got that Death Star playset
That habit of always putting the date on your artworks is precious! I need to start doing that, a bit too late but better late than never, right? :) I love your childhood sketchbook tour!
This was fun to watch! I wished I kept my sketchbook from my childhood! I started drawing at around 9 or 10 years old. I hope Craig Marcus sees this! 😅
Hi Jacqui! I'm not sure how mine has stayed with me all these years but I'm so glad it did. It would be pretty funny if he did see this. It would be great to meet someone else from the contest.
Omg I am 3 years older than you and I am a huge fan of Alice cooper. Lived kiss, enjoyed star wars and every week it was feast because it was Battlestar Galactica... I love your drawings as a kid... 10 years and they are gorgeous...
Oh, this made my day!!! You really were good at 10. Neat about winning "Weekly Reader". I remember it.. I'm 10 years older but had younger brothers & sister..5 of us and brought back such sweet memories! I teach JH. They "freak" when I explain "old tv, phones, tv change---children physically doing it for parents..lol)" satellites and technology wasn't around when I was growing up... Alice Cooper!! KISS!! Im pretty impressed you continued until 1980 stuff.. Thanks for sharing! I REALLY enjoyed this
I'm glad you enjoyed it, Nancy! I thought there might be some "out there" that might get a nostalgic rush from the things I found important, back then. It really is amazing when we think back to how things were "just that short time ago" compared to today. I still am taken aback, once in awhile, when I think about how much just my phone in my pocket does compared to the things we had back then. A blessing and a curse. Ha, ha.
Hey there Brian, My apologies for taking so long to get over to your amazing channel and subscribe. I enjoyed seeing you early sketches especially since they were all things that I remember as a kid myself. I went to the theater to watch STAR WARS with my cousin when it was released and we hooked on it ever since. I am also a pretty huge Alice Cooper fan and still enjoy listening to Welcome To My Nightmare . The Kiss sketches were fantastic and you showed so much potential even at such an early age, thanks for sharing and it’s great seeing you again...or at least your hands...LoL Take care and talk soon.~ Jeff
Hey Jeff!! Great to hear from you!! That sketchbook is pretty much a snapshot of all things I loved, back then, and they really haven't changed today. I'm still a Kiss fan, obviously. I also still listen to Alice and enjoy Star Wars (at least the old ones... ha, ha). I've tried to pour my time into this watercolor color channel at the neglect of the other one, unfortunately. I've thought about doing a new video, once in awhile, but it's been so long. Looking forward to all your new videos, though!! Later, my friend!
This was a lot of fun, our son is a few years younger than you but we remember it all. Personally I really enjoyed Battlestar Galactica. Our son ran around the house yelling colonel Steve on the night it was on tv and took his dolls (Steve and Maskatron) everywhere. Later he was crazy about Charlies Angels too, t shirt and all. I wont go into all the Star Wars stuff he had...oh well, he was right we should have kept all that stuff, much like my mother in law not saving my husbands baseball cards. Guess its true, history repeats its self. It’s great you have your childhood sketch book, thanks for showing us.
I hope they were heads attached to horse bodies. Ha, ha. Kidding. It is fun to look back and see how we look at some pop icons differently, these days. Thanks for watching!!
SECOND! Ugh, doesn't have the same ring as FIRST! Hey, I got that same 6 Million Dollar Man BMV! Steve Austin may have been bionic and stronger than the average human, unfortunately, his vehicle was not and mine never made it into the next week! Great vid bro!! Did you ever get into Starlog magazine? Boy, I devoured it every month.
I LOVED all the Six Million Dollar Man toys!! So much fun. ... and, yes, I read Starlog all the time. Such great times. Did you ever put your own name into the opening SMDM sequence? "Steve Atkinson. Astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology..." :)
Cool!! (fist bump). Right! I can definitely look back at childhood and easily classify these as pre and post Star Wars. ... and, yeah, nothing before Star Wars probably mattered all that much. Ha, ha! Thanks, Karen!
This is the most 70s thing I have ever seen. I just found my childhood sketchbook and, fittingly, it is the most 2000s thing I have ever seen. Brilliant stuff!
I've actually got that Death Star playset
This is pure GOLD !!! 😄 Thanks for sharing!
This is so sweet! I can see your progression in drawing over just a few years. What a treasure.
Omg I saw the label and automatically liked the video
I had that same sketchbook. I graduated from HS in 77. I wish I had my old drawings too. I have scant few. Thanks for sharing.
That habit of always putting the date on your artworks is precious! I need to start doing that, a bit too late but better late than never, right? :) I love your childhood sketchbook tour!
you could do another sketchbook just like this one, drawing everything the way you draw today. What a treasure when you are 88 :-)
Nice trip down memory lane here!
This is precious!
Thanks!
Omg... you are so funny.! I am a year older than you... and remembered it all like it was yesterday. Your comments on your art is hilarious. Loved it.
I know, right?! It's all become ancient history so quickly!! Scary. At least we have the memories of that time. Thanks so much!!
this is like watching my old sketchbooks vicariously. :-D
This was fun to watch! I wished I kept my sketchbook from my childhood! I started drawing at around 9 or 10 years old. I hope Craig Marcus sees this! 😅
Hi Jacqui! I'm not sure how mine has stayed with me all these years but I'm so glad it did. It would be pretty funny if he did see this. It would be great to meet someone else from the contest.
Lol fantastic! Your drawings are awesome.
Thanks so much!! Glad you enjoyed it.
Brian Ashmore Studio I did very much 👍
This was so fun! I’m glad you and ‘Darth’ were on first name basis back then ;)
Oh, yeah! Totally. These days, he never writes or calls. It's like he's gotten too big to remember his old friends...
Omg I am 3 years older than you and I am a huge fan of Alice cooper. Lived kiss, enjoyed star wars and every week it was feast because it was Battlestar Galactica...
I love your drawings as a kid... 10 years and they are gorgeous...
Thanks so much, Malika!! It's great to hear from another 70s Kid. Such great times.
Such fun! Loved seeing your first published work. I was also a huge Star Wars fan, and watched the 6 Million Dollar Man, and Battlestar Galactica.
Great stuff!! Thanks for watching!
Oh, this made my day!!! You really were good at 10. Neat about winning "Weekly Reader". I remember it..
I'm 10 years older but had younger brothers & sister..5 of us and brought back such sweet memories! I teach JH. They "freak" when I explain "old tv, phones, tv change---children physically doing it for parents..lol)" satellites and technology wasn't around when I was growing up...
Alice Cooper!! KISS!! Im pretty impressed you continued until 1980 stuff..
Thanks for sharing! I REALLY enjoyed this
I'm glad you enjoyed it, Nancy! I thought there might be some "out there" that might get a nostalgic rush from the things I found important, back then. It really is amazing when we think back to how things were "just that short time ago" compared to today. I still am taken aback, once in awhile, when I think about how much just my phone in my pocket does compared to the things we had back then. A blessing and a curse. Ha, ha.
Hey there Brian,
My apologies for taking so long to get over to your amazing channel and subscribe. I enjoyed seeing you early sketches especially since they were all things that I remember as a kid myself. I went to the theater to watch STAR WARS with my cousin when it was released and we hooked on it ever since.
I am also a pretty huge Alice Cooper fan and still enjoy listening to Welcome To My Nightmare . The Kiss sketches were fantastic and you showed so much potential even at such an early age, thanks for sharing and it’s great seeing you again...or at least your hands...LoL
Take care and talk soon.~ Jeff
Hey Jeff!! Great to hear from you!! That sketchbook is pretty much a snapshot of all things I loved, back then, and they really haven't changed today. I'm still a Kiss fan, obviously. I also still listen to Alice and enjoy Star Wars (at least the old ones... ha, ha). I've tried to pour my time into this watercolor color channel at the neglect of the other one, unfortunately. I've thought about doing a new video, once in awhile, but it's been so long. Looking forward to all your new videos, though!! Later, my friend!
How fun! Thank you . . . I'm smiling!
Thanks!! Great to hear.
I love all of your art! Even the old one lol!
Thanks so much! It's always kind of fun to look back on what you thought was really good. Ha, ha!
Age of 10? Your talent showed early :-) Very cool time capsule!
This was a lot of fun, our son is a few years younger than you but we remember it all. Personally I really enjoyed Battlestar Galactica. Our son ran around the house yelling colonel Steve on the night it was on tv and took his dolls (Steve and Maskatron) everywhere. Later he was crazy about Charlies Angels too, t shirt and all. I wont go into all the Star Wars stuff he had...oh well, he was right we should have kept all that stuff, much like my mother in law not saving my husbands baseball cards. Guess its true, history repeats its self. It’s great you have your childhood sketch book, thanks for showing us.
Hi Essie! Yes! Such wonderful toys in the 70s. I was lucky and my folks kept most of my toys. Thanks for watching!!
Seriously, so much fun! Thanks for the whirl back in time (and hey, one of the drawings was done on my 8th birthday 😀
Very fun to see things that happened on your birthday. Thanks for watching and commenting!!
Loved how you spelled R2-D2, isn't it fun to see how life changes !! At least you had some variety, mine were all horseheads lol
I hope they were heads attached to horse bodies. Ha, ha. Kidding. It is fun to look back and see how we look at some pop icons differently, these days. Thanks for watching!!
Very brave to show this. Love it.
Ha, ha! Thanks!!
Awesome!! Thanks for sharing :)
Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
I had the same sketchbooks!
Very cool! Thanks for watching!
Omg the 6 million dollar man. Was a great show. You should redo the drawings...an updated version.
I should have started this 40 years ago. It's only now that I am putting my art on my sketchbook but I guess it's not too late.
Never too late!!!
SECOND! Ugh, doesn't have the same ring as FIRST! Hey, I got that same 6 Million Dollar Man BMV! Steve Austin may have been bionic and stronger than the average human, unfortunately, his vehicle was not and mine never made it into the next week! Great vid bro!! Did you ever get into Starlog magazine? Boy, I devoured it every month.
I LOVED all the Six Million Dollar Man toys!! So much fun. ... and, yes, I read Starlog all the time. Such great times. Did you ever put your own name into the opening SMDM sequence? "Steve Atkinson. Astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology..." :)
Never did... TILL NOW! Thanks for the idea! ..... hey, I just noticed, you changed your opening a bit! Very cool!
Why were you so afraid of Jawas? They're incredibly weak, lol.
ha! We're the same age ... And was there even life before star wars? if so, it probably sucked. Certainly not worth documenting in a sketch book.
Cool!! (fist bump). Right! I can definitely look back at childhood and easily classify these as pre and post Star Wars. ... and, yeah, nothing before Star Wars probably mattered all that much. Ha, ha! Thanks, Karen!