Looking Back at the Beginning

I'm having a nostalgic moment right now. I was browsing through some of my really old digital work and came across my first 'real' digital painting. This was done in Paintbrush, yes - that wonderfully old and basic painting tool from Microsoft. I actually started this image during a computer literacy class (waaaaay back when). The class was supposed to be playing Solitaire to learn how to use the mouse (yes, it was a very basic class but part of grad requirements), and since I was already well familiar with the little plastic rodent I decided I'd play with the mouse in more creative ways. While the gist of the drawing was done in about 15 minutes, I ended up spending a couple hours afterwards working on a pixel by pixel basis to get the detail I wanted. I had lots of fun doing this and even though I'd call it "archaic" in terms of what we can do now with digital painting, I still enjoy it all the same. Hope you do too.