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Honestly if I regret any aspect of making fan art ("art" being applied broadly) it's that I do not have the abilities of the thousands of individual people required to make a AAA release.

I never made any fan works so I have nothing to regret. Thank goodness.




except for the one fan eroge i made where olimar and the pikmin are mistaken for crabs

GND No.009. Less said, the better.

Well most of my fan works eventually evolved and changed into better fan works. For over a decade I've been writing down documents after documents of information, sprites, sounds, sketches and more towards my greatest fan game dream "Super Mario Super Star"

Looking back at the ideas I had for the project when I was younger were pretty terrible. Sprites and ideas were awful. I've refined them and changed them but I still kept the same dream.

As for a legit fan work I'm embarrassed of... I'd say my fan fiction "Wario Story" which was supposed to be an emotional origin story for Wario. I got his character all wrong and I cringe at some of the lines of dialogue I gave Wario.

You know how, when you're in your younger times, you almost inevitably do something that you end up regretting when you become older? Yeah, I've got enough of those moments to fill an entire space colony.

But since this is pertaining fan works... hm. There was this(Tentative) sprite comic I made long, long ago. It started off as a crossover('Cause you know me. Huge sucker for 'em.) between videogame series, and later on I introduced a character of my own in the mix.

It lasted about 6-7 pages, give or take. And it took only up to Page 1 before turning into a colossal sausagefest.

Topic title Wrote:Fan works you later regretted creating

(06-24-2014, 01:22 PM)Kriven Wrote: [ -> ]Nope. Everything is a learning experience.

This is a bold-faced lie. Here's why:

(06-24-2014, 03:26 PM)Kriven Wrote: [ -> ]This reminds me of my first story, carefully crafted when I was four or five:

"The Power Rangers Fight the Bad Guys!"

I also had this little story book of MMPR that wasn't based on an episode, just kind of its own thing. It had the first five Rangers facing off against Goldar, etc. I went through and pasted cutouts of the Green Ranger because I thought the book would have been so much better with him in it.

Would you mind posting this story for our fair Internet's consumption? C:

im actually really sad that none of my sprite comics can be found anymore, that would be a trip down memory lane

Speaking of sprite comics, I actually have most (if not all) of my old sprite comics from my Smack Jeeves days on a single disk somewhere. I'm willing to show off most of the series I attempted to create, but just don't ask about my first attempt at a Kingdom Hearts fan comic. While it doesn't relate to the friend who turned against me and deleted an entire comic out of spite, I'm embarrassed about it because not only is it more absurd than my Mario & Luigi fan fiction, but also got another group of people to tear me apart (although I will admit that I think they don't care about the whole ordeal anymore and are likely to talk to me whenever I wish).

(06-25-2014, 11:10 AM)E-Man Wrote: [ -> ]Speaking of sprite comics, I actually have most (if not all) of my old sprite comics from my Smack Jeeves days on a single disk somewhere. I'm willing to show off most of the series I attempted to create, but just don't ask about my first attempt at a Kingdom Hearts fan comic. While it doesn't relate to the friend who turned against me and deleted an entire comic out of spite, I'm embarrassed about it because not only is it more absurd than my Mario & Luigi fan fiction, but also got another group of people to tear me apart (although I will admit that I think they don't care about the whole ordeal anymore and are likely to talk to me whenever I wish).

Well now that you mentioned not to ask about it on a public forum now I've gotta know

Did Sora and his friends meet Batman? This is important.

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throwing my hat into the ring: basically everything from when I was like 14 backward. I wrote so much fanfiction and drew so many characters and they were all Yoshi. I look back at the Yoshi fandom from when I was younger, and realized how actually straight-up retarded some of it is. Honestly though - it kills me because my "most creative" ideas were in actuality never really that creative - I always carbon-copy ripped it off something else and slapped Yoshi's head on it.

[spoiler=This is an actual character I had]

This guy is Bronze Yoshi [drawn by LunaYoshi - told you I was a part of that community ):]
That's him. Literally a bronze Yoshi.
His skin is not a really good suntan but he is literally made of bronze. Metallic, shiny bronze.
What the actual hell. It dawned upon me literally this week that this character's internal organs would collapse upon themselves given the weight of his skin, and that he would literally not be able to jump because he'd be all dead weight. also HOW DOES THIS CHARACTER NOT RUST[/spoiler]

I was an offender of the worst kind: Three fan characters, one massive fanfiction that I never finished starring the character above and some of my friends' OCs, incredibly lazy and slutty (un)original creation and love interest of one of my fan characters (the other one was in a relationship with another person's OC)
Later on my only one good character was retconned into literally Cammy from Street Fighter (literally did everything she could in the SF games, verbatim but a guy who reported to a mysterious figure I never really thought of either, just "mysterious")



Did I ever mention I never learned how to write decently until I was about 14?

Hell, the drunken fanfictions I've wrote are literally shittons better than the actual fanfiction I wrote as a kid.

[spoiler=A sad look into Kosheh's weeaboo heart]I actually kept a sketchbook that was a "Pokedex" but all of the Pokemon I drew in it were literally Yoshi dressed up as those Pokémon.
I only drew about 8 of them before realizing how daunting of a task this was (I also put the "pro" in "procrastinator")
I recently found it while cleaning my room with my girlfriend, and she opened it and thought my drawings were really cute.

I'd really like to get it back from her because she literally has zero idea how much it actually embarasses me )':[/spoiler]

No, but it was along the lines of making Jack Skellington an antagonist, having Sora leave the Disney kingdom for a completely stupid reason, including fan characters created by other people, trying to make a Neo-Shadow a scientific genius, using the supposed god of Mario enemies from Lemmy's Land, and having one of the characters a cheap recolor of Meta Knight. Had I continued the comic past 20 or 50 pages, you could expect it to go downhill with more outlandish ideas than that, so I'm glad I removed it years ago.

I'm sorry I let your hopes up with the Batman thing, Kosheh, but if you'd like, I could create a Batman parody the next time I do a Kingdom Hearts fan work.

(06-25-2014, 10:39 AM)Kosheh Wrote: [ -> ]Would you mind posting this story for our fair Internet's consumption? C:

Considering his age and how technology progresses, it probably didn't survive past the 90s.

Jack Skellington as an antagonist is kinda legit though - if you've never seen the Nightmare Before Christmas. He just looks villainous as if he'd play the role perfectly.

(06-25-2014, 11:23 AM)E-Man Wrote: [ -> ]I'm sorry I let your hopes up with the Batman thing, Kosheh, but if you'd like, I could create a Batman parody the next time I do a Kingdom Hearts fan work.

I was joking. @___@

(06-25-2014, 11:26 AM)Deathbringer Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-25-2014, 10:39 AM)Kosheh Wrote: [ -> ]Would you mind posting this story for our fair Internet's consumption? C:

Considering his age and how technology progresses, it probably didn't survive past the 90s.

It totally did. It's in that notebook on his shelf. I can see it from here.

(06-25-2014, 11:27 AM)Kosheh Wrote: [ -> ]I was joking. @___@

Well, that was awkward on my part…

Anyway, I'm surprised by how you're taking the antagonistic Jack thing well, Kosheh. The last time I went about with the whole "Jack is evil" idea, I actually got into repeated fights with several Kingdom Hearts fans on Smack Jeeves. To make matters worse, the only reason why I even went about it was because I didn't like that movie (I did when I was very young, but that's beside the point). Thankfully, it was actually playing the Kingdom Hearts games for myself in early 2008 that gave me a more open mind about him and got me to watch the film again after so long.

In any case, the next time I include Jack would be in a more positive role; however, the idea of making him an unintentional antagonist sounds pretty clever. I might want to try that one of these days (especially since I'm more than willing to shape Oogie into more of an anti-hero of sorts and maybe have Jack go after him because he doesn't trust him).

(06-25-2014, 10:39 AM)Kosheh Wrote: [ -> ]

Topic title Wrote:Fan works you later regretted creating

(06-24-2014, 01:22 PM)Kriven Wrote: [ -> ]Nope. Everything is a learning experience.

This is a bold-faced lie. Here's why:

(06-24-2014, 03:26 PM)Kriven Wrote: [ -> ]This reminds me of my first story, carefully crafted when I was four or five:

"The Power Rangers Fight the Bad Guys!"

I also had this little story book of MMPR that wasn't based on an episode, just kind of its own thing. It had the first five Rangers facing off against Goldar, etc. I went through and pasted cutouts of the Green Ranger because I thought the book would have been so much better with him in it.

Would you mind posting this story for our fair Internet's consumption? C:

If I could find it, I would.

You can dig around 12-year-old me's DeviantArt though:

http://sonictheevil.deviantart.com/

And this FF.net anthology collects pretty much all of my fanfiction from age 10 through 18.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8135516/1/Fanatical

I really would post those Power Rangers things if they still existed, but they probably don't. How many of your four-year-old arts and crafts do you still have? If I were embarrassed about them, why would I go ahead and talk about them?

Yeah there's no reason to be embarrassed by the things you made when you were five. It's probably really cute. I have an old video tape of a five year old me putting on a dinosaur show with all my Jurassic Park toys.