To do or not? (Please read, want help)

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I just want to say beforehand that I won't be online around 4:30 my time (EST) and possibly half or most of tomorrow either, since I'll be babysitting one of my sister's batch of children. I'll be sure to get to you when I come back!

So I've had a few times of this crossing through my head: should I scrap my old pictures I've made entirely, or leave them there to show people how far I've come as an artist?

I've made a lot during my stay on this site, more so than I care to tell. From the butchered camera angles when taking pictures of my drawings on notebook paper, to transitioning to sketchbook paper, then finally digital art where it was amateurish as all hell, then GMOD for a good while, and graduating to what I am today.

I'm a varied artist. Meaning I don't stick to any one thing. Lord knows, I've tried. I'm not good with that, at all. And with most pictures I make, you can obviously tell they're very whimsical. I don't usually plan them. They are inspired mostly from music I listen to, which gives me the idea outright based on what I hear. It's a really great way of coming up with new things!

But I was thinking that maybe it may be time to upgrade to a more... "professional" look on what pictures I show in my gallery. Every time I go to upload a new image, I notice my old GMOD pictures, along with past digital art I today don't find all that great, clogging up the "more" section of what I show.

Should I start shaving off the old work, and replace it with the new over time? I have a feeling I won't ever transition back to GMOD again, as I find SFM a hell of a lot more easy to work with, even though it can be hard on my computer sometimes. The only reason I couldn't get SFM back then was:
a) Didn't have a graphics card at the time
b) It was a dell computer with the most basic necessities that I got from a flee market.
c) GMOD was the easiest on it back then
d) I fucking had only 2 GB worth of ram for the thing.

In short, it wasn't made for gaming, or even SFM use. Just to do work on. I honestly don't know how I managed to bypass the ram usage and everything to be able to play games on it. I do know that I ended up messing it up severely up until the motherboard got completely fried and quit. Now that I got this beast from a trusted friend up in Canada, I've gotten more smart about what goes in computers, how to work with them, what can make them better, how to fix them, etc. Because of this, it's helped me save my dad's old XP computer from dying completely. I can't ever thank him enough for all he's done, so as a shout out, thanks again :iconswitch897:!! You've really helped me out with a LOT, buddy!

Me making this decision on whether or not to scrap some old stuff, is going to change the outlook on my art section entirely. The people who have seen my works before, will know I forever still have those in my storage or scraps, and know I've actually made those in my time. The newcomers that haven't seen them yet, will be seeing my newer works instead. Works I'm proud of, and can show with pride. Works I'm not embarrassed by, with the level of amateurism they hold (and honestly, they held a LOT. I was very inexperienced.)

So my question for you all is this: should I, or should I not throw my old pictures in storage to make room for newer ones?

ยฉ 2017 - 2024 Devious-Archangel
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Keep the old works up, especially the older ones and pick your favorite pictures and put them into the featured folder-thing.

This way, you can always go back and see how far you got since then. And while the older ones can be seen from the "more of"-corner, those who look at your gallery will only see the best stuff.
If you really don't like them, store them instead. Unviewable by others but yourself in this case.

To this day, I regret deleting my very old GMOD/early 2014 SFM pics for that very reason. I don't want you to feel regret as well.