I'm contemplating got through them and pulling out the good works and getting rid of the rest. Still, I'm ambivalent.

For example, I'm not ever going to make a comic book series about foot high American Indian elves with magical powers.....so should I keep the character sketches?

What do you do?

Depends on whether it has any value to you. me I get rid of stuff unless i need it.

I horde.

I get rid of stuff if I'm desperate for space or something though... But if you're not, why bother?

Don't toss out stuff just for the sake of it. Creation takes time and effort, takes work. This equals value just like any other work. Throwing away creation when it isn't needed is like wasting water for the sake of it, or wasting electricity for fun or blocking a toilet with toilet paper, or killing plants or animals for fun.



I look at things in my own peculiar way. :)

Most of my sketches are on looseleaf, so I'm usually able to cull the herd from time to time. If I were in a severe pinch for space, I might even go so far as trimming the binding off my sketchbooks to keep the good stuff. My general rule is that if I can pick up a picture and remember any of the conceptual underpinnings of it- that sucker stays. At the very least, going through old sketches is like remembering old tv shows you liked (even if you wouldn't admit to liking them now).

I hoard both my old loose pages of sketches and notebooks. They're in an old garbage bag in my closet. I just feel odd getting rid of them. Not even so much for the content, but they reflected a part of who I was at the time when I wrote/drew on them.

I never throw away my sketchbooks. Partly because of my packrat tendencies, and partly because I've got the memory of a goldfish.

Seriously I've got like 6 hardback sketchbooks sitting on my desk (underneath about $27 worth of soda cans) that are full of things I had completely forgotten about. It's crazy some of the stuff in these things.

I have to because a lot of them make my eyes bleed.

Like last month's stuff.

I hate doing so, but I sometimes do. If I kept everything that I create, I'd have twice as much luggage to take with me everytime I move, which is quite often these times.

Only if, for some reason, the quality degrades on them to the point that they are unreadable. Otherwise, I try to save all my sketches and sketchbooks.

I never get rid of anything. Ever.

No seriously, I have art that I made from when I was 14 in a trunk in my room. When I was younger, I was going to throw them away at one point but my art teacher strictly told me never to, so I never did.

You shouldn't throw them away because mostly it's there to show you how you've improved over the years. Seriously, it's a nice ego boost to sit down and say, "Wow, I drew like crap as a teenager! Glad I grew out of that!" It also can show you what you can still improve on as well.

Ehh...

Yes and no.

If the memory is good, yeah. If it's of value, sure, like original concept work and the like. But I rarely touch the pencil and paper for some reason, so I don't have anything beyond my doodles from High School. Some guy I knew stole everything else I used to own, so I guess that's why I don't do it.

Nope. I never toss a Sketchbook. I even have them labeled in order. Volume 1, 2, 3, etc.

The early stuff may look horrendous, but it's a reminder of how far I've come. And gives a good idea of how and where I've progressed.

Another fun thing is, characters and designs I did a long time ago and abandoned, I can find them again in those old sketches and then re-draw/redesign them to be much better than they used to. Maybe even usuable again in whatever I'm working on.

It's actually a lot of fun and quite satisfying.

Me, never. Everyone else seems to think they can throw my sketches away. My mom threw all my childhood drawings away, I guess they weren't refrigerator material. Other than that I rarely sketch anymore. I pretty much sit down to draw a comic and what I draw is the Cowtoon for the day.

I don't throw mine out.

You really shouldn't throw ANY of your drawings out, good or bad if you aim to improve. Getting rid of your bad drawings means that you aren't learning from your mistakes. : )

Nope, yet another pack rat, although I don't have much of a collection accumulated. yet.

Not only that, but I have 2 back-ups of the multi-layered photoshop files.

I'm self-taught and I can't throw out the instructor's lessons. When it becomes too much to keep track of then I'll do a cleansing. But I'm not there yet.

I throw out a lot. I don't have regrets throwing out most of them mainly because the old art isn't as good as I desired IMHO.

The only stuffs I don't throw out are the comics I recently created.

I dont. Whenever I'm in a slump state I usually go back to some of the pages and some of ideas embedded in them will get me started again.

Not to mention the trip down to memory lane factor.