Not really.
But it's fun to take old illustrations and rework them a bit. If you're growing as an artist, you should cringe sometimes when you look at some of your old work. However, as you may well know, digging out old artwork can be a source of new inspiration for the struggling artist.
Case in point. The following is an old illustration I did for my senior exhibit in college back in 1999. I actually started the drawing early in 1998. I was hanging out alot with a fellow artist named David Birkey who's stuff still blows me away. Anyhow, David does these killer landscapes that are rendered in a very non-painterly, detailed way. They're beautiful. So naturally, I tried to emulate his stuff and it turned out ok I suppose.
For this piece, the idea and the imagination trumps the actual piece. But there's still a weird vibrancy that I dug. As I was gathering some art for an exhibit I have in March I looked long and hard at this piece and decided to risk obliterating it by taking it out of the frame and tightening it up a bit.
The piece still isn't stunning. the light source isn't very dramatic, but it does look better. The landscape is a bit more defined and toned down, and I added some detail to the figures and architecture to make them pop a bit.
The piece is called "Battle Above the Great City." Enjoy.
