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Today I decided to bring some order to my archive and started going through it in the search of low-quality works to throw away. For a long time this has been something I habitually did - as my skill improved, I felt that I no longer needed to keep my earlier works around.

But it was completely different this time. I kept doubting whether I should keep going or leave that part of the archive alone; and how I should treat individual works. Whenever I spotted something bad, my brain went all "yeees well the technique is poor, but LOOK the idea was awesomesauce!!" or "weell yeeah both the technique and the idea are awful, but it reminds me of this and that and I don't want to throw it away". :/

How do you deal with your early/bad works? Do you keep them at all? I started to think that maybe I should buy another file and put all the bad-but-good works into it so that I'd never have to consider the question again.

Honestly, I like to keep and reread my early stuff. It reminds of how far I've come. And, if nothing else, it can be good for laugh. I think it's good to laugh at yourself sometimes. Very cathartic.

By preference, I keep everything I have ever done.

Except tests I got low scores on.

Haha, same.

A lot of stuff is gone.

I either threw it out because I hated myself over it, threw it out because I sometimes throw out everything I own when I'm stressed, or the computer it was saved to broke.

I wish I still had it.

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IKR? I used to be like this (because I had a good taste and my fic was pretty cringeworthy). It usually gets better, honest.

I think I'll stick with dividing it into two categories, yes.

I keep all of my old art on my computer, I can't throw it away even if I hate it. On websites though I tend to clear out anything that I am not at all happy with anymore, though I still have some old art on one blog because I'm too lazy to trawl back that far(might do one day though).

I got rid of a lot of my early works a few years ago because I frustrated with my art at that time and I really regret it.

Now, I try keeping my old stuff but keep it in a different location.

Keep them. Comparison is always good, and also I have some great memories attached with the execution of various pieces, whether or not they turned out as well as they would have if I did them today. (That doesn't mean I keep them all public, tho.)

Keepsies. A reminder of how much I improved.

I keep all my old stuff in case I want to redraw it some day. The only stuff I ever toss are completely un-salvageable screw ups. I have sketch books full of stuff I may want to back and try to fix someday.

Yes, I forgot to mention that I found a whole bunch of things I'd like to redraw. There's even a series of sketches I could make into a cool big project. Sometimes it solves the problem (as in, I can throw the original away), but sometimes it doesn't - I'm still torn as to whether to keep the initial work.

I... Have a lot of feelings about keeping old art, especially old art that you put up for public view somewhere. Going back and looking, you may not like it or even downright hate the stuff, but I say keep it. It serves as a measure of your progress. You can look at an old and a new piece and say "wow, look how far I've come". (That, and what you said about old ideas being good - now you can revisit the idea with your now-better skills and make it better than it was.)

That, and even if you don't like an old piece, there's a chance that it's a favorite of someone else. I cannot count the times I've had the urge to dig up an old piece by a fellow artist friend or an artist I've admired and found that it's gone. Just. Nowhere anymore. (Or in some extreme cases, their entire gallery is gone.)

If you feel the need, then yeah, sort them all into a file for older stuff - then they're at least still around. Only reason I'd ever junk something I did was if I absolutely had to for space reasons or if it was a false start of a project that didn't pan out.

I'm pretty sure my mother would sit up in her chair, be she on the other side of the planet or in the next room, and say "WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR AMAZING ART MY OUTRAGEOUSLY TALENTED OFFSPRING??" if I ever tried to get rid of an old drawing. So I keep them and never look at them, except maybe if I need reassurance that I have made SOME kind of progress.

Keeping old art can help you see how much you've improved. Whenever I feel I should give up, I compare some of my older works to how I am currently. It really does help.

Since most of my art is not actually on my computer but taking up real life space and I tend to keep scribbles and little comics and stuff I thought had 'potential' all neatly stuffed in about 5-6 big boxes (also just have this compulsion to keep all my work in progress scribbles and notes so one of these boxes is only filled with multiple bigbang projects)... I do go back to look at it all and then I throw away what I find too awful.
Though I tend to keep some stuff of every time period if I still find the ideas valid/they have a special meaning to me. I don't want to think about what happens to all this stuff when I really move to another country. (Not to mention some of my work on canvas, some of which is reaaally unfortunate looking, but these are even harder to toss...)

I pull an Edna Mode. Plus all I can think when I see my old stuff is how much I sucked.

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