It Took Me Around 116 Hours In Total To Create All These Drawings Of My Childhood Objects From The Nineties (29 Pics)
I grew up in the nineties and I love to draw. The combination of those two led me to draw all my favorite childhood objects. From a Gameboy to a Casio watch.
I drew one object every single day for 29 days straight. On average it took me 4 hours per drawing counting up to an average total of 116 hours to create all these artworks.
All these images are made in Adobe Illustrator, making them 100% vector.
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I had my first Nokia 5110 before 3310 became a thing. Tell me how old you are without telling me how old you are.
My first was the gold 3390 which doubled as a weapon due to its uncompromising strength. You also only needed to charge it once a year.
Load More Replies...Well hardly my childhood, but I have fond memories of several Nokia phones that I had over the years. Never crashed, never broke and the battery lasted at least a week between charges.
I never had a cellphone of my own until 2019 LOL. My folks were like "Use a payphone. Why do you need a cellphone, anyways?" Tbh, I couldn't think of a good answer.
I have a Nokia phone now. I mean it's newer and more modern but it's still like this kind of design. Btw, I'm not that old. I'm just not allowed to have an iPhone
They truly are indestructible. Time takes a toll on everything, except for Nokias
I had the nokia 3330, I think it still works, it was indestructible
I wanted to change myself so I came up with the idea to draw an item from my childhood every single day for 29 days. I picked a subject I really like: 90's objects. That made It easier!
Even though all the objects are more or less from the same time, the most 90s item for me is my Gameboy. I've spent countless hours playing Tetris and Mario!
Mixtapes. Oh god the mixtapes. XD And waiting with bated breath for your favorite song to play on the radio so you could smash your finger on the “REC” button on your boombox.
And hoping you didn't get the DJ talking in the beginning of the song introducing it or some random fact about it. I hated that. Just play the damn song. Lol
Load More Replies...Oh trust me this started earlier than I’d like to admit I remember
Load More Replies...The one cassette I unintentionally hung onto since the late 80's. I would come across it every now and then. A reminder of an era that can't be put into words. You nailed it! You're awesome
Still have some. I still have my Jem and The Holograms tape that came with the doll, and my Cats tape I got when we went to see the live show.
Ah! My big sister had a Jem and The Holograms tape!! I wish the songs came in cd form
Load More Replies...and now, i got the music... tin tititin tititin tititin tititin titin tin tin tin tin
I'm really surprised I haven't heard some version of this played by an ice cream man
Load More Replies...OMG TODAY MY BROTHER GOT OUT MY DADS OLD GAMEBOY THIS EXACT ONE AND I GOT TO PLAY THAT EXACT TETRIS GAME ON IT IT WAS SO COOL anyways sorry for all caps
The most enjoyable part was drawing an object from my childhood every single day! The challenging part was finding the time to come up with these drawings every single day for 29 days straight! Time management isn't my strongest subject.
Remember when it used to start slowing down and you knew the battery was dying, noooooo,!
oh yes, and the endless rewinding and forwarding til you found the song you were looking for
Load More Replies...I much preferred these to the discmans. At least Walkman didn't give you embarrassment sitting on the bus with the mus.. mus... mus... mus... mus.. musi..ic..ic..ic blasting through your non-noise cancelling earphones.
I had a cheapo cassette player for when I was out and a discman as the CD deck on my stereo (well my parents' stereo that was handed down to me!).
Load More Replies...I've still got some mixtapes made for me in 1991 that would say otherwise, lol. At that time, no one was totally sure CDs would fully "catch on" due to their cost and size (haha), so we weren't too quick to ditch our walkmen.
Load More Replies...When drawing and thinking about these objects I felt nostalgia, happiness and overall joy. I'm a really nostalgic person and I look back at those days a lot. I love living in the present, but those were the good days!
I feel old… XD I owned/played the first Final Fantasy game… on the NES! I’ve played them all since then, even FFXIV (which is an MMO.)
Load More Replies...So many gems and sweet memories that I have experienced with this generation. Metal Gear Solid, Driver, Tekken 3, Tenchu, OG Resident Evil 1 & 2 etc. 🧡
That, my friend, is a Playstation. The original Playstation.
Load More Replies...I'm glad these are making a comeback. Now we need more roller rinks opening up again.
They still around in the south east... My 14yr old goes skating at an old a*s skating rink from back in the 70s that's like only 2miles from home
Load More Replies...I had a pair but I was in NO WAY coordinated enough to use them well. I’m amazed I got through childhood without breaking any of my bones. I wonder if I could handle rollerblades now that I’m old :3
I hate these. Give me old school skates any day!! Two wheels side by side in the front, two in the back. Well balanced. Perfect. These are ankle-breakers.
Check out my other posts featuring Super Awkward Flyers that I hung around in the streets for people to have a bit of a laugh. Click here for part 1 and here for part 2.
REW... PLAY... REW... PLAY... FF... PLAY... for hours on end! Trying to get each and every song lyric just right... writing them out with pen and paper to share with friends... long before the days of the ubiquitous printing of lyrics inside every cassette jacket... thanks for the delicious throwback, mmmmmm...
The last thing you wanted to see coming on to pubic transportation - no rules!
I've never been on a "pubic" transport, so I wouldn't know XD
Load More Replies...I remember when I first got to have a bedroom to myself (shared one with my older sister through most of my childhood.) It was so wonderful to fall asleep to the radio/a cassette tape being played at low volume!
I had my boombox for nearly 30 years. It was the Panasonic "hotdog" style and pink. It was a birthday present from my mother. It had been dropped, kicked, paint spilled on it, sawdust in it and it STILL WORKED, except for the cassette player. It finally died a couple years ago.
The original bondi blue iMac would have been a more appropriate choice. The style of the Mac you choose better represents the 1980s.
Except those are the mac's I had to use in school thru the 90's
Load More Replies...Anyone else feel a sense of sadness when they see Adobe Illustrator on a monochrome monitor?
Perhaps people up vote things they like and down vote things they don't like. But that is just a wild guess.
Load More Replies...I worked with a similar PC known as the Apple 2GS in middle school in the 80s. Very fast for that time.
I miss Adobe already. That computer brings mind to How 'The West Was 1+1' and that froggy jump game. ( Ok, ppl, I get it. Adobe is still around. No need for the downvotes. If it's about the games mentioned, those were popular in Canadian school. Thanks.)
Okay but - sideways jaunt - is anyone else here watching the series Andor? I started loudly yelling that the “navigational tool” the group was using on Aldhani was a Polaroid SX-70!
Love polaroid cameras since childhood.. started to collecting them few years ago, now I have almost 30, every single one works. Ahhh nostalgia
A late 60's version of a stereoscopic device whose lifespan ran from 1939 to 2008. Lived on in an extended life in VR format until 2019.
My grandma had one. I used to use it when I was a kid when I visited her house.
idk why that's a surprise, the SNES is an excellent system that has a huge library of games which hold up to this day in their quality.
Load More Replies...We have one. Got it just to replay Secret of Mana. Damn I love that soundtrack.
the controllers were dark and light purple buttons. The 4 color controllers were for super Famicom.
I have all of my old Nintendo consoles still… NES, SNES, GameCube… and three large boxes of games. XD I was a gamer before there was even a term coined for it.
Back when kids could have fun with non-lethal, totally safe water guns.
The neighborhood Super-Soaker arms race escalated like wildfire in those days. One kid had a 20oz pistol, next week someone has a big rifle with multiple reservoirs and blasts that kid and everyone else. A week later kids are patrolling their yards with mini-guns and 55gal rainwater barrels strapped to their backs while the tanks rolling down the street tapped into the nearest fire hydrant. On the home front public outcry arose from the tremendous cost of keeping up the war effort. In the field troops fell casualty not just to their wounds but to shell-shock and crippling morale problems common to all soldiers forced to march in really wet socks. By Autumn a general armistice was reached and everyone went to Brett's house to play Nintendo.
I remember occasionally filling the reservoir with other liquids. Heh heh. …no, not what you’re thinking! :p We’d put watered-down fruit juice or food coloring into water to stain each other’s clothes. We were uncivilized savages. I’m sure many a parent whomped their child because of the “Stain Wars”! XD
I had a keyboard that would play the “William Tell Overture” if you pressed the DEMO button. I briefly fooled a few friends into thinking I was an exceptionally skilled pianist by pretending I was the one playing XD
Oh my gosh I had this! Though I'm a 2000s kid. Looked slightly different too.
I still have mine, it doesn't work anymore but I keep it becuase it had beena birthday present from my little brother
Are you Ure that what he drew is an iPod? It just looks like a generic mp3 player.
Load More Replies...Now they sell them solved. It takes the fun away and I don't want to mess up a solved Rubiks.
And yet popular in the nineties therefore, making it a part of their childhood
Load More Replies...imagine how much it would change transportation, manufacturing, infrastructure and quality of life if the technology required to create a real hoverboard existed... (i like your icon/name, good nostalgic reference right there)
Load More Replies...Man, a lot of these are way before the 90s and some are from the 2000s. I was hoping for things like moon shoes
CX40 joystick for the Atari 2600 (circa 1982) console albeit, I've never seen a version with front buttons.Broke every one I ever owned - it was hardly a challenge!
Ok, just effin stop now. You haven't got a damn clue, do you? THIS IS FROM THE EIGHTIES TOO.
u do realise, that ppl can have stuff from their childhood that might be older than them, right?
Load More Replies...My stepfather had a Canon camera. He had all the accessories: extra lenses, film, flashes, tripod and the bag to hold it all.
I'm from Indonesia, and camera was damn expensive then, so my dad bought his in Melbourne, circa '89. My birth was documented by that camera and I still have the photographs. Dad passed away last year and in his will he specifically left his latest camera, a '09 Nikon DSLR, to me.
Can we all take a moment to appreciate the impeccable details in the logo stamp.
I heard that someone made millions by drawing soup cans...it is nice but who would believe this ?
Okay, I know that some of these aren't strictly from the time period they were supposed to be, but the author did work hard on them and I don't think they deserve to be downvoted. The shadows are super good and the detail is impeccable; that deserves an upvote in itself (note that this is my opinion and you don't have to agree with me; please don't feel pressured to up- or downvote anything!)
I learned to use them in the late 90s, when they were kind of deprecated but still widely used especially in shools and learning institutions. Not the "modern" 8mm stuff, but the good old 16mm film, with dated projectors where you adjusted the traction with a screwdriver and looped the film by hand. Actually had to take some courses for it.
Load More Replies...We had a real to real when I was kid. And an 8 track player and a record player with 3 speeds
Well, if you're born during the 90s, you'd be raised during 00s and you'd have used one of these too. Unless you're from Asia and used Samsung instead.
Load More Replies...I had one of these for my first phone! It was passed down from my brothers employer to him, then to me. That thing was a beast! It got dropped in the dirt, buried, run over with a tractor, the screen half-ripped off, and still worked for over a year. When I finally got a new phone, we decided to test it’s limits before throwing it out and submerged it in water for minutes at a time. We thought it was done for, and then the trash bag was sitting at the door waiting to go out, and the pod lit up! I regret not keeping it.
Which button? The home button? Don't the newest generation iPhones still have them? Why wouldn't they?
Load More Replies...I remember when my dad let me use his cans of spray paint. I was filled with joy at his trust. I promptly got gold spray paint all over the concrete in the backward because I tried to spray-paint a 2-by-4 on the bare ground. XD I learned about covering your workspace that day :p
"non-digital" spray paint... I'd rather like to see what digital spray paint looks like!
It says no cmd-z included. Cmd-z is the undo keyboard shortcut on Macs.
Load More Replies...I was too young back then to really view this as nostalgia, but it must be an iconic brand of beer as I keep coming across the reference in nostalgic media. Lana Del Rey mentions it in her "This is What Makes Us Girls" song.
My dad was a Budweiser man, but would often jokingly s**t on Pabst as the “trash” beer. He was born in 1942, but it’s something he saw his older relatives drinking (he was born in Minnesota).
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