Great work there. Were the above renderings your original models?
Family back in the States pulled out some of my old sketch books and sent me a bunch of random pencil/pen drawings I make in high school (prepping for media arts & animation back then)
Storyboard & comic instructor asked everyone to create an 'original character' in 3-minutes and then hand up front. That's where this one came from around 2003.
[Untitled character / character model poses]. This one's from about 2002 and was from a sheet of model poses for an older character I made back in 1999. It never made beyond this stage to being drafted into a running character.
Doesn't look like much but this one's from about 2000. My younger sister made a cartoon which was nameless and abandoned it after one comic. I picked it back up and threw this lazily-drawn card for the comic. There were about 5 comics made on this character but I don't think the name was as generic as 'Couch Potato'.
Drawn out of boredom in middle school. Probably around '98 or '99.
Another one drawn out of boredom in middle school around '99. There was a fellow comic artist in the class who was a twin. He was really disgusted by zitty, greasy fat people. I drew this and recall him asking me to destroy this or another one like it.
Toots
for speaking something relative here. I'm not here to step on toes but, I have friends using AI art programs to screw around just as I have. They're not artists by reason of implementation. And to define what art is: that definition is broad and unique to the individual. Most of us define art without a dictionary definition but by our own likes/tastes. Me, for instance, I'm a fan a traditional hand-drawn animation and comics. I love to look at oil or acrylic paintings but, I'm an awful painter as you can see here. But, you'll also notice this watercolor painting was not something I could do in one day. It took several weeks and additional detail and changes made before I put it down. 
kanjobazooie
mentioned discussion. Many great artists who were in this thread and I'm sure they're still running. Rather than have it be a now and then thread; maybe it'd be better to have the discussion in Communities. And yes, non-artists have a right to discuss art. You don't have to create art to love it, buy it or support artists. Look at the Random Image Thread. I imagine many posting there have a great appreciation for art.
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