Art-eologic Dig Produces Early CreationWise Strips

My digging around in boxes of saved papers and artwork has produced a few color CreationWise comic strips from 1997. These very rare, color strips were hand-painted on illustration board. Back in those early days before computers were used for parts of the process, I usually drew and inked the B&W CreationWise strips on Strathmore Bristol board which is a thicker sheet of paper somewhat like a card stock. Answers in Genesis started using my CreationWise strip back in 1995, but they were only B&W until either late 1996 or sometime in 1997 when the ministry newsletter became a color publication. 

  Apparently I wasn't to the point yet in my computer skills that I could produce color comic strips digitally so I did them the old traditional way and scanned them into the computer for use in the AiG newsletter.

  Here are three samples of these traditionally created strips. I'm guessing there were less than 10 full-color CW strips produced this way. It's fun to see these early comic strips and hold them in my hands and examine the lines and watercolor. They were made in such a different way than they are today. I'm glad for computers and the things they can help an artist do, but I'm sad that original artwork is disappearing as more and more artists produce their creative works inside the computer, leaving no original physical drawings or paintings behind.