Feb 15, 2013
An artist’s progression from 2 years old to 25
Marc Allante shares his progression as an artist with a picture from most years since he was two…
2 Years Old
3 Years Old
4 Years Old
5 Years Old
6 Years Old
7 Years Old
8 Years Old
9 Years Old
10 Years Old
11 Years Old
13 Years Old
14 Years Old
15 Years Old
16 Years Old
17 and 18 Years Old
19 Years Old
20 Years Old
22 Years Old
23 Years Old
24 Years Old
25 Years Old
Find more from Marc Allante on Facebook and at his Society6 page.
(via Reddit)
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Hello,
Just wanted to leave a little note to say Thank you for sharing this, its inspiring and very wonderful to know that dreams do come true.
This is a lovely story of a young man growing up, shown through his art work. A true inspiration and message to the world.
Yours
Jennifer
Loved this! I wish I could see the progression of my writing in such a tangible way!
There’s an app for that !! Kidsartkeeper on iPhone and Android let’s you capture your children’s artwork and add comments and the date so you too can see how far they’ve come :)
Incredible! His progress will really come in handy as a manager at McDonald’s.
Don’t be so jaded because your dream of art didn’t work out. Besides, someone has to be a McDonald’s manager … guess that’s you.
Just keep your terrible opinion to yourself
Actually I studied art in secondary school for 4 years. We spent 18 hours every week on theory-classes like: maths, Dutch, French, Geography and history and 18 hours on practice: painting-techniques, sculpting,drawing,… Many new students always thought that an art school would be an easy way to a degree and very often they would underestimate how difficult our education is and they would fail in the practice-courses. I myself have just gotten my bachelors degree in Archaeology and most likely I will get my masters in a few months and go on to get a phD. I really wish people would stop looking down on those who study or perform art. Our skills are far from useless and we are quite capable of building careers for ourselves. (in case any of you are wondering, drawing-skills are very useful in archaeology)
What a negative thing to say, geee
Don’t be jelly
cool joke bro, not even overused
Actually, if he could go back to drawing the robots, technical drawing could land him a job as an engineer or an architect.
Correction: technical drawing could land him a job working WITH engineers or architects, but those are both math/physics intensive degrees that require a lot more than the ability to draw. I would love if my drawing skills mitigated the need for four years of brutal schooling.
I was amazed by the drawing of the tree and waterfall when he was 6. It is extremely well done for such a young child…
Really cool. I’d buy either of the last two, very beautiful.
So he started doing drugs at 17 and 18, right?
Ha ha! That was virtually verbatim what I said when I got to the 17-18 year old drawing! (and despite the somewhat hysterical reaction to your innocuous comment it was in no way derogatory or dismissive, merely a humorous observation/piece of conjecture!)In reply to Girl.yes I believe that is what Jenny meant,she just put it more succinctly than you eh?
‘Bitter, ignorant people like you’ is taking this a little hard… valium anyone? ( I think that might be considered succinct, no? )
What the hell is your problem lady, leave this kid alone. Being an artist doesn’t always have to be related to drugs!
Been there, lol. Yeah I thought the same thing.
I wish the snarky comments, like Juanny’s and Jenny’s, were at least clever: that way they’d have an added value, rather than bumming me out with the knowledge that these people actually exist.
ditto
lol people on the internet getting SERIOUS about art!
I wish bitter, ignorant people like you would have experimented with drugs when they were younger so people like me wouldn’t have to be bummed out by the persistence of boorish perspectives such as yours.
If you have ever taken an intro level human cognition course, you would understand that the mind altering aspects of psychedelic drugs have broad implications on the creative process; subsequently, artists (e.g. musicians, writers, poets, visual artists) benefit deeply from the change in perspective temporarily afforded to them by the use of such substances. For this reason, people who are highly intelligent and/or creatively inclined are more likely to experiment with drugs (i.e. psychedelics) so as to attain a transcendent perspective that allows them to move into a realm of uninhibited creative thought. Judging from the marked discrepancy between Allante’s pre and post-adult works with respect to inventiveness, I was led to infer that he may possibly have chosen to experiment with some substance, and subsequently augmented his artistic insight and innovativeness. It is possible that my hypothesis is completely wrong and that he achieved this new perspective through any number of other means. I was merely posing a casual (and completely nonjudgemental) query when I asked whether this transition from his observational style to his cerebral style could be partially attributed with experimentation with drugs. As a person who is studying the neurobiological basis of human behavior, I am perhaps more interested than most in the implications psychedelic drugs have on cognition.
You know nothing about me as a person, save what you may have construed from my “snarky” comment, and yet you were so emotionally affected by my query that you were led to lament the fact that I exist. I think it’s rather alarming that an anonymous comments section on a silly website has the power to influence your emotions so profoundly. I really hope my comment didn’t ruin your day or anything… clearly I should have been more cognizant of delicate dispositions such as yours when I was writing it. Your comment betrays a significant level of closed mindedness and disregard for opinions that diverge from your own; I would advise that you temper your expediency to judge people by adopting a more tolerant, openminded attitude.
Wait, who’s having a bad day?? I’ve never seen so many words used to convey so little.
After reading this nauseating post of yours I am left with the question: how do you know “people like you” (me) with “boorish perspective” such as I have, have not experimented with psychedelics? Nothing in either statement conveys that thought.
Boorish, haha, I love that word.
You missed the point which was your needless snark in association with this young person’s art. If you really meant well you might have replied with “Wow, I wonder if he experimented with psychedelics in his teens? His artwork shows a real shift in expression that some psychedelics can bring.”
But I guess that’s what you meant, eh?
Wow can you please calm down Your original comment came off as snarky and dismissive of his work. Don’t be angry because YOU set the wrong tone with your comment. It’s not anyone else’s fault other than yours that people misinterpreted what you were trying to say.
Schooled.
And I didn’t think the comment was dismissive at all.
In fact, both myself and my girlfriend had the same thought as well. It doesn’t seem an unreasonable thing to wonder, IMO.
Awesome art, though.
:D
Are you two addressing me?
I was agreeing with you but I think Aaron is saying that Jenny’s 2000 word comment that says nothing at all “schooled” you.
Actually I think you did make a “snarky” comment and someone called you out on it. Therefore, you felt the need to write some long winded explanation about why you said something so stupid (guilty people are always defensive) LOL. Thanks for the humor. ;)
Juanny is a notorious 22Words troller. I just laugh.
OMG I’m glad I’m not the only one that picked up on that.
xoxo
I’m very moved by the 17 and 18 year old one! its amazing and has so much detail in it. So much is going on in that art piece!
Agreed. I wonder if it’s marked 17-18 just because of how long it took him to complete it. I know it’d take me that long, at least.
awesome!
YOU CAN PINPOINT THE EXACT AGE HE STARTED USING DRUGS
the 10 year old one made me think of Ganon from legend of zelda
fantasitic!
Umm…Everythin 7+ is better than me lol
exactly!
Whoaa, I mean, he must’ve discovered LSD at 17
Wow.. allready at age og 8, he’s better at drawing than i am now.
Beautifull! :)
I LOVE this post. I want to do the same thing for my kids one day. Sad to see the comments though. :( People are so sensitive, and others like to push buttons. Very sad.
These drawings are fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Absaloutly amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, really cool drawings. But yet everyone has to ruin it by bickering to each other through the internet… How old are you people, christ. Absolutely disgusting seeing people treat each other like that over the internet of all places. Are you people really that bored and pathetic? Anyways this is a really cool idea to use for anything your kid does. Very cool way to show how they progress through life.
17-18 is clearly when he started experimenting with drugs.