**Backdated for historical purposes**
Except for my ORCA and BRTHDY16 piece, this was the only “close to reality” digital kid art I did from what I recovered.
Sure, it depicts me essentially driving a Shoprite truck, but I was a kid driving said truck. This was also not a short cab, being those sleeper cab types that I’d see on the road while traveling all the time.
No space battles, no outer space anything.
Just little me driving a repainted truck in livery of a real toy I had.
You can see I goofed up the hose hookups on the trailer with the green spot, likely going to erase them then being greeted with white space. So I had to fill it up with grass to keep the look.
I’m impressed with my 10-year-old self that I almost mimicked the Shop-Rite font for the time. I know it’s not exact, but it feels that it was old enough that I may have seen it someplace.
But the funny thing? I have dabbled in American Truck Simulator from time to time. I got it as a freebie from someone in an Elite: Dangerous gaming group, but never bothered to dust it off till October 2025. Admittedly I have thought of part-time truck driving with the way work has gone in the world, but I don’t think I’d be up for backing up a trailer into a dock.
Again with the date of this file, I think I made this in New Jersey on my relative’s PS/2, likely in the evening when everyone was visiting. There was no way I was using the computer this late unless something special was going on.
Done in Paint on a Windows 3.11 machine, likely an IBM PS/2 65sx.