So how did you get into art? I'll start: it's a bit embarrassing, but as a kid I used to eyeball random fanart I saw on deviantart for fun
>>7839521Drawing Disney characters and learning from a very young age that it would be one of the few things in this world that I was actually in complete control over
I was always a big art kid. First stuff I remember drawing was like notebooks full of Powerpuff girls stuff when I was like 5, and it just spiralled from there. I watched a lot of Don Bluth movies and cartoon network/Nickelodeon stuff and would try to draw the characters or draw my own little OCs basically. Then I got into anime/manga at like 10 and would trace from manga and copy fanart I liked on Deviantart, that sort of thing. Lots of Naruto stuff, which is funny given the OP image.
>>7839521I was really into internet animations, particularly newgrounds and... was it sticksuicide.com? Anyway, there was a bunch of great internet animation, and I wanted to be animator when I got older, so I practiced drawing and copied other people drawings and also fell into the hole of art in general, all in pursuit of becoming an animator... unfortunately that wasn't to be, as 3D took over, of which I'm not interested, and there were no 2D animation courses in my country at the time, and as far as I know there still isn't.I still have a dream of working in an animation production of some sorts, but it's one of those dreams I now realise is almost certainly unobtainable, because I'm not American, or Japanese, or Korean... ah well.>Why not make your own animation?It just isn't really the same, y'know?... but maybe one day, but it still wouldn't be an achievement of that dream.That all said, I'm not too upset, I love drawing and I'm glad my love of animation lead me down this path all the same... it's the twists and turns of life, and all that.
first started drawing under my own momentum and became well and truly addicted to sketching when drawing my favorite character from an after-school cartoon on small sheafs of loose printer paper i stuck in my binder with a yellow #2 pencil during our 15-minute break between our earliest classes in middle school. >my before and after-break classes were next door to each other in a small plastic-chair-and-tabled atrium, so i had some time to kill in place.i remember finding some grainy screenshots from the cartoon online when at home on my family’s old desktop computer and staring at them for a little while, then trying to redraw them the next day during break, a few times.never escaped making art things after that specific startup.
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>>7839521Drawing battle scenes with my brother, he got one end of the paper and I got the other and we'd amass armies, escalating arms race etc. lots of robots (was into mechwarrior).
For some reason Microsoft Paint on Windows 98 stands out as formative. I drew on paper at least as much but it feels like MS Paint is where I really got creative and made comics and stuff. It just amazed me that you could make pictures on a computer and I did it up through high school. Then I stopped altogether in college and came back to it years later, haven't quit since but interest goes through peaks and lulls. Some sense of feel like a tiny filthy bug-person nags at me if I stop too long and I always find it exciting coming back to it.
redrawing anime key art i liked when i was like 11
My earliest drawing memory is drawing the Star Wars prequel battle droid
>>7839521Deciding I wanted a less time consuming hobby than vidya when I started college. Also wanting to draw anime girls doing cute stuff
>>7839521definitely copying from comics
>basically everyone in this thread drew as a kid and copied so that was the secret all along huh?
>>7839750Learning to draw and studying is basically copying reality. So yeah.
>>7839521I was symbol drawing NES video games characters like street fighter, mario, balloon fight, circus charlie. I even made cut outs and their background so I can play it when mom said that enough time playing on TV because she wanna watch her soap.
Some ancient anime inspired me to create characters. It was movie length, about a "goblin" who used magic to ensorcell a princess into falling in love with him and transformed her subjects into mice. And I found her mouse handmaiden...hot.I was 14 at the time.:D
>>7839521I was trying to make a ryona rpg maker game more than a decade ago so i tried to draw the sprites myself. I ended drawing as a side job instead lol
>>7839521I always really liked fanarts and comics and stuff. I started having some ideas of art I'd like to see and decided I'd learn how to do them myself. Simple as.
Watching Bob Ross on tv in the 90s.
>>7839750A lot of talents form that way, something something more flexible mind something something
>>7839521That's it.
