How did you get into art/your field of creativity?

[Kayke]

I've always loved art so my dad taught me how to use charcoal and oils and took me to art museums and that sort of thing... but I actually got interested in comics through film? I was always really into film (another thing I got from my dad) and I picked up a lot of storytelling from that.

When I was going to college I knew I loved drawing and storytelling and that comics would let me do both those things, so I majored in illustration and took play writing and film studies classes as electives. Comics and film are really intertwined in my mind because it's all about pacing and framing images.

[ItsKkYo]

I've been drawing since I was small. My uncle gave me my first how to draw book when I was in 4th grade and I liked drawing at that point, but I wanted to be a writer or a singer. In middle school I fell in love with manga and decided I wanted to be a "mangaka". I started drawing comics in 6th and 7th grade. I was reading a lot of art books at that point. After 7th grade I quit choir and started taking art classes. And I took art classes all throughout high school.

When I graduated from high school, I wanted to be an animator or a game designer, but the closest thing my community college has is graphic design with an emphasis on animation So I started studying graphic design. I'm trying to teach myself animation on the back burners.

[punkarsenic]

ive always drawn, and loved art, but got into comics via the manga route at 12 or 13. i slowly transitioned to western comics and stopped reading manga for a combination of disinterest and not having enough space for manga readers on my phone. i didnt really start making comics until i discovered tapastic, though, and it all became suddenly possible.

on like the other side of the arts im also a theatre technician, which i fell on my arse backwards into because i had to take two years of further education by law and it sounded good, and i needed the skills for running events in the poetry circuit (its all connected~~~) technical theatres so easy to fall in love w tho - i have to more or less quit it to focus on comics and art and poetry, but its gonna be crazy difficult to quit.

[kyupol]

Out of the burning need to put stories into visual format. Never one to draw for the sake of drawing.

This is why to this day, when I'm not doing a comic panel, I get mental block and at least 1/2 my skills go out the window... Lol

[AmysGames]

Like a lot of other people here, I've been drawing for as long as I can remember, haha.

As for how I got into comics, idk, I guess I've always loved the idea of telling stories through a visual medium. So when I found out that manga and webcomics were a thing, naturally I wanted to try it out. And now here I am!

[miesmud]

I hate to admit it, but Chris Hart is mainly the reason why I started drawing.
I got thsese bad boys when I was 11 or 12 I think.

[Shanny8]

@miesmud my first exposure to manga was when I was in art school(in the early 90s), started buying Silent Mobius by Kia Asamiya. I then moved on to You're Under Arrest & Oh My Goddess(Fujishima), and then moved to Gunsmith Cats by Kenichi Sonada.

[NickRowler]

I always liked coming up with stories in my head. Around 4th grade I started to doodle more. When I was in middle school, I started to write a "gag-a-day" comic and decided to expand on that and make something more story driven. I had a 5 subject note book which I drew thumbnail comics in. I carried that thing everywhere and all through high school.

I guess I was inspired a little by TV shows, like Dragon Ball Z. I remember first discovering manga in middle school and was surprised that a comic could be more than just superheroes. I think in small parts I pull a little from the Simpsons.

[madis_art]

I like how a ton of us all started drawing in 4th grade lol^^

[Vanesalisa]

mine was W.I.T.C.H comics

[rmdooley]

I was studying biology in college and needed to present a field study to a non-science audience in a way that would be engaging and easy for them to understand

I chose to do it in a digital comic format and the rest is history

[Cherry_sama]

I was bored one day while waiting for my mom to finish stuff at the Church (because she dragged me along), and I drew my first comic. I still have it. My mom said I was in Grade 3 at the time.

[NeonKnight]

Drawing since I was a kid, but I was never good at that, instead I was always a great writer, anyway I never stopped making comics. Over time I gave up and even tried to become a mathematician, but since that was not for me, I took drawing classes and what I did amazed me. In Realism I am very good but the manga style makes it difficult for me, anyway i always try to improve, and after a year learning to draw (at least in a decent way) I decided to make a comic here.

[MST3KFan]

I have been drawing since apparently I could hold a pencil. (The drawings on our older wooden furniture pretty much told that as proof)

Anyway, once I got into elementary school I was always attempting to draw stuff I liked at the time. Looney Tunes, Ninja Turtles, Simpsons, Super Mario Bros, etc...

By middle school I attempted to do comics based off people I knew. Basically just 'slice of life' I guess before that term was really coined.

High school was when I discovered manga and anime and started to really emulate the artstyles of many artists I grew to enjoy, somehow having all those styles mix together into what I guess was my own.

Years later, I had kind of reduced my drawings to simple doodles in notebooks or sketchbooks I brought with me to places. And got myself eventually back into things as drawing again, has pretty much been a part of my life since I can remember.

[scarlet_wings_kaili]

This is kind of a funny but long-ish story so hang on.

I started speaking fairly late, so I found my expression through drawing. Fast forward to Grade. 1... the teacher was giving out worksheets and it asked: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" At that point, I was behind compared to my peers, and since I couldn't read I started to draw instead. This teacher of mine was particularly impatient with me and once she discovered I did not answer the question, she grabbed the sheet and wrote down "Artist". When I went home, I asked my mom what an artist was. Decided that people who draw all day were pretty cool so it was pretty much a straight path from there.

[sainity]

I've always drawn, I've drawn ever since I can remember and it is because my family and older brothers very really into drawing so that's what I did too. I got into comics very young when I saw my older brothers' comic which was quite funny. Most of the comics I drew were about video game characters like Kirby, Bouapha, Sonic, Mario and here and there I drew something "original". I think I drew my first own comic book in 2003-2004. My comics had always been drawn traditionally with just pencil and paper, nothing special. I still draw like that but I started to also draw digitally in 2015.

[TeAlb]

I guess little kids always draw, but the 1st time I saw Saint Seiya on tv was a magical encounter? lol I started copying the drawing and it's when I remember that I started to wish I could draw as well as that when I grew up (I know that sounds hilarious now).
Guess I had other moments that helped to keep my interest alive though, like Mulan came for me in a age when I think kids start losing interest in drawing, but then I watched it and became obsessed with drawing horses. lol A few years later I'd get interested in anime and manga all over again and from there my interest for art and culture just grew overall.

[Barr]

I read lots of things and listen to music, when i listen to music i can think of a situation and then think of characters. Its weird, i know, but it works for me.

[LCT_m_a_d]

I was kind of a late bloomer. I got into art around middleschool. Late nights I would doodle looneytoon characters and graffiti designs as a stress reliever from school stuff.

[Starfestival]

Around 5th grade one of my classmates showed everyone a drawing of Shadow the Hedgehog he "drew". Now he may or may not have traced it, and I didn't realize that until years later when I had been drawing trying to reach the level I thought he was on, but yeah. That's what really kicked off me drawing.