How long until you were decent?

[Wolferbow]

I started my comic a long time ago when I wasn't very good at drawing. I uploaded it anyway and it shows my improvements from page to page but I was wondering how long did it take some of you before you thought "Yeah i'm comfortable showing this to the world" ?
http://tapastic.com/Wolferbow

[joannekwan]

After 20 years.

I mean, I've always drawn, and people always thought I was good. But I didn't think I was show-ready good until after my life-drawing class in college. lol.

[Kura]

Never, still waiting on that so...

[VermillionWorks]

After 20 years.

Ditto...and that's really only 'decent'.
I still really need improvement but I'm happy my characters no longer have chins that can put an eye out.

[Doubtcent]

I can say I've gotten better, but I'm still a greenhorn when it comes to art and comics. So maybe when I'm in my 80's and can draw cool stuff even though I'll be half blind.

[Pandastrophic]

Probably only last year (I was 18) when I finally found a coloring/linearting style I was comfortable with.
I think I had a style to call my own before then and people seem to like it but I didn't feel comfortable with it since it toke ages, and for months I just spent experimenting with different styles and stuff to find one that suited me but also didn't take 8 hours for a headshot. Then I when I started linearting with pencil and coloring digitally I finally felt I was improving again and I started making artworks I was proud of.

[scythe]

Agreed with about 20 years. I'm sure I could have been decent in 10, but only if I was really focusing intently on drawing skills. I got pretty good pretty quickly, say, over a span of about 5 years, but that was only after doing art for about 25 years prior. This shit takes both time and dedication, so I'm sure if you up the dedication, you'd be able to cut down on the time.

[rainbowolfe]

I started putting my art online when I was like 13 even though it wasn't all that good XD so it took me... maybe 5 years to deem it worthy?

[Waterdrain]

Maybe 18 or 19? I could say 20 but I haven't been drawing enough to see my progress ^^;

[jonufele]

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[AffectedMind]

I would say about 10 years. I think my artwork is decent, but I'm still going forward xD

[jmhenry]

I've been drawing since I was a kid, but drawing comics started in 2008 or 9, so 6(7) years so far. I got better, whether or not I'm 'decent' is always up to other people.

[IchiruSakuraba]

Still not comfortable sharing a comic just yet but I'm feeling like my art is at least decent nowadays. It took about 10-11 years for me to be able to look at a piece of art I created and say "Hey, I actually think that's good..."
I have plans to make my comic real in the near future :)...

[gateofselidor]

I think if I look back on the things I've created, I can only go back 2-3 years feeling in some way comfortable with my work. Any further than that and it all looks terrible to me. I've been uploading art online longer than that, but the earlier stuff wasn't even close to decent.

[heterodont]

I've been drawing for as long as I could remember, but I've always been forward about my art? There really wasnt even a point where I was like "yeah my arts good to show the world" I mean for heavens sake I used to upload art like this (yes this is my own old art)

I've never really been ''harassed'' because my art was objectively Bad back then which may be why I wasn't shy to show my awful art, nowadays I'm iffy sharing my art despite the fact it's good. It's more of the matter of when I thought my art was good enough to have commissions, but even then I was offering junk like this for money.

ignorance is bliss

but to stay on topic, majority of my improvement happened within 2012 - 2014

[kazukitakamura126]

I have drawn ever since I could hold a pencil. However, looking back I feel wasn't at a decent level until 2011. The anatomy was getting better and I was started to develop a style.

[Dranif]

While I can say I've improved, there are many areas in comic making that I struggle at still.
Its decent enough to show, but still forever a W.I.P.

[winglesscomic]

"until you were decent"

I'll let you know when the time comes when I can actually draw a hand.

[TristanJensen]

I kind of did the same thing for my series...

It was pretty rough for the first few months (mostly due to a lack of a program that wasn't on a trial basis*) But I think here is where it finally settled down (as far as style goes) to something consistent.

*and that I had zero clue what I was doing....

[shazzbaa]

I mean, I can look back at art from 3 or 4 years ago and think "wow, yikes, I can't even look at this," but honestly I think that will be true forever.

But the first time I can remember drawing something and feeling really happy with it, like it looked the way I really wanted to, was in middle school, probably around 8th grade (it was a cougar furry). That means I was drawing for about 12-13 years before I hit a moment of feeling like my art was coming out the way I wanted.

(I think that was before I really had a venue to post online, though, so sharing my art with "the world" in that way sort of came later. xD )