Tell me Your art origin Story

[SpookyLocker]

How long you guys been drawing for? I've been drawing since I was a toddler but, when I was 8 I made my first comic about Captain Underpants, Never stopped making comics since

I love reading everyone's Art origin story, Growing up I was the only person I knew who could draw and make comics for a hobby, Very Self taught, which means I have a lot of areas for improvement, I might dig around for old art I can show everyone, I'd Love to see yours if you have any but, if not It's cool!

Always felt Alone creative wise, Now I see how many others had similar stories and It makes me feel like I found my people!!! XD

[Dei]

Since Cartoon Network days of the late 1990's.
Then anime was introduced to me in the early 2000's.
Then games (JRPGs before western RPGs).
Then manga.
Then other media.

My art style was influenced mostly by Kimihiko Fujisaka.

[RedLenai]

I've been drawing since I was very little since art has been part of my family (Dad was a frustrated artist, grandpa was an artist but due to schizophrenia got in the ruin pretty young), but began to take it seriously in 2009 when I made my first DeviantART account. I posted art, got in some troubles for being a 11 years old entitled brat.

Continued making art but it in 2015 that I went with my current penname and kept it ever since. Did some fanzines, illustrations, merch, found out I really disliked going to Anime Cons and considered a waste of resources since I didn't sell much. Focused on doing stuff digitally.

Continued making art and eventually challenged myself more, be it taking commissions and being the lead artist of a few webcomics until I paid for some stuff for myself or bits of my Hairdressing and Manicurist Career, to then paying my whole course for Professional and Casual Make-up. To then aim for even bigger things and taking full advantage of the quarantine to buy stuff such as furniture and home appliances to then being able to become independent and go rent an aparment with my partner in November 2020. And ever since making a living out of art and being my main source of income.

[NickRowler]

I used to doodle in my notebooks for school with a lot of my earlier stuff being inspired by Sonic and Neopets. My mom got me a stetchbook to draw in instead. Around middle school, I started getting into DBZ and I discovered the Dragon Ball manga. That sort of inspired me to make my own comics.

[SpookyLocker]

These origin stories are great! thanks for sharing everyone! XD

[BoomerZ]

Started young like everyone else, when back to college and got my animation degree. Now just drawing comics and storyboards.

[irresponsiblepics]

Around the age of four going by what my mother told me. I would write (as in how a 4 year old writes) and illustrate story books and tell them to her.
I even still remember one about a girl who lived by the sea. She dug a hole in the beach so deep she couldn't get out. But all was well as she met a monster who became a friend.

[faisalhussein394]

It all started with the lord of the Rings trilogy.
Then warcraft.
Then the big three anime.
Then Warhammer 40k.
Then learning historical battles from Kings and generals and the game of total war.

All these inspire me to draw and make a story, and later I found inspiration from the author Yasuhisa Hara's art style to make detailed battle scenes:

[SpookyLocker]

It all started with LOTR XD

[Innocynce]

I've been drawing games, people and cartoons since I was little... And actually had a huge hiatus when we couldn't afford a constant stream of art supplies (all the pens and pencils were for work, so )

Cut to the last 10 or something years, and with the rise of digital art/a way to draw anytime: I've been doing comics, story books, posters, animations, ect.. When I can. I actually have been trying to stop as of late, as I'm not getting paid for my art right now... And the need to draw is overtaking almost everything else​

[SpookyLocker]

I see you're a fellow Zelda fan! XD

also none digital art is expensive AF glad i took the jump to digital there is so much you can do that costs way less

[GumshoeComix]

started really young like most people
and in 6th grade, I made my first comic called Saturns Moon
And I began taking art more seriously when made a deviant art account in 7th grade ('07)
that's when I started to actually develop and work on my characters instead of just creating OCs for the sake of it

[darthmongoose]

If you believe my mum, I started to draw before I started to walk or talk. Honestly, I could believe this (even though my mum has a tendency to exaggerate stories), because she kept a lot of my very old drawings, and my right thumb is a few millimetres shorter than my left as if the shape was affected by holding a pencil or something a lot from an early age!

The story goes, that when I was taken to the clinic for my assessment when I was two years old, the nurse asked me to draw a person (like they did for every child that age at the time), and I refused to draw a person and drew Benjamin Bunny in a Tamoshanta hat, like from Beatrix Potter's "the Tale of Benjamin Bunny". The nurse, in this little Northern rural town was a bit stunned by this.

Apparently, as a toddler, I used to ambush any adult who visited the house with paper, a crayon and the command to "DRAW THOMAS", and if they couldn't draw a satisfactory picture of Thomas the Tank Engine, I would scream. The only person who ever drew a good enough picture of Thomas to leave me satisfied was one of my cousins. All the drawings I did at that age are of these things that look like spiders or a smiling sun; a smiley face in a circle with lots of lines coming off. I'm pretty sure I was trying to draw Thomas than Tank Engine and frustrated by my inability to do it because I was a baby.

[ThunderChicken]

I have always drawn a lot, but didn't start getting serious about it until I was sixteen (way the hell back in 1988). My comics and art got published in the school paper, and well into the 90's I kept on drawing, both on paper and on a computer (drawing with a mouse was not easy!).

Then, in the late 1990's, I just stopped. Unless I was drawing up plans for a building or a wiring diagram for an electronic project I did not do any drawing. A few years ago I started getting the urge to draw again, but I wanted to do it digitally. I dived right in and bought a Microsoft Surface Pro 8 tablet with active stylus and taught myself how to use Krita. I've been enjoying my return to art immensely.

[IndigoShirtProd]

Like a lot of you, I've been drawing since early childhood. I still have a stack of old marker drawings that is... somewhere in my house. There really isn't much to say because I was kind of al over the place as a kid being interested in a lot of things but mostly being interested in drawing. I was designated as an "art kid" throughout public school. Most of my inspiration comes from cartoons I watched as a kid, specifically Danny Phantom and Class of 3000 for the two main art styles I have now.

[thepenmonster]

I saw this on a spinner rack at a convenience store and bought it

I said, "I can do that!"

Summary

I could not do that. So I did my own thing instead.

[LostKelp]

Rolled a golf ball dipped in paint across some paper when I was 4 and thought "I could do this for a living"

[GodbreakerComic]

When I was little I drew Ninja Turtles all day. When I was an older kid I drew DBZ characters all day. Mostly Trunks because he was the drip king.

Then when I was 13 my best friend was a girl who also liked to draw, but she drew mainly fashion/outfits... so I gave it a try and fuckin' LOVED it.

So now my art style is very much a mishmash of TMNT, DBZ, and Fashion.

[VersusVII]

I started to draw seriuosly when I was in middle school. I used to copy pictures from the mangas i liked. Then I started creating my OCs Anna and Schon. What made me believe in my art skill was my art teacher when I was in the third year of middle school, he finally gave me the grades I deserved (the previous teacher was old and couldn't even remeber my name, so she alway gave me C or B for that).

[Innocynce]

Oh yeah, Zelda rocks!

Also my art kinda took after the toon Zelda style for a little while. I shoulda kept up with that, the concept art for WW, PH and ST is timeless!