Tell me Your art origin Story

[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!

[ButterflyEmpress]

I've been drawing since I was 4, but didn't actually learn proper fundamentals 'til high school. I used to think that I had natural born talent and my art would just get better with age.

In middle school/late elementary I started getting into obscure magical girl anime and wanted to make my own. I developed an anime art style from making PreCure fan art and watching cheesy YouTube tutorials.

I had art journals growing up, but most of them were all lined. I thought plain paper books were either a rare oddity or I had to make them myself with printer paper. I was in 7th when I learned that sketch books existed. Why my parents never bought me one before, I'll never know.

[dan_thepainter]

I've been drawing as long as I could remember. I remember my older brother being good at drawing and he would sometimes make his own comics. I thought that was pretty cool and started doing that as well.

I think I started making comics when I was 6 or 7 years old in a bunch of my notebooks. Eventually my older brother stopped doing comics and stopped drawing, but I loved doing it, so I've stuck with it ever since and I've always wanted to show off my comics to other people someday.

when I was 18 I first heard about webcomics and webtoon. I learned that anyone could create and upload comics. It took a while for me to start, but several years later, I got a display tablet with the intention on making a digital comic.

[stiatent]

Same drawing since i was a toddler able to pick up crayon. My parents said i started by drawing vaccuum cleaners XD From memory, my obsession with drawing started with dinosaurs and then videogames got me into drawing humans (tekken, mortal kombat, street fighter, final fantasy, devil may cry). Got stuck on the games inspirations through kid- teens. It inspired me to create game ideas with my art becoming solely based on that. Studied and graduated from Game Design as an adult, which significantly improved my art skills and expsoure to 3D art.
Teens and adulthood, found myself also inspired by horror movies and Hindu/Buddhist artwork too which inspired my artstyle too.
Randomly stumbled onto Tapas about 2-3 years ago and it inspired me to turn one of my game ideas into a comic, and have been posting since​

[SpookyLocker]

XD nice! Sometimes knowing what we can do is a good thing

[SpookyLocker]

for real, I love the Toon link style, probably one of my favorite art styles of all time, plus it's timeless

[SpookyLocker]

I can't believe so many other people has such similar origin stories, growing up I was alone, I didn't know anyone who was into art or comics like me, I feel like I finally found that, Thanks guys XD

[conventurecomics]

I have started drawing ever since I was able to hold crayons way before computers. Then moved on to color pencils, water colors, and sketching. Project A-ko was the anime that got me into drawing anime, Inspector Gadget cartoon the original one also got me hooked in drawing anime, or cartoon figures.

[Lensing]

I started in the 1970s, grew up as a strange and antisocial kid, focused
on music as a teenager, got back into drawing comics when I turned 40.
I´m 48 now, I make illustrations, draw comics, record, play and perform music
and I´m happy. I had a wild life so far and I´m grateful for everything

[SpookyLocker]

Go Go gadget art skills

[thepenmonster]

I'll never have the cool confident lines of Barry Windsor Smith, but neither will 99% of artists so I'm in good company.

[2DLenzy]

Learned this about myself, but I made my first 'comics' when I was 5 yo. It was a superhero comic about a sentient acorn, body made of leaves "Acorn Man". Wild imagination since then. Took traditional art classes in middle school, wasn't that good, but discovered through video games that I liked Sly Cooper and remember teaching myself to draw from the game cover. (Yep, guess that's my origins as an anthro/furry/feathery artist.) Drew characters from that series for a while(but never showed them cause I didn't know deviantart existed) until I stopped drawing in my twenties. Got interested in all things 3D animated and taught myself how to model/rig. Animation was difficult, especially with the hardware/software limitations and kept building for projects that never worked out.
Through college, I took some art classes(advanced tremendously), and made a 3D animated short that burned me out so bad that I stopped the 3D for a few years.

Now, what got me back into comics was discovering Tapas, and reading comedies like Erma and the Little Trashmaid. Got the idea for my own "Friar Chicken" back in 2019, when staying with my uncle.
He and my mom were talking about 'fryers' and 'broilers' and me, being naive and clueless suburban girl thought for a split second that it was spelled 'friars'. That silly moment there inspired my drama/comedy and I got myself a tablet to draw it. Worked on it for almost 4 years, started publishing early this year. Got other ideas that may or may not make it here, but I'm focused on just this series for now...

(Sorry, that was a long read, but I hope you enjoyed it!)

[Emalie]

Good question

I started drawing from a very young age, doodles and stuff, with an anime style, I will say that it was like that for many years.

When I was about 16 or 17 years old, I felt the need to share my art on the internet and I did it on DeviantArt for a good part of my university life, but I felt that artistically I had stagnated. About three years ago I decided to make a change, with a different style and although I love drawing that way, I took the risk of doing it by drawing people's faces realistically or semi-realistically. I learned a lot with this.

I still have to improve, I am very far from the level I want, but I feel that I am progressing little by little. I'm not publishing a comic at the moment, I hope to do it soon and commissions have been the best way I've learned to have a more personal style.

[SpookyLocker]

Yo do you do 3d comms? I actually have been trying to learn blender, I wanna make a 3d city and some mechs lmk

[TheLemmaLlama]

I think I first began doing art more 'seriously' than the average kid through playing pen-and-paper games with my stepsister; like we'd design pet monsters that we can take care of and stuff, basically simulating computer games with one of us as the 'GM'.

As for old art, here's my old dA gallery :P

[missros_e]

I've been drawing ever since I can remember, since I was a toddler and learnt what drawing is, I always enjoyed it but it was only a hobby at first. As I grew older, I knew it was my biggest passion but I never pursued it seriously because I didn't think it would take me far in life. I studied Art at school as I enjoyed it but didn't think I'd do anything art related after that. There was a point when I didn't draw much for a couple of years after that and when I look back on it, I regret it because if I had done more drawing during that time, I would be a lot better at it now but I made up for it when I studied design at university I even have a masters which I never thought I would ever achieve let alone go to university, I had to draw everyday to complete my coursework for deadlines and since I have graduated I have continued to draw and have made it my career and try my best to draw everyday.

[Silver7]

When I was in the second grade I met a boy I think was named Dwayne, he got me out of the habit of drawing stick men and into the habit of drawing 3 dimensional characters. When I was 7 years old Dragonball Z aired on Toonami and I was blown away by it. Eventually I drew Super Saiyan 4 Goku and Super Saiyan 3 Goku, the SSJ3 drawing I drew with a nose of a different style than the usual DBZ noses but anyways, that's how I got into drawing