What got you into Art/Writing?

[RagtimeMoz]

What got you into starting doing art or writing? Maybe you started recently, or maybe you're a veteran.

I remember really well entering a draw competition when I was about 10, I'd just figured out that you can draw characters from shows. I tried drawing Gotanks from DBZ and I was just so happy that my drawing looked even a little like him. Since then I've just kept practicing.

If you want to check out how my art has improved check out my comic and feel free to put links to your growing projects!

Ragtime | Tapas

[BLTX]

I kinda just come from an artistic family, so drawing is something I've always been interested in.

I'm not really sure exactly what go me into writing, but it started with editing videos for fun, eventually compiling some videos into an unplanned and very strange movie, and it kind of just grew from their. Since then, of course, I've improved quite a bit and I actually plan my projects out now.

Donnie The Fighting Psychopath | Tapas

[Scarlet_Cryptid]

I've been drawing since I could hold a crayon. My mother has old art of mine from when I was 3 or 4 years old and tried to draw a certain famous mouse. It looks like circles and scribbles, but it's concrete proof I was trying to draw the stuff in my head from pretty much as early as I had the motor skills to do so. Writing sort of happened organically alongside it, because I often babbled about what was happening in the pictures I was drawing, so from the start, there were stories attached.

I basically couldn't NOT do what I'm doing now. I don't know what else I would do.

What's weird is none of my immediate family is artistic. My dad is an engineer, my mom is a housewife/used to be a lunch lady, and my brother is a cars/machinery guy. I dunno where my drive for art and writing came from, but I'm glad I have it.

Renegade Legends | Tapas

[YS_og]

I hated reading and writing growing up, but something made me change my mind about it post-university. Was an idea between my collaborator and myself, but on a whim decided to start writing and never turned back ^^;

[TheLemmaLlama]

My earliest memories of drawing OCs and stuff was doing pen-and-paper roleplaying with my stepsister where we simulated pet-raising and farming games in a sketchbook.

As for writing; I just felt inspired to create cool stories like what I've seen in anime and video games. It probably also helped that I've also dabbled in drawing by then, which gave me some confidence that I could achieve that

[Swamp]

I was going through my elementary school journals recently and I have proof art and writing have always been pretty much my favorite things. (though it took me until age 10 to start showing any interest in non-dog related art or writing)

I got really into Petshop of Horrors around that age and started inhaling manga, but didn't get into making comics until around 8th grade when I started reading Scott McCloud and just... realized I loved comics. I started reading guides by other comic writers, drawing comic pages in my notebooks and making friends read them at lunch, and... yeah. Passionate romance of the century.

(But swamp, don't you write more novels these days? Yeah. I work full time and am composed of wet towels and glitter glue. I really miss doing more comics though)

[InTheEndlessMidnight]

I started writing when I was a teenager which would be around five to six years ago. I guess it was always there, but I never tried to find an outlet for it or I was much more of a musician than I was in writing and spent a lot of my time daydreaming when I was young. It just clicked with me, and I just kept on going somehow.

And by now a passion that I dedicate my off hours to, but it doesn't feel like work, it just makes me happy to imagine myself in some other world or a possibility. I guess it's because I'm naturally curious and writing was a chance to explore what-ifs or the depths of my imagination and I get a lot of them.

[Shomin]

It all started after I lost my job, the first thing that came to my mind is to find things to do.
And then it revives my 20yo idea of manga making.
but then, I might not live until I complete it since drawing manga takes time.
So I plan it out, write the story and draft it first and publish it.
Who knows when I could suddenly be gone with the wind? too much paranoia
And I'll continue to edit it and perfecting it.
One particular story is my main focus, then the other is more like an everyday slice-of-life.
The goal is to complete a manga within 18 years about a story I wish to tell to younger girls.
But then it is also to complete my own childhood dream of wanting to be a manga artist.

[TheLemmaLlama]

I might not live until I complete it since drawing manga takes time.So I plan it out, write the story and draft it first and publish it.Who knows when I could suddenly be gone with the wind? too much paranoiaAnd I'll continue to edit it and perfecting it.

I totally feel this! Which is partly why I'm keeping my comic(s) sketchy and not give a poop about polish (just writing it might be quicker but prose is like pulling teeth for me lmao) I probably won't go back and edit because I'll probably want to move on to my other projects, but I'm keeping them public domain so other people can if they wish to do so by some miracle

[NickRowler]

I always liked to doodle as a kid. I was a bit of an outcast and suffered from bad insomnia so I sort of spent my time daydreaming. In middle school, I discovered manga like Ramna 1/2, Dragonball, and Astroboy. It sort of inspired me to doodle comics. I got into making webcomics because I suffer with really bad depression and I needed an emotional outlet.

[Aeneas1]

Because I wanted to leave a lasting legacy behind me, like the Victorian greats. That's what got me into writing.

Nixvir | Tapas

[igneriss]

I used to draw a lot as a kid and just never stopped ( :
I think it might be my older sister who got me into drawing, as I used to want to do everything she did (2 years difference), but I'm not sure.
For sure she got me into drawing comics, and then audience in form of my classmates kept me going : D

[mountainwolves]

Saint Seiya and Power Rangers got me into drawing as a kid. I was around 4. I think I started drawing more compulsively with pokemon and dragon ball when I was 8. About writing, I think I was reaaally into anime when I was 13-14, that must have been it.

[CommandanteLemming]

Not sure what start the story writing itself. I think I just encountered a lot of stories as a kid and since I was pretty good at writing stuff in school I tried writing stories.

I do know what tipped me into writing a novel. I'd had the idea in my head for years but only wrote a few scenes. Then at one point I got super into a nerdy text-based online wiki-game that required me to write several paragraphs per day, and after about a year in that game I realized that if I could write every day for a year for a game, I could do the same thing for myself and write my novel.

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