Trick question, I never had these skills to begin with! I'd start from beginning regardless, you fool! I'd probably learn to draw anime eyes like the weeb I am!
I'm constantly learning now anyway so I'm not sure what the difference would be. I generally feel WAY behind everyone else so I'm still in the same boat there. I never felt like "Now I am a good artist" so I won't be missing that feeling. Plus I love learning more. I'm a tutorial junkie. Yeah, not sure what would change for me.
This is a really interesting question!!
It's really hard to imagine not being able to draw anymore. I've spent most of my life drawing and its been a point of stability I couldn't find in any other facet of my life or identity-- it really is the thing that has made me Me for a very long time. But if it weren't something I had the ability to do any more, or had to start over, I'm not sure I'd pick it back up. I'd probably continue down another creative path, for sure, but starting over with something so time consuming sounds daunting. (I'm 25 now, and I've been actively trying to learn/get better at art since around 13. I'm mostly self taught lmao)
I once worked with a woman who had a stroke in her late twenties; she was about to get a degree in English and become a teacher, but after the stroke she lost all her education as well as a significant portion of her memory from the time. She could no longer spell easy words and had to relearn everything-- though she technically had enough credit for the degree there was no way she could teach. This is the closest situation to the one in question that I have seen in real life, and while she did not pick back up with school to pursue teaching she did still lead a happy life, as far as I know, just down a different path.
I'd probably move to photography/films if I couldn't draw anymore, rather than try to start over. I'd definitely still write.
I wouldn't say I ever had serious skill, but anything I'd built up is gone now, which is the reason I don't draw anymore/why I focus solely on writing.
Serious answer- I know a few people who have lost their skills due to accident or disease. The answer is if what took it away didn't also steal all means to still create in some form, they will still create. One can't draw anymore but they express it now through sculpture, another writing.
I only know one person whose sickness has reduced them to being unable to create anything. They sunk into depression and disappeared.
Creativity is a skill. So, sometimes, is breathing. If all my skills were taken away, I'd probably die.
Hmm that's a tough one to answer. For me the answer would be: if I still found drawing fun, I'd continue to do it. If it was no longer fun after losing all of my skills, I'd probably stop tbh. It's hard to say if that would be the case without actually being put in that scenario though!
Like the whole reason I got into drawing as a hobby was just because it was really fun and accessible to do when I was younger. I drew all through my childhood, and then in middle school decided it was something that I enjoyed doing enough to warrant spending actual time and effort to get better at, so I did. I'm like 25 now so I've sunk a considerable amount of time in.
The thing is though: now that I'm older and like have a job, and a more complicated social life, and ever decreasing free time, it's hard to say if drawing would still be fun enough to devote my time to if I was suddenly thrust back to square one... It might be, it might not be, I dunno xD I could see myself still casually drawing probably but I probably wouldn't have the drive to maintain a long term project like a comic at that point.
I kinda did it once before so I like to think I can do it again.
My arm got hurt pretty bad in a car crash when I was a kid, so basically had to retrain that muscle memory, it was a really frustrating feeling knowing that I could do something but NOT being able to do it.
Though my skills levels were not as high then as they are now because I was still a kid and learning I think it was still a pretty huge blow to my progress, as a lot of it was try drawing, get frustrated and quit for a year, trying drawing again cause I miss drawing, get frustrated and quit for a year, repeat process until I was at a level that didn't make me cry or destroy things in anger because it couldn't touch the quality of what I was able to do before.
I don't think I would draw a comic though, it's just a little bit too much skills sets you need for that that I would have to relearn, and I have arthritis now so I'm SUPPOSED to be working on comics a lot less than I do right now anyway. I'd probably just work towards being able to do stand alone illustrations of things I want to draw or just suddenly get the urge to illustrate, if I did go back to working I would probably put myself in a less demanding art field if anything.
I mean... that's my logical scenario anyway, in reality I would probably be like Miyazaki, retire, come back from retirement to makes this 1 last thing, retire, come back from retirement to make 1 last thing, retire, come back for this 1 thing this will be the last time for sure, retire, come back-
if I couldn't do art or music i'd just go into science or math cause that was fun for me or find something else to gain skills in. And not being able to draw means I get more free time and can play videogames or watch movies which I procrastinate on cause all I do for fun is draw. I'm not the type to be like "ART IS MY LIFFEEE IF I CAN'T ART I'LL DIEEE", I think i'd be more gravely disappointed but know I can find fun in anything else.
If my comics were taken away from me, I'd get into game design & programming! I have Blender & Godot! Just haven't really learned much about it yet!
Yep! And quite frankly, I feel now that I'm older, I have a better sense of what I want.
I would still have my imagination, and that's been the biggest driving force behind my work. So learning how to draw and write again wouldn't be that hard (at least for me).
Plus, it's not like this question implies my existing works are gone. So that as well would be a driving motivation:
"I learned how to do it once. I can learn again".
I would still draw. I view the situation as a challenge, just like other obstacles in life. I've had things taken away from me that I had to work to regain or even get more of over time.
Sometimes going back to the basics in things can help a person go further than they were before, because they missed a step. Sometimes I had to go back to the basics to deal with maintenance problems, drawing, working out, studying the Bible, and basic communication skills.
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