Where did you learn to art?

[Roshii]

Basically internet, copying(from anime and Pokemon stuffs) and tracing(bases that is) since I was 10. And just kept on drawing.

I am content what I can draw so far, but sometimes I still hate looking at my art.

[Jenny-Toons]

I can only trace it back to 4-5 years old when I started to make little cut up dolls based on the Powerpuff Girls and Ed, Edd n Eddy. Then, it just spiraled on from there.

A lot of what I learned came from watching cartoons like Looney Tunes, The Powerpuff Girls, and your 90s shows. There were often times I would pause my VHS for a scene and redraw it. Just to see if I could recreate it.

I think I only started to draw anime when I was around 8, 9 years old? Even then, I was so used to drawing more cartoonish styles, it just carried over into that.

I saw a lot of what I learned came from passion and curiosity. The "Oh, I wanna try that" was my foundation, so I tried nearly everything I could as a kid. Making paper dolls, recreating scenes, tracing over anime to make the outline poses, reading "How to Books", taking the occasional (free) figure drawing class.

Just things like that

[silverraven0]

I draw stuff since I was an elementary school.My school half an hour drawing class is... uh, not that helpful. Basically in my years of being an elementary and middle school kid, 95% of the time, we just told to draw whatever. :v

My drawing is rather better than the whole class (if I can say so?) And I play with colors more then. And I'm mostly making some nature and copying random drawing or style most of the time but then I encountered an drawing lesson (to draw manga) when i'm like, 10 or 11(?) years old and my interest in doing that kind of drawing just risen.

It is very basic, and very quick speed run, but my drawing skill get better as time goes on. I try to learn about anatomy (though I'm still s*ck at it) from a book (I forgot who's the author/artist is but it's somewhere in the attic).

I sometimes watching the 'how to draw this and that' on YouTube, but not that often. Nowadays I only watching Ibis paint tutorial (that I almost never use...).

Well, now I'm still trying to make my skill better, but the progress is kinda slow. It probably from the fact that I'm only drawing once in a while when inspiration and motivation hits me because I'm becoming very busy with work, but I still going for my dreams to became an manga artist. (Am I going off topic? XD )

[YangKoete]

Mostly from friends and some free classes I took, but I am also self-taught in many ways.

I just grab references and try to force myself to dry them in my style.

[potatogirl]

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[MK_Wizard]

I am self taught and I referenced several styles to get things right. I learned male anatomy from Akira Toriyama (rest his soul) and female anatomy from Sailor Moon. I got expressions, action scenes and my toon style from Looney Toons, the Mickey animated shorts and the DC Animated Universe.

[TMark_Art]

This is an interesting topic. I wish I had realized how much practice and study can help improve your technique over time. Often when I'm struggling with how to approach a drawing or idea I do something like this: with each size increase adding a little bit more detail until I feel confident I can tackle the final product. Each time the drawing gets bigger it becomes more refined and I solve little problems here and there until the final product.

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I forget where I learned to do this. I think it might have been Jazza on Youtube... He doesn't do as many tutorials these days, but his old stuff is still pretty good, especially for comic artists and character creation. https://www.youtube.com/@Jazza

[lignorice]

Since five or six. Doraemon inspired me, I have been one to create spinoffs from series I like that include me (like if in Doraemon, somehow I am in the gang lol).

I learn by myself, especially my current style. I do not major, nor actually ever going into informal classes for drawing. Manga and internet's been my best buddy for this.

First, I learn from doraemon. Then, I stumbled upon shoujo manga and started to draw in shoujo manga style. Then, I stumbled more references via social medias (not that manga, but kinda manga? Semi realistic, idk?) Then somehow mine developed into my current style.

How long is a hard question. I think we learn until we stop. But if you ask my art progression, it's my whole life progressing until stopped when I got into accident and gotta redo the progress for 3 years.

How? Practice. See references. See other artists' creations. Can't say I am good in anatomy and sometimes misses some parts. I am not familiar with rendering as well. Still learning color theory. See others' videos and tips, try to apply, stick if it fits.

[ThunderChicken]

I am self taught. When I was very young I used to draw pictures of my father’s Dodge Ramcharger. In elementary school I drew comics (I still have my first comic book, made in 1983). Junior high and high school I got more serious into comics and even had my strip (Sam the Shark) published in the school papers. I was inspired first by Garfield and Asterix (though I’d never claim to have the drawing skills of Albert Uderzo), then later on by Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, and The Far Side. Even the Simpsons had a big influence on my drawing style in the early 1990’s (and it definitely showed). In the mid 1990’s I just stopped drawing for some reason. I don’t know why: I just put down my pens and didn’t pick them back up. Then in 2022 I decided I wanted to draw again, so I bought myself a tablet & stylus (Microsoft Surface Pro 8) and set to it. As I’ve been learning how to use the software (Krita) I’ve been improving.

[allisoncandraw]

I've been drawing since I was a baby. Literally. I just picked up a crayon one day and never stopped.

I also studied fine arts in college and have my Bachelor's of Fine Arts with a focus in Digital Art

[2DLenzy]

Mostly self-taught since age 4-5. I had art classes since middle school, got really "good" in college (not an art college, nor my major, but I loved it/did very well)

I had a long break from 2d/drawing to do 3d models/animation -also self-taught and wanted to work for Dreamworks/Pixar- but after a bunch of failed ambitious projects, got back into drawing and jumped into digital drawing/storyboarding/comics and done it for a few years now.

Still have learning gaps to fill, but I'm excited to see improvements and learn more, if I try hard enough, that is.

[RedLenai]

Where did you learn to art?

At home

how did you do it?

Started by simply drawing the things I liked, by copying the Covers of my favorite videogames/anime/shows

how long did it take you?

Still learning, but I've been drawing since I was born. Depending on what you want to focus on, you have to change the way you do things

did you get better as a result?

I think so, its a matter of trying, checking tutorials, tips, etc. The internet has lots of videos, pdfs and such, so those who search find. Then its a matter of testing things out.

[Leyelle]

mostly drawing from reference, be they old cartoons, manga or pictures of plants and animals or people. i watched a lot of Mark Crilley tutorials too, but I can't say i absorbed a lot of information, as great an artist as he is lol.

[allenT]

Drew comic at 10 (made a handful of half-done comic booklets). Joined art club in high school, a short course & a diploma on graphic design, was a photography shutterbug for the last decade until camera broke. Also was very keen of art movies & film languages. Likes certain mangaka' works such as Togashi & analyze their panels when reading the pages. They all help me to obtain the art & comic skill I have today

[KennethLopezJr921]

I never realized it growing up but with hindsight, I seemed to have had a natural talent for drawing taken from my father (he never pursued art as a career if anyone asks). And the first signs of it were when I was 10, which is where my artistic journey began. I was really into Dragon Ball Z at the time, and so much so that it got me to draw the characters. And not stick figure representations of them (which I did do most of the time), but reference drawing screencaps from the show. Two of those were from the Gohan vs Cell fight, the first being of the father son Kamehameha. Those were the only two Dragon Ball reference drawings I did for a while, and didnt start doing them again until near the end of my 8th grade year when I was 13, although I did do other reference drawings in the form of railroad logos. I would continue to do reference DB drawings on a more frequent basis through the end of Middle School and into the summer. And then when I came up with the idea of what would become my comic that July, there was a growing desire in me to improve my artistic skills to where I could draw my characters, which were dogs and I felt I was really bad at drawing any sort of animal. Of course, I wouldnt get anywhere only referencing DB stuff so I began to also reference Disney stuff like Lady and the Tramp which I remember being very embarrassed by at the time. I guess I didnt want to seen as weird for liking cute animal stuff instead of souly being into "manly stuff" like Dragon Ball Z and anime. I would continue to do reference drawing from Dragon Ball, Disney, and eventually other animes in the form of eyes into high school and midway into my freshman year in early 2017, I was beginning to get to the point where I could draw stuff competently well freehandly. Prior to this, I was only getting by on the fact that I was referencing stuff from artists and animators more skilled then 14 year old me, and trying to attempt anything without it was loosing battle. But this was a sign that my artistic skills were evolving to where I could draw stuff straight my imagination without any issue, though I still had a long way to go before then. As time went on, I would begin to move away from referencing Dragon Ball stuff and would mainly reference Disney material as I had decided to use that style to draw my characters, because I didnt know how I would draw a character like Scamp in any other style (yes, my current art style was a tactical decision made out of convenience). I would also take reference from artists I liked online. By 2019, my skills got to where I could draw a full-bodied character without it looking off or wonky, which was when I decided to begin drawing my comic. My skills would increase during my time in community college and that brings us to today, 11 years later, where Im leagues above where I was back when it all began thanks to constant repetition, resilience and hype fixation pushing me forward.

Wow that ended up being longer than I thought 0_0

[PoppyTheMerpasaur]

Honestly? I just grabbed bits and pieces of what worked and what didn't and mashed them together into my art style. I don't often look up tutorials, but I do when I can't get something to look right. Of course, the way I've learned is certainly less than efficient, but it makes my art feel like it's truly my own.

[kyupol]

Actually a late starter... attempted basics when I was 15. Put effort into getting better around age 21 or so. By actually signing up for art classes.

Finished an art fundamentals certificate from the local community college. Then after that, all is self taught during my spare time.

When I first attempted...

Present most recent...

[Lazy-Gamer]

Honestly, I had no idea what I was doing and taught myself mostly.

I grew up isolated, maybe one friend ( other than my sister ) if I was lucky and the teachers had a mutual hatred for me that I will never understand. With all that piled against me, no one really cared to teach me anything. This was around the time the internet was still fairly new as well so I had no idea about online classes, if there was any at all in that time period.

I just picked up a pencil and started drawing. Eventually getting "How to draw" books to help me learn. This went on for several years. Even when I got into highschool, the art classes were ridiculously lacking.

In short, I bullsh*tted my way to where I am today, lol.

I'll show a few examples of my latest works for anyone that's curious of my progress.

[vapidink]

My three older brothers like comics and anime so baby me was watching Saint Seiya, Sailor Moon and Mazinger before preschool. Obviously I loved to doodle because, you know, little kid, but I had cool reference material and a lot of interesting styles to look at. Took and art class in high school, was told I could draw already and took AP studio art the next year which was just me messing around and doing whatever for an hour.

Really improved when I got into posting my writing online and realized a cool cover went a long way, so I picked up digital art mostly for cover making purposes. I like to think I've gotten better lately, especially as I've been practicing more often. So yeah, basically self-taught and it somehow worked out decently.

[TheBlacKat333]

I have no idea man, I’ve been drawing since I remember, and I think I’ve always been taking it seriously, but I have no idea how I learned. I think I just copied parts of other peoples art I thought were cool.