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Why did you decide to start drawing?

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~Clampigirl Aug 17, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Or, when did you realise you were drawing more often/more seriously? How did you start? Tell me your unique history!

I think I began drawing when I was 7 years old or something. My big brothers had bought a Ranma 1/2 manga book in English (after seeing the anime in Spain

), and then I began drawing by looking at the characters.

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~Empfmil Jan 28, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I started drawing because I had douchebag classmates in school and needed a reason to stay indoors when hose other jerks went out to play during breaks. It was a way to shut them out and ignore them. I had to be around them for eight years, so that gave me a lot of time to learn how to draw and develop a love for it.

I drew so much at home as well that I left papers of drawings around the entire upper floor of our house that my parents got furious at me. Hehe... Ah the memories...

*JesseAcosta Jan 28, 2013 Professional General Artist

I started drawing because I had terrible asthma, and my mother needed to keep me preoccupied without running around and kicking up another attack.

Drawing has never stopped, but definitely declined around college. Busy with school, dating, college life, and started seriously playing bass and guitar for those years. But art always was more important, and came back to it in 2004.

Cartoons, and comic books were my inspiration. Used to draw comics in elementary school and junior high. And now I seriously work on comics.

*IntentOnAbstract Jan 27, 2013 Professional Traditional Artist

My first memory of drawing was when I was about 5 or 6 and I was watching my brothers draw funny cartoons and wanted to try it too. I have been drawing ever since. I didn’t actually start my current abstract style of art until I was about 17 and in college. It was a boring lesson in art because the teacher said to just draw what you want and I couldn’t think of anything, so I started to scribble. Half an hour went by and the teacher decided to check on us, as he walked by he saw what I was doing and said he really liked it and that I should do more of it. I have been doing it since.

~FluffySmartAss Jan 27, 2013 Student General Artist

My favorite subject in school was always art. I started trying to improve when I was about 10 years old. My brother started the hobby and I was just imitating him. I started out by drawing mostly sonic characters. I'd make my own characters over and over again. They were really just different colors of Cream the Rabbit though XD
After a while my brother lost interest, but I kept going. Now I'm 18 and trying to become a concept artist!

~Mr-bananasham Jan 27, 2013

I have always been drawing, I've always wanted to depict an epic scene, but I really started to draw more after I began watching "naruto" in middle school. Now I have been practicing drawing from real life, and I have been looking at one of the only comic books I have for help, the greatest of which is "kingdom come".

~JordyLakiere Jan 27, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

I get the feeling when I produce art that I am a god - I can put anything on there, create any world or character, whatever I can think of. This is mostly why I started and liked it, at the root I think. I remember drawing lots of dinosaurs and action heros when I was a kid. I also drew huge armies of tiny soldiers, because then that was my army - it was great

~MarpleArt Jan 15, 2013

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~lilmissann Jan 15, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I've always enjoyed drawing ever since I was a kid. I'm not saying any of that was good though, I started taking it seriously around my junior year of high school. I love drawing now because it's like an escape of sorts, I can listen to some music and let my mind wander while I'm drawing.

~SigmaEleven Jan 15, 2013 Student Digital Artist

I started drawing when I was 4. Baaack then I was just drawing some doodly scribblebrats.
If you don't know what that means, well, I couldn't know more. It's just crap.
Then only when I was in the equivalent of 5th grader I had the incentive to improve.
And yeah, I started drawing the figures that I used to call smileybots. It sounds ridiculous. I could
not agree more. And...I kept drawing those pale-looking stick figures for 2 years.

And just when I graduated to high school...
Considering I was so STUPID back then.
I just knew what a manga is. And...I fell in love with it!
So I've been improving for two years straight now. And I'm currently happy with my progress.

~Mayvi Jan 13, 2013 Student Traditional Artist

I've been drawing every since i learned how to hold a pencil. When i was little i drew for the sake of drawing. When i got older, i started drawing anime- something i regret.
One of the things that inspired me to draw was For Better or For Worse (the show), because at the start of every episode the author would make a drawing relating to the episode. The way she draws is pretty unique- he just places random lines everywhere until it becomes a drawing. I thought "i want to draw like that!" so i tried, and failed XD, but i kept going...
About 5 years ago i wanted to go into animation, so i got serious about it and started drawing many different things. I'm taking life drawing classes now to practice anatomy- it's really fun. In art class at school i'm getting a 96%, and am aiming for a scholarship for CalArts for 2014.

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