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So how did you get started in your art?

~Alphasunking Dec 3, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I got started to get attention I was a quiet kid so I used my drawing to get attention. Now that I use word to communicate lol the need or want to draw is not in me anymore. That's how I realised I'm not meant to be an artist or work in the field.

So I was just curious how some of you got started in your art whatever it maybe

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~Ceruulean Dec 3, 2012 General Artist

I saw my sister draw since I was very little, so I wanted to be as good as her and I drew constantly. I was considered a good artist at school, but then as I got older other kids became better than me in technical skill and I wanted to be as good as them.

I suppose I picked up the love of drawing after doing it for so long.

~Alphasunking Dec 3, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

aww thas cute my brother followed my steps too and now hes moved on too he wants to be a cop now

~Ceruulean Dec 4, 2012 General Artist

~Glori305 Dec 3, 2012

I started with crayons on the hallway wall. It was a long hallway. Especially when I had to scrub all that crayon off the wall.

Definately not a way to get possitive attention in my house growing up.

I have a compulsion to create, tried to stop a couple of times, never could.

~Alphasunking Dec 3, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

well if its in you no reason to denying it.

yeah I have a little kid (not mine) running around here that likes to draw on wall so I guess I know the type of attention you got lol

^FionaCreates Dec 3, 2012 Professional General Artist

I think inside every child artist is someone who likes the attention. But for me it was about more than that. I can't describe it really but perhaps it was the satisfaction and happiness for myself when I finished a picture I was proud of. And of course a little bit of glee when my picture was better than other people's... The adult attention thing never lasted because it got to a point where people just expect nice work from me, so a new picture was nothing special. I was one of those kids who just did well at stuff, maths, writing, etc so teachers tended to leave me alone because they didn't need to help me.

I've never won a school award for Art, that was always some pushier kid, who ironically is now no longer an artist, and I never got much attention for it until I started studying graphic design, and I naively assumed everyone who wanted to be a designer could draw. I think my teacher got very excited with an illustrator in the class.

Even if I wasn't a professional now I think I'd still draw albeit less often. It makes me wonder what on earth is actually fun about putting a pencil on paper. It's frustrating it makes me angry when it doesn't work the way I want, it makes me so happy and so proud when it does, it's weird what image making can do to you when for other people they never do art of any kind and still live fulfilled lives.

I think about how empty my life would be without Art in it. I wake up I turn on the overnight blog feed see what pictures have been posted while I slept. I check my emails and various ones are art related, I eat breakfast while reading usually an article where someone's rambling about art, then I draw, or look at more art, draw some more, talk about art, maybe make some money off my drawings, eat while drawing, then watch a movie and apreciate the artisty then sleep.

Maybe I'm the one that needs a hobby...

~Alphasunking Dec 3, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

"was always some pushier kid, who ironically is now no longer an artist" HEY that's me you talking about lol at least in my school.

but wow that's a lot of art in your life I do see the art in movies, nature and some shows but you take it to a whole other lvl I bet I don't know a fraction of art you know.

^FionaCreates Dec 3, 2012 Professional General Artist

I remember starting Art school and the tutor said that by the end of my education there would not be a moment in my life when I wasn't thinking about Art in some way or another.

She was right. XD

There's nothing wrong with moving on to other things, if you don't enjoy it why do it, but I just find it funny that schools can level so much praise and attention on people in one subject and go on to succeed in another they were ignored in. I was star pupil of the maths department, awards, the lot, and yet there's probably some kid in my class who's now an Engineer or doing a PHD at Oxford or something, and I'm an Artist. So sometimes I wish the maths people found that person and made them better rather than waste their attention on me.

~Alphasunking Dec 3, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

yeah I excepted that I just out grew drawing the only question now is what to more on too? that's going to take me a while to figure out I bet.

^FionaCreates Dec 3, 2012 Professional General Artist

Well if it's any consolation I've known forever about wanting to be an Artist but it still screws me over mentally when I think "how do I actually be an artist and make money" so.. I have the Art bit down, the money bit.. is happening slowly...

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