How did you into art /ic/?

>age 4
>mom works for days on painting
>beautiful seaside sunset
>take painting while she isn't looking
>copy it using crayon
>on back of painting
>proudly show it off to mum
>asswhooping

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>>2797753
i hate to admit it but neopets
i was one of those ten year old girls who made sparkledogs and petpages for our speshul wolf OCs with tragic pasts to explain how they ended up as our pets in the first place. i made no friends on neopets because i sucked at roleplaying so i continued focusing on drawing and surpassing everyone and then eventually leaving neopets for deviantart while the rest still play neopets to this day and never improved their art skills, or they went over to tumblr to become SJWs

>be 17 or 18 years old
>watch this anime called Bakuman
>start reading the manga
>start "reading" other manga by the same author
>want to become a neet gaijin manga artist
>want to impress girls with my animu skills, wish to draw ecchi and hentai
>start drawing shitty manga characters
>markcrilley.exe
>find out about Riven Phoenix
>start memorizing anatomy through formulas
>realize that Riven Phoenix is not that good, move on
>Proko, Kim Jung Gi, /ic/ etc
>improve a lot
>get tired on art, focus on music instead (im a singer) for one year
>get depressed, start doing art for fun instead, realize that it's fun and I don't have to do it professionally
>realize that Loomis is a meme
>gesture drawing is a meme
>the only way to draw like Kim Jung Gi is to draw like Kim Jung Gi
>realize that Riven Phoenix (Phoenix's drawings look bad though) + Peter Han were right all along, form comes first (along with decent perspective), anatomy is second, gesture comes naturally.

One man draws my fetish 4 times a year.

I just drew since I was very little, people taught I had talent. I didn't. Realized 2,5 years ago that I suck. Worked really hard since..

> be 14
> be bad at drawing
> desperately want calarts fuck me up the ass
> apply
> get rejected
> decide to become a nurse for financial/job security
> still draw a fuck ton but without art school debt

>>2797753
>be 19 yo I think?
>be the average 4chan anon, high on anime porn
>decide I want to draw my own animus
>read the sticky, print Loomis, Vilppu, Hampton and Perspective made easy
>study a little
>procrastinate
>procrastinate some more
>uni test season = absolute drawing procrastination
>now back at doing anatomy studies

>be 4
>draw smiley faces on the back of couch cushions
My earliest memory. Mum was mad

>>2797753
I also sold hand drawn yugi-oh cards back in school. I had drawn a blue eyes white dragon in my notebook and one kid saw it and was like"DUUUUUUDE". So what happened is that I was held in esteem almost as highly as the mother fucking Yugi Moto in flesh, and so I made hand drawn cards for a short while... Until I was put out of commision by printed cards sold at every newsstand, once it was clear it was easy dosh from kids.

For a while it was almost like I was a sucessfull artist, it was a good feel...I want to do it again now, but for real this time.

I would draw really weird cartoons on my grandpa's navy yearbook around 4-5 years old, don't ever remember getting in trouble for it but I would have a blast imagining personalities and adventures for each of them

Feel kinda shitty for doing it now

>>2797753
>Been drawing ever since I can remember up until one point
>Always drew crappy copies of anime pictures and classmates inflated my already huge ego
>Meet another classmate who draws in 5th grade
>He's really good
>And he doesn't copy
>Art looks so good I accuse him of tracing
>He didn't
>He tells me my art sucks
>Quit
Sometimes now I still think about trying to draw again but that memory always comes back up

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>>2797753
>be 5 years old
>mom got send to the middle of nowhere as a teacher
>the entire town population was less than 100
>no toys shop or anything else other than essential things
>i spend the time exploring innawoods, drawing and using pencils as if they were action figures
>turn 8 mom buys a 5 volume encyclopedia from a random guy
>while i was reading them i began making a list of the artists names since i was extremly curious about them
<in hs i was >thatguy who seated at the back drawing teachers cartoon-ish portraits and edgy skulls
>fast forward a few years and now i'm about to graduate from cs while having a small income on the side making illustrations and posters

i still have that list b.t.w
http://pastebin.com/XZzCWX5b

>>2797932
youre supposed to get better every time someone tells you your art sucks anon
suck it up and pick up a fucking pencil

>be 12 years old and really into eminem
>decide one day to draw eminem
>such an enjoyable experience
>so enjoyable that I drew for 2 years straight
>get depression and stop drawing so often
>learn to make myself not so depressed through art
>draw/paint/digitally draw/etc for 6+ years straight up to today

thanks, eminem

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>be in second grade
>art teacher tells us to say how we feel but only with paintings/drawings
>kids draw fucking 2d houses, cars and shit
>i paint a sunset, a lonely tree on the hill (at that time i used to watch sun directly sometimes and had little color hallucinations, so i included them in painting)
>after finishing we just had freedom to do whatever so kids chimped out
>i heard teacher called another teacher to come and she needed to show her something
>mfw she shows her my painting and tells her: "Look, a kid painted this can you believe it? he has an intuition for color, and i can hear wjat he wanted to tell perfectly"
>teacher 2: "he is gonna be big someday"
>flash forward almost 20 years
>a lazy bitter faggot loser never made it
if i never overheard that praise by now i would probably be a normal human being

>be lonely and locked up in room
>no friends
>start drawing so i could make a deviantart and socialize with people on it

I'm happier now cause I have friends and I draw! I really love drawing.

>>2797775
Post their art pleas

>>2797791
What do people mean Whe they say loomis is a meme should I still read his books?

>>2798171
how had hearing that praise changed you? how did it impede you?

>>2798247
i really believed that i was better than others and thaught i could be great artist without effort. desu i always was praised like that by other people. i have another similar story i will greentext
>one year after the last story, teacher reads us a childish little novel but only half of it
>tells us we have to finish the story ourselves and we can write anything we want
>i finish the story and from childish one it kinda becomes the story about existential shit, the karmic laws and stuff
>teacher flips, calls entire class parents meeting
>reads my story fucking three times and praises me and says he would never believe that kid my age could write a story like this and if i didn't do it in front of him in class he would think someone else with writing experience did it.
imagine being an impressionable kid and hear praises like that about yourself, it makes you an arrogant fuck and makes you believe you can do everythng without effort. but i don't feed thia illusions anymore, and i am glad my parents never did either or i would be even worse

Kamen Rider. I want to design Toku suits now.

>>2798269

Why would a teacher call a meeting just to show off a student's work?

I'm going to have to call bullshit, chief. Quit the self loathing bullshit, draw.

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I saw fun little comics on /tg/ and thought "gee it'd be great if I can do that"

Now I can probably easily surpass the average quality of the comics I looked up to but still feel like they're garbage when I do them myself. Once I went in on it I started enjoying more aspects of art anyway.

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Videogames and being the loser at school, its all I had. My mother would take away my pencil at home if she saw me drawing and would tell me she's not raising no artist; Which just made me want to do it more, I ended up drawing during class.

I got labeled "Most Artistic" in my yearbooks.

I only took drawing seriously two years ago, but let things slide after the 6th rejection letter for an animation program. Things are back on track now, though.

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>be 6 years old
>some Easter colouring contest at school
>had to colour a retarded looking bunny
>liked bugs bunny so i used led pencil to colour it
>came second
>the person who came first was some fat abo girl who didn't even colour the fucking rabbit
>teachers praised me for being so good at art
>every "artwork" i did, my classmates praised me
>inflated ego made me stagnant for more than a decade
>started drawing seriously a month ago
>realised i was below a basic level

>>2798420
well call it what you want

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>8 years ago
>literally trace images of anime characters onto paper to show off to classmates
>come art class, teacher tells us to draw a greek god or goddess of our choice
>end up with shitty drawing
>never feel so embarrassed with self
>decide to actually draw for reals
>still shit

>>2797791
>realize that Loomis is a meme
except it's not
>form comes first (along with decent perspective), anatomy is second, gesture comes naturally
grats for old news

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>>2797753
>be 6
>be poorfag
>can only afford paper and some books every now and then, no tv though.
>draw dr.suess and Berenstain bears stuff because thats all i knew
>got actually kind of okay with it
>school sets up a "buddy" program with the grade 6 students
>todays session is drawing stuff
>have a copy of some Berenstain bears book about going into the woods
>spend class drawing pic related with some textas or whatever you americans call 'em that i borrowed
>get a compliment from someone for the first time in my life who wasnt my mother
>feels kinda nice
>keep drawing
>eventually get a tv and video games even
>start drawing stuff from marvel vs capcom, sonic, crash bandicoot and whatever else
>never took it too seriously tho
>sonic and the black knight comes out
>remember i drew sonic with a sword like 3 weeks prior
>be autistic enough to think sega stole my idea because they held a competition to submit ideas for new sonic games
>find out im an autist and get back to drawing
i cant ever fucking forget that last bit. it hurts knowing how much of an autist i was, but also makes me realise that i can actually get somewhere by being an autist. too bad i spent a long ass break and now im trash again.

>>2798204
Yes.

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>be 18 in college
>no friends, depressed, almost ready to an hero
>nothing to do all through my breaks
>doodling depressing shit
>guy walking past my desk sees what i'm doing
>"that's pretty good anon"
>foundmycalling.jpeg


haven't stopped since + now starting with freelance work, but desu drawing got really depressing for me for about 6 months, only got back the enjoyment because i want to keep impressing a girl, been making mad gains, + who said seeking approval isn't a good motivation ?

>>2797753
Mind if I save this image OP?

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I began to buy these comics back when I was in first grade.

I'm 99% sure the first fictional character I ever drew was Cebolinha. I don't know why I did that, though. The desire to draw came out of nowhere.

>In Grade 10 art class, had no real respect for art and constantly bashed artsy kids who I deemed losers, joined for a joke.
>Some kid is actually decent, and being the jealousy-ridden person I am, I started trying really hard to git gud for no reason
>Art teacher at the end of the year puts me in front of the class and said that I made the most improvement out of all the students
>Fastforward to now, basically intermediate just trying to improve creatively and technically

>>2797753
No idea how I started actually.

Might have something to do with watching too much anime/cartoons as a kid in the 90's. I was always known to doodle, but I guess I got into art proper when I started coming up with stories in elementary school.

All I know is that I have over 50 sketchbooks sitting in my house going back all the way to 4th or 5th grade. With some frankly embarrassing OC characters/stories. But I'm very glad I've managed to keep 90% of all of my sketchbooks going back that far. Every couple years I look through them to see how far I've come.

>be 6
>have a task in pre-school to draw a clock
>some girl draws it very nicely
>i think: i could've done better
>spend most of my time drawing
>skip a few years
>everyone says i'm hot shit and gonna be l'artiste
>14yo
>mostly stop drawing
>20yo
>want to draw but everything seems done

>be 9 or 10 or something
>at friend's house
>draw sonic and knuckles because they were my faves
>realize i like his
>having fun drawing in a carefree manner
>keep drawing because it's fun
>realize I can make my own stories this way
>write and draw comics
>they're obviously shit but i didn't mind because i had fun making them
>grow up doing this
>art class in middle school
>already be "that kid who draws comics" so this is my favorite class
>get praise from teacher who advises me to look into legit art books which i never even thought of doing at that point, just drawing for the hell of it
>feel overwhelmed by the pressure of drawing realistically
>have it in my head that a good drawing is a realistic drawing
>end up throwing my childhood comics away in a a fit of rage because i was literally mad about how shit i was
>end up abandoning drawing alltogether because i can never make my drawings look like people, only the chararacters i had grown up drawing that i now hated
>be 18
>studying some social science bullshit
>realize i was being a retard
>try again
>still draw in "muh carefree style" from time to time, but still tries to make time and room for actual studying and come to terms with that a good drawing should be grounded in realism and that the best art
>still shit tho

>>2798617
Are you latino, anon? I actually read those too when I was younger because my mom was Brazilian Portuguese and she had some.

I never had any clue what the fuck characters were saying though, because I never learned Portuguese.

>>2797753
>be 18
>discover /ic/
>always had a love for drawing as a kid, gave it up for band
>buy DOTRSOTB and start working through it two weeks ago
>hand drawings are not that bad
Finding this place was like finding a hidden key to my inner childhood. Thank you, you glorious faggots.

Deleted my other post because I was rambling. Anyway

>thought I started getting into drawing by copying my favorite cartoon characters when I was 8 or so
>mother showed me earlier drawings, said I used to sit and draw all day even in kindergarten, never losing my focus

I guess I always liked it. Shame I never did anything with it though, it took me more than a decade to realize I need fundamentals

>>2797791
>gesture drawing a meme
Never gonna make it.

>>2798469
Wow that is shit, but at least you got clothing folds looking alright, that shit is hard as fuck.

>>2797753
>typical introverted anime-watcher
>would draw some shit now and again but never took it seriously
>there was always that one kid in my class who I'd look up to for their drawing skills
>eventually buy a real sketchbook when I'm 13
>trace some animu stuff, only filling 5 pages
>the passion to draw would always wear off pretty soon, thought I didn't have the talent
>fast forward to when I'm 19
>I'm witness to the first /pol/ draw threads
>notice the massive improvement of people who were shit once, (yes, I didn't know improvement was a thing)
>start wondering if the talent thing is a meme after all and take up drawing yet again
>"I'm such a loser at everything, I'll probably quit in a month"
>it's been over two years now and I'm still drawing daily

>be 12
>get into 40k
>painting miniatures every day
>copy cool illustrations from the codices
>one day in art class, we put away the experimental shit & history books to actually paint something.
>karate kid moment -- I was learning art all along!
>get into animu: even more reason to draw
>art teacher hates knights & ninjas bs. Only cares about history of art and /fa/ggots.
>decide to become a writer instead
>go to collage
>oh shit, I have zero patience for writing; would rather just draw my stories.
>discover /ic/

>>2797957
shit ,i'm that gut that draws skulls and edgy portraits.

tf2(chan)
i remember makani writing that doing art for game studios was the bomb and was like, shit, i gotta get me some of that

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>"Tried" drawing back in 2013, bought a sketchbook, drew on two whole pages and promptly gave up as i had no idea what to do or where to look to get better
>Go to [spoiler]Pony[/spoiler] Convention, guy is doing free [spoiler]OC[/spoiler] sketches
>End up talking to him for a bit as he draws my art
>Guy's pretty good as far as i can tell from being inexperienced, ask him how long he's been drawing
>Tells me he's been drawing for a year and a half
>Ask myself if he can get this good in a year and a half, why cant I?
>Convention ends, head back home and start buying supplies and getting into drawing.

I really liked power puff girls and made my own shitty ppg ocs then mlp then I eventually got into anime and now I'm here

>>2797753
>be a hyper-weeb borrowing manga from the public library
>get super into it borrowing 7-15 volumes a week
>want to become a mangaka, but only do crappy stick figures when I'm doodling in class
>parents and any other adults think it's a dumbass dream
>I give up

>later on in high school, meet a hyper Japanese nationalist, one of those social studies students, and his super chill Japanese friends
>His house is literally a bite of Japan, from all the imported Japanese things to the architecture itself
>He gets me to realize that my dream is actually something that people can do, and that I shouldn't pussy out if it's what I want to do
>I actually get down on the grind and work for it, my friend is teaching me Japanese

it's been a long road coming, and there's a lot more to go, but I'm really glad I'm where I am today

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>>2797753
>draw them a cat without reference
Basically me but i can draw pic related without a ref by now.

>be 13
> Read Warrior Cats (fucking loved that shit)
> Found Forums etc.. all of them had oc's
>Always had an interested in drawing, but didn't do it because i was shit
>fuck it,
>start drawing my own cat oc's (blackheart.png)
>Get into more furry Art
>found 4chan /b/ because of furry porn
>found /ic/
>loomis.exe

>>2797753
>be smol
>find a shit ton of old mickey mouse and co comics
>only reference cause irrelevant af shitehole
>start drawing
>i'm still shit

>be me from like 6-10
>mom works so she would send me up to m aunties house for the day
>would sit there watching my cousin draw his comic or watch behind the scenes stuff on cartoons
>draw shitty stuff here but kept it up
>fast forward to first year of high school
>still drawing but basically just tracing stuff without not actually tracing it
>quit because I think I’m to focused on the details and that’s why i can’t make anything original
>fast forward to after high school at 18
>failed media in high school due to not having any friends to make movies with
>get depressed at what I’m going to do with my life
>find cartoon reviews on the internet
>relies animation is basically film but i don’t need any actors there in the room
>decide to try and get good at drawing to make movies

>>2797753
>Age 6
>like dinosaurs
>Like classmates
>draw shitty picture of class riding dinosaurs
>get praise
>hunger for more praise

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i liked doodling in class

>>2797753
>age 4
>saw Danny Phantom on tv
>decided to draw danny phantom
>was shit
>covered the drawing in paint and folded the paper and got a fold-paint butterfly and was satisfied for the week

>1st grade
>Computer art class
>teacher tells us to draw tarts and desserts on an early version of KidPix on the computer
>everyone just goes off drawing anything else
>started drawing a colorful cupcake and a cake with a slice cut off from the middle with my bare minimum perspective skillz
>some indian kid goes "HOLY MOLY, Anons' THE BEST IN THE CLASS. THE BEST IN THE SCHOOL!"
>other kids arguing that their little cookies were better kind of
>they weren't and I knew it and I felt good about it like the little shit I was
>felt like hot shit for a long time and went on to draw pokemon after, for a couple of years

et cetera.

>>2797800
WELL WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR FETISH?

Probably because i liked the illustrations in nature-books, like about insects and dinosaurs and stuff.
First shit i drew was probably trying to re-draw the things i saw there.

>be 9 years old
>teacher tells us to go outside and draw an object from nature
>i pick an acorn
>cant figure out how to start
>cant draw anything resembling an acorn
>get so frustrated and mad, decide to never draw again.
> age 9-15 read ton of manga, and comics
>age 15 decide to give drawing another go
>borrow Drawing on the Right side of the Brain from the library, start reading.
>Still cant draw, but now it all makes sense in my head, since i an very good a maths, i simply have a great left side brain, but a damaged right side of the brain - i was simply not born to draw.

>be 21 stumble upon the term "symbol drawing", read more about it, find \ic\, read sticky and start Keys to Drawing - felt like getting an epiphany. Still cant draw for shit, but now i found out it can actually be learned even by the least artistic dispositioned

>be yesterday, quit job to learn how to draw
>saved up so i can draw from 1st of february till 1st of august where i decide if i go to uni or got good enough to continue pursuing art

>be 13
>have no freinds
>be into theoretical physics
>get pushed ridiculously hard by parents to do good in school because they want you to succeed at being a theoretical physicist
>regret intrest for theoretical physics
>use art as an escape on the downlow
>get a compliment at school for a shitty doodle
>realize you like drawing more then trying two be a physicist
>get into the animu & draw shitty animu stuff
>realize that you are drawing shit
>get into homestuck
>rinse and repeat
>get an artclass in highschool and learn more about art
>find /ic/
>intense grinding

>skip to 19 yo
>using art as a moneymaker & waiting for responses from the art coolegz

>>2797753
ATLA. Either wanted to become a firebender or an artist, I picked the wrong one

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>grew up playing vidya all my life
>always bored in school, wishing I could be at home playing videogames
>start doodling in the margins of my notebook
>draw like this exclusively for years
>can only draw really tiny shit with little detail; never draw at home because I'd rather be playing videogames
>fast forward several years
>vidya industry has gone to shit and nothing interests me anymore
>waning interest in vidya gives me more free
>decide to use free time to make my own vidya
>pick up drawing again, relearning everything properly from scratch

Doodling for so long really fucked me up. I had no concept of construction, gesture, form, etc. But I've been improving pretty steadily for the past year so I have high hopes.

>>2798204
>>2797791

Because they're retarded; Loomis goes over structure/perspective/composition/etc, and then you can supplement that knowledge through other books.

Anyone who says Loomis is a meme actually read and did the exercises in "fun with a pencil," which really is a meme/joke.

>>2797753
>grade 4
>assignment to make a storybook
>loved drawing and excited for this assignment
>assignment graded on story, art, color, writing
>got a 2 out of 5 on art
>look at friend's work
>got a 4 and he wasn't even interested in art
>decided i was never going to be good and gave it up
>took 12 years to say fuck it and get back into art because its the only thing i enjoy.

I was 18 and in my final year of high school. My mom had gone to jail, so I went to live with my grand-parents who made me attend church on Wednesdays and Sundays. I'd get so bored listening to the Good Book that I began to draw on the donation envelopes under the seats. Decided it was a lot of fun, so I kept on doing it. I ended up quitting after then picking it up seriously at 22.

>Not green text
>No one will read

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>>2797753
>been drawing since i could hold a crayon
>best friend since pre-k copied katy coope's style
>being a young weeb i see this as amazing and competition
>over the years fill notebooks with animu OCs
>made about 100 fan characters for teen titans
>21 now, lurk /ic/ everyday for inspiration

>>2804037
>made about 100 fan characters for teen titans

I would be lying if I said I didn't want to see that

>used to have Pokemon pogs/tazos as a kid
>catch my mom fucking drawing Pokemon from them on a notebook
>surprises me, because she always seems like the type of person to push aside cartoons because MUH CHILDISHNESS

>her drawings are perfect and amazes my child brain
>ask her how she's so good
>tells me she just draws what she sees

Shit advice, and I didn't eat it up, but it basically told me that anyone can draw, and so it inspired me a lot more than when I initially started to draw. (loved the animes as a kid and would draw pokegaymen and digimon)

>>2798201

I would, but a lot of them just seem to be generally nice albeit dull people getting by with their lives. I feel bad trolling them. If they were total bitches causing drama all the time then yea I would lol

>be little kid
>start drawing
>really like it
>have an uncle that drew a really cool lion copied off a markers' box
>aspire to draw like that
>go through primary school being the weird kid that draws well
>have a certain taste for edgy drawings
>constantly bullied
>5th grade onward start drawing people I hate getting murdered or tortured
>by grade 8 I'm full on drawing edgy shit including mutilated undead creatures
>have some manga in the mixture
>go on deviantart and post random shit and fan art
>eventually get a holier than thou attitude
>drop anime and start attempting to copy renaissance style - not copy the paintings, just trying to copy body types and poses
>become a big giger fan
>start also drawing ponies for fun
>go to art school
>finally live drawing
>mfw still better than most my classmates
>fast forward
>realise I plateau'd really hard
>left behind
>hate drawing and art in general


I keep trying to go back but, every time, I immediately lose all motivation as soon as I sketch the first line. Worst of all is I still feel like it's the only craft I have any experience in, so my future feels like a very vague riddle.