DId your parents draw, anon ?

>>2905990
nope. but im teaching my mom how to draw off and on.

my brother drew when he was a teenager, it inspired me to draw even after he quit, and my sister is a graphic designer

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>>2905990
Yes, my father paints and draws and he introduced me to Loomis and other anatomy books since I was young. When I discovered /ic/ and saw that Loomis was a meme It was pretty fun.
Pic related, one of his paintings.

Not my parents, but one of my uncles does graphic design, another uncle does fine art, and my sister draws anime just as a hobby.

>>2905990
No, but I've got a bunch of other relatives who are working artists or work with artists.

>>2905990
No I got into it on my own. They were pretty supportive though.

My mother and her grandmother were exceptionally well painters, drawers, sculptors. I enjoy a good balance of artistry with logic and reason.

My dad would draw for money in prison and still has a letter where he sent a portrait of my mom from memory. He would draw cartoons at home and I would try to copy them growing up, my dad was into stylization and passed it onto me.

My uncle also would draw, he did realism portraits in prison he actually gifted a portrait of me when I was a baby to my dad while he was in there and we still have it in a frame. Shame that he let alcoholism take him over.

My dad's side has a lot of artists and musicians. I feel like I can never measure up sometimes.

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>>2905992
>and my sister is a graphic designer
I bet

>>2906385
stop being addicted to porn

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My mom is actually an architect but sadly didn't end up working on that. That said she still does some freelance stuff and she's still as sharp as ever.

I actually saw some of her work from college and it was amazing but sadly those papers are hidden somewhere, if not I'd share. I hope at some point she can work a little on architecture stuff.

My dad used to draw cartoony stuff but now he has Parkinsonism so he doesn't draw anymore.

>>2906068
why were your dad and uncle in prison?

>>2906068
have you tried going to prison yet? wild guess, but this seems to bring out the talent in your family.

My mom drew a very nice sketch of me when I was a baby a very long time ago. But that was from reference, so she's basically just a much worse Proko. My dad sculpts too, if that counts.

>>2906068
how the internet speed in prison?

Yeah my mom did, a little, as a hobby. She said she wanted to study it as a teen but her parents thought it's stupid. She doesn't draw anymore, sometimes she says she wants to try and get back at it for "the soul" but she's usually too tired after work to actually try.

She's been very supportive of me though, even though I'm super shit and a disappointment.

No but my mum would scream and hit me if she caught me drawing. Guess my race.

>>2909912
Hahaha

Not at all. I have an enormous extended family, and between them they have every job under the sun, but the closest related job there to the art field is a distant relative who's an engineer. So I guess I'll be the art dude.
I've always kind of wished one of my parents was an artist, so I could have grown up from a young age with the resource of their instruction and example. No one I've ever known of throughout all my years and in every school and college I attended was more skilled at art, so I never had that good camaraderie going outside the net. That's why I basically live online now, since it feels like I'll never even scrape the surface of the number of people infinitely more skilled than I am. It's a great feeling.

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My dad took trafe school for blue prints. Nigga could make some great trees. He was deaf though so he couldn't get a job. Now he works at the post office and never draws anymore.

I honestly feel for my dad a lot.

>>2909930
I feel the same, if on of my parents was an artist, I´d be amazing already and learning from someone I can talk to instead of books would also be a lot better

>>2909966
Had an art friend, his mother was an art teacher. He was better than me and got art materials easily, but it wasn't as if he suddenly had talent. We never discussed it but his work at the time was beginner-tier just like mine, don't think his mother helped him with anything.

He now studies art though so she might helped him get there with a nice portfoio. If not, it's still pretty cool for him, I'm sure he's improving a lot.

>>2909985
>>2909966

>>2909930
here

I was really just kind of thinking wistfully about one of the interviews I've seen of one of my favorite concept artists (one of the leading guys of the previous generation.) In it he mentioned at some point how eager his very young kid was about art an how it looked like they both had a passion for it. He mentioned that he went home and worked alongside his kid whenever she asked (which was every day,) and being caught up in her enthusiasm, was teaching her just as eagerly as she was to learn. Having tons of experience, he knew all the materials she might like, was open to anything, and was able to watch over her with perfect understanding and useful advice if she ever had trouble.

I've heard interviews from incredible guys though whose parents were completely against art as a career, where it sounded like the constant struggle against adversity really solidified and tempered their skills over the years, since they experienced the constant stress of having to prove their career choice a serious and legitimate one.
So I guess whatever our family situation, things might still be made to work out favorably. (Even if it's really tough.)

>>2905990
My mom did, she's the reason I'm into drawing and painting. She's not a pro tho

>>2905990
these parents look Slavic

>>2905996
Thats really nice

>>2910070
My parents are slavic, do you have a problem with that

>>2910124
nope. Do you have a hot sister?

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>>2905990
No, but my uncle did take an interest in my art. He would let me come to his room in the basement and I would draw in my sketchbook, lying on my stomach while he licked my toes. I never understood the toe thing, but he did buy me cool new art materials. He really did have a profound effect on my interest in art. Everyone now and then I get the urge to have my toes licked and I laugh at the memories...

I'm a grill btw.

>>2910709
(You)

>>2905990

My mum used to just doodle, she was really good though. I never saw any of her completed works, I think she got rid of them. My dad was a sailor and painted ships, but he's doing heroin now so cool!

> be me
> be 12 to 16
> get beaten up by parents for drawing and painting instead learning for school
> get beaten up by other studends for drawing and painting

> be me today (31y)
> be confident af
> BUT have psychic issues because of professional skills but not even be able to begin with painting because of fear of being hated by everyone

That's the way children with artistic skills are treated in eastern germany. Many artists (from eastern germany) my age are having these problems.

>>2911073
That's terrible. And crazy. I'm sorry. Also sorry for being ignorant. Why is it like that over there?

>>2911073
What are you doing here if you don't draw

>>2905990
Pretty much all the women on my mom's side either teach the arts or have worked with them, but my mom's the main reason I'm into it.

>>2905990
Not professionally, but both of them seem to be naturally talented. My mother showed me some of her art from high school, and it was surprisingly good. I don't think she's drawn much since she became an adult, but I think she could have gone far if she had pursued art. She seems to have a particular talent for design and composition.

My father was a bit more dedicated, though I don't think he ever sat down with the goal of becoming an artist. He mostly just doodled when he had the time, which I guess he had plenty of when he was young, considering he got a desk job when he was conscripted into the navy. He's also kept a journal, which he started on in his early 20s and still adds to to this day. It's decorated with doodles (like they did in old bibles) and they're surprisingly good, particularly when you consider that they're mostly drawn with a ballpoint pen. He also did some paintings of his pets when he was in his teens, which are quite good. He recently retired, and decided to pick up painting again, after a 40 year long break. It's just a hobby for him, but he gets commissions from friends, family, business associates and various clubs he belongs to.
I might scan some the doodles from the journal the next time I visit my parents.

It actually took me years of dedicated drawing before I reached my father's level, and I still can't do the effortless, freehand pen drawings that he does, as my style is built around construction. I guess being able to 'undo' everything stifles creative freedom.

yes. my mom and dad are both tailors.

>>2911435
>I guess being able to 'undo' everything stifles creative freedom.
Do you mean working digitally?

>>2906395
What is this meme

>>2905990
My mom can barely draw a dog. I've never seen my dad draw.
My grandma paints and sculpts, and was the one to introduce me to art when I was young. She isn't all that great, but she enjoys art so much, it's very inspirational.
One of my cousins is an industrial designer, though I haven't talked to her in over a decade

>>2911073
wow Im sorry, I grew up in bavaria and that never happened to me, but my mum did tell me to "stop drawing this shit" once

maybe cuz I drew a boy I didnt like fucking his mum as stick figures and send it to him in a letter when I was 8

My father drew. He went to art school (and failed the final exam because he was too rebel to follow the guidelines. Or so he said)
He didn't make art his work, but he still enjoy drawing. Mostly pencil portraits and watercolor landscapes

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My dad went to college for art. I only learned this as an adult, but when I was a kid we were watching Speed Racer one night and I was so amazed at the idea that someone drew the show. My dad decided to show me first hand and drew a quick portrait of Speed Racer with nothing but a Bic pen. That moment made me want to get into art/comics today.

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>>2906430
My dad was stealing from the government (selling military shit) and another crime which was a lot more serious that isn't a sex crime- he wasn't convicted of the latter though thankfully. My uncle was in for armed robberies and evading arrest but he was still in and out of prison for years afterwards, my dad kind of calmed down after I was born.

>>2909887
Oh anon you card

>>2906463
Hell fucking no, people get raped and beat in there. My socially awkward ass wouldn't survive. It's good to know art can get me cash in there if it ever came down to it though cause I do sometimes wonder if all the pirated anime and music will ever bite me in the ass one day. Or even just get caught with drugs at the wrong place/wrong time. I've been very lucky in my life and am thankful to have had no encounters with cops that wasn't due to someone else's shit.

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I got my interest and some "talent" from my dad, he didn't particularly draw but the way he draws stuff at times is very similar to how I draw.
My mom doesn't, in fact she doesn't want me to draw since she thinks its a waste of time.
>mfw I kinda feel ashamed when she used to see me draw

my dad went to school for engineering and did a lot of drafstmenship stuff. he kept a lot of them, was super impressive to me as a kid.