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A little background of myself.
18 years ago
General
Really I can't let you go without explaining a bit about myself so that you all won't think I am a robot or something...
Who am I?
My name is Gene Davis. Was born in Milwaukee, WI in the United States (believe me, they ask where is Wisconsin) on Nov. 27, 1982. For the time being I live with my mother in Spring, Texas. About 10 miles north of Houston. I have been living in the Houston area for 5 and a half years. Black Male, fairly average build, maybe, 2 small scars on the face from the football helmet @ age 17, and from a golf club @ age 10.
What do I do?
I work study at the local community college. I was schooling there @ 19, but I couldn't get the money needed, so I worked odd jobs until a car accident put me back to school for sp/06 semester. Used to goof off at school then ... now is more of a different story. Majoring in Illustration or something like that. Going to art school in a month to pursue that bachelor's.
My art?
I started by regularly tracing sonic and the gang when I was 10. It was just something that I did to stay out of fights and other kinds of trouble (sketchy neighborhoods). Went on to do them freehand a year later. Started with a lot of other things I saw on tv while sliding in middle school, the first of too many original characters as a freshman in high school ... but most of what you see now has been developed while I was working, drew at breaks and on the job (sometimes), drew until 1 or 2 in the morning, that kind of stuff.
Any Net experience?
I tried a couple of times to upload imy art on the web, failing both times, but I used to be a long-time lurker at places like yerf and artail. To tell you the truth, I thought I didn't stand a chance out here in the net. Hell, I expected to get ridiculed into leaving. Not critique, just straight up waxing me on the floor. Certainly not being watched by some of the folks that I have been watching since I was 15. For real, I thank each and everyone of you for putting up with me. I haven't thought and still don't think that I am good enough for anybody's attention, so hell I don't know what you or the art schools see in my lineart and stuff, but I appreciate that you see somthing
Who am I?
My name is Gene Davis. Was born in Milwaukee, WI in the United States (believe me, they ask where is Wisconsin) on Nov. 27, 1982. For the time being I live with my mother in Spring, Texas. About 10 miles north of Houston. I have been living in the Houston area for 5 and a half years. Black Male, fairly average build, maybe, 2 small scars on the face from the football helmet @ age 17, and from a golf club @ age 10.
What do I do?
I work study at the local community college. I was schooling there @ 19, but I couldn't get the money needed, so I worked odd jobs until a car accident put me back to school for sp/06 semester. Used to goof off at school then ... now is more of a different story. Majoring in Illustration or something like that. Going to art school in a month to pursue that bachelor's.
My art?
I started by regularly tracing sonic and the gang when I was 10. It was just something that I did to stay out of fights and other kinds of trouble (sketchy neighborhoods). Went on to do them freehand a year later. Started with a lot of other things I saw on tv while sliding in middle school, the first of too many original characters as a freshman in high school ... but most of what you see now has been developed while I was working, drew at breaks and on the job (sometimes), drew until 1 or 2 in the morning, that kind of stuff.
Any Net experience?
I tried a couple of times to upload imy art on the web, failing both times, but I used to be a long-time lurker at places like yerf and artail. To tell you the truth, I thought I didn't stand a chance out here in the net. Hell, I expected to get ridiculed into leaving. Not critique, just straight up waxing me on the floor. Certainly not being watched by some of the folks that I have been watching since I was 15. For real, I thank each and everyone of you for putting up with me. I haven't thought and still don't think that I am good enough for anybody's attention, so hell I don't know what you or the art schools see in my lineart and stuff, but I appreciate that you see somthing
You are 25?!
Life sounds kinda harsh...
I wish you good fortune in life and I shall keep going to see if I can master anything within the art world... ^^;
Also, yay for 1982 :)
Hah horray for the eight-two!
I'm actually not going back in the fall, I'm going to big ol' prestigious art school. I'll need all the luck I can get.
But I can so relate to you on the note of feeling like you'll be ridiculed. That, right there, is why I always feel anxiety when submitting pictures, joining forums, and making a cup of tea. There's just that lingering doubt that something, even if subtle, is going to piss a lot of people off. Having bad experiences on very strict/elitist boards with nitpicky members during my first forays online was probably part of why I feel that way, in a sense.
I agree. It's pretty much a big worry fest when putting up something new in public, because there will always be that fear of the really hard kind of rejection. I have pissed numerous people off with my doubt also...