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What made you start drawing?
18 years ago
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Guaranteed to put you to sleep faster than Ben Stein reading the periodical table of elements!
Or if you don't draw, what makes you want to get into drawing? Or what makes you appreciate looking at other peoples art?
direwolf505 just went through my entire archive and faved EVERY piece of mine, and commented on just about every piece, and it made me realize the SHEER VOLUME of art I crank out on a regular basis. Considering how hectic my life always is, I'm actually rather..I don't know. Flabbergasted I draw as much as I do. It's one thing to do a piece, and quite another to flick back through your own archives and realize "holy shyte.. that's alot of art"So what about you guys? Do you wish you drew more? Do you wish you drew less, with more quality to each piece? Do you wish you had more creative ideas, and less technical attention to your pieces, or vice versa? Schpiel the beans ;p
I dunno. A good questions might also be what makes you stop drawing?
I'm in kind of an emo mood and I hate for your first comment on this journal to be sappy and meloncholy or whatever.
I stop drawing when its no longer fun for me. I have to force myself to draw a lot of what I do now adays because I'm not always in the happy mood to do it.
The actual "nail in the coffin" was in middle school when I discovered comic books, from then on out, it was all over :)
Lately I do wish I could draw more. I work, go home, cook, work out, check things and then it's time for bed. On the weekends i'm always somewhere doing something and I really wish I could get more done. Well, let me rephrase that, get more FINISHED. I've got tons of sketches, even some line work, but I just can't find time to get on the computer and color :/ i thought I could remedy that with color pencils and markers, but I've got to set aside time for that too x.x
hopefully soon the time problem will go away, but after going through my gallery for good pieces to go on my personal website, I realized i'd done a lot of art O.o
p.s. also, with art, if i'm not inspired, i can't draw :/ I have to see it in my head before I get anything out. Some people get frustrated cause I ask if I can cancel their request, cause I just _can't_ see it and I don't want to produce anything that isn't my standard of art.
I'm glad your mother praised and promoted your art, which comic books were you interested in as a kid?
And the good thing about doing alot of sketches, is that it takes creativity and inspiration to create a new sketch, but for me at least, I can be in a total blah mood and still line it and color it if I have the time to, because it doesn't take the energy and inspiration that drawing does.
You need to post more of your sketches though!!! I LOVED that last one, and it's a shame if you're doing so much but posting so little.
And I understand about not feeling certain pieces. It's something every artist has to go through, and unless there's a muse there, they just can't draw it. I wouldn't feel guilty about that. But hehe! I'm glad you DID discover the unicorny goodness that you embody today = D
Unfortunately, they encouraged it when I was young, but when I got into comic books they discouraged it. My mom kinda "broke" me when she wouldn't co-sign for my loan to go to art college. her reason being that if i didn't get a job to pay back student loans they'd come after her. That to me said, "your art isn't art and no one's going to pay you for it"
Thankfully i've had other positive influences, especially recently with Goat. He's been the only mate i've ever had who truly understands me in that manner. He's done so much for me, it's made me a lot more confident in what I do :)
My first ever comic was X-Men. Still hold a special place in my heart for AOA Blink, and my all time favorite comic is Gen13 :)
I really do need to. Though, shame on me, sometimes I toss things if I let them sit and I go back to them. I'm like EW! What was I doing?!?! >.> i'm horrible about that. Goat actually got on to me the other night about one i'd done and tossed XD
aw thank you dear, i've come a long way in the past year, and i'm hoping after this latest break through that there's a lot more new and exciting things to come :)
And I'm SO glad you have a loving and supportive mate. You, and in fact, everyone deserves no less than for the person they're with to love them and cherish them. If they don't, then what's the point of even being in a relationship, you know?
I'll also definitely keep my eyes open for those exciting things!!
me too, and thank you for being so sweet. you've always been someone to look forward to.
Haha and yeah, I used to draw that stuff too. I don't now, but back when I was an isolated child, I thought I was the only one in the world who made up little stories and art for the characters from those shows XD
..We should all post our old, crappy art, lmao
Writing, though. I've been writing since I was like... five. I wrote stories, usually about dragons or stuff like that - one time I wrote something about a frog... I think it's still in my third grade classroom.
What made me want to be an author though was a letter I got from Brian Jacques (author of the Redwall series) - I sent a synopsis of a fan-fiction I wrote and sent it to him, and when I got a letter back - it was a form letter mostly, but scribbled in the corner was "Why don't you write your own story? With your own characters and own great story ideas? - Brian" - and that settled it. I don't know if I'll be able to make a living from it, but I am going to write, and hopefully one day get a work of mine published.
I do hope you will someday get published. And now I want to see a stick figure from you just because ;D
And yeah - I still have the letter. It's in one of my folders of important stuff.
http://i7.tinypic.com/81hpmir.jpg
*laughs and hugs*
Nifty stick figure, BTW. ;)
Then I got into comics.. X-men, Gen-13, and others. That was when my art really improved. I drew comic characters and then started drawing my own, which led to stories and eventully I started developing comic worlds.. but when Magna came.. I really started to go nuts.. Here where the kinds of mroe involved stories I wanted to do and the comic medium just didn't seem to do for me.. While the anime/magna has shifted my drawings slightly, I was more inspiried in my art by people like Stan lee, and Bruce Cambell.
So do you have any ambitions to do some high end sculpting? Bronze? Marble? or just lifesize replicas?
But before I met him, his work was one of my inspirations and it's something you can't get away from you know? So yea, he's one of my inspirations as an ARTIST, not as a PERSON.
I sculpt anything. I've done chess peices from alabaster, (they where more native american style animals) to classical scultping as well as impressionistic.. The realitstic stuff is more fun for me.. but suprrisingly most of my scultping is of wildlife and whatnot.. I helped my mother do a series of birds, we both sculted them and then used chalk to give them color. They looked incredibly realisitc and alive.. unforchunately when we tried to get them into a art show.. we were told "we don't accept ceramics"
Next time I brought a photo diary my sister made of the work in progress and told them "DOES THIS LOOK LIKE CERAMICS?!"
How do you feel now that you've succeeded, and so many people are interested in your little comics you post up?
Self Doubt and depression stop me from time to time.
I think when i am down and can't draw i without thinking about it start breaking down animation i see into what i like most and what is different in that work that i am missing. Once back to drawing the break usually helps in my skills as well as muse.
Coincidentally, I've also loved lime candy all my life. ;)
Lessee. In kindergarten, I drew my cars as arches with wheels at each end, which anticipated Chrysler's "cab forward" designs by some thirty years.
It was Jerry Barnett and "CARToons" in the early 70s which inspired me to start drawing 3-D objects...
In 1977, I hung an urban landscape of my corner rowhouse (done in bleach on black Strathmore) in a highschool freshman art show at the Painted Bride art gallery in Philly. To my surprise, when I went with my parents to the show, my pic had a little sticker on it. Upon inquiry, I was astonished to learn that someone had actually BOUGHT the thing! So, that was my first art sale... :)
But you've definitely had a few decades extra to get steeped in the culture of art, and it's amazing what kids will think of that adults won't because they're used to being boxed in (ala your arch cars, hehe)
I just love your positive attitude you evince with everything you talk about. It really charms me and makes me smile, and I'm glad the fandom is graced with your brilliant creations, both intellectually and artistically ^_^
It's just that...well, showing an emo face to the world ain't my style.
The way I see it, you can either laugh or cry.
Laughter's simply more pleasant.
Wouldn't mind seeing that Victoria's Secret pic, though. ;)
In either case, my mom didn't really encourage or discourage me, was just glad I was having fun and wasn't geting into trouble. Eventually I found lots of friends that drew as well, and even though I have a huge problem with thinking everything I draw is utterly disgusting, they urged me on and I -did- get better.
I wish I drew alot more than I do, but with my buisy schedule and complications of being a 'grownup', it's so hard to find the time to sit down and just try to improve... >.< A friend I've made on here, Nixis, has helped me alot though, she's drawn tutorials for me to help me get the anatomy a little better, which is helping alot.
But, I still strugle with thinking all my 'art' is crap. :/
Adults who start don't have the same kind of patience for the phase of their art sucking for a few years. They get discouraged and don't want to stick with it, because they want instant results.
So hang in there, don't think your art is crap, realize it's just a growing phase. You've got talent, all you have to do is stick with it.
The beauty of the images is mostly the thing that made me draw in the first place, so far i remember. I always liked paintings like those of Renoir and Rembrandt, filled of beauty and color ( my father always had books filled of those paintings, so >.> ) . Then i met the anime and the manga, where the aesthetics filled me and i felt i wanted to draw like that :P
I always thought i needed more skill, but know i believe the feeling and the deeper sense of the art are more important than the mere skill. So now i wish i could fill my art with a stronger sense of spirituality, and the techniques are now the tools for making that true n_n
I also love seeing other people art. I can now see that deeper sense of spirituality in other people's work. And i try to keep cheering on people i can see that have talent, and are great artist for creating art, and not necessarily being so greatly skilled in techniques.
And yes, i have my room filled with packs and packs of old drawings. So many, that i can't remember half of the doodles i have there. When you stop and see those old works, reminds you that you're doing what you like, and i always feel great about it ^^
And as an extra comment, I think Sharra's a great artist with great skill and an always powerful muse n_n *hug to Sharra*
You write. You draw. You excel in music appreciation. You have vision, and drive, and appreciate the beauty that's inherent in this world. You're a total package, and it's the fact that you actually LOOK at the world around you in a positive light that gives you the ability to recapture it, and as you said, put so much SPIRIT into your works.
I agree with you, though - your skill and techniques are amazing. Jaw droppingly astonishing. And when you draw for the spirit of the image, all the rest just falls into place. You'll pay more attention to detail because you love it, not because it's boring, and how much you love a piece makes all the difference in the world when it's done.
You should show some pictures of your room! I've got the postcard I wrote for you sitting on my desk, as well, it's going to go in the mail sometime this week, if not tonight.
*big old hugs* I look forward to our next chit chat
I've also wanted to control some sort of world. :P
So all was left was my mom side: art =D
with a leg broke for a full year, and 4 more years to relearn how to walk, i had to do something with my time! studying? yaaaa RIGHT! i learned how to draw, and do ever since.
Now i wish i had more time to do better peice, i really do wish i had more free time to draw. But i will soon, in a few months ^_^ right now i am working in art: architectural art =D
So life going there, slowly but surely.
Now it is quite insane how much art i have, i have about 1/10 posted... maybe? but as a artist, i only hope to evolve at my profession and mostly: entertain. I rarely draw for my self as i find a better satisfaction to draw for other's ^_^
Now you are a great artist, so i do hope to see more art from you, but remember: i mostly hope your happy with what you are doing ^_^
I spent a number of years with physical therapy as well for my butchered knees. I commiserate with what you went through. And architectural art is AWESOME! I haven't done that before, but I want to get into it to have a working knowledge for when I get a home built.
And yes, the satisfaction for drawing for others and making them happy is a HUGE motivation, though like you said, you also have to draw for yourself.
Haha, and you -mostly- hope I'm happy with what I'm doing? What's the other percentage go to? *giggles*
I've been drawing my entire life. I can't remember a time when I didn't draw. So I can't really say what started it except for a primordial urge to make what was in my head spill onto the page.
I continued because people seemed to enjoy my pictures and we all liked having our ego stroked.
Quack.
Hehehehe *strokes your ego*
As it was, my mother discovered my "clean" art binder back when I was in high school, and even with that she told me I had to put better clothing on them than what I was because they all looked like whores. And she totally freaked at all my drawings of basic body shapes (nothing graphic). She actually /took/ the binder of art away from me for the longest time and wouldn't give it back until I promised I would never draw another "furry" thing in my life. Needless to say, I broke that promise and took things as far as I could.
If either of my parents found out I'm drawing adult material, I'd be in the hospital with wounds and bruises from having the shit beaten out of me.
I've always been drawing for as long as I could remember, probably more or less as a side effect of my atrocious ADD. I've always been fascinated with cartooning and animation. Growing up in the 80's, you got exposed to some of the great ones like GI JOE, Thundercats, Transformers, etc. In high school, I started drawing my own characters, they were very and I do mean VERY crudely drawn anthromorphic dragon like creatures which for a lack of a better description I called 'dragonians'. (There were three particular ones where that name was broken in three parts to make names for three other characters I called Dra, Goni, and Ans. There's where my unusual user name comes from. I'll tell you more about it if you're curious.) It wasn't until I was out of high school when I sat down and drew my very first fur character, which was Lady Fara, done in maybe late 2000. I actually found this drawing in my school bag hidden in one of my drawing pads. It's horrible, but it's amazing to see where I started and where I've ended up. After I got exposed to Schwartz's Sabrina Online, I set out to do my own comic called Welcome to the Furhole, which I still have and occasionally continue, but this is where it brings me to answer your other question. I feel I don't do enough and regretably, I think I cheat myself out of my own talents and showing the world what I have to offer from my artwork. I think the problem might stem from my usual routine that I have been following for some time now. I think I need to purposely disrupt it and get back to showing what I can do. Not as extensive as what I first wrote, but still, I hope I didn't bore you. XD
Then, I encountered Pogo, and it was love at first sight. I've been drawing furry comics and humor ever since.
I never did take art seriously as a career, though. Both my sister and I loved drawing, but dad had convinced us there was no money in art, and given the general flakiness of our instructors in art class, we both agreed. If I had known back then about the field of graphic design, I probably would've taken art more seriously.
These days I'm hoping to become an interface designer, a person who architects how people communicate with machines. That's a different kind of art, but is most definitely its own kind of black magic.
And I agree - you should do that voodoo that you do so well.
You'll also be interested to know that the car wasn't totaled! But it's not crap, either! I'm amazed at the job they did
I started drawing when I was really young, and have off and on my whole life. My schooling suffered 'cause all I did was draw.
I got into anthro/furry, back in the late '90s, through 'Furrlough', and it's what I've drawn since, really. It just clicked with me.
I'm so friggin' happy, 'bout that!