i was always a very artsy kid. my mom still keeps my shit drawings, and i have notebooks and doodles in her apartment + other kid crafts that didn't broke.

but later i somehow stumbled on wolf rp forum and i was like - damn, i want to learn how to draw my character, not use faceclaim pictures. and i made my deviantart account 9 years ago, lmaoo

omgg i love that
forums are like the late-90s-kids classic comic book introduction to art

My brother was the artist in the family before me.
He used to draw comics when we were really little so I got into it super early.
I kind just wanted to be really cool like him and copied him haha.

He no longer does art tho which is slightly upsetting but.

ohh that’s reallt sweet! i’m sorry to hear he doesn’t do art anymore :<
my little brother copies me the same way tbh lmao i should be nicer to him about his art haha

Ive been drawing for as long as i can remember! This lady at church would give us boxes of extra printer paper because she knew how much me and my sister would draw. my mom threw out most of our drawings from long ago though, because we moved and we dont have any room. I have some old drawings still though. And i have so many sketchbooks from high school.

ohh that’s didn’t sweet omg!
i keep my first sketchbooks too, tbh. they’re all embarrassing as fuck

SAME OMG

like shitty anime drawings and when i first started drawing porn and furries
and the anatomy
GOD the anatomy

ughhhH god mine are all semi chibi godawful handless busts ?? i also basically started by tracing (i know, i know, i don’t do that shit anymore OBViously) so it’s like either something ~amazing~ or absoloute crap. i’m amazed no one called me out on it

omgggg

ah geez i feel like i used to be so creative when i was younger. Like i would create worlds and "made-up creatures" and me and my sister would pretend that we were those creatures and we would have like special abilities and stuff. i remember making maps and languages and stuff too. and we would go in the backyard and collect plants to make medicine and "soup" (a bowl of water and various plants and shit). Those were the days.

When I went to high school i joined th art club and made a lot of friends. I drew a lot in high school too, and i got a tablet around 8th grade so i started drawing digitally too. Since then my main focus has been digital art. In the past couple of years though i havent been drawing as much as i want to, and i dont feel like my art is improving. I just feel unmotivated all the time and just sleep all day. I never feel like drawing. I want to draw because i have so many ocs (172 so far) and i want to draw them all but i just dont have any motivation or desire to do anything. aaaaghhhh i wish i could be like those people that draw every day and produce amazing art at such a fast rate. *dies*

omgg i seriously know how u mean?? i was rly like that as a kid but the second i hit like. 9 y/o i developed (and still have) a love for crime (especially murder) so i would watch csi and id make my own The Perfect Murder plans and cases id test my friends on like semi-rp and now im into true crime and listen to podcasts but rly not a lot has changed and its fantastic and im p thankful for that lol

its so cool u guys had an Art Club wtf? thats like, anime shit right there. it sucks so much you arent feeling up for art anymore though gosh? ? maybe what you need is like, a clean start? for me it was always the more i draw the more i want to draw, but then i got drafted and i barely have time now and even when im home and Can draw im so tired from working all week or 2 weeks sometimes and its like, i just wanna watch tv and sleep for a couple of days lmao
i DO have my webcomic which is a big motivator because it forces me to draw at least 1 page a week (and i do) and the positive feedback i get on it from my readers is amazing ? i feel like while fa is a great site for artists to post and see artwork its fucking awful when it comes to being a community-like space, theres just so little interaction and feedback like you get on other sites (twitter/tumblr in form of retweet/blogs and da with just their obsessivly active community) drawing for yourself alone can totally drain you sometimes

Aaaa omg thats so cool! Crime mysteries are always interesting.
And yeah, art club was fun. We did fun little projects and one time we went on a trip to an art museum.

And idk even on here I dont really get a lot of feedback on my art, maybe like 2 comments at most. Same on da. I have things that i need to be working on like art for people and trades, but i just feel so... Bleh. I always procrastinate because i never want to work on it but then i just feel bad because I'm making people wait.

aaaa that sounds awesome

yeah that’s what i’m saying?? no feedback here, which sucks. that sucks though gosh.. for me it’s like, i can sort of find motivation if it’s for someone else but just doodling for myself makes me feel lost?

Right now for me its the opposite, i want to draw things for myself right now but i have to work on stuff for other people. At times though its the other way around. Its weird.

aw shit,,
maybe finish ur current stuff & take a break ?

Yeah im thinking about that.
Good luck with your art!

you too bro!

Thank you!!

gaspP that’s so cool tho wtf ur like an anime characters
art club. that’s a fucking dream

I don't wanna sound cliché and all, but I was always drawing when I was growing up
as long as I can remember. I used to write stories too but I'd illustrate my stories too, and then
I started making comics too. And then when I discovered the internet at like 11/12, it was
like a whole new world opened up when I realised that people post their art online.
Like? People on the internet? Can look at your artwork? So I began posting and making friends
and soon of course discovered other (hellish) activities like roleplaying.

Have to say though, my art pace and creativity has definitely decreased as I've gotten older.
Wonder what the heck is up with that. Younger me used to be able to churn out a whole story arc
of comic, several illustrations and whatnot within a D A Y....... Now I'll post a messy sketch every few months lmao

that’s absolotuely adorbale haha

that’s too bad though, if you really love it it’s never too late to pick it up with the same intensity you used to have!
i used to be the same!!!! i’d do like,, an illustration a day (background and all) self appointed projects and all that shit and lately it’s like... i just draw enough to keep my comic posting on schedule and a bit more here and there ;;;and since i’m only home on weekends (and even then not on all weekends) it’s just like, i’ve barely been drawing at all and it’s so sad to me because i love drawing?
we both need to get our shit together clearly

Thank you aaa my kiddie art memories are fond ones. My go to art supplies
would be >these bad boys< I swear I held a funeral every time one dried up.

It's just because my life got very busy, a lot of stuff has happened to me over recent years, and now I work full time especially
so I suppose it just kinda got neglected to the extent of not being able to do a full blown piece or five every single day.
And I agree, it's a shame because art has always made me happy, it's always been my happy place to enjoy and such.
I think this year is a very good start to getting back on track for being as invested again! 2018, heres to getting our shit together lmao

Oh man, when I was a wee bab I had this The Lion King 2 comic book and I was so enchanted by it that I would copy the drawings all the time!!

After a lil' while I stopped having to copy and started developing my own characters!! (lions of course lmao)
A little bit later I found out about The Lion King Fanart Archive, and it really sparked my love for drawing and sharing my work on the internet ;v;!

omg that’s lovely!!!
and totally explains why you’re so good with animals!

I was 12, and we had moved to a new area (I had stopped going to school the previous year) there was no kids around and I was extremely depressed because we'd previously lived with my bbf and their mom, and my mom started a fighter with their mom so we had to move, and she didnt allow me to say bye to anyone, and threw out the phone numbers of the friends I had met there. /:

So I started making my own worlds and characters and drew them 24/7. I basically never put down a pencil, and I mean that. I had no school and no friends, so ALL I did was draw.
Didnt get any good until I was like 20 though LOL

wow that sounds like a harsh situation..
i’m glad you at least had drawing !
can i ask how you got into nsfw art? would it be correct to call you a porn artist currently ? :0c

My mom told us a bit about sex ed early. Plus put me in to it in school at like 8 or 9 so I was very aware of it all before I started drawing. I don't think there's been a time where I haven't drawn at least fully nude. I didn't really grasp the concept of porn until much later but I viewed it all as just people. Pee sometimes don't wear clothing. It was normal.

My mom lost it when she saw some though. And when I started full time porn she refused to even say it out loud LOL

ohh lmao i guess not all people see it that way then! thats cool tho!

I always liked colouring, but I first started drawing because of a show called Pappyland.
He would teach kids how to draw and the theme song still often gets stuck in my head, hahah.
This was grade four, I think, so around 1995.
I'm not sure what all happened after that until grade 9, when I kind of started experimenting and also met people who could help me.
I didn't really have much of an animu style until a few years later, after trying to emulate a friend's style.
Not really a good idea, heh. :T It's hard to unlearn that shit.

oh that’s so sweet omg (also that’s bedore.. i was even born.. omg..)

well, i don’t think it’s necessarily bad, right? emulating styles is how we learn and develop our own style. just keep at it!

I was in a 4th grade art class (I may have been 12 at the time??) and one of the things I drew was Harry Potter with a broom with Hogwarts in the background. It was one of my first pieces with a character in the foreground and some background imagery behind it. Then fifth grade came and I started tracing from an album art of Sonic Adventure 2, and I was seeing how these outlines worked and how they convey artist-made visual imagery in general. Then I started drawing more of Sonic and my classmates at the time were interested in what I did.

I started jumping into drawing OCs around 2006, where I joined a Sonic-themed message board (which I was referred to by an old friend), which they also hosted an oekaki board. I made an old fancharacter which was basically a red Sonic with bangs, published it for a roleplay subforum and... Well, as you expect, it was met with harsh criticism. So I withdrew him and made some slight changes to him. Still, that was clearly not enough. So for the time being I just focused more on drawing fanart and not much else.

At that time, though, I have not been tracing others' art. I've relied on my own knowledge and techniques and my art was getting better year after year. Perspective, angles, posing, scenery and all. Around the late 2000s I've started making some significant changes to my hedgehog fancharacter. But I decided not to keep him as a hedgehog, and I've made him into the Chao you see today. I've never felt happier with my decision, especially since I loved Chao (still do). I drew him more than I drew my former hedgehog character.

Early 2010s and present, I started getting more into drawing not just my OCs, but others' OCs as well. :>

that’s really cool!
it’s too bad you had to stay in the fanart scene because of something like that though. :/

it’s good to see you’re breaking into ocs now though! your sona is super adorable

I really don't remember. I know it started with me recreating some of the box arts from video games and Pokemon VHS tapes.

ohh i love that tho, classic

It's how I learned to draw. I could almost get pretty close to how it actually looks by drawing it, but trying to make something of my own made it difficult to me. XD

haha yeah, i understand. most people learn to draw by copying existing art, actually! drawing on your own is just the next step

I have slowly gotten there over the years.

I started drawing at 6 because of my brother, I was enchanted by his ability to draw anything just by looking at it. So I started drawing and aside from a break during high school I've been doing it ever since c:

My brother no longer draws, which is a real shame but I guess for him it wasn't so much a passion as a natural talent that he never felt like building upon.

oh that’s so young!!
that’s super cool. it’s too bad your brother never found a passion for it, but its cool you got introduced to it that way!

Yeah sometimes I forget how long I've been drawing for and have to remember to count all the way back to then :"D

yeah, gosh?? i only got into art in highschool but im always like. amazed how long its been for myself too?