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my art journey
7 years ago
~*~ i was born for this, i will stay determined ~*~ so i saw a journal post a few days ago and i thought it was kinda cute, so here's how i started my art life
like every little kid i started drawing in like. preschool. and like every little kid it was HORRIBLE. like i was unable to make curving lines so my clouds were very sharp. knife clouds.
between kindergarten and 1st grade i kinda only really cared about colouring books, but THEN in 2nd grade i got in to dragons and started drawing them a lot. and bugs. i was always drawing bugs or dragons. i was an edgy little shit so i often drew dragons killing people! particularly people i didn't like at school. not kidding, my 2nd grade art project thing was a dragon carrying away a dead classmate. not good!! at least my clouds weren't sharp and pointy anymore!!
but yeah the dragons and bug thing continued until like the summer before 6th grade where i found out about ~anime~
that was the gateway of me starting to draw literally every day.
and, again, it was NOT GOOD! i would try to copy the styles i saw. i was really partial to the styles in higurashi no naku koro ni and elfen lied. little bit o' naruto as well. those were the anime i watched a lot way back then! basically i just kept on drawing. during class, when i should be doing homework, when i should be sleeping, etc etc. never taken an art class until it was required in 7th and 8th grade. my art style was still bad anime then!
uhhh that's basically all i did besides normal every day things like school. just kept on drawing. my life is boring, and that includes my art life. i only took an art class my senior? year? i think? can't remember i graduated like 3 years ago lolol. honestly i don't really count that art class as helpful, my art skills actually went down a bit! well, not the shading part, but everything else did become a little worse.
but Then, during college, i discovered that anime isn't the only cool art style. during college is when i started watching more western cartoons, particularly wander over yonder, steven universe, and gravity falls. i started making my art look more diverse (i had a horrible case of sameface when my art was anime, even with furries). vivziepop was a HUGE inspiration and, sadly, i basically stole her art style! despite doing that bad thing, it actually helped me a LOT to get my art to where it is now!
my art went from sharp clouds, to anime, to vivziepop clone, to a balance of everything i have learned so far! my biggest inspirations are, again, vivziepop, devon cady-lee (gorrem on da, worked on gigantic), matt nava (journey, abzu), hayao miyazaki, cynthia williams (hap-py here on DA), don bluth (various disney films, land before time), and temmie chang (undertale). my art is a combination of those artists + some of my own flair. i hope to add some more inspiration from some of these artists, particularly with my backgrounds.
i really hope that i can continue to better my art and maybe get some jobs as a concept artist for a few video games!! i'm already a concept artist for someone's audiobook and i'm having a blast. i'm learning so much from doing things out of my comfort zone and it has been an amazing experience so far.
long story short, regardless of whether you want to go to school or be a self-taught artist, you can do it. i've come so far these past 11 years and the only place i can go is up! you just gotta be patient!
like every little kid i started drawing in like. preschool. and like every little kid it was HORRIBLE. like i was unable to make curving lines so my clouds were very sharp. knife clouds.
between kindergarten and 1st grade i kinda only really cared about colouring books, but THEN in 2nd grade i got in to dragons and started drawing them a lot. and bugs. i was always drawing bugs or dragons. i was an edgy little shit so i often drew dragons killing people! particularly people i didn't like at school. not kidding, my 2nd grade art project thing was a dragon carrying away a dead classmate. not good!! at least my clouds weren't sharp and pointy anymore!!
but yeah the dragons and bug thing continued until like the summer before 6th grade where i found out about ~anime~
that was the gateway of me starting to draw literally every day.
and, again, it was NOT GOOD! i would try to copy the styles i saw. i was really partial to the styles in higurashi no naku koro ni and elfen lied. little bit o' naruto as well. those were the anime i watched a lot way back then! basically i just kept on drawing. during class, when i should be doing homework, when i should be sleeping, etc etc. never taken an art class until it was required in 7th and 8th grade. my art style was still bad anime then!
uhhh that's basically all i did besides normal every day things like school. just kept on drawing. my life is boring, and that includes my art life. i only took an art class my senior? year? i think? can't remember i graduated like 3 years ago lolol. honestly i don't really count that art class as helpful, my art skills actually went down a bit! well, not the shading part, but everything else did become a little worse.
but Then, during college, i discovered that anime isn't the only cool art style. during college is when i started watching more western cartoons, particularly wander over yonder, steven universe, and gravity falls. i started making my art look more diverse (i had a horrible case of sameface when my art was anime, even with furries). vivziepop was a HUGE inspiration and, sadly, i basically stole her art style! despite doing that bad thing, it actually helped me a LOT to get my art to where it is now!
my art went from sharp clouds, to anime, to vivziepop clone, to a balance of everything i have learned so far! my biggest inspirations are, again, vivziepop, devon cady-lee (gorrem on da, worked on gigantic), matt nava (journey, abzu), hayao miyazaki, cynthia williams (hap-py here on DA), don bluth (various disney films, land before time), and temmie chang (undertale). my art is a combination of those artists + some of my own flair. i hope to add some more inspiration from some of these artists, particularly with my backgrounds.
i really hope that i can continue to better my art and maybe get some jobs as a concept artist for a few video games!! i'm already a concept artist for someone's audiobook and i'm having a blast. i'm learning so much from doing things out of my comfort zone and it has been an amazing experience so far.
long story short, regardless of whether you want to go to school or be a self-taught artist, you can do it. i've come so far these past 11 years and the only place i can go is up! you just gotta be patient!
