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I just felt the need to create something and drawing is my way of doing it.
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the reason i started to draw was because i saw other people's work and i wanted to create something beautiful as well. i've been drawing since i was very young (before kindergarten) i have a passion and a drive to create some beautiful pieces but unfortunately i lack the skills to create something of such high caliber cry
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Dy-laneA keiiii I don't even remember. I'm one of those people who had been drawing before they could even speak. XD; Natural inclination, I suppose. When I was little, I thought my pictures were horrible (even though in retrospect, they were pretty good considering my age), so I hid them from everyone else. Around second grade, I started getting praises on my art, so that's when I realized art was something I was good at. Almost all small children draw. I just did it more often, and never quit drawing when I reached the age where most people move onto "less childish" hobbies. Yes and perhaspe this is one of the reason some people come out of highschool and just seem so "talented" at drawing and why I was so "bad". XD What's a "less childish" hobby anyways? Most people just watch tv, play videogames, or browse the internet, or use social networking these days... Not necessarily true. Some people start art in their teenager years or even later, and they improve so fast it's scary. X______x I can't say I'm one of those people, obviously. And yeah, that's why I put the quotation marks. A hobby is a hobby. |
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Hm. Simple, yet interesting question. Let me see...Why did I start drawing... Ah, yes, I remember; When I was very, very little, my father taught me how to draw. But a few years later, I had to move far away from him. I guess his absence was some kind of motivation to keep drawing, in hope to see him another day, something like that. |
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I've been drawing since I can remember lol...I started drawing manga when I was nine because my friend loved it (she was 14 at the time) so I just copied her.....
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I've been drawing since I've been able to hold a pen or pencil. In elementary school I wasn't the best at doing it, but I enjoyed it. My parents encouraged me in my interest in drawing and put my in art classes (it was more kiddish, but still learned how to draw things from shapes) and then in middle school a more structured art class. I am not sure what triggered it all, I have a pretty bad memory of things, but it's something I don't think I'll ever stop doing.
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@keii
Ahh o.o Well, your art is beautiful xD I started drawing a year and a half ago, when I was 13-14. So, I guess I'm one of those people who started drawing in teenager years o.o I wouldn't say I'm one of those fast improvers I dont think orz Since my art is like the following Thanks for the input you guys :] |
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i started drawing when i was really little and every one always told me i was good just because i was a lil more dedicated [spent alot of time] and was more developed in art then my peers it made me feel special with my talent so i continued and here i am today...i mainly draw anime, before it was an occasional thing but now im sucked in and trying to get out and i love trying new stuff and i got sucked in because my friends showed it to me and i tried it and loved it.
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I don't know why. I guess because I must've enjoyed it. I've been drawing since I could remember and it never occured to me that some people didn't/couldn't draw. No one even told me how. I just did it.
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Sage Asuka I don't know why. I guess because I must've enjoyed it. I've been drawing since I could remember and it never occured to me that some people didn't/couldn't draw. No one even told me how. I just did it. |
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Much like others, it's not that I got into drawing, it's more that I never stopped.
When I was younger I had no perception of drawing skill, but adults fed me the idea that I had considerable drawing skill in comparison to my peers. I painted with my father a lot, and always had access to his tools once he taught me how to take care of them. It took a while to realize that second graders don't typically know about color wheels, composition, brush care, light sources, Picasso, etc. With all of the positive reinforcement from the adults in my early life there was no problem in continuing because I never stopped liking it. It's probably because of this that later, when other adults (who weren't my parents or any professional artist) told me to go be a lawyer instead (despite how ignorant they were about the art industry), I could happily ignore them. |
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my family actually has a theory about this. Up until I was 4 or 5, I was mostly deaf, so the only way for me to communicate was through drawing pictures. After the surgery, it just sort've stuck because my mom was my biggest reinforcement. My brother thinks that had I not been deaf, I wouldn't be the artist I am now, he thinks I would've gone down the path of math and science. Most of my childhood, I had no interests in being a professional artist, I just liked drawing. My real interests was science.
Like I said, I don't know how much merit that theory has, but that's what my brother thinks and my mom kinda thinks my lack of hearing in my younger days, had something to do with it. But I think I will opt for the path of math and science. |
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Years ago my friend Rhi started to draw her RP characters, and I thought it looked like fun so I started to do it too! And I just stuck with it. :3 At first I drew only my RP characters, then I branched out into fanart and other illustrations.
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When my mother was a young girl she drew a lot but because her parents didn't encourage it, she didn't continue. My mother told my two older sisters and I to do what we pleased, really. Her childhood sucked, switching between public and private schools and parents that were busy with work and grandparents that preferred her brother to her. My elder sister, Emily, began drawing and my eldest began writing. Of course, the both succeed in their hobby of choice and left me in the dust. Finally, I decided I wanted to draw too [[This was in my first year of kindergarten, I had two years.]]. My mother, who only really drew Nightcrawler at this point, thought that I would do well, too. One year, my sister's advanced criticism blew me away from my passion and for two years, I would not draw even a heart or smiley face. When I started again, I was worse then ever. It is obvious now [[I'm thirteen going into the eight grade]] that those two years really took a toll on me.
So I basically started drawing to compete with my sister and to please my mother. My dad shuns it~ |
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Hmm...
I guess I've been drawing since kindergarten and I never stopped. I've been motivated by the pictures that other people draw because it makes me think I'll be able to draw like them. And I sort of see drawing as an escape from my life and a way to express who I am other than using writing. |
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