/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>Why?
Because I went to a strange school in Florida when I was a kid that had a weird art-hut in the center of our school ground where they brought kids in to try to recreate famous paintings or teach them about typical little kids arts-related stuff. They had us drawing some painting with a bridge and some waterlilies. For some reason I thought that the painting was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and I was upset that I couldn't recreate it because I was too young. I continued to draw after I changed schools because as a child I was upset that my much older sister could draw a gift for my mother and get more attention because her art was better than mine.

>what age?
Roughly 4 or 5 years old was when I began. All throughout school I would draw shitty little comics for my friends about online games we played together but they all looked like hot ass because I wanted to be a "mangaka" sometime during middleschool when the weeaboo bug dug into me deep. I only began to take art somewhat seriously when I turned 19, but even then I am too lazy to work on it consistently so my progress isn't very substantial.

>pastime/hobby/career?
I guess it is only a hobby because I don't have the energy to turn it into a career. To get comissions you need to network to some extent or have a consistent upload schedule with quality product.

If I am not constantly rivaling someone I might not improve.