What made you get into art ?

[Anonymous No.3589937]

Well Anons, inbetween all this serious practice and constant improvement it's hard to take a break and look at a thread that's not all serious business, so to break it up a bit I thought it'd be good to have a self reflection thread.
I'm interested to know why the other posters on this board first got into art/drawing ?
Why and what age did you start at ?
Do You See art as simple past time or hobby OR are you actively pursuing a career out of it ?

[Anonymous No.3589953]

I was a lonely kid who needed something to do. Spent a lot of time thinking up stories and actually tried writing first before moving on to drawing comics. I don't draw comics any more, instead I'm trying to make a career out of painting. I'll succeed eventually. I don't really have anything else in my life now except art, and it feels good.

[Anonymous No.3589956]

I needed porn of my waifu

[Anonymous No.3589957]

I needed cute drawings of my waifu

[Anonymous No.3589973]

>>3589953
I'm glad you like painting that much, a lot of people really struggle to find stuff they genuinely enjoy in life
>>3589956
>>3589957
Fair enough

[Anonymous No.3589980]

>>3589937
I realized I'm almost 30 and I need a hobby so my work and life won't destroy me, but it had to be extremely challenging and long-term rewarding.

Monster Hunter is getting casualized and Med School is expensive, so I guess I draw now.

[Anonymous No.3589991]

>>3589937
I became disillusioned in my teens and pretty much gave up on everything. After dropping out of school I found some traditionalist literature and realized that life didn't have to be some struggle to obtain wealth, there were ideals like Beauty and Goodness which we could actively strive for. Art became the only thing that I really cared about

[Anonymous No.3589992]

I was lonely and upset that I can't get a gf so I thought my only option was to get good at drawing so I could make my own gf.
I started drawing every day drawing women and tiddies, an attempt to quench my thirst but slowly I started becoming more and more interested in drawing other things. Now it's become my main hobby and soon I will go to some model drawing sessions hoping to meet other people into drawing along with learning a thing or two and maybe even make some friends for the first time in my life.

[Anonymous No.3589997]

i wanted to be able to paint the scenes from my dreams.

[Anonymous No.3590003]

>>3589937
neither a hobby or a career. art done right is a way of life.

[Anonymous No.3590011]

>>3589991
>>3589992
It seems a lot of people develop an interest in art when they first start to deal with sadder emotions such as loneliness.

[Anonymous No.3590014]

>>3589937
Read the akira manga when I was 13 and wanted to replicate some Of the scenes like where tetsuo's on the operating table, the clown gang riding their bikes and those amazing city shots.

[Anonymous No.3590015]

>>3589937
>I'm interested to know why the other posters on this board first got into art/drawing ?
idk child of divorce? would have to spend time alone at my dad's house with no tv and the intranettes weren't a thing yet. And then it became a bonding thing with my mom teaching me shit.
>Why and what age did you start at ?
4 probably. Won the reflections contest in first grade for an underground sunken ship drawing. Got second in second grade for a cat drawing. Got third in third grade for a picture of a face. That was the last award I won so I just stuck with faces.
>Do You See art as simple past time or hobby OR are you actively pursuing a career out of it
Basically the only thing I do now. That or shitposting about it.

Didn't do any drawing at all from 18-28 due to anxiety and hangups and a feeling of retarded "perfectionism" that I used to justify doing nothing at all.

Mostly got back into art out of spite because of an ongoing beef I had with one anon on /tv/ that endlessly shilled for Batman v Superman. I ended up watching the film like 20 times, wrote a paper edit of how to improve it, did an extended outline of every possible explanation for all the fuck ups in the movie, and then I started to think it was a go-nowhere hassle so I painted a picture about it instead.

[Anonymous No.3590016]

I'm a creative person by nature. I'm not saying that to brag, its just something that's always been said to me. Creativity and the urge to put it to use apparently comes naturally to me, and its hard for me to imagine how other people can't come come up with ideas they want to express like I do.

That urge to create has manifested itself throughout my life. At a young age I did all sorts of drawing and crafting. I loved making pictures stories. I didn't show them to others usually; it was fun made for me and me alone. As I grew older I expressed my creativity in all kinds of different ways; I started writing, I started making videos, hell I even ran an insanely cringy MSPaint sprite comic for awhile. Point is the urge to create is what has driven me through most of my life.

Then when I got to high school my creativity basically died. I feel into a dark period of my life due to a lot of reasons. A big one was that I had been led to believe that art was not a practical endeavor. I pretty much stopped doing anything major in regards to art and tried to focus on "practical goals" that failed.

So then for I dunno, 4 years or so I basically wasted my life. I tried to do stuff but depression sapped all my energy and willpower away. Eventually I decided I needed to find something to live for. And at the end of it all, the thing that had brought me the most happiness in life had always been art and the process of creation.

So almost 2 years ago I bought a digital tablet. I started drawing again. Gradually, I drew more and more. My skill has steadily improved and now I've reached a point where I can create most things I envision. I spend almost every hour of my freetime on art in one way or another. Its made me feel insanely fulfilled and basically turned my entire life around. I still have a long way to go and consider myself mediocre, but I've never been happier.

Pic related is the closest thing I have to old art. Its one of the first things I drew with my tablet.

[Anonymous No.3590023]

>>3590015
You work very hard anon, and I like that you actively encourage other anons to embrace their bad drawings as it kinda feels like there's a pressure to only make masterpieces most Of The time while it's only natural that the majority of paintings and drawings created are going to be generally bad in some aspect, I like your work a lot and your not nearly as bad as other people say.
>>3590016
I'm noticing this trend quite a lot

[Anonymous No.3590038]

I've always liked to draw as a child. At age 4 I wanted to become a painter. I ended up studying graphic design in college, but wasn't exactly passionate about it, I always preferred to paint and draw. Now working as an illustrator feels like making money on reading books or playing vidya, I mean I'd be doing it anyway for my own entertainment so why not monetise it? I like to imagine characters, landscapes, whole universes. It would feel very constraining if I weren't able to show it to the world, even if my skill isn't superb but enough to communicate the core idea.

[Anonymous No.3590042]

>>3589937
I first got into drawing “good” near the end of highschool, partly through a scare of not being good enough in 2007, so I did nothing but Loomis for 2 years, then studied only what I actually wanted to draw, now and since.

It’s my hobby, but also a plan B, in case I get doxed from my current/future jobs because of wrongspeech. I prefer to lead a “non-artsy” existence with no career. Henry Darger, but as a millenial with a website, basically. I can settle for just knowing people read/see my released stuff, with some website “hit” counting app to know it’s not just pissing in the ocean.

I mostly draw to make impulsive fanart/porn and to turn daydreams into webcomics/graphic novels.

[/loomis/ No.3590144]

>Why?

I was always someone that appreciated art rather than participated in it-and to a large extent that's still true. I loved cartoons, I loved anime etc.; whenever my parents would buy me a videogame or whatever as a kid I would scan the cover and instruction manuals for cool character art and stuff like that before anything else.

>what age?

I think I told myself I wanted to be an artist and animator from a fairly young age, but I apparently didn't want it that bad because I also didn't want to put in the work in-nor did I truly understand how much work there was to be done. I was directionless. I spent a lot of time and effort playing counter-strike and drinking mountain dew with my friends over ventrilo when I could and should have been doing something more productive. I think because I worked a tough job in a motorcycle dealership warehouse out of highschool I mentally resigned myself to being a lazy shut in when I wasn't on the clock which is obviously 100% the wrong way to be.

Even years later it's hard for me to gain any traction. While I'm a better artist than I was in late 2014 (the earliest art I have posted to facebook, so I guess my best idea of when I "started") I'm still much worse than where I want and need to be-and when you're already old as balls it's pretty frustrating to be in that position.

I don't believe that in starting late that I've completely locked myself out of getting proficient eventually, but I think that undoing the damage already done and having to push through an 11 hour work day makes things much more difficult than they otherwise might be.

>pastime/hobby/career?

I would love to make money with art, sure; I still have naive aspirations about making games, comics and animations. I don't care about money much but I'd like to not have to live with roommates, and be able to help my aging parents retire comfortably.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIENcvxadkI

[Anonymous No.3590627]

I wanted to tell stories, and drawing them is the cheapest way to do so, since the only thing limitating me is my ability to be able to draw or not something.
It's hard though.

[Anonymous No.3590939]

>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.

[Anonymous No.3591004]

We used to draw and paint a lot in kindergarten and I loved it so I decided at age 5 or so that I wanted to become a painter. At that age I also met an old man who was a painter and I was fascinated by him and the stories he told me.
So for years and years I would draw my favorite cartoon characters and people would be "oh, that's so beautiful! You're so talented!" and because I was "talented" I thought I didn't need to get into art classes or learn from books, so I would draw the same shit always without improving even though I was ALWAYS drawing because I was a bullied loner with no friends. But I wasn't aware of that and I was just simply enjoying it.
During my early teens I sometimes Looked at references and managed to do some realistic artwork and was thinking about becoming an illustrator or animator.
But there was some point were I was tired of being a loner, of people making fun of me, feeling ugly, my parents fighting at each other and also insulting me sometimes... I would barely draw because I had no will to do anything.
But I got in contact with a guy and he helped me to go through all of that. He's my boyfriend now and thanks to him now I'm drawing lots, feel less self-conscious about myself and I got my life together.
I even learned to do digital art and I'm pretty happy about it. I'm not a pro but I'm just getting better and I enjoy drawing again.
Nowadays I don't know what job will I have. Maybe I'll do freelancing or try to get into an illustration agency, I still have to see what I can do.

[Anonymous No.3591029]

>>3590015
you should've stayed on /tv/ jimmy

[Anonymous No.3591072]

>>3590939
Your school sounds cool anon

>rival

Are you an anime character?

[Anonymous No.3591227]

>>3589937
i get really anxious thinking about death and eternal oblivion and drawing has helped me in clearing those thoughts a bit

[Anonymous No.3591237]

>>3589937
Here's where that gif is from https://youtu.be/5Xmiy-10aq8

[Anonymous No.3591305]

>>3589937
>Why?
Pokémon
>Age
I've always doodled, but I've taken it semi-seriously since high school
>Hobby or career
Hobby, but I want to be as good as professional.

[Anonymous No.3591310]

when i was about 4 i was left alone with coloring books a lot. i would get really bored with the lineart and wanted to make my own. i always hated coloring and wanted to draw instead. there have been periods where depression made me lazy but i've pretty much drawn my whole life.

[Anonymous No.3591313]

>>3591029
or what?

[Anonymous No.3591370]

>>3591313
Chicken butt xd

[Anonymous No.3591432]

I'm super new here. I've been spending the past few years looking for some sort of hobby that I enjoy (other than sitting around and playing video games or consuming media). I've tried a lot of things: running, fishing, piano, writing, ect. I ended up dropping all of these hobbies because I have shitty motivation and work ethic. I'm just hoping that maybe drawing and art will be the thing I enjoy doing more than nothing at all. It probably wont, but you never know. I just hope that some day I can find something fulfilling to do with my free time. I hope I can find that thing before I just give up on my apathetic life.

[Anonymous No.3591453]

Since I was in 2nd grade I would doodle in class when I was bored (so, a lot), and I always liked drawing so I'd check out those Chris Hart how-to-draw books from the library and use them to help me draw stuff. People would notice and say "hey, you're pretty good" and I became known as "the artist" in school and stuff. The validation from others was nice and I still got bored in class so I kept on drawing.

In middle school I got into TF2 and really wanted to draw (better) fanart; was also inspired by Makani's work on the TF2 comics. Was introduced to ic/Loomis/fundamentals in middle school, but never really grinded that stuff like I should have.

Am now in college studying engineering, but animation is always at the back (and sometimes the front) of my mind. Maybe someday I'll switch or get a second degree in animation or... I don't really know. For now it's just a hobby.

[Anonymous No.3591456]

>>3591432
probably get off /ic/ then if you want a chance of enjoying it and not becoming a crabby shitposter

[Anonymous No.3591462]

>>3589937
this is what got me into art. no joke

[Anonymous No.3591918]

Youngfag here, I have way too much time on my hands and decided I should get a hobby and not play games all day. I always liked knights, mechs, creating oc's, and tokusatsu. Last year on a whim i decided to try out drawing and ended up enjoying it a bit, so here I am now.

I still can't draw anything I want really but I still have fun just doodling random shit and memes with my friends anyways. I should probably actually learn how to draw well eventually. Pic related to my dumb noodles, knight with a hat for some reason.