December meme: December 22

[badbastion]

December 22: cassiopeia7: how did you get into arting?

Oh goodness, this is a hard question. Let's see. I liked drawing as a kid but wasn't very good at it... lots of hands behind backs and cutting people off at the knee so I wouldn't have to draw feet, and I'd draw dinosaurs and crappy spaceships and vroom vroom cars, lol. I wasn't great, maybe even wasn't good, but I liked it. I was more interested in reading and math and playing outside.

I stopped drawing some time in elementary school, then decided to take Art in high school. I found out that I was pretty good at it, so I stuck with it through all four years. Then I took a Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain class during my brief stint in college, and I loved it.

Then I quit again! I let ten years go by before I picked up a pencil again, and by that point I was all kinds of out of practice. Also, I'd been reading a lot of manga, having just found the medium. I'd also just found out about fandom, and I read about people using tablets, and i wanted one. I got one for Christmas. It's the same one I'm still using now, seven years later. I was all into anime/manga at first, which was okay, because it got me drawing. I have mixed feelings about it now. I think it held me back as an artist when I could have been spending those years learning my own style, but then again, it taught me how to stylize, and eventually I did find my own style. It's still a work in progress, though. I do still admire Kubo Tite and Junji Ito's styles, but I wish I could draw/paint with more realism. I never really painted, and I wish I had. But that's how I got into arting, each time, lol.

Comments

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

It's not too late to carry on branching out into other media and styles...

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know :) Once I'm actually drawing regularly again, I hope to begin experimenting with new stuff. I've got some paints and canvases, I just have to find the space and time to use them :)

[chomaisky.livejournal.com]

I have mixed feelings about it now. I think it held me back as an artist when I could have been spending those years learning my own style, but then again, it taught me how to stylize, and eventually I did find my own style.
LOL I basically just said the same thing somewhere else. Supernatural helped me find my style, though it was hard because I was so influenced by manga artists during the first several years of drawing...and yes it's a work in progress because we're still learning, and that's good :)
I talked with Amber earlier that I wanted to set up a art community where we can experiment with styles, throw out prompts and fill them, and just have fun, low pressure, weekly theme from small ones like drawing Dean's lips or Sam's hands to more ambitious ones which we haven't got to it yet... but then I got papers and trips, and it seems unlikely that I could do it. But it's a thing to keep people drawing and practice, I think :)

[becc-j.livejournal.com]

Great to hear your answer, love knowing how people got into their passions

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

The thing about art is it is subjective and that's the beauty of it, finding your own style and going with it ♥ So glad you picked that pencil back up :)

[sleepypercy.livejournal.com]

I love you experimenting and trying your own style!

And I'm so very glad you got back into arting :)