26 replies to this topic

[Prax]

I have pretty much drawn all my life and was self-taught for the most part (I wouldn't count public school art classes or high school art classes as real formal training. XD But they did give me even more practice time! For marks, too!)
I just saw what I liked and tried to imitate. But I was always much more interested in creating my own characters and worlds than making fanart. So I have.. hundreds of characters. Literally.

Unfortunately, I am kind of lazy and don't like pushing myself too hard when it comes to art so I've stagnated or only slowly improved over the many.. MANY years. Like.. what is a background? What is architecture? Perspective??? xD
I fear I will remain a hobbyist forever even though i have done a few commissions int he past and have had some works published.. but.. it still feels like I have barely begun pursuing any of my artistic dreams. *SIGHSIGHSIGH*

Spoiler - Here are a couple of evolution of skills/style timelines, not that they are totally accurate, but it's some kind of measure! I tend to be inconsistent lol

Showing some kind of evolution of my CGing/digital colouring skills. Can you really even see a difference? >_>
The 2001 one in the upper left is with a mouse. The 2000 pic of the lower left is pencil crayon. lol


Here is just one character that I only started drawing as a human in 1998. I then stopped making coloured images of him for a long time until 2009. I have yet to have another seriously coloured image of him. ;___;
But at least you can see what a 11ish years can do. LOL (not much..?? hahahah! If I were only more serious, maybe I could have improved that much in only half or a third of the time, but oh well..)

I still label my stuff as anime because that was my foundation when I started drawing humans, but my style is more naturalistic or even.. "western comic book" than most anime, so it's a weird mix of eastern and western cartoon/comic influences right now.I'm not even sure how to feel about that, but it's hard to move away from it because it has pretty much become my "default" style these days. I want to get back into anthro art because that's where I actually started drawing from (them kids cartoons with them animals, man!), and I want to add more flow and fluidity in my stuff but it's so hard.. Trying to inject a more animated aesthetic into my style is hard.

[Freohr Datia]

When my sister and I were little, we would ask our dad to draw pretty pictures for us. He'd give us little stick figures. We thought we could draw better than that, so we started drawing ourselves. After a while I gave up, because all I could do were really crappy doodles while my sister was much better than I was, developing a neat and stylized style. Then, when I was in middle school my interest in drawing was rekindled by Naruto, and from then on I would draw quite a lot, managing to very slowly develop a modest and anime-ish style. Unfortunately, I'm still not that great at drawing, but I'm at the very least a hell of a lot better than what I used to be.

Aww idk why but that just sounded like a cute story to me ^~^

I think my brother used to be better at drawing than I was, then over time I passed him up. I guess I just drew more often than he did.

The only thing about my drawing though is that it feels like it isn't creative at all... Usually when I draw things I draw them realistically and make them look exactly the way they look for real. I haven't come up with any unique style to myself, though... But I guess that's why I don't plan to go into art professionally x3 I'll just draw for myself~ Or for my friends too if they wanted

[Rejected Lifeform]

Doodled a lot of stuff when I was a kid; forgotten suddenly when I was in my elementary days when most of my classmates underestimated me... The ability was re-ignited when I stepped on High School when I joined the Art Club, and was furthermore powered up when I met my first "sempai" after graduating.

Now, I just do these for fun; but other than that.... I just suck horribly. By means suck; irredeemable amounts of sucking.

[Freohr Datia]

Doodled a lot of stuff when I was a kid; forgotten suddenly when I was in my elementary days when most of my classmates underestimated me... The ability was re-ignited when I stepped on High School when I joined the Art Club, and was furthermore powered up when I met my first "sempai" after graduating.

Now, I just do these for fun; but other than that.... I just suck horribly. By means suck; irredeemable amounts of sucking.

I can't tell if you're putting down your work or going off topic towards the end... x3

If you're talking about your drawing... your signature makes it look like your drawing is fine, to me~

[Rejected Lifeform]

I can't tell if you're putting down your work or going off topic towards the end... x3

If you're talking about your drawing... your signature makes it look like your drawing is fine, to me~

Old Art... Ew... They're just as garbage as my recent stuff...


I suppose your positive comment could "null" out my negativity for a while; but still... I'm not buying it a.k.a not convinced at all.

[Freohr Datia]

Old Art... Ew... They're just as garbage as my recent stuff...


I suppose your positive comment could "null" out my negativity for a while; but still... I'm not buying it a.k.a not convinced at all.

So... you're calling me a liar... =<

I guess I couldn't really tell just from a small part of the pic in the signature...


But I guess if you're just so negative, then fine... I am a liar.

[Rejected Lifeform]

But I guess if you're just so negative, then fine... I am a liar.

There's still a tiny bit of me saying you're not a liar; it's only the majority of what I think.

Other than that, how about we take the conversation to private messages so we cannot take this to Off-Topic zone.