Age 31
Female
Arkansas
Seen December 20th, 2020
Posted December 7th, 2020
My parents say that I like to draw and what not when I was little, but I don't consider it more than the normal kid creativity, as they didn't comment on this until AFTER I said I wanted to be an artist.
To be honest, I stumbled into actually wanting to create art as a life thing. I drew anime things, but because I wanted an artist, but because I want to draw the characters I had created in my head, or I wanted to give gifts to friends. I just drew because that's how I expressed my ideas and talked about anime, not because I particularly wanted to be good at it. I honestly didn't have that much foresight as a kid.
I just used mechanical pencils and colored pencils on cardstock paper. I started messing around with copics and a really early drawing tablet on photoshop elements (I did CSS HTML and banners and what not for neopets or xanga), and just did that for awhile. I never really thought about what I wanted to do in the future.
It wasn't until 8th grade I think, when I was taking an early morning class in the Macromedia Suite. (Which was bought by Adobe. Things like Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver.) During this course my teacher thought I was very very good with the computer in terms of learning code with a combination of making graphics, so wanted to have a meeting with my mother and the art teacher about becoming a Graphic Designer. I was really surprised, and really appreciative now that instead of just thinking I might be good with something, he wanted to sit down and talk to me about the future.
At that time I wasn't doing anything else and I thought...well yeah I like this stuff! So I started looking for schools that had a better art program because I was going to a Math and Science school, and changed grades there. I was set on becoming a graphic designer, but later I figured out I like Illustration more, though I do have a decent design sense still. Once I began to learn about art it really changed the way I looked at the world, and I could never go back to how it was before!!
Obviously I still do pencil drawings and it's the basics, but even though I own colored pencils I rarely use them.
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