Like alot of people when they're little, I used to draw things all the time though most of them were never really serious drawing just doodles and such. I drew the typical things any little kid drew: my family, houses, people , animals, though it was all just for fun when I got bored. Right around 4th grade was when I got more serious about drawing. I made a comic named Tome Way about a 10-year old boy obviously also named Tome Way and his family. It was so stupid and awful but you know I was 10/11 and I thought it was funny at the time. I eventually forgot about it. But that comic made me want to improve my drawings more. So I started to learn how to draw more realistic-looking people and such. Soon art was one of my favorite classes and I was considered one of the best artist in my class. Though there were people better than me and so I wanted to improve. My art teacher really helped me alot and soon I was getting better. Fast forward a bit to 2005 when I was in 7th grade. This was around when I learned what anime was and that the Pokemon show itself was an anime. I was just starting to get into anime and watching more shows. One day in October I believe I arrived at school late. Being late was a routine thing around that time and I have been late for school almost everyday since 2nd grade even as I changed to different schools. So I knew what to do. I went to the office to get my usual tardy slip and as a the secretary was writing it up I notice something. There was a photo on her desk of a beach during sunset but some odd was about it. It had a weird blotch near the center that looked like the photo warped at the spot. It made my mind wonder what it could be and made me imagine it being something imaginary. What if it was a time traveler frozen in time and they were there when the picture was taken? This lead to me creating a story around it. During my first class , I came up of a story about a girl who was sent by her parents to time-travel the present in a time machine they invited in order to stop her evil uncle from taking over the world. During her mission, her uncle came along while she was on the beach and frozen her in time. Sometime later she was discovered by a boy who unfrozen her with the device her uncle accidentally left behind. Part of this was thought up later, but I wanted to make characters and such from the get go.Since I was really getting into anime, atm I decided I wanted to draw them in anime-style. However, I didn't know how. So sometime later , I borrowed some books on drawing anime from the library and learned how. My older brother happen to also buy a book on how to draw manga so I also used that. Soon I drew anime more and more and it eventually became a hobby of mine. I began to improve more and more and I became more and more of an artist. In high school I purposely signed up for an art class every year and became even better and then eventually I considered myself an artist.
I would say I'm not as naturally talented as an artist/drawer as other people my age or even younger than me. I mean there's teens who are 14,15,16 years old and they're way better artist than I am, especially at digital art. If I was I would be of been pretty good at drawing from an early age. Instead I had to learn myself or from others. I had self-taught myself to draw anime and adapt my own style. Even if I've gotten much better at it since 4th or 7th grade, I'm still pretty much an amateur and still have lots to learn. I'm still drawing mainly just people and I'm only good at basic poses and views. There's still plenty for me to learn such as how to draw animals , houses, buildings ,backgrounds and lot of other stuff better. Currently , I'm not in college now , but when I finally get into one, I want to take art course there and then I can hopefully learn alot more about drawing and excel. I've been also wanting to make a gallery on PC, however I haven't had the time to. I will get around to it eventually and when I do, people can take a look at my art and critique and give tips on how to improve.