ChibiGissy
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Post by ChibiGissy on Jan 17, 2015 9:38:26 GMT -6
Okay all you artists on Creative Studio Forum, I have an interest question?
What inspired you to draw from when you first started to draw to now?
I'll start with mine.
Before 2008, I usually have the school telling me to draw something and I just drew what looked like stick figure like people.
Around 2008, I wanted to draw something that is in more of the anime artstyle. So, I looked at anime pictures and drew what I can draw and boom, I drew crap done.
Over around 2009-2012, I drew the characters eyes in a more Sailor Moon 90's animeques artstyle. Rather it was using MS Paint, GIMP (2009-2012), Inkscape (2012-2013), or FireAlpeca (2013).
I started having a more of a western style to my art while still keeping the Sailor Moon animu eyes (Though now it's more of anime web-eyes or something...) I even go as far as somewhat sketching my art first before doing the line art.
It was only until the beginning of 2014, I got my first tablet and drew more, if going as far as giving character nose, which I never did during my previous years. And the rest is history~. ^^
So, what your story of your Artstyle?
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Post by pilotobvious on Jan 17, 2015 9:55:53 GMT -6
I was always someone who could 'draw.' The kids in my class would always want me to draw something up on the board related to the lesson or something, so the teachers usually happily obliged all the time. Good on them for allowing us kids to exercise our creativity.
Anyways, in fourth grade (Circa 2005-06), my teacher wanted us to write a story involving some sort of magic. We did these weekly writing projects, and they usually only had to be about 3 pages long, but I was so inspired by this topic, that I wrote about 30 pages worth of story. It was vaguely inspired by Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life. My friend loved this story, so she wanted to illustrate. I wanted her to teach me how she drew the characters so I could come up with a few other outfits. So she did.
It was quite a western style, slightly influenced by anime. The facial proportions were god awful, but it was great at the time for us fourth graders. Anyways, by fifth grade, I started coming up with other stories, and started to develop a legitimate anime style.
I did a lot of those "Fold in Half the copy paper and make a manga things." I made a comic called Space Academy, which is actually pretty near and dear to my heart today. That was from 2006-2007.
In late 2007 or early 2008, I came across the concept of fanime and children who animated because of my aforementioned friend. I thought it was so cool, so I wanted to try it too.
Eventually, I came up with my idea of Future Agents. My art at this time was slowly improving, but it was still quite mediocre. I didn't have much of a unique style and my art suffered from same-face syndrome.
Once I got a tablet, I started experimenting more with colors and facial structures and character development. (Circa 2009-10) So I was starting to make unique adjustments to my style. I tried so many different styles, from very simple, to completely Americanized, to wacky proportions, and I eventually ended up with a pretty generic anime style for my animations... which is okay with me because it makes it easier for me to animate.
On another note, starting in 2010, I joined high school cross country and I made stupid little comics of me, my friends, and our coach. It was basically the funny things that happened to us, and everyone loved them. Those were a completely Americanized style. I wish I still had material to make comics, but things in xc got a little dry after my junior year.
Today, I still do a lot of different 'styles,' I guess you could say. I usually doodle in a westernized style, I like to experiment with different chibi styles, I delve in some semi-realism from time to time, and I draw realism. Plus I do a lot of abstract art that I never post online... I guess that's more of a medium or genre rather than a style, but it's whatever. :\
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Post by titee on Jan 17, 2015 14:41:02 GMT -6
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Post by Elly on Jan 17, 2015 14:46:00 GMT -6
This is a long story so bare with me. I've been drawing ever since I could remember. I remember scribbling on the walls with crayons when I was about four years old (so about 1996-1997. Yea I'm old stop it lolol). My mom also used to get on my case when I would draw in the pages of books that she bought for me to read and they would be full of crayon marks. I guess I couldn't help it: I loved using colors as a kid. I also remember doing a lot of story telling in kindergarten and first grade where we had to either retell a story using our own drawings or tell our own. Back when Disney used to have the Adventures magazine (around 1998-2000) I used to try to copy different art styles. The same went down for Highlights magazine. In second grade, my art was displayed on the front entrance's bulletin board because my teacher really liked how I paid attention to detail as well as color. One of the heaviest influences was when 4kids, Nelvana and DIC dubbed some anime such as Card Captor Sakura, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Sailor Moon. I had a lot of Yu-Gi-Oh OCs that I've had since I was about 8-10 (don't judge me). My younger brother and I also were avid Crash Bandicoot fans so we also drew OCs and made a Yu-Gi-Oh x Crash Bandicoot crossover. Characters had same face syndrome, but that didn't matter. What mattered was that my brother and I were bonding through drawing. We drew in old notebooks, experimented with different coloring tools like crayon, markers and colored pencils (colored pencils were our favorite) and drew with pens. Eventually we started to draw on our own when we decided to be more independent. Elementary school consisted of beady eyes, no necks, acute angle noses, scribbled hands and wild hair. Necks were coming in soon. Same for ears. In junior high school, a series called W.I.T.C.H. was my next influence. I read the comics, the books, watched the series, the whole nine yards. That was when in 7th grade (2004-2005), I started to write my own series and drew the characters (OCs again lolol). Around the same time, my friend, J (I don't want to disclose her name), was writing a story herself about magical powers. I felt like I was copying her, but she was fine with it. I credited her as an influence.  Junior high school was when I was drawing big heads, started to add necks, hands were starting to lean away from scribbled hands, new poses were introduced, and different hairstyles. That was also around the time when Avatar: The Last Airbender first aired on Nickelodeon. I didn't have a huge influence off of them, but I admired the work that they put into ATLA. I upgraded from using 12 colored pencils in elementary school to 24 crayons and colored pencils to 36 colored pencils. I also started to use a gel pen to line art my work. I would got to the 99 cents store just to buy some pens to line my work. Junior high school was also the time when my art teacher introduced us to different methods of drawing such as understanding architecture and shading. Even drawing flowers and different cartoon styles. High school was where all of my major changes came from. I met a girl named Hope my second semester of high school and she was reading manga. She was also intro drawing and she was on the same level as I was artistically. We didn't start to talk to each other until 10th grade (2007-2008). She eventually lent me volumes of manga. My first manga that I've ever read was Fruits Basket. She also was a pen collector (so was I at the time) and she gave me a whole lot of gel pens, marker brushes, Sakura Microns, etc. That was when I started to color with pens, colored pencils, markers, gel pens (both the glitter ones and the metallic ones). I still have a silver metallic gel pen that she gave me about 7 years ago. I was introduced to Naruto in the 10th grade which was also when I started to delve into doing my own character designs because I wanted to be original (even if I had a heavy anime influence). Watching Naruto made me really think about different angles of a character's face and body position so I decided to go to the library and get some how to draw books. That was also around the time I revisited one of my favorite author's new books: Miki Falls. I liked Mark Crilley growing up because of the series, Akiko (I wish i had finished it). Every time I went to the library, I would borrow manga as well as how to draw manga books. I would try to copy the style and it would look wonky, but I was proud of them. Serenity Chronicles was born based off of my interests at the time: dancing (because I missed dancing, I did ballet froom ages 5-15) and martial arts (I did karate for a year) as well as a bit of drama I had in high school (we'll save that story for another time). That was when my art style started to rapidly change. My anatomy was getting better, I drew different eyes, I studied real life a bit more. I got my first tablet at age 16 and started to draw digitally. I also learned how to shade better as well as learned how to do great line art. I would say that 2010 was my best year for art. 2010 was the year I won an honorable mention at a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. art contest where we had to draw what Dr. King's Dream was for uniting different races, ethnic backgrounds, etc. Even though my style was in anime form, it was really good and I was very proud of myself. It was also the year when I got a medal and was presented at graduation. In college, I drew and doodled from time to time, but it wasn't my main priority because a computer science major. But in my free time, I watched a lot of speedpaints, observed the world around me even more and started to draw again from time to time. Eventually I started drawing a lot more recently because of character cards for my fanime as well as fanart and give one take one art. My art started to become more on the realistic side because I was paying more attention to body types as well as facial structures. Eventually, my characters stopped having same face syndrome. Expressions were also drawing better and I used a lot of drawing challenges to do so. Here's to 2015, where I get to improve on my art even more. |
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Post by Petite Chiara on Jan 17, 2015 19:13:54 GMT -6
When I was still a little baby I - of course - scribbled little circles here and there but when being about 3, I started to try to draw the dolphins and other animals I saw in a nature-science book. But I especially loved the sea-animals.
However, when I grew older (let's say the age 4 to 6) I wasn't allowed to go outside. My parents would keep me locked in my room or in the garden. (My brothers were allowed to go out and play though it was pretty mean)
That's where I started to imagine and make up stories. When I looked out of the window in the living room, you could see the huge mountains with forests and so on. Back then, my brother told me the desert would be behind it. (And I totally believed him, since that was were the sun always went down and everything looked always bright and shiny around that mountain)
My father used to support my imagination by telling me fairy tales and making up his own fairy tales so I wasn't afraid of certain things anymore. For example, I always was very scared when it started to thunder. My father told me that there's nothing to worry about, since Pegasus is just passing by and whenever he is flapping is wings to fly, it'd be so loud and magical, another thunder would occur. (Sidenote: I really adored Pegasus and Greek Mythology back then, and I was a huge fan of the last unicorn) OR when I had troubles sleeping or was scared of the darkness at night, my mom would tell me that the man in the moon is watching over every child - basically I was raised with fairy tales.
(Thus the stuff I drew looked rather curly? And you sometimes had to guess what it is because it was mostly bizarre-)
My head was full of creative stories and I really wanted to see them on paper to show it other people - that's where I finally had a reason to draw.
In elementary school I drew a bunch of things - (sometimes I tried to draw the eastern style because they'd show a few Miyazaki movies on TV or the Inuyasha/Dragonball Series and they inspired me alot) until that day, where I was going to Nuremberg with my Grandpa.
We went to the bookstore and he told me he'd buy me one book of my choice for the long train-trip. (It's about 6 hours and that's p long for a 8/9 year old)
That's where I saw the first volume of the Tokyo Mew Mew manga. I immediately fell in love with Mew Ichigo. On my 6 hour trip to Nuremberg she became my hero and she STILL IS. She seemed like a close friend to me.
Yeah, I guess it also inspired me to try the eastern style even more.
Well then, almost right after this the Fanime Community story follows I posted in another thread lmao. (Drawing gothicemostuffhghghg)
Today I draw in..quite some styles. A cross of eastern/western style, semi realism. Still a bit curly and sometimes bizarre I think, haha.
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Post by Whirlwynd on Jan 17, 2015 20:30:10 GMT -6
If I had inspirations before middle school, I don't remember them. I did draw but it wasn't an every day thing for me. I would make illustrations for the stories I wrote. I do remember the people had a bit more to them than a stick figure, but not much. Then I saw Sailor Moon on TV. I remember watching the animation and thinking "this is exactly what I want 20 Galaxies to look like!"  Over the years I'd be influenced by bits and pieces of other artists, though the only one I can remember off the top of my head is CLAMP. I never really "grew out of" the anime style like a lot of the artists I hung out with did. I've always liked it so I still draw in it. But I did want to try something more realistic and darker so I tried a bunch of different styles with the older Lady Unlucky comic. I can't remember any specific influences aside from real life for it. Maybe the older versions would have looked a little better if I had some kind of direction, lol. |
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Post by nymmkirimoto on Jan 26, 2015 19:00:32 GMT -6
I went from anime to realistic style at some point and for animation I settled into a more western style, very stylized but still pretty realistic.
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Post by universalfiction on Aug 8, 2015 21:46:49 GMT -6
When I lived in my grandparents' house, my cousin, Kana, showed me a shoujo manga magazine and she told me she could copy something and draw it so she did! I was really fascinated and I begged her to teach me so she tried to teach me how to draw eyes. I failed miserably then my family moved to the US. Kinda like Chiara, I wasn't allowed to go outside. I secretly went onto youtube (wasn't allowed) under my bed and I discovered Inuyasha and I tried to copy Kagome's eyes because they looked really simple and easy to draw. I was able to. To become like Kana, I would practice copying anime-styled pictures from Google. My dad still locked me inside and I wasn't allowed to play with my friends because they were "too young" so I lived through animes basically. When I ran out of animes to watch (on youtube), I began to make my own stories and I drew stuff to go along with it. My first story was called Algie (I didn't know that the word algae existed). I shared it with my classmates and I was labeled as the artist and it pressured the frick out of me. Skip to junior high, I met this girl and she taught me that I should probably add necks to my drawings so I did. I have never been able to draw detailed drawings so I would always simplify things as much as I could and that's how my style came to be I guess. I think my drawings have the cute look (well at least people think they're cute idk why) because the first art style I saw was a shoujo style. The wonderful manga magazine company that started it all:  |
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Post by letzshake on Aug 9, 2015 16:59:46 GMT -6
I drew little comics and things (copying my brother) when I was in like middle school or whatever, I guess mostly because of Captain Underpants? and also because my best friend since 2nd grade was really into superhero cartoons and comic books. Back then, I only sort of drew because my brother and friend did, and mostly I liked to write stories. At one point, my best friend came up with this pretend TV channel that me, him, and our other friend were all a part of and we came up with like shows and acted them out and stuff (kids, right?). That kind of made me want to make a cartoon to go with it, and I'd just found out about computers like the previous year and started searching for animation programs. The first one I found was some terrible gif animator thing that I made some really cruddily drawn animations in and posted to one of those "create a free website" sites that I made as like an extension to the fake TV channel we had. Later, I found something called Pivot Stickfigure Animator which requires no drawing whatsoever and I animated and hung around that community for many years. As a young teen, I went through a weeb phase and tried to copy some anime characters from reference a few times. Other than that I basically never drew.
Despite that, I always held on to the desire to animate (it still feels like the one thing that I'm actually kind of consistently excited about as a prospect for a career). I got really moody and serious in my weeb phase though so I sort of stopped liking the idea of cartoons and only wanted to make something serious like a dramatic anime. I've gotten over that now, mostly, as I'm rediscovering how good cartoons can be, but my taste for "serious" animation still kind of reflects in my drawing and viewing habits.
Anyway, it wasn't until my junior year of high school when I took an art class that I figured I should seriously start learning how to draw, and it wasn't until joining this community that I even began to draw frequently at all. I don't think I've drawn enough original stuff yet frankly to have a style or anything, but because of my whole background in animation I gravitate more towards a semi-realistic look, I guess, like something between an 80s anime and a comic book. However, I don't like to box myself in as an artist, and I try to draw things out of my comfort zone a lot (cutesy things, realism, whatever).
Even though I try to be accepting of all kinds of art, anything that looks excessively cartoonish or excessively anime-esque tends to put me off because of my whole reject-western-animation-entirely-but-later-feel-bad-about-being-such-a-weeaboo-so-reject-anime-but-then-like-it-again-later complex. I've been molded into a person who is extremely picky about art-style which is really shitty when you're kind of new to drawing and struggling with your artist identity >.>
So yeah there's my life story hope you liked it
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Post by emilylovescookies on Aug 10, 2015 12:16:36 GMT -6
Okay so here we go!!~
(First of all I have been drawing since I was in Pre-school..)
A long time ago I used to always draw animals (Mostly wolves) and I drew them in an anime like style (But looking back on how i drew them they look creepy af)
But I drew the eyes kind of like the Higurashi eyes.. But then I was asked to draw an anime character by my friend so i drew him Hatsune Miku and that's where it all started.. I drew comics mostly and that's where i created the concept for into the stars a few years ago (but if you watched my 20 fact video you know how that all started xD )
AND THEN I MADE MY ART STYLE!!!! during school i would always sketch anime eyes AND THEN I CREATED MY ART STYLE AND I STARTED TO DRAW MORE AND MORE LIKE THAT! Then a about a year later I found the fanime community and yeah.. :3
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Post by skullgirl on Aug 24, 2015 0:31:20 GMT -6
I used to draw comics in middle school and I was SUPER bad at it but I was 12 and thought I was the best thing since canned bread.
I stared computer drawing back on windows 95 with a mouse but that never got anywhere?
around 2007 2008 ish my family FINALLY upgraded to the computer age and I started drawing again on the computer. I never really made much of anything until I was inspired by Tokyo Crystal Mew to start trying to make a fanime. With so much work going into episodes of my fanime Night Shade I got better pretty fast, but it was still nothing great. I was trying though, and I made another fanime name Lucid Dream and that's when I really started trying to get better and learn things like coloring and shading and anatomy.
2009-2014 I moved away from fanime and into the Transformers fandom. I drew a lot of robots and got pretty alright at that. But it REALLY made my art suffer in the long run because I rarely was drawing humans. I also started to get lazy because robots were so easy for me I wasn't challenging myself anymore.
Late 2014- now I moved back to drawing humans and came back to fanime. And I really feel like I had ruined my art in those past few years, and had to learn a lot of basic things again. I am slowly getting better with the help of Asmia and Tokyo Dino Mew. But I feel like I could be so much better! I have started trying to get better again, but its hard since it's been so long since I took something seriously.
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Junior high school was when I was drawing big heads, started to add necks, hands were starting to lean away from scribbled hands, new poses were introduced, and different hairstyles. That was also around the time when Avatar: The Last Airbender first aired on Nickelodeon. I didn't have a huge influence off of them, but I admired the work that they put into ATLA. I upgraded from using 12 colored pencils in elementary school to 24 crayons and colored pencils to 36 colored pencils. I also started to use a gel pen to line art my work. I would got to the 99 cents store just to buy some pens to line my work.
