Hello there DD citizens just wondering what made you become an artist?

I will start it off. As a child I always thought my dad was everthing. He was my hero. So I had asked him to draw me superman due to the fact I could not draw at the age of 5. As he was done with his piture I saw before me not superman but a stick man with a suit case. Looking at my dad I had asked where was superman. He explained, the stick man was superman and his custome was in the suitcase. So what did I do.....cry. After that day I just kept drawing unit I could draw superman. Soon I became really good and here I am now. : )


So what is your story?

LOL! That is a funny story in a sad sort of way. I don't really consider myself an artist. I really can't draw that well. I just began drawing my stupid comics to get me through the day at work.

Very simple answer. Because I was bored.

Also. Your dad could draw a suitcase!?! Man. He's a better artist then me.

I'm more of a writer then an artist. I'm writing allot of short stories nowadays and I'm hoping to get noticed soon enough. At the moment I'm working on a play for children. You can always make children laugh. They're so easy to impress. ^^

Well, ever since I can remember, I've always had something I was doing, creatively. First it began with action figures. I'd play with them all the time, creating strange names, and cool stories. Then I moved onto Bionicles, where I made a character that I named, Zern. I just kept upgrading him, and made him cooler.

And anyway, shortly after that (or maybe before that?) I was into Sonic a lot. So I decided to draw Knuckles one day, but I colored him differently. How creative. Right?
Well, it wasn't until the year after that I finally started a story up about him. Every single day in art class during the 7th grade, I would sit and draw pages of my comic along with my friend Andrew instead of doing the assignments. It's what I enjoyed, even if the art teacher didn't exactly approve.

I quit a few months after because I got bored of drawing, only to come back and do it again the next year. Except, made a little more original character. One named Ryu, who was a mixture of a hedgehog and a wolf. How awesome. I then started drawing short comic strips on lined paper with him on it at school (about 4 or 5 to be exact), I colored them with markers and colored pencils just to see if I wanted to do more. And I did.

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Well, ever since I can remember, I've always had something I was doing, creatively. First it began with action figures. I'd play with them all the time, creating strange names, and cool stories. Then I moved onto Bionicles, where I made a character that I named, Zern. I just kept upgrading him, and made him cooler.

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I used to name all my action figures too. I called one Ji woow woow. : )

I always have a need to be productive. Anything I do I feel is a waste of time unless it works toward creating something. As a child, I used to get really bored in class because I finished every assignment before my classmates. I'd make things to pass the time. I did simple origami. I dried elmer's glue on my desk and molded it into turtles and frogs. I did anything I could think of to occupy my mind and time.

When I got older, I redirected my energies toward writing. It was a more polished outlet for my creative needs, and if I was writing in class, my teachers thought I was doing schoolwork rather than goofing off. I also took every art class my high school offered -- because the alternatives were tedious and uninteresting.

In college, I largely set my creative projects aside or directed them into modding for computer games.

It was in graduate school that a creativity bug struck again, mostly in the endless hours I had to sit in an office or tutoring center waiting for students who never came. I wanted to make a series that was not only written but visual -- mostly so I could share it with my roommates, who would not enjoy reading text on paper (it's like a chore). I didn't have any confidence in my drawing ability, but there was no one to draw for me, and if I could just do rough story boards where you could tell characters apart, it would serve my purpose, so that's what I did.

Then my brother talked me into scanning and uploading stuff to make sharing easier. Once I started doing that, I realized it wasn't good enough. Online, not only my friends but "the world" could see, so I forced myself to improve. Since then, I've learned how to enjoy not only the writing but the artistic process as well and how cool it feels to make something I'm proud of and want to share with others.

I don't remember a time where I wasn't an artist. I've been drawing since I was in diapers... Apparently it runs in my family.

My brother taught me how to draw when I was about four or five. I have a very clear memory of us sitting together and drawing little bug people with googly eyes.

I had no friends and had to keep myself busy. =(

Okay, that is only partially true. But whenever there's some image I can not find, I often chose to create it myself, drawing little figures and beating back boredom whenever I get sick of playing video games (Unbelievably). Back then I had little interest in polishing up my drawing skills, so I was pretty much stuck drawing tiny stick figures and simple backgrounds for far too many years (Except for drawing military machines, which I increasingly got better at thanks to Metal Slug and shump games).

The breaking point came during 6th grade, when I first bought some book on drawing manga (Strangely that's all I've been watching and reading back in Korea. Why didn't it occur then?) and been going at it ever since. I still have a nice collection of drawings dating all the way back and every time I look at them the only reaction I get is "What the hell have I been thinking?"

But yeah, if I broke off from stick figures earlier I'd be spewing out quality art and actually stand a chance against all the crazy artsy-fartsy ladies (Oh how I envy them... sometimes) in winning scholarships. But here I am still drawing stuff no one cares. At least I'm not spending all my life drawing fan arts every 6 hours.

I was the kid with "too much imagination" and I'd be drawing all the time. I didn't question why, I just love to do it.

Later I started writing as an exorcise. Putting on paper all what I couldn't deal well. I'm still like that. Of course I still draw and write for pleasure, but it's also a way to not explode I guess.

I started out with Sonic fan art and stick figures (I was 9, it was a different time). At first, because of my limited drawing skills, I would make some random, stupid stories with them.

Later, I made comics based off of real events (Iraqi conflict, Monica Lewinsky), but wasn't a talented enough writer to pull it off yet.

Eventually, it became about emotion. Oftentimes, I made drawings because I was pissed off at someone or something. I did that for many years, before I also decided to show a softer, more sensitive side as well.

So basically, I guess I became an artist so I could tell my life story in pictures.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't doing art lol I've been drawing all my life. I've been throught stages of being serious about art on and off, but when I got to year 11 I was dead serious about it and I still am now. That's why I do it at college :)

my family really fostered my artistic side. When I was little, I would make my mother draw babies (she was reallllly good at drawing babies) and I would draw a background for them. Babies going down slides (with bean-bag cushions at the bottom, of course), babies on bicycles, babies on couches, babies in trees.

I also just liked to draw.

And when I got to my 'rebellious' teenage years, suddenly it was NOT OKAY for me to paint in the house (I was gonna RUIN THE CARPET WITH PAINT NOOO) and so maybe that fed into my love of painting. Mostly, though, I just loved to paint.

I feel like.. you know the story of the girl with the red shoes? (by hans christian anderson?) She fools her grandmother into buying her these beautiful red shoes, but once she puts them on she just can't stop dancing!! I feel like that's me, with art. (and without the 'feet getting lopped off' ending.) And I bet it's like that for most of you guys, too.

Somebody shoved a pen in my hand when I was very little and then gave me some paper. The rest happened naturally :D

At around the age of 5 I discovered comics and started to draw my own without any text, so I had to stand next to whatever person I managed to bug enough to read one of these things and I was explaining like "and here he stabs this other guy with a knife cause he's a bad guy, see?" :)

anyway, when I learned to read, I started adding text and make "comics magazines" where I was doing short "to be continued" stories (most of which never were, haha).

I wish more of these old books had survived, I think I got one plus some random drawings from the mid 90s :(

When I got the internet I used to spend most of my time on Neopets until one faithful day I found a link to deviantArt. As my hero Dally would say "My face fell off". Basically I saw what all those super-popular people could draw and I thought "I wanna draw like that too!". And 4 years later here I am. Well... not super great or super popular but working on it xD


@Kristen - Hey I know that story! Only when I read it it wasn't her grandmother it was some rich woman who adopted her. I didn't quite get the story, seemed a bit harsh ¬¬

I used to be brainwashed by anime.

I started off trying to copy Marvel comics pages -- Godzilla (yes, in 1980 there was a Godzilla comic book, and it wasn't half-bad!), Avengers and X-Men, in particular. And then copying the pages in pencil wasn't enough, I had to create my own characters and story!

That led to me making a superhero team book of original characters that I wrote and drew for 20 years straight (147 issues), more or less...along with a New Mutants fan fiction series I drew nearly 40 issues on, plus another superhero team book I inherited (for about 12 issues worth), plus annuals (remember when comic companies made "annuals," people??), special editions and Giant-Sized issues sometimes.

Then by 2003, I wanted to create a comic with my wife, and that comic became Due East!

- Allen

that kid yellow
Hello there DD citizens just wondering what made you become an artist?

I will start it off. As a child I always thought my dad was everthing. He was my hero. So I had asked him to draw me superman due to the fact I could not draw at the age of 5. As he was done with his piture I saw before me not superman but a stick man with a suit case. Looking at my dad I had asked where was superman. He explained, the stick man was superman and his custome was in the suitcase. So what did I do.....cry. After that day I just kept drawing unit I could draw superman. Soon I became really good and here I am now. : )


So what is your story?

I... I don't know. I felt like it I guess. Oh, my uncle was good at drawing, so it may have carried on or something.

I mean, nothing made me draw, I just did.