Post by G on Aug 7, 2021 13:55:37 GMT -5
I've been drawing off an old all throughout my life. In my earliest days I did it because it seemed my friends at the time drew and it was also the same time I got into comics.
As I drew along with the rest of my buddies I just thought of myself as being the worst amongst them but I always thought I produced the best stories from us. But occasionally there would be a page or a panel I drew and I would feel particularly proud of it.
As I grew older I kept drawing. In high school I was able to bus across town everyday to Vocational school for Commercial Art. As excited as I was to be there it mostly bored me as it focused too much on the Commercial side and I was more into wanting to be in the art side. But even then, many times I was around a few in the room who I thought they were better than me but when I did my assignments, there was a few I thought I stretched my horizons and I was proud of.
As I reached adulthood I let life's responsibilities take over and there was many a year I didn't draw at all. Usually if I was drawing it was because I was on phones in call centers being bored doing my job. It was here I thought I did some of my best work because I had time to do it. People would come by and say wow that's great and I knew there was so many mistakes in it. But then I remembered reading that your mistakes are what makes your style and I started embracing that.
I have been paid to draw numerous times in my life. Usually someone seen me drawing and asked me to do something for money. There was 4 or 5 times in my life I got paid to do things by legitimate businesses needing to have something done. And I did it. Still I didn't give myself enough credit for it. Still I considered myself an amateur who just liked to draw and sometimes I could get paid for it but I wasn't ever going to make a living at it.
But now I'm at the point I'm just like, there's always someone better no matter how good you are. And shit there are a decent amount of artist who I think I draw better than but they produce work and make a shit load more than I ever dreamed of. So I just finally now at this age consider I am indeed an artist and whatever I do flaws and all, that's my style and whatever you do, flaws and all, that's your style and yes indeed that makes you an artist too. No matter what level you may be at. The fact that you actually draw, makes you one.
As I drew along with the rest of my buddies I just thought of myself as being the worst amongst them but I always thought I produced the best stories from us. But occasionally there would be a page or a panel I drew and I would feel particularly proud of it.
As I grew older I kept drawing. In high school I was able to bus across town everyday to Vocational school for Commercial Art. As excited as I was to be there it mostly bored me as it focused too much on the Commercial side and I was more into wanting to be in the art side. But even then, many times I was around a few in the room who I thought they were better than me but when I did my assignments, there was a few I thought I stretched my horizons and I was proud of.
As I reached adulthood I let life's responsibilities take over and there was many a year I didn't draw at all. Usually if I was drawing it was because I was on phones in call centers being bored doing my job. It was here I thought I did some of my best work because I had time to do it. People would come by and say wow that's great and I knew there was so many mistakes in it. But then I remembered reading that your mistakes are what makes your style and I started embracing that.
I have been paid to draw numerous times in my life. Usually someone seen me drawing and asked me to do something for money. There was 4 or 5 times in my life I got paid to do things by legitimate businesses needing to have something done. And I did it. Still I didn't give myself enough credit for it. Still I considered myself an amateur who just liked to draw and sometimes I could get paid for it but I wasn't ever going to make a living at it.
But now I'm at the point I'm just like, there's always someone better no matter how good you are. And shit there are a decent amount of artist who I think I draw better than but they produce work and make a shit load more than I ever dreamed of. So I just finally now at this age consider I am indeed an artist and whatever I do flaws and all, that's my style and whatever you do, flaws and all, that's your style and yes indeed that makes you an artist too. No matter what level you may be at. The fact that you actually draw, makes you one.
