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Saba 🏳️🌈@ace-of-dragons.bsky.social |
hey artists, what was the catalyst for you getting REALLY into making art? mine was that I was a poor uni student playing DnD and I wanted to see my character but I couldn't afford to pay someone to draw her, so I had to learn
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nuri 🧭 recharging
@nurinkurimus.bsky.social
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Uhh well, the biggest factor was me creating an instagram account for my art at the end of 2015... but even a little before that I had decided I wanted to get better at art and start drawing more bc I loved it... and I could do it alone and it helped me deal with my life/trauma
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Avalon | AF: Team Stardust ✨
@wingsofavalon.bsky.social
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Similar story! When I was a kid I was in the warrior cats fandom and I always wanted art of my ocs but ofc I was a kid and didn’t have any money so I started drawing. My best friend in middle school was also an aspiring artist so we built each other up.
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Marcus B. Smit - Fifth Ace Comics
@fifthacecomics.bsky.social
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I doodled a lot as a kid, but it was only when I tried to draw She-Hulk after watching her debut episode of the 90s Hulk series, that I realized: "...my picture does not give me the same feelings as the show did... am I... BAD at drawing?!" So my cusp-of-pubescant desire to draw hot women did it.
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ARGO
@argovelaart.bsky.social
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My dad really encouraged it as a kid! I dropped it for a while in my late teens but I missed having a creative outlet and I've always had an over active imagination so i wound up picking it back up to keep my brain quiet haha.
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Nico Blaine. Comms open
@nickyval.bsky.social
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I ended up permanently disabled at 21 so I put all my energy into art instead
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Tristan NYJT3Art (Commissions Open)
@nyjt3art.bsky.social
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Just drew one day drawing my own video games. That when I liked it. Ended up drawing a Lego DC racing I thing and an Australian anima adventure game. Also like trying to draw character books for stuff I liked like how video games use to have in them. I also say family a bit because my dad use draw
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Miria SESauvie 🏳️⚧️
@sesauvie.bsky.social
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I think it was when I began writing short stories which was around the time I first began playing D&D as well. I had characters of my own in situations both of my own and the DM's creation and I also have aphantasia so I began trying to put what I wanted to see onto paper.
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Red 🐺🌙(Popping everyday 🕺🏽)
@werewolfdudez.bsky.social
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See that's a good question because the way I got into art in general was watching my dad draw at his desk when he would have free time from his work. (I'm not sure how much he does it anymore) but as a kid I watched him and started drawing alot.
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✨ Alppy ✨
@mxalppy.bsky.social
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Drawing gave me joy and helped me escape from mental illness and my bad home life. I dropped it after a while, but got back to drawing in 2019 when I wanted to grow more into it. It’s a big part of my life now. ;w; I drew on my iPhone at first in 2019! Cause I had bad luck with laptop tablets.
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Teo!! 🐻💞
@ellteo.bsky.social
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At the very start? I wanted to be like my older sibling @anoki.bsky.social and draw cool characters and make cool art <3
The sort of second "renaissance" for me, so to speak, was making my oc Matteo and going absolutely insane drawing him for like. 2 years nonstop :) like legit nonstop!!!!
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jesse, world's okayest sorcerer
@retpaladin.bsky.social
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yeah mostly the incessant dnd-induced oc thoughts :skull: prior to that though i was reaaalllyy into redrawing anime stills lmaoo shoutout the kakashis that plagued my middle school binders
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Gracu ✨🌈 Team Stardust 🌌
@prismagic.bsky.social
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I had a friend at a summer camp who told me about his OC (we were 12 at the time) and I became obsessed with them... I don't know what happened to him, but I have an OC I keep in memorial of his OC who made me want to draw well so badly.
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@fremen5.bsky.social
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I think it's because a few things: I had two very wonderful art teachers in High School who encouraged me to keep drawing after I graduated.
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QuietRose - Commissions open!
@quietrose.bsky.social
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Mine was I started writing stories in jr high. But I really wanted to show what my characters looked like to my friends, so I started drawing them all. They were not very detailed but I had so much fun back then :3
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Denim Laminator extraordinare 🐯
@foreveranony.bsky.social
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My older cousin got me into creating OC's and her friend was a really good artist I became friends with her friend and the three of us would just go to her house and draw for hours for fun
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Andrea Ferragotti
@ferragottiart.bsky.social
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My best friend would draw us going on pokemon adventures together and I was like ":0000!!! I wanna do that too!!"
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RirichiaI COMMISSIONS OPEN
@artbyrichi.bsky.social
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Mine`s simple - i was artsy from very begining x) And watched many cartoons, and my biggest obsession for years was Sonic franchise 🌝 I NEEDED to draw all of the caracters ALL OF THE TIME EVERYWHERE I also was a weird kid and was bullied a lot so i needed an escape and keep my mind and hands busy
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Art by Taggerung (Tagg, they/them)
@artbytaggerung.bsky.social
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I needed to be able to doodle my OC, as well as my canon crossovers from RP 🤣 waaaay too much going on in my head to commission it all with the coin purse I’m working with. Homemade will have to do lol. Spite is a great motivator turns out.
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Alzamon || アルサもン
@alzamon.art
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Sometime between my 14th and 15th birthday and lots of rain I started doing some still life art from my home’s plants and then realized “hey these didn’t come out so bad”. That and the great support from my high school arts teacher are what has kept me on this road ever since. 😊
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Fetch
@ameliafetch.bsky.social
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Honestly, I think it's mostly a way for me to socialize. I hadn't done artist friends. But also, I find myself constantly needing reference material for my TTRPGs and it would be nice to just create that myself!
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Riley’s Finally Recovering😷
@loftyas.bsky.social
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Catalyst is right for me xD bigot family and no safe friends during and post high school. A whole lotta “who am i?” “Why am i here?” It definitely says alot that fiction was my only solace growing up.
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🥀Megwyn_Rose🥀
@megwyn.bsky.social
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I've been drawing since the moment I can remember lol I just think I really like visual story telling and I also like entertaining people so when I learned I could make my own characters and stories it was a no brainer for me. Plus I've always been too poor to commission and like art of my OCs 😅
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Lydia
@oxygenisachoice.bsky.social
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Writing stories and wanting to see the characters. In 2nd/3rd grade my friends and I would come up with characters and I’d like to draw them, but I really started taking art seriously in the summer before 7th grade when my best friend and I started writing a new story (the one I still work on now)
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Lady Rubis
@smallrubis.bsky.social
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I've always drawn, since I was able to hold a pen. But what really helped me get into it was Alessandro Barbucci and the comic WITCH. There where page inside with tutorials and it was super helpful. I started making my own characters and story after that.
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Krissea
@krisseajelly.bsky.social
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I sat beside someone in grade 8 who drew Sonic stuff and was in AWE!! I thought it was the coolest thing ever and I wanted to draw too. Fast forward a little to Grade 9 and we became best friends and I started drawing!! That was -many- years ago now but that person is still my best friend too hehe
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andraste’s knickerweasels
@dominolucky.bsky.social
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somehow it suddenly hit me that I COULD get better and I COULD be as good at art as other people but it was actually gonna mean I had to work to learn how, so I decided to…do that. Because I wanted to give my OCs the love they deserved 😭
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meowdrake~Team Seafoam
@terrortooth.bsky.social
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i was always into art/digital art from a young age (warrior cats was probably the biggest catalyst) but my largest, most rapid growth was because they locked me inside (the pandemic) with nothing to do and i obsessively drew one anime character hundreds of times. and then i started playing d&d
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Jay 🗡 artfight clown
@sunfloralchaos.com
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!!! I already drew a lot and was a chronic doodler, but I started playing D&D in college and got really REALLY into oc drawing, and it spiralled from there
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Calypsolarts
@calypsolarts.bsky.social
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New year was coming up and as I was thinking about ny resolutions, I remembered the way I used to draw as a kid but stopped randomly and then had the thought of "what if I learned to draw again" and that's it, got a sketchbook the next day. I'm not sure what exactly brought it on.
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Sylver W. Poulsen 🏳️⚧️
@poulsens.bsky.social
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I had a dumb idea for a comic, so I started drawing it. Then once I started writing books I needed covers, so I wanted to get better and started taking it more seriously.
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molly 🍄🌿 looking for work!!🌻
@lilachysteria.bsky.social
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oc tournaments on deviantart, i was nowhere old enough to be a part of one but i wanted to reach that level someday.
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Roach the Goblin King
@gobboking.bsky.social
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Mine was probably when my best friend and I were play pretending some characters we'd made up and we started drawing them when we were 9-10yo. (I'm 25 now)
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Thwarp, Uncharismatic Megafauna
@trash-artificer.bsky.social
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I did a lot of art in my teens, but kind of fell off of it in college DND got me back into it, and has been my main source of consistent inspiration Gotta make reference images for all of my little guys & draw cool moments
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Viper is consumed by Art Fight
@viperiumprime.bsky.social
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Boredom in class in high school made me dedicate a notebook to pure art, which got complimented by classmates. I just continued to hone it as my hobby and haven’t stopped!
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The outlander
@shinjira.bsky.social
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I was in my 30's, a new mom, exhausted, stressed to death from a new job and needed a way to de-stress a bit, so I picked up some oil pastels and cheap paper
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Spoon 🌊Team Seafoam
@spoonqueen.bsky.social
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Undiagnosed ADHD led me to hyperfixate on things I loved at the time, and it happened to be my nee D&D OCs cuz I just started the game. I wanted to see them, much like yourself, so I used it as an excuse to finally learn anatomy. The rest came with time.
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Alijah
@alijah.bsky.social
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My uncle seeing how I had drawn a human for the first time after looking through all the monsters and big puffy animals. His surprised face and “Oh! A human!” Lol
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TeagueOfTheAncients
@teaguelunknown.bsky.social
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Around 5th grade someone said a drawing of mine was good. I also started drawing shapes in my math book (single year use) and adding details to them. Come middle school, I used it to pass the time.
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DER FRESSERWURM
@tapeworm.neocities.org
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finding out about DA and finding some amazing artists on there when I was in 7th grade, I'll still look through their galleries too
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✨Kiki ✨
@setenza.art
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I had a friend in middle school who was a really talented artist while only in 6th grade so they inspired me to draw! That's about it and I had fun creating ever since!
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apricot @ kattabolt webcomic
@areyoshi.bsky.social
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Boring answer but it just always was and always will be LOL from the time I could hold a crayon, art (and comics by 7) has always been The Thing
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Bexi M
@bananabunnygal.bsky.social
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I was looking everywhere for fan art of Justice from Dragon Age Awakening, I finally got so frustrated I ended up drawing two pieces myself 😅 Maybe someday I'll redraw him
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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️🌈 Author/Illustrator
@kellyamangan.bsky.social
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Pandemic. I had two small kids at home and had to sit next to my ADHD kindergartner for 5 hrs every day and badger them to pay attention to their classroom zoom calls and online math work. 😩 I couldn’t do that and write at the same time. So I started drawing instead.
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Ghostiyo🍓
@ghostiyo.bsky.social
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The first was back in middle school when someone showed me Insta for the first time and I wanted to make art people liked there, but what pushed the most was 6 years ago starting a Pathfinder game and my art of my Gathlain character going "viral" and I've been riding that high since cx
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Pinster W. Glasses 💫 Team Stardust
@pinsterwglasses.bsky.social
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I met my best friend in middle school (~12 yrs old) because she noticed I had little doodles on my school binder. Over 10 years later, she is still my greatest hype woman.
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💖Paeony | Commissions OPEN
@paeonygalaxy.bsky.social
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Sailor Moon altered my brain chemistry and I have been mostly non stop since.
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Handhour
@handhour.bsky.social
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Comics and characters gave me a passion for wanting to be an artist many years ago. I was a quiet thing in those times, and art was both expression and consoling for me. I am still much the same now, but I find I have less time to give to art...but the passion never really dies.
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Pathological Lurker ☕ Team Stardust 🌌
@patholurk.bsky.social
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Depression and not even as a joke. It was what made me get into art 4 years ago since I couldn't find anything else to take my mind off, not even videogames
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Sygnin
@sygnin.com
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Wanting to draw comics… and likely being untreated/diagnosed for several things in my teens 😬 Art gave me an escape, so I did.
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Vera
@veraglaeka.bsky.social
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My best friend in high school (who was a better artist than me) saying I was good. Sometimes one kind word can alter someone's life. It also helped having someone to draw and be creative -with-
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ShadowEclipex
@shadoweclipex.bsky.social
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When I was young my parents would give be a pencil and paper to keep me quite during Church. That early seed planted along with my over active imagination was a perfect combo to create a life-long love of drawing.
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Feymien (Team Seafoam 🏝️🌅)
@feymien.bsky.social
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I started doing traditional art because I was in the mountains a lot with not much to do, and pencils and paper weren't too heavy to carry ^^ Digital I picked up for the same reason that you mentioned
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jester ju!ce 🧃🍓
@c0urtjester.bsky.social
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as a kid i would see my sister draw and paint and do other little crafts and i really looked up to her and wanted to be just like her, i grew up drawing from her anime books and eventually got to where i am now basically i was just really inspired by her :)
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Saba 🏳️🌈
@ace-of-dragons.bsky.social
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of course, I drew as a kid as well, but DnD was the reason I got REALLY consistent with drawing
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CryptidTiger ✨ Comms open!
@cryptidtiger.bsky.social
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I got my start in furry art! I've kinda distanced myself from the community since the pandemic but I'll never forget how creative it aspired me to be--a whole community of people built around OCs, essentially Also getting into DnD helped solidify my passion, especially since I have aphantasia
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