How long have you taken art seriously?

[jetpack42]

How long have you been seriously persuing being/growing as, an artist?

2 years for me.

[cartoonfox]

the same time i registered here, september 2003. so thats 6 months (with a big gap in the middle of about 3-4 weeks)...
wow, it seems much longer than that! no wonder i still suck :D



peace

[geoffd]

seriously.... 1 year. almost 2.

i used to think that studing the old masters was a bunch of bologna. HA!

i used to think painting was lame :eek:

boy i wish i could go back and change somethings!!!

oh well it's never too late to start! :D

[mtw]

Ever since I registered here. But I still try to keep in mind a mentality of not taking it seriously.

[Lono]

as long as i can remember.

my dad is a professional illustrator,, so my brother and i spent our youth at the art studio instead of going to daycare like most kids.

-Lono

[dfacto]

Since Tdome 7 started. That got me motivated and it let me prove to myself that I can produce ok stuff.

[JoshuaTheJames]

It's been a couple days now.

-Joshua

[The Iconoclast]

This query makes a big assumption--the assumption that I actually DO take my art seriously...

Haha, just kidding. I've been taking it seriously for a year and a half. I got into DRAWING about 6 months ago. (Before then, it was Photoshop/Flash and Dreamweaver to compile it all together)

[Sinix]

A year and a half.. I didn't sketch or do any art at all before then. I had been getting my pilot's license.. but frequent air sickness eventually got the better of me, so I tried to figure out what I could do, decided I'd start drawing... I guess that's kind of random, but whatever.. it's alot of fun.

[Nadim]

About 20 years .

[Red_Rook]

oohhh... bout.. a year? year and a half.

[EVIL]

ART? serious?.. *giggles*

[cybercyst]

13 years.:) I remember the night I started taking art seriously well: I was sitting in the car, looking up at the stars, then all of a sudden I told my mom and dad that I wanted to go to California and be an animator. They looked at me funny and thought I was joking, but I was serious. Since then I got the California part down, but I have yet to become an animator. Oh well. I got a BFA in animation, is that close enough?:rolleyes:

[PeggyChung]

hey guys wow im suprised, i would imagine there would be more ppl who have been drawing for a longer time. me its around 6-8 months, though only recently ive been knowing what the heck ive been doing :mad:

[fukifino]

While I've always had an interest in art, it was only about 4-5 months ago that I decided to start taking it seriously in an effort to make a career out of it in a couple years.

[bhuddistmonk]

8 months!

[kapturowski]

When i started studying at MdH in Eskilstuna (Sweden) I met all these talented (and not so talented) people who inspired me to draw more. Since illustration also was a part of the education it started to become a tool and not only a means for recreation. After one year at the school I realised that I wanted to become an illustrator and since then I've been working on becoming one.

[Drevay]

Well, I used to draw a lot as a kid, and as such I got pretty good at it up until I was about 13 or so years old. Then it's really been on and off since then. I thought I'd lost all my talent until I sketched up some things during class, and realized I still can make a career out of this. That was a good self esteem boost. :)

Anyway, I'm soon again going to pick up where I left off, and make a serious hobby and hopefully - eventually - a career out of this. :D

[Sketchbox_Natoa]

As far as a profession... no, I haven't started yet... I've been 'serious' though for a good solid 4 years.

[DeDSoL]

Ive been taking art seriouly for 12 years... a long time. just in the last 3 yrs ive been into photoshop, maya, etc... but i still derive and still return to analog drawing.

[Gr8t100]

Now when you say taking art seriously, two things come to mind.

One, the amount of time I had actually spent creating art work. And the second, how serious I am when working on a project.

As far as the first one goes, well over 6 years. I had easily drawn over a 100 sketches outside my HS art classes. Always wanted to draw whatever I could, mostly people, and enjoyed sharing my work with those around me. It has lead me to enroll to a art college where I'm studying to become a graphic designer, and in the works of making my work avaiable to the public (for purchase) and pumping out new, fresh ideas to the art world.

Now when it comes to me being serious when working on a project, I try not to be. I used to be extremly serious to where if a piece was moved or if someone altered it in way, shape, or form, I would snap. I would go crazy until everything was back in order and would become very sensitive when someone would critique my work as being nothin I would expect someone to say. This has caused me to own numerous sketch books, but never sketching in a single one of them because I believed every single drawing inside of them had to be of perfection, class, and presenation.

However, after going to the art college for over a year and half, I've learned to be more loose with my work and just have fun. I tear my sketch books left and right, and at times will literally tear pages out, to give my artwork out to people. I'll have finished pieces, unfinished pieces, doodles, notes, and ideas written down for future projects. With my work I don't hit my head on a wall until an idea comes to me, I simply live my life the way it was meant to be, and will discuss the project with my friends, or look around and get inspiration by what I see.

I guess overall, I am dead serious when it comes to producing art work with my name on it, because by putting it there, that means I put a seal of approval on something I felt was worthy of being shown to the public. If I don't feel something is up to par to my standards, or if it is unfinished, I will give up sleep and practically anything else to make it right. However majority of the time I just lay back with friends, a beer, and a movie playing while sketching away or working on something on the computer. Good times.

[haha]

i've wanted to be a pro artist since i was five. I can remember exactly when i knew i wanted to be one:
i was watching nickelodeon, and a commercial came on with all the dinosaurs in tennis shoes singing the theme song, it was an animated one. i started drawing those dinosaurs and it turned out pretty good. since then, it's been the proverbial uphill battle to better my skills.





My line of career choices followed thus: He-man, Batman, Superman, artist. :-}

[flavorite]

i dont take it seriously yet. :p

maybe i will when i have more time.... but im only 15 and i've got lots of other stuff to do, like playing video games and breaking stuff. oh yeah, and that school thing....

i'd like to take art more seriously, becuase i really... rreeeally want to be a professional concept artist. but i can't really do that very well until i can get my own computer and webspace. :rolleyes:

and i'm just not that good yet. :D

[acid]

hmmm....

about the end of 6th grade....

i'm a sophomore in high school now...

about 4 years...

[acuna_read]

Ive been trying to get good at design more than art but both really for about a couple of years, only taken up serious things like life drawing (outside of college) for the last 6 months or so.
But I'd never say i take it 'seriously' obviously there will probably come times in my carrer where i need to focus more. But the reason i do it is because it challenges me and gives me pleasure, which is fun to me. To think one day somebody is willing to pay me to think and draw all day is absurd and will always be. It is always fun, if it isnt then why not work in an office?
Never stop enjoying it, if you do then do something that you do enjoy. Its that simple. :dance: :D

[Pukk]

Ive been serious about my drawings since I started high school...[Im in my final year now] so thats about Five years ^^; It was only last year though that I started expanding myself and going into new styles and mediums. I think my art teacher liked that because I was starting to give her concept sketches that wernt anime XD;; hehe

[TheDirtSyndicate]

as far back as i can remember.

i remember being grounded when i was a kid and not being allowed to draw, so at night i'd hide in my closet and draw as much as i wanted. and there were many sleepless nights, cause i was always in trouble.