How old were you when you started drawing?

[chocovelvetcake]

It's okay if you don't remember the exact age you were when you first started, btw.

I started getting into art at a relatively young age I was about 4 years old, according to my mother. One of my favorite things to draw were comics, and iirc I was about 8 or 9 when I started making them. Young me dreamt about becoming a cartoonist someday, and I would constantly make new comic series.

As I got older, my interest in drawing started to kinda die down a bit. I began comparing myself to other artists I saw on social media and irl and thinking they were "better" than me. I would even feel like I was a terrible artist whenever I posted a drawing that got little to no likes or comments. Now that I'm in my early twenties, I want to get back into drawing again like I used to, but considering the fact that I work 4 days a week, getting back into drawing again is probably gonna be difficult for me.

 

[Chronos314_XD]

I started drawing when I was around like 5 or 6 I think? Most of my old drawings are probably either thrown away or put in some storage closet so I don't really remember, but I was drawing since I was very young. I remember I would always draw on my schoolwork when I was done with it, usually something simple but my teachers were very supportive about my art and I do still appreciate it a ton.

When I was around 7 or 8 I began reading the Captain Underpants books a lot, my favorite parts of those books were the sections where you got to see the comics the main two characters would make, it lead me to wanting to make my own comics and stories. I made a ton of random stories as a kid, I even had a couple of series. I would always share them around with my classes and would constantly be writing dumb stuff and sharing it around with my class.

When I was like 11 and going into middle school I kinda stopped making art and comics entirely, the only time I ever did anything art related was for school and that was kind of it. I'm not sure what made me temporarily quit but I'm guessing with how crappy I felt during that time and me being insecure about a lot of things it just led me to quit entirely.

About a year ago I think my mom bought me a sketchbook and while I didn't touch it for a little while I decided to draw a couple of things one day because I was extremely bored and didn't have anything to do, I eventually just began drawing a lot more again, mostly for fun though, I don't have any interest in doing art for a career as an adult.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

oh goodness, it's probably whatever age I was able to pick up a pencil and write things with it haha. and I've been drawing pretty consistently for my entire life, it's definitely one of my most favourite things to do