When did you start taking art/writing seriously?

I started taking it seriously when I was in high school as well. It was around that time that I started taking art classes.

 

When I was in/close to freshman year some random guy actually bought a drawing I had done for $5. It was/is creepy to me that it was someone I had never met before and wanted my full name and age on the drawing (I had already signed it with my old dA signature as I planned to upload it). Anyways, creepiness of it all aside, that was when me and dad realized that I could make this a profitable hobby/job.

I've also had family friends wanting me to make them logos or gift art, but I never felt that I could actually do SOMETHING with my art despite it. It was when some random adult wanted my art as a pre-teen/young teen that it hit me.

 

tbh, as far as I can remember, I've always taken writing seriously, which my earliest memories of writing were about when I was five.

 

When I joined deviantart back in 2013-ish. Looking at other peoples art made me realise how awful my own was, so that made me want to improve and think more seriously about my art. While it did help me get better it also unfortunately lead me to constantly compare my art to others and get super depressed about it. Something I still suffer from severely.

 

I took writing seriously the moment I wrote my first short story. It was this really lame, edgelord story about a light fairy and a dark fairy. I ended up putting the entire spotlight on the dark fairy so I guess I was attracted to villains from the start. XD I think I was maybe... Seven?

I ended up writing tons more silly little fantasy tales until well into my teenage years, when I started to really refine my style. And then I just kinda... Stopped. For years. I was suffering from severe depression at the time, and lost my motivation. But now I'm starting to get out of it--or I've at least learned how to deal with it--and I'm easing myself into writing again and shaking all the cobwebs out. I've been trying to hone my writing style a bit further. I'm practicing for NaNo, too. I want to get a book out.

 

Thank you! <3

 

I've been writing fanfiction since 2013, and I've always enjoyed it, but I think I only really started to get serious about my writing in April of 2015. That Was the first time that I actually used my own feelings and experience as a reference for what to write. Since then I like to think that I've figured out how to portray character emotion better, which is great, because that's a big part of my style.

 

For drawing, just this year. I've never really focused too much on art in the past, but recently, I saw one of my friend's art at a summer camp (which was really good), and that motivated me to draw again more "seriously". As for writing, I've never really been serious about it, as I've only written either fanfiction or for schoolwork. I'm planning to make darker stories in the future.

 

I am not sure if I can say that I am taking any art pursuit seriously atm. I have always wanted to be the author of a book, but I was always in the mindset that I would need to have a steady job before I did that because I fear highly that it would never be a success

 

I believe I started taking my art seriously when I was in the last semester of middle school??? It's honestly a blur but I think that's when I decided to learn to draw things. However after three years of doodling and being super upset with my style I just went "fuck it i wanna draw better" and got even more serious about my art than before (this was around the last semester of my junior year when I literally took a 180 with my style?? My passion for my art is still quite recent).

And my seldom seen or talked about writing?? The same time I started drawing but I've more or less traded in writing for art. The rare times I do write I still put myself in that mindset that allowed me to write over 400k+ words over two or three years.

 

i guess i started getting Serious around 7th/8th grade?? i would have been like 12 or 13.. and i just kinda went from there haha....... i got a lil more serious when i got into digital art hah. i never really had a whole "i need to get more serious!!" i just kinda drew and drew and drew and dre

and now its to the point where i really cant see myself doing anything in the future but art.... im actually considering going to art school.. if that doesnt say anything about how serious i take art idk what will hah

 

I was never really too serious about writing. I mostly did it just as a hobby to write down the stories I had built in my head when I was bored. However, that changed when I had a story that could actually be a published book. I put all of my energy and thought process into developing the story, but then I hit college and a mountain of work. Since then, I haven't really picked up the writing pen or been too serious about it.

 

I used to do a lot of art in middle and highschool but I fell a bit more serious about it in the last few months than I was back then.

 

I started to take drawing seriously about 2 years ago when I got a little more confident to post it frequently

 

One day in 7th grade I was drawing and suddenly realized I wanted to draw for a living. My art was horrible back then but I think it was the moment I realized that I actually wanted to improve more and really loved art.

 

Well, it was when I got bored one day and started writing this story with no idea where I was going with it and then I finished the whole 18 chapter book in a week and at first I didn't like it but then I went back to it and well...it's been three years since I wrote that book and I've got three version of book 1 plus a book two that i've gotten to chapter 12 in and a book three I'm leading up to. I think it's because I was so passionate about it that now my goal in the future is to be an author. Sorry I write just as much as I talk lol.