When did you start?

RLC Davidson · Post by **RLC Davidson** » Sun May 16, 2004 6:16 pm

Just curious about when and how old you were when you started comicking or doing any sort of serious art.

The first things I started drawing were maps, back in the sixth or seventh grade. I didn't really start drawing people (that weren't horribly misshapen stick figures) until last November (I was 15 at the time).

Asarea · Post by **Asarea** » Sun May 16, 2004 6:52 pm

After reading my first comic (It was 'The third sun of Vinea' by Roger Leloup, part of the Yoko Tsuno series) at the age of six I started drawing *g* my first 'real' comic ...well ... I was 11 or 12 ... dunno ...

TimberWolf · Post by **TimberWolf** » Sun May 16, 2004 6:53 pm

Heh, I've been making my own comics since forever. When I was younger, like 2-3, I'd draw out stories and that. 2 years ago I signed up for a keenspace site, but then lost the internet so I disappeared for awhile.

So I've been comicking most of my life.

I didn't get a chance to read many comics, I never lived close enough to a book store or comic store. And I only started reading online comics 4 years ago.

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Sun May 16, 2004 6:56 pm

Primary school. Year five, I think. I started doing humourous greetings cards for friends and family then. Still going, too. I should see about getting them published or something...

- Joel Fagin

Matt Lim · Post by **Matt Lim** » Sun May 16, 2004 7:38 pm

Man, I started comicing since I drew my first character back in 3rd grade with my younger brother. I went from daring knights to homicidal angels, talk about perspective change.

Hank · Post by **Hank** » Sun May 16, 2004 8:15 pm

Man, I was drawing little lame super heroes and characters since I was like 2 months old I think. And I pretty much drew comic books all through gradeschool. But then I stopped drawing for a long time, and I was about 19 before I ever attempted a comic strip in the traditional sense. I was 23 when I began my current webcomic. But hey it's never too late, right?
...Right?

Gage Kronos · Post by **Gage Kronos** » Sun May 16, 2004 8:15 pm

One of my friends and I started drawing all kinds of video game characters when we were in the 3rd grade. We each would bring a spiral notebook to school with use and draw and look at each others stuff. He was REALLY good back then. I wonder how he is now. Then I kind of stopped for a while, and picked it back up in late high school.

Superlance · Post by **Superlance** » Sun May 16, 2004 8:43 pm

I think I seriously began when I was 12...
Yes.
I think that's it.

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Sun May 16, 2004 9:37 pm

I started the same night I started my comic. And it shows.

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Sun May 16, 2004 10:09 pm

As far as drawing, I've made stick figures (or more accurately, block figures) for a long time, and copied comics out of the newspaper...I think dating back to when I was 7 or 8.

I first received my Keenspace account in September, 2001...but life kinda distracted me until I decided to restart at the beginning of 2003. But when designing the comic, I found that my drawing talent hasn't evolved much since my childhood! My style is still block figures with syndicated-comic influences...but at least I've made a bit of an effort to study anatomy.

Malediction · Post by **Malediction** » Sun May 16, 2004 10:32 pm

Seriously started drawing when I was around 13 in Year 10, started comics at 15 last year.

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Mon May 17, 2004 12:14 am

I couldn't draw a kid I had all these phyiscal problems most doctors didn't know what was wrong with me, but I couldn't even write in elementry school at least properly, they made me use a type writer many times and I was in all these Learning disability classes cause of my problems with keeping my hands from shaking. I also had cordination problems.

I did however grow up reading comics and I would write stories about comic heroes. I remember at one point when I in grade 6 I tried to draw my character who's name was the variable, but it never lasted.

course I got over all those issues, both in cordianation (ala martial arts and skateboarding) as well as writing and in high school I began drawing. in the ninth grade I drew my first "serious" illustration. it was almost out of impulse, and it just came out. It was Prime from the now defunt Ultraverse. I still have the image, and its still pretty good even by what I draw now, despite being a little choppy. I started drawing comics about two years later, around grade eleven, and published Two Tone Comics which was this furry comic, that two issues published by Knight's press. after I left Ohio, I pretty much gave up on drawing comics though. I'd do drawing here or there... but nothing of any real value.

then out of the blue I was sitting at cup of Joe a local coffee shop and Joe came over to our table, like he does all the time and was talking about the crazyness that was happening, how he was going to get bought out. It was this guys life, we remembered all the funny things we saw while being at the coffee shop and well I think thats when I decided to pick up the pencils again.

june, 2004 I started Decypher. So I've not been doing it to long which I guess relates why I'm not very good *l*

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Mon May 17, 2004 1:06 am

I've been drawing almost as long as I can remember, mostly thanks to my super-creative mom and my genetic inheritance from her. I probably spent more time in classes doodling in my textbooks than actually paying attention to the teachers (of course, it helped that I already knew the vast majority of whatever it was they were teaching at the time anyway). I started making a goofy Calvin and Hobbes ripoff comic strip back in late elementary school, and continued it for a good many years.

I seriously started drawing and comicking at the exact same time, however . . . about midway through last year. This is because the decision to take my Role of the Die ideas from idle daydream to actual webcomic was directly prompted by my desire to actually learn how to draw.

War · Post by **War** » Mon May 17, 2004 1:23 am

When I was younger I mostly drew Sonic the Hedgehog, along with Knuckles, Tails and all the gang. My first human cartoon character was drawn aged 17, and you can see what they've evolved into on Digital War now.

JexKerome · Post by **JexKerome** » Mon May 17, 2004 1:55 am

Doodling since forever, but it was during high school that I began to do comics. I made comics about my classmates in all sorts of bizarre situations. They were classics and I still have them around; this was like back in 1992, when only geeks surfed the internet with Archie and Veronica, and an upstart called Mosaic was stirring up trouble.

Mr.Bob · Post by **Mr.Bob** » Mon May 17, 2004 2:46 am

As early as I could hold a pencil.
Main subject matter: Mickey Mouse and Goofy, action cops on the beat!

War · Post by **War** » Mon May 17, 2004 2:49 am

I drew a full length sonic comic once. Boy was it crap. I wonder if it's in the filing cabinet back home along with all my old school work.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Mon May 17, 2004 3:01 am

Heh . . . pretty much everything I drew from age 13 to 23 was Sonic the Hedgehog related, with the rare human thrown in for good measure. Now I'll draw an occaisional Sonic-related doodle, and I've even managed to squeeze out two or three fairly decent quality Sonic pics since I started my comic. I never drew a full Sonic comic before, but I have written a script for a twenty pager that I still may finish up someday.

Heffaloop · Post by **Heffaloop** » Mon May 17, 2004 3:06 am

I still have [bad] drawings of stuff from when I was around 7yrs old... and under layers of paint there's the stuff I drew on the walls when I was four....

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Mon May 17, 2004 3:12 am

I think I was around five. I'm positive I was already drawing when I went to primary school.