I never intentionally really learned to draw. Ever since I was 3 I just always liked drawing whatever I saw, and when I was 5, my father used to watch DBZ with me in the mornings before work. He always used to ask me to draw pictures for him to put on the walls at his workplace, so I would always draw Pictures of DBZ characters, because I liked the show too much lol. Eventually, I ended up watching more anime, and liking all the characters so much, would always draw them. When I was 7, is when everyone started telling me my drawings were incredible and that I should be a cartoonist when I grow up. And ever since then, I started to make my own mangas and stuff. So, yeah, I never really learned to draw, it just came naturally.

I think I learned from my sisters. I always envied my older sisters so I would kind of look at what they did and copy it. Not that different from how I'm learning now.xD But yeah, I would look at what they did and attempt it myself. Then, I learned from various books. I essentially took everything I liked from other styles and tried it out myself.

That's a nostalgic thought :D

I'd say it all started with sailor moon when I was in elementary school. When me and my sister saw it, we both loved it and managed to get a deck of sailormoon themed cards and used that for a lot of reference. We shared a room then, and whenever we finished a picture we'd tape it too the walls. Thinking back on it now it must have been funny to see our walls full of not-so-great drawings, though my sister's were always better than mine.

Now my sister doesn't draw really, though I still do occasionally. Most of my ability is self taught though i do browse through the occasional tutorial to try and integrate some new techniques into my own style.

I taught myself how to draw with math and Zelda or other anime characters (but mostly zelda and then moved on from there)

I started with realism, before I even knew what anime was, and then I slowly and painfully tried to duplicate anime styles. it took forever to re-train myself into doing so, but now I'm kind of regretting it, becuase I can't get back into drawing realist stuff :(

But on the other hand, my work altogether has become more linear/graphic since I started. :)

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I started with realism, before I even knew what anime was, and then I slowly and painfully tried to duplicate anime styles. it took forever to re-train myself into doing so, but now I'm kind of regretting it, becuase I can't get back into drawing realist stuff :(

But on the other hand, my work altogether has become more linear/graphic since I started. :)

I just practiced till i got it how i liked it. Me and one of my best friends always compared and discussed our art work.




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I just practiced over years... I've been drawing since I was 4 or younger, but when I was 4 Sailor Moon became my inspiration, I've had no formal training (it shows.. but yeah) I am 19, turning 20 soon, and this is a picture I did last night.

Yeah, not amazing by any stretch, I'd suggest getting an anatomy book, because even with an anime or cartoon style it's good to learn how a body flows, it makes what you can draw look more natural.

i just was always around people who did art.. and i just toke to drawing an anime style.
its really just doing it everyday, or else its harder to learn....
ive only been drawing for a few years but i think you can start whenever youd like.
books help but i dont really use them.

I don't remember much but I think I started with cartoons from CartoonNetwork. I couldn't do any of the animals but I could draw the human characters. I progressed to anime after that because I saw how nice the style was when I watched anime on AXN.

After that I just practiced and looked at other anime drawings. I took tips and suggestions from my classmate. She was also drawing anime (and she's pretty good. Man...she must be awesome by now) and I used to always watch her.

I usually just look at other people creating art and then try to figure out their style...and then incorporate it on my own. It doesn't matter to me whether they're drawing real life, a portrait, cartoons, or anime. I look at how they create their lines, the shading, their technique and then I try to mimic them and put my own style in my art.

My first dip into anime art was from those tacky 'how to draw anime' books. However, over time, I began to build a unique style. That style began as "Hey, I like the way that person draws eyes. I'm gonna try." and simply evolved. Even now, while I'm comfortably immersed in my own style, if I see someone's art that I admire and I notice perhaps the nose, or the eyes, or even something as simple as the folds in the clothing more than before, I try to replicate it, simply to learn better how to do it.
In other words, I'm still learning, even though I've been drawing for almost 10 years. :3

I'm self taught, and I think regardless or what art you do like abstract, anime, realism a lot of times it's self taught at first by just doodling or trying to get better by practicing a lot. After a while I'm sure some people may take classes or look at books, but yeah.

Um, I've been drawing anime for like 5ish years or so, and i just kept practicing, working on some realism really helps out, because it helps you place shadows better and your anatomy will learn something from it[[if you do portraits or fullbodys in realism anyway]]

I used to also take manga books or screenshots of anime and I would copy the image. And that would help me with placing and such.

When I started drawing anime, I references a TON of pictures off of photobucket and animes that I watched 8) after which through a LOT of practicing I became decent XD;;

I started out drawing when I was less than 2 years old (not kidding. I scared the piss out of a shrink. It looked horrible, but you could tell that at like 16 months I had stared at a bird, tried to draw it SPECIFICALLY). I continued to draw via staring at things until around 9 or so, when I realized that this was something I wanted to get MUCH better at. After drawing people horribly badly for a year, my uncle bought me a book called "The Art of Drawing Manga" - the difference I have found between this book and every other anime book is that it goes out of it's way to drill in proportions, realistic effects (Such as a belt buckle overlapping the belt instead of being flat) and a healthy dose of references. I used this in combination with drawing scenes from my favorite anime and manga from framework to get a grasp on what the hell I was doing.

From there, I took art workshops at local colleges and took art courses as my high school electives. I took an interest in learning human anatomy beyond just proportions (Grey's Anatomy ftw!) and started using PoseManiacs for references (Which uses muscular 3D models). MASSIVE improvement.

I plan on going into Art for my major and aim to be a specialist in Character Design and Development for.. Everything from comics to movies. I wanna be the gal who helps make the Avatar (not Avatar: The Last Airbender, but the movie with the blue monkeys) equivalent in 7 years. Hooshaw :D

Im not really sure but then i just watch it alot and try trace it alot and then i got the hang of it so i just started drawing my self um its basically as if you a begginer like me my drawings arent that great but i kept drawing alot in my 13-14 years and then i started to be able to draw like anime artist hehe so my techneique was to just practive alot and get alot of encouragement from friends or family =)

i self taught mehself
imma natural >3

i taught myself how to draw. when i started reading manga, i decided i wanted to draw like that. first i started by copying some pictures from my favorite manga. then i started developing my own drawing style. now, i want to publish my own manga.

I taught myself to learn to draw. When I was little I would sneak and watch TV late at night, and watch adult swim. I thought Anime was just another form of cartoon. So I copied it, like I did with other cartoons. Mostly Disney now that I think back on it.

I got taught basics by a friend, simple body, hand, hair, etc, I built up my original style 2 months after she taught me`

I still havent found my own style yet.... When I draw a picture on my own it's ok, better then when I started, but when I look at a picture and try to draw it, it looks spot on! I guess you can call it free-hand copying. This is how I'm starting out, it helps me get the feeling for detail and realism.

I started copying my favorite manga pictures and then just started drawing pictures all the time. I was horrible at first, but eventually I got better. It just took some time and a LOT of practice.

I'm self-taught, though not very dedicated.
Typically only draw once every few weeks. ]: