What's your earliest recollection on your artistic endevours? [:)]
I remember in year 3 the entire class had to sketch a dinosaur. While others were doing pretty rudimentary looking pictures, I remember putting some real effort to making it look exactly like the dinosaur picture. All the kids came over for a look, and it was probably the first time I really thought "hey, I might be good at this!"
I used to doodle in my books from year 2 all the way through highschool, but my earliest recollection is perhaps when I was in year 1. These girls were sitting on the ground with a colouring book, pencilling it in profusely. I was with some other kid, and I remember I was dying to have a go, since they looked like they were having so much fun. I asked if I can colour in too, and one of the girls snapped "No! You're a boy... YOU'LL GO OUTSIDE THE LINES!!!!" [:D]
LOL @ souri, we couldnt have a messy boy going outside the lines now could we? :P
my best friend since about yr2 was really into art, drawing that sort of thing, so we would draw together and stuff, thats when i started doing cartoony drawings. He wanted to be a cartoonist so i wouldo do cartoons n stuff with him.
I remember growing up having paper all over the house, this was before primary school - I'd run around collecting every single pen, pencil, texta, crayon, etc and dump it all in the middle of the lounge room. I'd lay back in the beanbag with a heavy book for a flat surface and go through hundreds of pieces of paper just trying different combinations of things, usually drawing the same thing (say our dog for example) or studying and mimicing a cartoon that was on tv or a picture in a newspaper or magazine.
I continued drawing until mid primary school, and subsequently lost my drawing hand when I was introduced to computer art; mspaint, neopaint, Imagine... yeehaw [:)]
only in the last few years have I been getting my drawing arm back; I've found I've still got the ability and knowledge in shade/colour/lighting I had back then, but form and style I had to re-learn from scratch. Ah well, nowadays I get paid for the scribbles I do, so it was all worth it, and I'm happy [:D]
The first time I can really remember drawing was in Kindergarten. We had to draw pics of families, houses, pets. All the usual crap. The first pic we had to draw was a cat. Everyone just had stick figures with a straight tail and some triangles for ears. I drew a balloon animal with whiskers, a curvy tail and so on. My teacher would just stand there looking saying it was very nice. I had a feeling from there.
I would then get heaps of colouring books and copy the line art. Draw from photos, and then move up to things like comics. In high school I was really put down by art teachers as 'comic drawing isn't art'. Plus whenever I made anything else (sculpture mainly), it was stolen or broken :/ I stopped trying at around year 8/9 and didn't start again until college. I taught myself to draw again, and I am still trying to evolve my style to my tastes :)
What a funny thread :D One of my earliest recollections (I only remember it because I got into lots of trouble) was of when I was in early primary and drew a miniature elevation of a house behind the television, right next to the powerpoint. I think Dad was proud (he's an architect) but Mum was pissed because she was the one who had to try to remove crayon from house paint.
As a kid i enjoyed drawing, but never considered myself good at it... and i wasn't! (well I was probably average.) I had little patience for detail or shading so all of my pics looked fairly unimpressive in all respects.
When I think of early drawing efforts I recall doing a daily diary whilst on a family holiday to Europe (I was 10ish), I think I was meant to fill a page a day. Not being big on the written word I would do a small amount of prose and then draw things that I had seen that day. The images below are a few scans from said diary. Niffty eh!
The text in my diary doesn't identify the castle [:(] It was in France and I am guessing from the following diary entry within a days travel of Leonardo daVinci's house. If anyone recognises it and knows its name please let me know [;)]
[img]http://home.iprimus.com.au/johnnewall/extras/pic-from-85.jpg[/img]
Jacobt> being only 13 (yeah I checked your profile) that memory can't have been from too long ago! [:0] teeheehee
My earliest memory isn?t that early, I didn?t start drawing till high school. And then it was just fantasy monsters because I was a big role playing geek.
GM: ?You walk around the corner and are surprised by this!? Flashes Crap picture.
Player: ?Ahhh, mine old foe, the crudely drawn sphere with wings, I whilt banish thee back the graphite pit that spawned thee.?
Pantmonger
I remember during my early primary school years the teacher would tell the class to form into groups to work on a project, I always had kids trying to bribe me (usually with offers of being my best freind) to come into their groups so I could look after the artwork :)