hay guys was wondering if i can see evryones 1st ever drawings?
and how long it took you to the point where you are very good at and know what you are doing?
and is there any Professiaonl artists here? and is there anyone here who is a artist or thinking of being a artist who has Fibromyalgia or M.E ?? please let me know as i would Like to stay in touch with ya as a fellow disabled artist ( its nice to talk to someone that understands!!!!)


well hope to hear from you all soon
This forum is very Quiet


take care

UkArtist x

Hi UK Glad to see you join the group. It is important to remember that everyone progresses differently, so don't take too much "stock" in what others do, and also remember that you do not have to be the "best" at art...every attempt is an original expression that enhances the whole world of art. (it took me 23 years of not drawing to realize that)

To share.... I'm attaching my first real drawing from this past August (August 05). I titled it "Elfgirl", and this drawing was made me realise I had some ability. Yes, I had drawn/doodled when I was 5-10 yrs old., but had not touched paper and pencil to draw since then (23 years ago)...before Elfgirl. It was 2 weeks after this drawing I found (and immediately bought) Brenda's book, and have enjoyed very rapid progress since. (for examples of my current drawings see my gallery ~ Jokerface and Liz). Going from one to the other (for me) took about 6 months (even Jokerface is 4 months old now).

As for professional artists..... well you know Brenda is and has been for a very long time. At this point actually I am also. I recently started a mural business which I am now doing full time.


p.s. ok, there seems to be "global limit" issues on the forum. I'll post the drawing in my gallery.



Ray

Hi UKArtist and Ray!

Great topic, and a great reason why artists should keep some of their first drawings! Thank you!

We all share a love of drawing, and each and every one of us had to begin somewhere.

Attached is a drawing I did at around 14 (I think). Strangely, even though my skills have improved, I still love to draw faces!

Brenda

My first EVER drawing has long since been lost. I had a made few attempts at drawing when I was a teenager, but I don't know what happened to them. I'm afraid they may have been in my sister's storage building when Hurricane Rita destroyed it. Most of what was inside there was ruined beyond repair.

However, I do have the first ever drawing I did since I got serious about learning to draw just over a year ago.

I don't have my first ever drawing - I did a lot of it when I was a kid when my mum used to make me enter all these childrens drawing competitions (and win ), but I do have the first drawing I did for myself. It was from when I started playing paintball, and I just got the urge to draw this photo, so I did. Then I realised that I wasn't too bad at it, but there was a lot I could improve. So I just kept on drawing

This was back in early 2003, so I would have been around 13

http://www.drawspace.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=183

Johan

Here was one of my very first attempts at drawing. It was drawing from a Michaelangelo drawing about arms and legs. I did it with a digital pad on the computer. I used Painter. It was clear that the computer did not have the resolution I need to do drawing the way I want to do it from this experiment.


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Here is my one of my first drawings it is a copy from another artist and I did them all the time when I was a teenager.I copied copied copied and they were in black and white with really no other value but left me with a love of portraiture....cheers Lorrir[attachmentid=42]

I know that this thread is pretty old, but it's a fun one!
I had a great time going through my box of old art!
I decided to start with a drawing I did at the age of five, because any younger and they're all scribbles!
Anyways, these are some of my first drawings/paintings I did early in life at the ages of 5,6, and 8.
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This is the only one that i can find, it was done at work with a biro. I had started writing a book and she was the main character, completely fictional.

RJS

Are man sweet yeah i started this post when i 1st joined up here loving the art keep up the good work oh Rjs

thats way good for a 1st drawing Keep it up everyone !

unfortunately i dont have any of my first drawings that i could upload in here as my mum has them locked away some where my first real piece of art she now uses as a door stop which is a bust of a man i did when i was 13 .. ugly looking thing but my mum wont part with it as she thinks i may be a famous artist one day and it could bring her millions .. i'll let her dream on a bit more

As you know UK i have MS and a condition called Lupus i cant really say that my art reflects my illness in any way .. i sometimes think of incoperating my MS into my art but i some how dont know how to do this yet as im still pretty much trying to come to terms with it even after 4+ years of being diagnosed.. some of my poetry does reflect it as i find saying rather than doing about my illness ...

Unfortunately I lost all of my paintings when I was 20 due to my roommates washing machine. I tried to keep all of them but the water ruined them. I had several that I wanted to keep from art awards from High School art show we had. I won first place with an ink and watercolour I did in the 11th grade. As far as childhood drawings my mom probably threw them all away because we forever moved around when I was growing up. I do remember also winning first place in 2nd grade for a drawing I did of downtown Dallas. So I have to look around the house for some drawings that I did for just starting back out in drawing over the past year.
~Venus~

Dont worry about it i asked this over 3 months ago its a OLD tread that i posted when i 1st join lol

we are all Diffrent and we all have diffrent trails in our lives i be come very parlized very easy i try to get though each day as it comes and i know u do aswell woo dont worry it took me about 5 years to come to terms with my illness i have had my illness for over 10 years now it takes time hun! dont worry about it!

Hahaha

I found a painting I did for a competition when i was 4



I won

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I found more:



oh! another one I was around 8 or 9 when I drew this I believe

That was too good Lizzeh! I only wonder what I drew like when I was little. The family got separated up and we lost a lot of stuff moving around for a few years. Well, unfortunately I don't have quite the memories you do. I am being sure to keep my daughter's stuff though. That way she can put it all together when she hits this stage in her life. Matter of fact, I'm going to put it digitally together for her on a CD as well.

Even from your early drawings, I can see you are a very colorful person.
Eric

Sweet!

Haha yeah I've always been a colourful and violent person I was a weird kid... rather Star Wars obsessed (nothing has changed there!) and imaginative.

I wish I could find more of my old paintings. They were mostly always of dinosaurs and monsters haha

no worries Thank you for your posts i find it very intressing seein peoples 1st evers drawings and art

This is a great topic .. to see people earlier work .. cool .. well I have mine in a notebook .. so i dug it out and well here they are .. the clown pic was a drawing of my dad in his clown suite...I drew that at age 8 or 9 ...the lady in the hat I drew that at about 14 .

WOW kim i love your drawings very good i see that u have so much talant

thank you UK ...as i have said I have drawn most my life .

I have a couple of drawings from when I first started life drawing classes in about 1980.

CAUTION! Nudity

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I like those jeanette ...very nice ...maybe you should try doing something like that now .. I know you had said you like animals but thats some very nice art there.

Thanks, I do a lot of human portraiture too Kim. I just haven't got access to any life drawing classes at a suitable time for me right now. I do miss them.

they are very good 'IslanderNL i like them very much

Hi everyone... Ukartist, these are some of my first. Brian

you did them very well brian...i like the first one .. very cute .

Thanks Kim ...I keep them all.....even the bad one's.

Very cute i like em well done

Thanks UKartist..........I am not sure if Brenda has seen this and hope she does not mind me drawing this , when I first joined Drawspace I thought her first was so sweet , so this is my version and believe it or not it is now one of my first sketches of trying to draw people.

Your welcome!!



i like it keep up the good work!!



This is one of my 1st ever drawings http://www.drawspace.com/forums/index.php?...si&img=2635

Holy macaroni!

You guys were much better than myself at the age of 8 than I am NOW!
Truly deeply talented people here.

I especially liked Lizzeh's and Kim's stuff.

What I probably liked most has to be Lizzeh's Dinosaur & Space paintings. Technically speaking, I think the Darth Vader one is quite amazing, but still to me, it doesn't come even close to the other two. The dinosaur and the space paintings have fantastic colours and they are so full of life that it shows (atleast to me) that "technique" is nothing without feeling. Infact, all you need is feeling in art! I feel like hanging those up somewhere.

Well, maybe I'm just crazy.. but I don't care, I like them very much.

Thanks Ukartist ....I really like this topic you started and am really enjoying seeing everyone's first drawings . Your sketch looks very creative and interesting. I also agree with Teaspoon and and I think those sketches are priceless.. Talk about talented people ....wow. Here is another I found of my first sketches and now that I look back at it I think it's better then what I draw now...lol

thats very good brian .. is it someone you know ?

Brian David



Thank you! and your welcome i love ya drawing very good



yes i love to see other people art work aswell

Thanks Kim, no one I know it was just a pick I saw on the net and thought it was cute so I tried to sketch it.

Thanks Ukartist, you are very Kind.

well you did a very nice job .. how long have you been drawing ?

Thanks Kim, I started late in life....about 2 years.

Thats very good for only 2 years .. I have been drawing all my life and this place has shown me so much...I feel I have improved so much being here .

Thanks again Kim, you are very kind. It showes that you have been drawing for years because I love your work and I think you are a real pro.Did you mention you also teach kids to draw? Yes I too have learned so much here and such wonderful people like you and Jeanette helping us . And I have done many of Brenda's lessons and now drawing things I never ever imagined I could draw. I started off mainly drawing cartoon's and now started creating some of my own characters. I enjoy it so so much

Yes i work with kids .. its not a job the kids just love being at my house so we pull out paper and pencils and I teach how to draw a cat one day and face the next and nose ect .. kids are great .. thats why i have a hard time saying to people I think you need to change that or this .. i see beaty in all forms of art ...its a expression of ourselves .

i agree with you kim

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Eminem,
My first one, i did some drawings before but never tried seriously, this was my first serieus one.

made some after this one,
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The last one with the dragons i mado to show to some people de difference between a dragon i filled up and one that existes from just lines

(btw sorry for my grammatical mistakes I'm dutch and live in Paris so changing between different languages causes straings words sometimes lmao)

Well, my first (full done & colored) drawing was torn to bits by a former classmate who, shortly said, was jealous.

It was a picture of an elf guy sitting on a tombstone.

Anne .. I like your drawings and for just starting out you have the proportion almost right on ....I can see you putting out some very nice stuff .. keep up the good work .

annelieke i like your work



sorry to hear that Sharkwaffle did you hit him for it? what did u do?

I find that an odd question. How do you expect older people like me to know what our first drawing was? That could have been 40 years ago!

Well, at the time I chased him around at recess with the intent of stabbing him in the eye with a pencil. Never got to, but he got quite a little telling off later from one of the adults.

Good times, good times.

Keep your hair on JDonner i posted this tread like on the Jun 10 2006 am not asking for blood ( i hope that i aint anyhow ) LOL Brenda Hoddinott

still has her 1st drawing dont forget also that there are many people that have started late in life as well young and older people have but anyhow no worries




Sharkwaffle

bless you!!