I'm 13 years old and I'm interested in looking at drawings and paintings from when people on this site were around my age. I'm just wondering what others were drawing and painting from when they were children or teens. (Or if you are currently that age, post your recent stuff)

My parents have a self-portrait I did at somewhere near your age; it was on newsprint and is very yellow now. I will see if I can get them to photograph it for me.

OK, thanks. I look forward to seeing it.

Hi, atm I'm 16 years old and you can see all the stuff I draw in my galleries (I uploaded all of them at the same day I finished them)

I've posted some in my deviantart gallery. http://tvissoc.deviantart.com
Have a look there.

hey im 14 and my stuff's in my gallary. Some are good, some are ok, and some I like at first and then hate but what do you think about them?

Fredbo.....

I love all the pictures in your gallery.....they are very nice.....I like the one of the dog!!!....I am around that age....and I feel the same way about my drawings!!!

ID

Thanks ID!

Thanks for posting! I looked through your galleries and I really like the pictures!

fredbo

Oh how I wish I had drawn/painted when I was your age.. I only started in my 40's . It all began when I wanted a painting for my bedroom... and just could not find what I wanted. I decided try to paint something myself. I was so happy with what I did... attached herewith. my very first painting.

My father enjoyed art so I suppose I take after him...but never realised I was artisitc. I am so pleased that I had a go... Now I just love drawing/ painting. It is a pure gift.

Keep up the good work
dors

purplepaperwing------ The thing you need to realize, is that it has nothing to do with age. It has everything to do with practice. The more you draw the more comfortable you feel with the pencil in hand. I think we all here can agree. We did not learn overnight. Most of us have been doing this for years. I had been drawing for around 10 years. I put the pencil down for about 5 years. And now I am drawing everyday. I can see the improvement allready. Just remember patience is key and time is of the essense. Good luck.

wow Dors and that painting was your first, you have a great talent and thanks for the complament !

Thunderbird, i completly 100 percent agree

I am 60 and just started drawing a year ago. I have a very busy life and very little time but I sketch every chance I get. I even have a sketch pad in my car now just in case I have a minute waiting somewhere.
I sketch waiting for my grand daughter to get out of school..

I wish I had started young like Dors said.. But look how old grandma Moses was when she started and she got famous.

Dors- that painting is beautiful. I can't believe it's your first.

Thunderbird- I realize that drawing ability is about practice, not age. I practice a ton and I think that's why people think I'm good. I just started this topic to see what people my age drew and how they drew it.

Cyn- I should keep a sketch pad in my backback too! Usually I just doodle or sketch on whatever worksheet we're doing, but I don't think graph or lined paper is the best...

purplepaperwing, you do some great stuff and you have a soft touch. You are right about the paper because sometimes something turns out really good and then I am sorry it's on lined paper.

I'm really happy to see young people like you with an interest in art. You, fredbo, Nuke.O and independentdrawer, are already better than a lot of adults I have seen. Keep this up and you may all get famous someday.

Wow, thanks Cyn.

Hi guys
purplepaperwing I am 2 years older than you i started drawing from a long time

when ilook at my old drawings i just smile & ask my self how i feel when i draw this picture

when i was in your age i didn`t care about criterion & dimension i was drawing from my imagination my vision
But now i won`t tell u that i am clever enough but i try to practise more to learn how to make aperfect pic
Now i look forward to improving my skills Go on &take your chance
M P

Wow, I feel really ancient now. I didn't do my first drawing until I was in my 60"s. I did a lot of Industrial type sketching over the years, but never any faces or art work. I posted my first one in Life drawings. My grandaughter was in the 10th grade or so and had an art book there along with her sketches, so I decided to try it. I kept all that I have done since then.
Slim

I'm 15. I started drawing about year ago. My drawings are in my gallery

Hi, i'm 16 years old too, never took drawing for serious till now, i'm at the start i guess, i just use to drawing quick sketches wherever i was, with whatever i had to hand, funny cartoons most of it.
Now i hope to spend more time really drawing, what i have till now you can see in my gallery
And you all have already amazing stuff in your gallery

im younger then all of yall im 11! ive been drawing since i was 2 and had 2 years of art class, oh and not those baby ones with the crayons, i was in one with 16 year olds lol so i should hav it payed off.......maybe!
and i dont know how to post, so u cant see my artwork how do u do it?

I'm so proud of you, son.

Hi Micahman you can post your art in your gallary area or on the forum


to post , you see were it said file attachments and there is a browse button there thats is were you up load the art too.

hello

I have started to draw and then find it to hard and dont like what i have done and then give up every other 6months i need a slap i know i just find it so hard i dont think i will ever be a good enough artist heres my one of my 1st drawings though enjoy Im 27 years old soon

You keep on fighting! Unless your dead it's never to late!

i think am going to go back into drawing again lol i thought i was crap and i just gave up cos i didn't see an out of this world art i think i have an To high expectation of my self it takes time to get better at it and it could take until I'm 80 years old until i become a professional artists but am going to work my back side off until i get there and for the rest of my life i didn't copy all of them books thats the best way to learn when i get into practice i can make up m own designs
i should not beat my self up so much and i will be drawing everyday until am blue in the face lok

i draw like five pictures a day.....most of my art at my grandmothers, shes making a gallery and gunna sell some of my stuff lol, anybody wanna bid? lol

I wish I could draw 5 pictures a day... except I've so much homework, and other activities...

Five pictures a day, at about 6 hours each... nope, that's not going to work for me.

lol that sounds difficult

That would be funny if somehow it did work out...

its not hard at all, i get my pictures done in like less then 30 minutes, their not cartoon either, but wut is file atacthment i cant find it.......lol

While you are editing a post, scroll the browser window down a bit. Right below this textarea I'm typing in is a section called "Post Options", and right below that is the section called "File Attachments." I believe someone else has already given you instructions about how to use that section, right?

You mean if somehow a day would be 30 hours instead of 24?

well acctualy they have except i have no clue.....lol im kinda strange, sorry

oh..... u mean when i type a reply....... i see add atacthments, lol sorry im kinda a slow learner, except art, because thats something i love......lol

like this?

oh.....like this?
if this is how this is one of 13 brothers and sisters shes the............ 12 i think, lol





ahhhhh it didnt work.....

God im sorry im rly clueless on everything, i keep on {accidently retyping wut i said, so i soun like a dork} anyways it doesnt seem to work,

Micahman

my friends call me micah-angelo isnt that rly funny?

it's amazing to start early on drawing 'cause of all the blessed time you have but instead of going the drawing route as real young, i went the writing route. been writing stories since i was 11 so about a good ten years of doing just that. i never thought i had the 'talent' for drawing since my parents were slightly against it and always told me it was a complete waste of time.

ever since i took an intro class in college of drawing, i was fortunate to have a wonderful prof who got me interested and i've been trying to learn as much as i can since then. i just plain love it now. i swear it usually only takes one person to make the difference. and hopefully i'll learn more with time

I also love to write stories {none of them are finished yet....lol}



Gosh im rly cluesless no wonder im sor conused i keep on clicking the wrong thing
anyways ive alwaysed love to write.

micahman

Well, I'm not sure about really really early drawings, but I did this one 24 years ago. Forgive the out of focus shot. I've been drawing seriously for about 30, so its a few years out, but I tried.

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OK, as I promised earlier in this thread, a self-portrait drawn when I was 14:
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It was drawn on newsprint with a plain #2 pencil; it's very yellow and fragile now, given that it's 30 years old (!) I drew this from life, staring into a mirror for hours.

i just drew a self portriat last night, it took me 30 minutes to finish. if i can upload the picture i will show ya
and nice pic luv it.

Press on the "Addreply" button then press the browser button and select file then press "add attchment"

I've wanted to be a writer from 1st grade, except I don't like the actual writing part and I don't have the patience to type a novel. I just like making up stories and characters. I realized that instead of writing about the characters I could learn to draw them. (Plus it helped I was already drawing)



Wow. That's amazing!



You've inspired me to attempt to do a self portrait.

I am confident you will kick my 14-year-old butt -- your paintings are really wonderful. "Daydreamer" and "Nathan" are really great, and of course your musical instruments are top notch.

yes thank you.... but its like not letting my pictures are not being like how do u say it? like on here it doesnt show it.


this should be the picture of my 11 in line sister in our family.



like this?



see it desnt work

Either it's a file format it can't attach or the file itself is too big in pixels or bytes.

ohhhhhh okay

im guna try one more time.... and if it doesnt wokr dont laugh at me. lol

Same with me (only I'm not quite as old as you). All my life, I just made little sketches with lines. Early this year, I started to explore shading and drawing people instead of just dinosaurs (the only thing I drew all my childhood was dinosaurs...lol).

-D