I draw. I get paid for it sometimes, but most of the time there's a computer involved.

I've been drawing pretty much my whole life although I don't do it as much as I used to. Up through college I drew pretty obsessively, and drawing classes were generally my strongest ones, especially figure drawing. Drawing people is what I've always enjoyed most.

Ayah is right about drawing being "looking and seeing". Even as a kid I was trying to emulate what I saw with drawings. I think it's good to look at both art and real life for inspiration. Go ahead and try to imitate the artists you like, but really try to get inside what they do. Try to draw something from real life (or from your head, I guess) the way that they would, but feel free to try and copy their work, too (just for learning purposes, of course).

Like anything, you just have to do it a lot and have patience to be good at it. Of course, if you're really creative and have good compositional/design sense, you can create art without much drawing ability. I think, however, that you're probably more interested in illustration, and that requires a certain degree of lifelike drawing ability.

best book on drawing is nicolaides' the natural way to draw.
check it out at the library or bookstore.

I'm a 'drawer'.

I took it very serious from about age 3 - 21 then I pretty much only did music for awhile.

I'm back into it again lately. I love it. It's so relaxing.

I thought about studying it once I got to college but was worred about "wrecking" it for myself.

My man is into doing art. He studied for awhile. We both bought eachother art supplies last x-mas and are really trying to push ourselves to draw/paint more.

Isn't it great how illustration has made such a comeback in album art?

President of the Klee Club?

Well they say my name is Simon, and I like to do drawrings.

i laughed.

Basically I want to produce my own independent comics. Like the way you would a zine. And I can draw alright. Much better than I used to. But I'm not very good at drawing characters in different poses because I never really mastered perception and distance and shading and that. And I can't draw females for anything.

But I write my ass off. So I figured why not take the Harvey Pekar approach and hook up with someone who can draw/ink well?*

Unfortunately I do not know a single person in real life who does. My one sister's a good artist but she's not the sister who likes comics. And there was a dude I used to work with but I never actually talked to him. And my other friend claimed to draw well when I met her but it turns out that she's a flake and she's not that good anyway.




*Ink well. I laughed.

So are your stories fairly long, or do you have some shorter ones (only a few pages/strip length)?

quit looking at me bum.

nows as good of a time as any to unleash the horror of QC to obner:

http://www.questionablecontent.net/comics/635.png

cheeky monkey

I have no shortage of half-finished works.

I have an ongoing superhero series similar to anything by Marvel called The Remnants.

I have a children's fantasy in the vein of Neil Gaiman or Jim Henson tentatively titled Flourish.

And I've thought about trying my hand at a serial kind of like Craig Thompson, Adrian Tomine, or Seth.


But again, it's all at the 30-40% stage. I mostly start projects, get a lot of ideas and writing started, then get frustrated and convince myself that I'm wasting my time and that nothing will ever come of it and drop the project altogether. Until a month or two later when I start all over again.