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2015 is closing, thank you everyone for your support!
Here’s something special yet embarrassing stuff to show you.
When I was making it bring back soooo much memory I almost cry.
What I’m about to say is purely my personal opinion, it might not be true to everyone.
Back then I was so scared to upload my stuff here on DeviantART, but I’m really glad I did because it was such a wonderful site to learn.
I’m self-taught, all I did is just keep drawing. When I first uploaded my stuff here, no one would like it. So I always tell myself “looks like it’s no good again, try better next time”. I kept doing this until someone finally bother to click like, and even comment. A lot of new young artists back then will go to each of every person’s page who liked their artwork, just to say thank you, I did that too.
By keep drawing, eventually I got more followers, more likes, more comment and more motivation. I’m not gonna lie, I don’t draw for World peace, I draw for praise, because it is what keep me drawing, and keep drawing will make me better and visualize my imagination better, and it will lead to more praise, thus the cycle.
I draw BL because I’m gay myself, I find myself smiling like a silly whenever I saw BL stuff. I want to create more of these thing that would make me, and the LGBT community that I belongs to, smile more. So that being gay, being in love with BL is something to be happy about.
A few things I learned from these years drawing:
1. Enjoy drawing. I have seen quite a lot of new artist who just pick up drawin
g, ask for critic. I don’t know about you but personally I don’t find critic to be enjoyable, especially after you spend hours or even days drawing, only to get “hey this look weird that bad etc etc”, for newbie the first thing is you need to find drawing enjoyable! You can ask for critic later after you get used to drawing.
My parents ALWAYS praised my drawing since child, I start doodling since 3-5, and no way a 3-5 y/o drawing would be good, but still my parents praise me, I then keep drawing hoping to get more praise from them, it is what started to make me feel drawing is enjoyable.
2. Don’t draw for free / for a cheap price. This might sound harsh but it is true, when thing is free people will just ask for it without thinking how much effort you put into it. I used to accept free request back then on DA but only to find that some of them have tons of pics drawn by other artists for them. The drawing which I spent days to draw only make up a tiny part of their collection which they probably don’t even remember. You might as well work on your original drawing or comic.
Don’t charge too low, if you need money for tablet you might as well work other part time for it, it will be much faster and you save more time to draw more later.
3. I used to keep searching for tutorials, after reading bunch of them I find that most of them are telling more or less the same stuff, there is hardly any tutorial that would magically make your drawing better, a lot of people ask me I always tell them: all you need to practice.
That’s all I can think for now, thank you for reading. I hope this meme will somehow inspire you to draw. Happy New Year! (again)
Meme credited to: kamaniki.deviantart.com/art/03…

Description

2015 is closing, thank you everyone for your support!
Here’s something special yet embarrassing stuff to show you.
When I was making it bring back soooo much memory I almost cry.
What I’m about to say is purely my personal opinion, it might not be true to everyone.
Back then I was so scared to upload my stuff here on DeviantART, but I’m really glad I did because it was such a wonderful site to learn.
I’m self-taught, all I did is just keep drawing. When I first uploaded my stuff here, no one would like it. So I always tell myself “looks like it’s no good again, try better next time”. I kept doing this until someone finally bother to click like, and even comment. A lot of new young artists back then will go to each of every person’s page who liked their artwork, just to say thank you, I did that too.
By keep drawing, eventually I got more followers, more likes, more comment and more motivation. I’m not gonna lie, I don’t draw for World peace, I draw for praise, because it is what keep me drawing, and keep drawing will make me better and visualize my imagination better, and it will lead to more praise, thus the cycle.
I draw BL because I’m gay myself, I find myself smiling like a silly whenever I saw BL stuff. I want to create more of these thing that would make me, and the LGBT community that I belongs to, smile more. So that being gay, being in love with BL is something to be happy about.
A few things I learned from these years drawing:
1. Enjoy drawing. I have seen quite a lot of new artist who just pick up drawin
g, ask for critic. I don’t know about you but personally I don’t find critic to be enjoyable, especially after you spend hours or even days drawing, only to get “hey this look weird that bad etc etc”, for newbie the first thing is you need to find drawing enjoyable! You can ask for critic later after you get used to drawing.
My parents ALWAYS praised my drawing since child, I start doodling since 3-5, and no way a 3-5 y/o drawing would be good, but still my parents praise me, I then keep drawing hoping to get more praise from them, it is what started to make me feel drawing is enjoyable.
2. Don’t draw for free / for a cheap price. This might sound harsh but it is true, when thing is free people will just ask for it without thinking how much effort you put into it. I used to accept free request back then on DA but only to find that some of them have tons of pics drawn by other artists for them. The drawing which I spent days to draw only make up a tiny part of their collection which they probably don’t even remember. You might as well work on your original drawing or comic.
Don’t charge too low, if you need money for tablet you might as well work other part time for it, it will be much faster and you save more time to draw more later.
3. I used to keep searching for tutorials, after reading bunch of them I find that most of them are telling more or less the same stuff, there is hardly any tutorial that would magically make your drawing better, a lot of people ask me I always tell them: all you need to practice.
That’s all I can think for now, thank you for reading. I hope this meme will somehow inspire you to draw. Happy New Year! (again)
Meme credited to: kamaniki.deviantart.com/art/03…