Hey everyone, good morning! How are you today? I am okay, had this idea for a post, to write about my story with drawings! The idea came to mind as I told my friend my history with it is quite big! Let is jump into it, then, to decide if that’s the case!
First drawing I could find on my phone files, that I still have, is this picture, dating from June 2017. The portrait of Kyle from the youtube channel I used to be into: Door Monster. That I would lose interest and bitterly stop following actively around 2020.
The official date, I like to say is June 2014. Why do I like to do this? Why not just to tell the story? I guess, that is for catalogue and timeline purposes. Before 2014, I have lived about 14 years, and I did a good deal of drawing in childhood. I loved to do my own roman ruins, the before/after I’d see in books, how the edifices looked in their prime days, how did the ruins find themselves “today”. Those were my favorites. No portraits, though, or faces, I loved to doodle but I was a child with childish abilities. I say my interest in them (faces and portraits) began with a TV show I used to watch, the Total Drama series. I don’t know why I cringe so hard when I remember of those days… it is not necessarily the show per se, but my overwhelming enthusiasm for it, to the point I started a fanfic. When I did the characters, they were based off my middle school peers, but not exactly the same. I don’t even think I was drawing that much around that time, my childish drawing activities, I reckon, ceased more or less when I moved from elementary to middle school, around 2009-2010. I don’t recall if I did many drawings in 2011, or if I attached any value to them. Back to the fanfic: that was 2012, I started taking special interest in the activities my best friends were doing, and not only that, but I had things I’d like to portray as well, such as the characters of my fanfic, so it goes, I worked on drafts of my first characters. Many liked them, I remember my grandma being highly enthusiastic. On today’s eyes, they were heavily influenced by the geometric pseudo-minimalist style of the show, and their attires and haircuts would reflect that, too. That was 2012, a happy year, in which I also engaged further in reading, taking pictures, and playing Civilization 5.
2013 was tumultuous and I did not work on the fanfic nearly as much as I did before. Quite the opposite, the drawings would not cease, but very little of them survives from the time. By the end of that year, because of a huge argument with a former best friend, the first blog I had, the fanfic, was done for. And so it came 2014, a year that I have many very bas memories towards. Chaos and horror were unfold in my life. As my friends were all gone from school, I wanted to keep their memories alive, nonetheless, and engaged in activities they were interested in, that I was too, so to keep routine untouched. My taste was undeveloped during the time, I think even saying I started in June 2014 is… debatable. I returned to buildings, very timidly. I believe I never stopped doodling in my notepads from school, but in 2014 is when I started taking a better notice of them. Sad year, I experimented with drawings, and other things such as photography, and read a great deal, but most of the books were bad, and the drawings did not withstand.
2015 comes, that year is a bit of a blur for me, that and 2016. I can’t even say for sure I drew as much, though the quality was better than in 2014. I got into coloring books, and by 2016 I was very happily coloring them, it was better than watching class that is for sure. I drew some buildings and some characters, still from that show, and with great difficulty, but better than before…
2017 was the year I started on university. I went for architecture school. I would still draw, from time to time, sometimes buildings, sometimes people, all very doodly and reminding of the style of the Total Drama show. I think the year I actually started doing what I do today, is definitely 2018, should I tell it now, should I save it for another post? This one is getting a bit big, is it not? I never was fond of big posts anyway…
Hope you enjoyed this small summary of my first drawing years! And I hope I can return later with 2018-today, if possible. When can you expect to see me again? Likely on the weekend, or on Friday? We’ll see… until then, see you again real soon, wish you the best!
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