Since everyone is doing this :
Even at a young age I was interested in art.
Mostly because there were a lot of animated TV shows on TV.
This is also where my influence for drawing comes from today.
I was totally obsessed with Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
It aired every Saturday or Sunday on the ''Yorkiddin'' network at 07:30 in the morning and I hated myself if I ever overslept!
I've watched this from 2004 to 2005 untill the network was taken over by another company which didn't show this series on tv.
In fact they removed all kids shows.
Back then I didn't know better and stopped thinking about it and moved on to other animated TV networks.
But Sailor Moon was one of the few shows that stayed in the back of my mind.
At the age of 15± I became more aware of the awesome TV shows they showed back in 2005.
This is also when I started to Google Sailor Moon again and discovered they had 200 episodes!
The Netherlands only showed 52 episodes.
After browsing for pure nostalgia I discovered the site Deviantart.
At first I stayed there lurking without an account for the site.
But after a while I wanted to learn to draw like the artists on this websites so I signed up.
I learned that digital drawing was a lot harder than it looked like and wasn't very fluent in English.
I also didn't have Photoshop back then so was forced to use Gimp.
It was hard.
I didn't know anything about digital art so I started using effects on existing official art drawing and screenshots.
When it turned out nice I'd upload it to Deviantart.
This was wrong of course, but I didn't know better back then...
A while later I got a message from Deviantart saying all my edits were removed.
I was young and didn't understand why.
But this also forced me to actually try to understand that program named Gimp better.
I started doing linearts from a few scans of mine and was proud when bobbly lines were all over the place of the lines.
Finally I got CS3 and noticed it worked a LOT easier than Gimp.
I finally started to learn by tutorials how proper line-arts, colouring and effects should be done.
I also started to receive comments for the artwork I uploaded and made friends!
I really started to get more and more active on Deviantart and noticed more and more ways to draw.
It always made my day when a friend on Deviantart uploaded another beautiful piece!
This continued for a few years.
Eventually I got a drawing tablet, new computer and went to an art school with a 4 year education for graphic designer.
I learned a lot about art and improved a little bit every half a year.
And this is where we're back in the present.
Still learning, still discovering, still meeting nice people online.
I don't and never will regret joining Deviantart.
I've learned so much and met so many nice people.
Thank you all!
But Sailor Moon was one of the few shows that stayed in the back of my mind.
At the age of 15± I became more aware of the awesome TV shows they showed back in 2005.
This is also when I started to Google Sailor Moon again and discovered they had 200 episodes!
The Netherlands only showed 52 episodes.
After browsing for pure nostalgia I discovered the site Deviantart.
At first I stayed there lurking without an account for the site.
But after a while I wanted to learn to draw like the artists on this websites so I signed up.
I learned that digital drawing was a lot harder than it looked like and wasn't very fluent in English.
I also didn't have Photoshop back then so was forced to use Gimp.
It was hard.
I didn't know anything about digital art so I started using effects on existing official art drawing and screenshots.
When it turned out nice I'd upload it to Deviantart.
This was wrong of course, but I didn't know better back then...
A while later I got a message from Deviantart saying all my edits were removed.
I was young and didn't understand why.
But this also forced me to actually try to understand that program named Gimp better.
I started doing linearts from a few scans of mine and was proud when bobbly lines were all over the place of the lines.
Finally I got CS3 and noticed it worked a LOT easier than Gimp.
I finally started to learn by tutorials how proper line-arts, colouring and effects should be done.
I also started to receive comments for the artwork I uploaded and made friends!
I really started to get more and more active on Deviantart and noticed more and more ways to draw.
It always made my day when a friend on Deviantart uploaded another beautiful piece!
This continued for a few years.
Eventually I got a drawing tablet, new computer and went to an art school with a 4 year education for graphic designer.
I learned a lot about art and improved a little bit every half a year.
And this is where we're back in the present.
Still learning, still discovering, still meeting nice people online.
I don't and never will regret joining Deviantart.
I've learned so much and met so many nice people.
Thank you all!
Coding by SimplySilent