I can fly!
Level 5 Gladiator: Myrmillo
So this will be alittle Q&A thread I hope with no flaming or bad language.
The question is: "Why do you draw?"
Do you draw to make a living? because you're bored? because you feel you suck at everything else?
My answer is; I don't. I've temporarely given up because I've lost faith in everything. (temporarely) (And because I feel I suck at everything else)
You're turn!
Last edited by Pawkfox; August 2nd, 2008 at 02:20 PM.
"Sadly, most artists prefer to give the elite their attention."
Moo
Level 8 Gladiator: Thracian
I draw because it soothes. I draw because it makes the worlds in my head touchable. I draw because I'm arrogant enough to think I got something to tell, that might have an influence on someone one day.
"Master storytellers never explain. They do the hard, painfully creative thing-- they dramatize"
Sketchbook
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Level 17 Gladiator: Spartacus' Dimachaeri
Because I can.
Pawkfox, if it wouldn't get me arrested, I'd turn you over my knee and smack your ass for that last sentence...
No position or belief, whether religious, political or social, is valid if one has to lie to support it.--Alj Mary
Ironically, the concept of SIMPLICITY is most often misunderstood by simple-minded people. --Alj Mary
I can fly!
Level 5 Gladiator: Myrmillo
How the heck do you pm on this site? :<Originally Posted by Ilaekae
Because I can.
Pawkfox, if it wouldn't get me arrested, I'd turn you over my knee and smack your ass for that last sentence...
Anyway; Why?And please do?
"Sadly, most artists prefer to give the elite their attention."
P.O.W.! Leader, Complete Idiot, Super Moderator
Level 17 Gladiator: Spartacus' Dimachaeri
Being so young and losing faith in your own abilities before you've even started to really fuck with what your mind and hands can do just seems such a waste of effort, even if it's only a temporary thing... Keep a sense of humor, sprout, and it'll make crawling through the mud a lot funnier...especially when it starts to pile up in your shorts/panties...
No position or belief, whether religious, political or social, is valid if one has to lie to support it.--Alj Mary
Ironically, the concept of SIMPLICITY is most often misunderstood by simple-minded people. --Alj Mary
Registered User
Level 4 Gladiator: Meridiani
Because it's hard
"You’re right you DO suck, now do something about it"
Mouse Darling
Level 3 Gladiator: Catervarii
I'm sure this isn't the complete reason but because stuff like that doesn't exist?
suppoobly a art fan
Level 12 Gladiator: Laqueatores
Because I see things in my head and it's like an itch and the only way to scratch is to draw it.
That said, I can encourage or discourage those pictures from popping into my head. I've certainly gone big chunks of my life without drawing much.
I was once on the receiving end of a critique so savagely nasty, I marched straight out of class to the office and changed my major (sketchbook).
User is Banned
Level 6 Gladiator: Provocator
To show what is really going on inside my head. My heart is pure and half my mind, that woud make 33.3% not so good(if you know what I mean). So I use pictures for now. When I am able to use words well, watch out. And "faith" is not real. It is a word used by religions to create some alternate universes where after this life we will all live eternally in fire or light, controling masses for a group conscience of "good" in humanity, and to give individuals something greater than solitude in their lives.
one of those tiny little dogs rich people keep in their vaginas 
Level 7 Gladiator: Samnite
Because a picture is worth a thousand words, because one image can say something you may be afraid of or just cant put across in any other way
Because without something to do with my hands i get bored pretty fast
Because my head is full of ideas which need a voice
Because one day i want to fill a leatherbound book full of nightmares and leave it somewhere to mess with someones head
Because it feels good, because i feel guilty if i dont and depressed if i stop
because i love to learn and push myself
because i dont want to spend my life living in the same boring town doing the same boring job forever
Because im competetive
and last, but no means least- for the lulz :3
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No D
Level 13 Gladiator: Retiarius
Because it's a constant challenge.
I'm amused by the "no bad language" comment....and Ilaekae's response. I think when I start a thread, I'm going to demand no misspelled words.
Newbessional
Level 7 Gladiator: Samnite
Because it feels very rewarding when I am able to portray worlds in my mind onto a medium. Of course, I can't do it accurately due to my skill level but I'm hoping one day I will.
Pew, Pew, Pew
Level 17 Gladiator: Spartacus' Dimachaeri
I actually find it helps me think when I’m trying to sort out a work related problem.
It also stops me picking my nose.
Joe Parrilla
Level 8 Gladiator: Thracian
Because its simply fun and I love it.
Also because I absolutely love the feeling of improving.. When I look back a month or 2 and see how much worse I was.. It just makes me feel great. I started playing guitar 5 years ago.. I can still remember struggling to play "7 nation army" by the White Stripes.. And i mean struggling until my fingertips were raw. Now 5 years later I look back at that with such a sense of accomplishment when I realize how far I have come. I hope to do that with art. I wish I had gotten alot more serious alot sooner.. but shit who cares I just turned 18. oo ya and I draw cause I wanna be able to make KeWL IlluztraTionzzz!!!! Haha but seriously.. I dont wanna have an old boring job like everyone else in my family.. Sure Ill do something boring at first if I have to.. but in the end If I could be an Illustrator, freelance or whatever, and get paid to see MY illustrations on trading cards, books, magazines, games, whatver... that will truly be heaven to me. I honestly cant think of anything that would make me more happy in my life.. that and a supermodel wife but hey I dont wanna ask for too much.
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Level 17 Gladiator: Spartacus' Dimachaeri
"I'm amused by the "no bad language" comment....and Ilaekae's response. I think when I start a thread, I'm going to demand no misspelled words."
(OP): I AM sorry...really. Sometimes...okay, a LOT of times...I forget myself and act like the true ignorant little weasel I am... I promise to try harder...
Last edited by Ilaekae; August 2nd, 2008 at 07:49 PM.
No position or belief, whether religious, political or social, is valid if one has to lie to support it.--Alj Mary
Ironically, the concept of SIMPLICITY is most often misunderstood by simple-minded people. --Alj Mary
User is Banned
Level 6 Gladiator: Provocator
Directed to anyone in perticular? ;o)
suppoobly a art fan
Level 12 Gladiator: Laqueatores
Oi! Ain't nothing ignorant about weasels, you!
I was once on the receiving end of a critique so savagely nasty, I marched straight out of class to the office and changed my major (sketchbook).
Registered User
Level 7 Gladiator: Samnite
Always done it, and so far I haven't been kicked out onto the streets and told to get a job. Now I look forward to another 3 years, at Uni, to do nothing but paint. Yay.
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Level 17 Gladiator: Spartacus' Dimachaeri
"Oi! Ain't nothing ignorant about weasels, you!"
PBfffffffffsth!
No position or belief, whether religious, political or social, is valid if one has to lie to support it.--Alj Mary
Ironically, the concept of SIMPLICITY is most often misunderstood by simple-minded people. --Alj Mary
Sticks Like Grim Death
Level 17 Gladiator: Spartacus' Dimachaeri
Beats digging ditches for a living.
Tristan Elwell
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-John Cale
"Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched."
-Marc Maron
I can fly!
Level 5 Gladiator: Myrmillo
If you CAN make a living out of it, that is.
Keep em coming =D
"Sadly, most artists prefer to give the elite their attention."
Sticks Like Grim Death
Level 17 Gladiator: Spartacus' Dimachaeri
Yeah, those ditch digging jobs are getting few and far between these days. Everyone's just getting cheap imported ditches from China.
Tristan Elwell
**Finished Work Thread **Process Thread **Edges Tutorial
Crash Course for Artists, Illustrators, and Cartoonists, NYC, the 2013 Edition!
"Work is more fun than fun."
-John Cale
"Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched."
-Marc Maron
Joe Parrilla
Level 8 Gladiator: Thracian
Very true.. Im actually curious about this.. Is being an illustrator a full time job? I mean if your a freelancer.. do you have a "day job" thats maybe non art related?
No D
Level 13 Gladiator: Retiarius
Yes, if you're good enough and are great businessman/woman or have a great agent, it will be a full-time job. Conversely, if you are just getting into it, have suddenly fallen on hard times, or just like doing other things...it can be part-time. Just to be clear though: Being a freelancer means being self-employed. Illustrators can be self-employed, or employees of a company. Also, "making a living" as defined by artist guilds will mean that it's your primary income.
Registered User
Level 6 Gladiator: Provocator
Probably because of some masochistic monster inside my brain that forces me to become good at drawing.
well. hot dog.
Level 3 Gladiator: Catervarii
Because you are drawn to be a channel for something greater than yourself.
To not work through the muck and share it - that is the only sin I can think of.
Hopefully this idea that you're not good enough or whatever, which seems to remain persistent in all of us, is only but a call for excellence. Push through resistance and suck as hard as you can. It will only make you better.
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Registered User
Level 4 Gladiator: Meridiani
Honestly? erm, I'm not really sure. I guess it has something to do with the fact that I have a wide range of interests and passions in life. Art allows me to use the knowledge I've gained in many things and collate them into some meaningful form of existence to share with others. That is as close as I can get to explaining it..gif ";)")
Phorum Philosopher
Level 3 Gladiator: Catervarii
because it's fun. I get lost in it, and I feel like a kid again sometimes when I'm doing it.
A: Because everybody knows that white is the default race.
Fighting dwarves with keytars.
Level 6 Gladiator: Provocator
Because the one of the voices in my head tells me so.....
(23:41:52) (ArneLurk) I woner of there are people who have hairy penises
17 years old [Lilnebo]
Whats more funner than drawing?
And god my head is like full of ideas, questions, theories everything
art is the best way to express that
When your stressed and having a hard time you just sit down and take a piece of paper and start drawings, 5mins into it your absloutley lost you forget about all your troubles and yours in this whole new world with your, character, creature, enviro. Sometimes i spend hours just making up a story for my character, live through their pain and joy theirs falls and their sucesses.
Really to answer to your problem all i can say is
you just gotta love it, get addicted and obssessed about it so that you cant go a day without drawing. To do that you need to make it fun for yourself and want it.
So just do that and you'll realize why everyone in this forum draws
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