My first Drawing (Mina Ashido) (Patreon)

So for anyone who's interested, here's a brief history;

I've drawn just as much as anyone else who says "I've been drawing my whole life, why am I not better!!" meaning I've doodled on papers in school and did stuff here and there throughout my life, OTHERWISE known as very, very little.

Being able to draw has always been my end game. That is what I need to be able to do for my future. Problem is I am 26 now and have very little actual knowledge on drawing, It's really difficult and scary and trying to learn to draw as an adult is awful.

BUT after years and years of saying "I need to start", I finally did today, I sat down told myself to shut up and draw, and this is the result.

I've never drawn a body before, in fact I've barely drawn anything really. I've been too terrified of the first steps all my life, because to get good at something you need to be really bad, and I didn't want to see the bad.

This is my first legitimate drawing of my life, and I'm actually genuinely shocked AND pleased with the result. It's absolutely not perfect, I don't understand lighting at all and perspective/anatomy are scary, but I think doing animation and all these other art forms helped get me to a place of "competence" for art, without ever having actually done art.

But I have a good spring board and this drawing here has told me that I definitely can draw, and I need to STICK WITH IT starting today. I'm too embarrassed to show anyone but you guys, so you're all my witnesses that today marks the day that GreatM8 truly takes his first steps into art, after 26 years, October 17th. I wonder how much better I'll be in a year's time

I know it sounds like It's nothing, not a big deal, and I know I'm being a bit dramatic, but this is quite literally everything to me, drawing is the reason I'm alive, I'm going to do great things one day. I'm very happy with my first drawing and I can only get better from here!

Thanks for reading peeps sorry it was so long, tried to condense it as much as I could. ALSO this doesn't change anything when it comes to animations, I'm going to produce just as many as I regularly do, drawing doesn't change anything, don't worry.

Thoughts/Criticism appreciated, all I want is to improve from here.