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Originally posted by Angelo:
Hehe my first drawings were always fanarts - jump started by FF7 and Chrono Trigger. All this was done when I was about 14 and had nothing better to do. Of course, those first drawings were very very crap, and will never see the light of any scanner. I only really started taking my artwork seriously when I was 16, and actually went to sites that taught me how to draw.

I started doing that when i was around clouds age, 11 i suppose. every day I get better but there are things i still suck at. take boobs for example, i have em but i cant draw em!
[ 09-09-2004: Message edited by: Angelo ]

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At the time a few years ago, you'd be lucky in hell to find any manga, let alone manga drawing instruction books outside of Japan, so a lot of artists who wanted to draw manga style tried to find as many tutorials on the net as possible, and of course, Julie's were the best at the time, so a lot of the veteran anime artists in the West who used her tutorials still remember her name quite well.

Wow, you're right! It's been ages since I've seen her work, but her style seems to have taken a complete turn from back then. Interesting to see how it's evolved though through other western and eastern influence... definitely seems to be taking on fantasy art characteristics.

Anyhoo... I started to take my art seriously when I was 18 or so I believe... before that, I really drew very little. As for what got me to take it seriously... well I loved to do crappy animation with a passion

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When I was 8, I had dreams of making my own commercial video game when I grew up, most likely an RPG of course By the time I got to the age when I could finally leave the house, the little industry was already raking in billions and people were swarming with talent to get in.

Anime was very much the same as well... used to be that I had to travel to Asia to get my decade's worth of anime/manga or watch butcher specials on the tele. I grew up with the dream to make a difference in the end, but over the years, many other people did it for me, not sure if that's a good thing or a bad since being a pioneer has both perks and massive disadvantages but it's food for thought.

At the time of course, practically only five or seven years ago, anime was a very obscure thing to find anywhere outside of Japan, but because of circulation of fansubs and fan talk over the net, it has had a well deserved surge in popularity...

I wonder what will happen in another five years. We'd like to think that things are always going to stay the way they are, but become better... but history has shot down the best researched predictions from the smartest of people, so you never know. Well, hopefully none of us will be cranking out war time propaganda any time soon for a living

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