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What got you into art?

Well, I doodled a lot as a kiddo and suppose I just kind of didn't ever really stop. I think the first time that I can recall really wanting to make an effort at getting good at art was when I started reading Dave Pilkey books (the guy who wrote Captain Underpants, and yes, that was my favorite book series as a kid, lol). Two main characters, George and Harold, always made comic books as part of the stories, and I remember thinking how fun it looked. At some point I think it made me think I wanted to make comic books for a living (I did try to make a comic recently and it is still not finished and been on haiatus for too long. Whoops. c':). Over time I just kind of kept doing art stuff in some capacity all the time. I remember starting around middleschool I would carry around a pencil and pocket-sized sketchbook with me everywhere I went all the time. Other than little cartoons, I tried to draw real things I saw around. I highly recommend doing that as art practice btw, learning to copy a real object you see onto paper is crazy helpful for improving. Late into highschool I got it in my head that I wanted to do landscape paintings. My dad does those as a hobby/side-job; I've been able to tag along with him to local fine art galleries where some of his paintings have been on display before. It's always a fun time. After I finished highschool, I immediately quit my job at McDonalds and, other than an unpaid internship and later very low hour part-time job, I basically spent all my time taking art lessons, reading art books, and painting. Did it for 8 hours a day as often as I could. There's an account somewhere where I used to upload some of my paintings. Happy to share it if you're curious, just DM me :) As much as I enjoyed landscape painting, my passion was always really in cartoons. Eventually I decided to """get a real job""" because being a landscape painter wasn't really something I wound up wanting to do as a job. I don't regret the time I put into it; it was tons of fun and helped me improve an insane amount. Still, wanted to do fun cartoon art, so I made my DeviantArt account around 2019 and started trying to improve my cartoon art. Wasn't great to start but my experience with painting classes helped me know how to learn fast and bridge my skill gap quicker than I would have otherwise. Sorry if that answer was longer than you were wanting uhhhhhh TL;DR I got into art because of Captain Underpants lol