I never really thought of myself as a "creative type", though I guess I couldn't give a good answer as to why; I suppose I thought I was a nerd and could be nothing more? Through middle-school(K - 8th grade) Art class wasn't really optional, and after that I took more science and computer classes for my electives.
I ended up playing Dungeons & Dragons(3.5), and began to draw my characters, try to at least. Before that were some stick figures and eventually "block" figures of both little and great importance I suppose. As I tried to draw my characters, I had to think about what they would wear, and started to draw a lot of clothing, taking an interest into fashion design. I lost my pile of drawings over the years :(
I kept drawing, and somehow, things were looking more and more like actual things, even the things I wanted them to look like. As I started putting pencil to paper more and more, my creative projects began to become real to me. Echoes was really early into this journey, and something that made me explore how I draw. I picked up a book and worked on some stuff, like the image to the right of Bec.
I suppose in part I feel like I could never draw that well on a mass scale, nor for every aspect. There's a little more to it though, because I had started to notice that no matter what I drew, it never looked right... well, it didn't look the exact same. I still liked a lot of my simpler drawings, and I began to open up to myself about how I would draw. There are three general styles I work with, one of which is pretty much one of my first styles, developed off the "block" characters I would draw. Another is closer to a chibi style, with a large head and small body by proportions. The last is one I've used for later Echoes stories, and am still working out. Here are examples of the three -
Trot On Everypony,
Alturiigo
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