Anonymous
asked:
WTF HAPPENED TO MAKE YOU JOIN THE WORLD OF ART!!!!!?????? SORRY FOR THE INTENSITY!!!!!

IT’S OK NO PROBLEM 

But to answer your question, part of it was chance. I saw the boxart for Chrono Cross at a video game store down in Washington Heighs and recognized it was by “the DBZ guy” (I didn’t know him by name then). I spent a lot of time trying to emulate it, often drawing a character I made up named Hishiro, my very first OC. I don’t have any drawings of him anymore, but here’s a recreation and a remake

I was in 4th grade or so. By the 6th grade though, between exposure to a bunch of anime like DBZ, Gundam, and Yu Yu Hakusho and a classmate bringing in the first US edition of Shounen Jump, I started to consider art more seriously. Fast forward a bunch of How to Draw Manga books and a number of years later, I’m still drawin’!