notslytherin-notslytherin asked: you're drawing is amazing! where did you learn to draw so well? i love the disney stuff. :)

Thanks sweetie.  I don’t remember ever going through a time of purposefully trying to learn to draw or having to force myself to do it.  I mean I did do an animation course in college that taught me an awful lot about the technicalities behind drawing; anatomy, composition and so forth.  As you draw you practice and practice and gradually become better (every time you draw you learn something new, it’s very slow but it does happen) but to actually just do it… I honestly don’t know.  I’ve just been scribbling and drawing as long as I remember. 

Maybe it’s partly because I grew up in the middle of nowhere and didn’t really have a lot of choices on what to do when I was growing up.  And I grew up on a farm, if I had pulled the stereotypical moany-kid-face at my mum and gone “muuummmm… I have noo~othing to dooo!” she would had made me go shovel the literal shit.  Coming up with my own thing to do was always the better option. 

Maybe I never had a say in it.  My grandmother was one of those amazing naturally creative people.  She learnt how to play accordion by just picking it up and starting to make noise until it became music.  It’s like she never even questioned it, so many people look at paper and pen and just immediately think “oh I can’t draw, I won’t even try” but she just went “oh, ok” and drew.  She used to draw paper dolls and various animals for me and my sister to colour when she was babysitting us, I remember being four or five and thinking I wanted to draw as well as she did.  To a child it was magic to see pictures appear in front of your eyes.  It still is magic to me.