Howling-Silver

I started drawing when I was little. Nothing amazing, everything started out as blobs for the most part. The other day I looked through some of the "sketches" I had created, that my mom had kept over the years. Funny how a 5 year old mind works and was able to get this elaborate picture, even though it wasn't clear to everyone else. But I guess that is art, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
In my opinion my art started getting better towards 5th grade. When I was 10, I began drawing more cartoon/anime. Some of the later pieces I have done similiar to this have been uploaded to my gallery already. In the beginning, I enjoyed creating my own characters. But soon I began to redraw characters I had seen on tv.
After following my passion of drawing, I took the art classes my middle school had to offer. Which one only one art class, lasting only a quarter of the school year. The teacher was nice, but the class was awful. I passed the class with flying colors, but had such a bad experience that I stopped drawing for a few years.
The summer right before my sophomore year I was back on crutches. I kept reinjurying my leg after I did a partial dislocation with my knee in gym. That problem lasted around 2 years, starting in 8th grade and ending the summer before 10th. Still unable to do martial arts, one day I found myself bored and started to doodle on pieces of computer paper. At 15, I found that I wasn't half bad when it came to realism. That before when I was drawing what I saw, even though it was in a more anime style, that, I was building up better skills for a more realistic like style. From there I was self taught, I browse google to see the natural poses and general appearance of animals. I would even go to the extent of going on youtube to view videos of how the animal moved, and look up behavioral traits of the animal.
Now at 16, I am still writing my story. I have widened my horizons by recently starting wood-burning and photography. I am still self-taught, and listen to all the critics people give me on my pieces. I enjoy browsing other people's work to bring me inspiration and new ideas of different styles there are that better bring out the personality of their creation, which in a sense, makes the piece more real to the viewer.