Anonymous asked: when did you begin to start studying art seriously?

I’m a senior right now, but it was during my freshman year.  I came across “The Art of Glen Keane” blog and I knew that I wanted to, *correction, I had to learn how to draw like him. So I did some research on his biography and tried to understand his thinking process.  Later I found a book in a library that talked about “Disney’s Nine Old Men” and I was blown away at the level of skill these guys had, especially Milt Kahl.  So I started to research the Animation world and I started to fall in love with it. Luckily Walt Stanchfield’s “Drawn to Life Volume 1 and 2” came out and I snatched those up immediately. I call it the “animation bible” because I noticed that my skills increased dramatically after I started to dissect the book.  Every time I read it I’m always learning something new. The binding of my book is literally tore up because I read it so often, I might have to buy another copy soon haha.  The book helped me understand that there was an entire thought process one has to go through into making animated drawings.