This morning, I was asked “…how long have you been drawing and using Ai?”
To which I replied:
I’d say I’ve been drawing since, oh, somewhere in the mid-70s when I was coordinated enough to hold a crayon. The oldest sketchbook I have around is from about 1982, though I know I was carrying one around and using it regularly several years before that. I wasn’t drawing at a pro level until after I went to animation school in 1995. Started using Illustrator in 2000.
tl;dr: I’m an old lady who’s been drawing since before ‘home computers’ existed.
I refrained from mentioning that there was a not insignificant chance that I have a pencil case older than the person asking this question. Which I still occasionally use. (This was on Reddit, whose median age seems to be in the mid-twenties. That pencil case is about nineteen years old now. It’s not likely but it will be in a few more years.)
How did I get here what happened what a long strange life it’s been, geeze.
For what it’s worth, I’m older than you are. :”D And where I -work- the median age is pretty much the same as Reddit’s users, which means I’m constantly surrounded by people half my age (many of whom groan regularly about how old they’re getting). You don’t look it or act it. And experience is cool and sexy.
-T’
Somehow I manage not to feel old at pole dance class despite everyone else being in their twenties. It’s weird. It just sneaks up on you, ya know?